Highly engaging, complete lesson(s) around the Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.”
Lesson contains a complete range of activities suitable for GCSE grades 1-5.
Engaging starter, featuring unusual images
• Information on the author and learning objectives
• You tube reading of the poem
• Labelling + drawing activity
• Main writing task
• Review plenary
Everything you need for a complete and fun lesson!
(This lesson was prepared for OFSTED)
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An excellent bundle of horror, comedy and literacy, featuring:
* The Haunting - Complete Lesson
* Karl Pilkington's SPAG and PEE starters
* Literacy Health Check
Tried and tested resources.
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Double Lesson Pack - Descriptive and Non-Fiction One-Off Lessons
Two very simple but effective lessons.
* Climbing Everest Descriptive Writing
* Crocodile Non-Fiction Comparison
Also included is a 20 creative classroom ideas Power Point.
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A descriptive writing lesson using peaceful images to engage students! Lots of resources included. V2 of this lesson which is slightly more challenging with more writing tasks. For V1 of this lesson see:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/descriptive-writing-complete-lesson-11261508
Full lesson includes:
* Clear image starter
* Lesson objectives
* Five things to help with descriptive writing slide
* Image + example task (resource included as a hand out)
* Image prompt and review slide
Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, a WAGOLL and descriptive word mat resources included.
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A descriptive writing lesson using peaceful images to engage students! Lots of resources included. V2 of this lesson which is slightly more challenging with more writing tasks. For V1 of this lesson see:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/descriptive-writing-complete-lesson-11261508
Full lesson includes:
* Clear image starter
* Lesson objectives
* Five things to help with descriptive writing slide
* Image + example task (resource included as a hand out)
* Image prompt and review slide
Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, a WAGOLL and descriptive word mat resources included.
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(All images are copy right free to the best of my knowledge.)
The Deserted House poetry analysis lesson.
A simple but effective lesson, ideal for KS2/3, lesson includes:
* Title page
* Starter
* Lesson objectives
* Task 1: Reading and annotating of the poem
* Task 2: How does the poem make you feel? (Help sheet included.)
* Task 3: Draw and label the house with key words from the poem (poem included.)
* Extensive key word bingo – callers card and 30 individual bingo cards
Very easy to teach!
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A topical debate lesson on the new sugar tax! Visually attractive lesson, guaranteed to promote debate! Students have to decide if they are for or against and three students act as a 'jury' to see who has won the debate. Debate cards included in the lesson Power Point to help structure students' arguments.
If you prefer a writing version of this lesson then see the links below:
Letter writing:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sugar-tax-writing-to-argue-and-persuade-letter-11260131
Lively article:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sugar-tax-writing-to-argue-and-persuade-11255722
BBC article included.
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Engaging SPAG and PEE starter pack and Power Point slides taken from extracts of Karl Pilkington's hilarious travel diaries, The Idiot Abroad. Each starter features a short extract, with a short SPAG and an extended PEE or comprehension starter, together with an image of Karl Pilkington.
Starters are ideal for KS4 students or later KS3 and suitable for a variety of different exam boards e.g. WJEC or AQA as they involve the same core skills.
Also included for free is a bumper word puzzles Power Point which is normally £2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/word-quizzes-11195792
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Should Britain have left the EU?
Hugely topical writing to argue and persuade writing task based on the shock result of the EU referendum.
Students get to offer their opinions on the result.
24 Page Power Point includes
* Title pages
* Lesson objectives
* Prompt pages
* Statistic pages
* Immediate reactions
* Positives and negatives
* Writing prompt pages and review
Guaranteed to engage!
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(Credits: all images taken from The Guardian and the BBC website.)
A group of friends take what was supposed to be a peaceful trip to a remote Cornish coast only to discover strange goings-on in the village, smuggling in the coves and possibly, even murder! But who is responsible? And will the friends make it out alive?
Visually attractive, creative writing mystery lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power Point includes:
* Title page.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story.
* Effective lesson starter.
* Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above).
* Quick planning sheet (included at the back of the Power Point).
* Page prompts.
* Fantastic “murder mystery bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s caller card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included).
* Extra Power Point pages to allow for lesson 2.
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-four-lesson-bundle-11256414
You may also be interested in these further murder mystery lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/murder-mystery-double-pack-complete-lessons-11183128
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A descriptive writing lesson using peaceful images to engage students! Lots of resources included.
Full lesson includes:
* Clear image starter
* Lesson objectives
* Five things to help with descriptive writing slide
* Image + example task (resource included as a hand out)
* Image prompt and review slide
Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, a WAGOLL and descriptive word mat resources included.
