The Summer Mediterranean Murder - Creative Writing Lesson
Highly attractive and engaging creative writing lesson!
Students are given attractive prompts in order to write their own Mediterranean murder mystery story, based on a cruise ship murder.
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Venice – Creative Writing Lesson
A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from Venice!
Complete, visually attractive lesson includes a 10 question Venice quiz, a senses hunt, a video clip and prompts throughout.
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New Year Healthy Eating – Non-Fiction Writing Lesson
A simple, but effect healthy eating non-fiction writing lesson. The lesson task is to write a lively
article for a teenage magazine based around healthy eating and lifestyle. Full prompts and planning
pages, a literacy starter and all resources included. Simply download and teach.
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A fantastic Wimbledon form time or assembly presentation on the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The 31 page Power Point presentation includes, general back ground, historic facts, Wimbledon schedule, British winners, interesting facts, prize money break down and 2016 favourite and a ten question quiz to finish!
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The Beast of Bodmin Moor Investigation - Fact or Fiction
An amazing investigation lesson into the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor.'
Students get to explore and research the legend of the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor' in groups, moving from investigation area to investigation area before writing their final reports.
All resources included.
The investigation areas are:
* Newspaper reports
* Photos
* Video footage
* Fact files
* Eyewitness Accounts
Students fill in their investigation sheets as they go to each area.
An outstanding lesson.
Teacher note included.
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The Chocolate Bar Lesson + The Time Machine
Fantastic value pack of these two premium resource lessons + quizzes.
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Literacy Games Pack
An excellent value collection of literacy games and general resources, including literacy bingo, Literacy true and false, word games and many more.
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Also included is a ‘literacy health check’ complete lesson!
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TV Love or Hate?
A critical writing lesson on TV programmes.
Students get to write a ‘critical rant’ on the topic of TV love and hate.
Full lesson Power Point includes:
· Lesson starter
· Lesson objective pages
· TV video clip exercise
· Good example of a critical article
· Discussion, planning and writing prompts with planning sheets included
· Review plenary prompt
Engaging lesson students will enjoy.
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English Writing Pack 5 – Titanic - Writing to Describe and Literacy
Two interesting and engaging writing lessons and three newspaper writing template sheets, consisting of:
* Titanic – Writing to Describe
* Literacy Health Check
* Three newspaper writing sheets, including found on a desert island; crocodile attacks student and mystery big cat spotted.
Fantastic value lessons pack.
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A simple and effective way to make literacy and learning fun. Literacy bingo! Students have to spot the incorrect word as each sentence appears (common literacy errors such as there/their, was/were etc) and replace them with the correct word. This is the word they cross off on their bingo cards. Further instructions on how to play inside. Power Point resource, playing time with line and house 15 minute approx. Resource suitable for key stages 2/3, but easily adaptable format/template to create further bingo games. Larger text in this version.
Bingo cards included.
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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.
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Literacy Health Check - full lesson!! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-health-check-full-lesson-11188874
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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Literacy and Gothic Pack with Monsters
A fabulous fun and engaging MUST have bundle pack of premuim lessons.
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A simple but engaging lesson on Muhammad Ali, particularly useful for lower sets and disengaged boys.
Lesson includes:
* Boxing category guessing game starter
* Engaging short video clip of Ali's life
* 3 Inspirational quotes by Ali and a prompt to discuss
* Muhammad Ali article and information retrieval prompt
* Answer slide
* PEE question and review finish
Simple but very effective.
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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!*
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The Zombie Apocalypse
Cities lie abandoned. The streets are no longer safe as the K11 virus has spread and infected large numbers of the population. You and a small group of survivors have made it out of the city and have taken refuge in an abandoned farmhouse. You have to hold out against the ‘zombie-like’ hordes for 7 days until help arrives. Will you survive?
Lesson includes:
• Attractive title pages.
• Zombie Apocalypse word search starter.
• Attractive scenario pages.
• Lesson objective page.
• Planning sheet resources. This is structured so that students are encouraged to increase the tension as the ‘waves’ of zombie attacks increase daily.
• Key word bingo plenary activity, including 30 individual bingo cards and caller card.
• Prompts and slide prompt for lesson 2
Zombie apocalypse 2 is available here:
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**Now available in a dystopian and horror bundle*:
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A fantastic collection of starter material featuring:
* Karlk Pilkington's SPAG and PEE pack.
* Funny Captions
* General Starters
* Find the word starters
* Word game PP
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The Ultimate Starters and Quiz Bundle
Serious time saving download!
This is a huge collection of English starters and quizzes, suitable for various audiences and occasions, including literacy starters, general English starters, word starters, fun starters and much more.
Suitable for KS2-KS4. Something for everyone!
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English Starter Pack
This is a huge collection of English starters, suitable for various audiences and occasions, including literacy starters, general English starters, word starters, fun starters and much more.
Suitable for KS2-KS4. Something for everyone!
Download this pack and never worry about starters for the rest of the year!
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The Ultimate Apocalypse + Climbing Mount Everest + Literacy Bingo
Fantastic value triple pack.
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