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(All images are copy right free to the best of my knowledge.)
Quiz Triple Pack – Great Value Download
Quiz triple pack – great value download, ideal for form time, time passing activities or part of a lesson featuring:
Word Quizzes £2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/word-quizzes-11195792
Flags of the World Quiz £2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/flags-of-the-world-quiz-11313597
Euro 2016Guess the Player Quiz 2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/euro-2016-guess-the-player-quiz-2-11304882
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Quiz Triple Pack – Great Value Download
Quiz triple pack – great value download, ideal for form time, time passing activities or part of a lesson featuring:
Word Quizzes £2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/word-quizzes-11195792
Flags of the World Quiz £2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/flags-of-the-world-quiz-11313597
Euro 2016Guess the Player Quiz 2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/euro-2016-guess-the-player-quiz-2-11304882
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Excellent and engaging bingo style literacy game. Students simply write True or False on their 5x5 true or false cards and mark them off if the displayed literacy clue is true or false. Subject areas include: capital letters, punctuation, their, there and they're; was and were; and spellings. Power Point game suitable for key stages 2 and 3, printable true or false cards included and further instructions on how to play inside. Great for spelling and SPAG.
Also included is a 5 pack find the word starter pack, suitable for KS2/3.
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A fantastic, three lesson gothic bundle pack, featuring:
* The Beast of Bodmin Moor - Fact or Fiction
This is a team investigation lesson where students get to judge far themselves by considering different sources what they think of the 'Beast Myth'
* Dracula Extract Analysis
* The Hound of the Baskervilles
Two lessons based on an extract analysis of these texts.
For more information, check out each link.
Thanks.
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On Christmas Eve a train gets stranded in a snowdrift in the middle of nowhere. A group of passengers decide to leave the carriage and take refuge in a nearby hotel, only to discover in the morning, trapped and cut off from the outside world, that one of them has been murdered…
Visually attractive Christmas murder mystery story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Title page.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story.
* Lesson starter – winter weather anagrams.
* Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above)
* Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt – used in order help students start the story effectively (also given as a handout resource.)
* Mini word bank.
* Mini-prompt paragraphs two and images to help students write.
* Fantastic “murder mystery bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s callers card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included.)
* Each slide gives students a “TEEP” instruction at the start of the slide, indicating which sort of activity is involved at each stage.
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
(Royalty free images included and bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
Zombie Land – Terror at the Fun Fair
Highly engaging, zombie creative writing lesson, in which students work from a given scenario in order to write their own engaging horror story.
The scenario:
It started out as a fun night at the fairground. You and a group of friends letting your hair down and unwinding after a hard week at school.
However, soon it becomes clear that something is not quite right. A cold wind blows a chill into the night and you hear strange noises over the beat of fairground music.
Suddenly, an eerie darkness descends and all goes quiet. Fairground rides come to a standstill and wild groans and screaming can be heard over the chatter of panic.
You and a friend are stuck on the ghost train and desperately trying to find your way outside in the darkness. Outside, it is only then that you realise that the real terror has only just begun.
Welcome to your nightmare…
Highly attractive Power Point includes:
* Full lesson scenario
* Starter task
* Survival objectives
* Planning sheet
* Writing and discussion prompts
* Interactive ‘zombie bingo’ with callers card and 30 individual bingo cards (from myfreebingo.com)
Fantastic lesson!!
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A descriptive writing lesson using peaceful images to engage students! Lots of resources included.
Full lesson includes:
* Clear image starter
* Lesson objectives
* Five things to help with descriptive writing slide
* Image + example task (resource included as a hand out)
* Image prompt and review slide
Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, a WAGOLL and descriptive word mat resources included.
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(All images are copy right free to the best of my knowledge.)
Sugar Tax - Writing to Argue and Persuade - Letter
A topical writing to argue and persuade lesson on the new sugar tax! Visually attractive lesson, guaranteed to promote debate. This is the writing to argue letter lesson. If you prefer this lesson as a main task to write a lively article you can find that at the link below:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sugar-tax-writing-to-argue-and-persuade-11255722
Lesson Power Point includes a shock starter, learning objectives, links to video clips for information on the sugar tax and planning prompts throughout.
BBC article included.
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You may also be interested in this letter activity resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/letter-card-sort-11034807
(Credits, BBC and Youtube.)
The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson.
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
Also included are a 5 lesson pack of find the word starters!
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-four-lesson-bundle-11256414
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