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. *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 Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: sherdog.com, waltbox.com)

Amazing value, 5 lesson bundle for the popular novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar! Included: * 5 full lesson Power Points * 11 Word documents consisting of starters and task hand outs All lessons include lesson objectives and visual prompts. Lessons test a range of basic/essential learning skills such as PEE skills, comprehension, letter writing, descriptive writing and spelling. Great value at just £5.50! Be sure to check out my shop page here for more great lessons and resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copy right free images included, film image from gentleside.com)

A complete lesson on the film Jaws! Students watch a 10 minute clip of Jaws (choose a dramatic section at the start of the film) and do an extract analysis using the planning and prompt sheets provided. Power Point includes additional prompts, starter and pleanary ideas and lesson objectives. Resources included are: * Planning Sheet * Prompt Sheet * Additional Images (if required, these can be printed off and placed around the room for immediate impact to go with the starter.) For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright free: to the best of my knowledge all images are copy right free.)

Literacy Nuts and Bolts - Zuzi's Story A 'Literacy Nuts and Bolts' lesson featuring short, sharp literacy tasks and a main writing feature. The theme of this lesson is based around pets, in particular a dog called Zuzi and a heart-warming story of a mistreated stray who is rescued and given a loving home. Very emotive and engaging with students. Full lesson Power Point includes: * Starter activity and extension activity - students list/describe their favourite breeds of pets. * Lesson objectives and explanation of why literacy errors often occur. * Capital letter task. * Brief grammar check - "I was/we were." * There, Their and They're activity and answers. * Short possessive apostrophe task. * Link to Zuzi's story - 5 minute video clip. * Word connection plenary activity. Hand out resources available at the back of the Power Point. Just £2.50! Also available as part of the great value Literacy Pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-pack-11198407 Literacy Nuts and Bolt's - Jordan's Story can be found here: https://www.tes.com/uploader/v2/11261466/preview Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copy right free images: pixabay and wiki.)

About you - a perfectly simple, but engaging lesson which explores students' wishes, dreams and hopes. The lesson is ideal as an introductionary lesson or just as a one-off lesson any time. The main lesson objectives include testing students' ability to think creatively with emphasis on attention to detail and descriptive writing skills. Attractive lesson Power Point includes: * Word link puzzle starter activity. * Mini-task - three wishes, students choose any three wishes they would choose if given the choice (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Dream home and location - students choose their dream house and location (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Ideal job - students choose their ideal job (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Main task perfect day - students describe their perfect day (writing frame and word bank included.) * Puzzle plenary activity. No photocopying or printing required, simply download and teach - word document writing frame included if needed. See my shop page for more lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish All images are copyright free (pixabay, wiki and clipart).

Sporting legends - Muhammad Ali and Pele, texts with Power Points and starters, testing basic comprehension skills. *NOW also includes - Messi - Modern Football Legend complete lesson* Particularly focusing on the WJEC, foundation, Q1, information retrieval question but suitable for any comprehension skills tests. Power Point includes, boggle starter page, question slide, possible answers to the text question and video links. Texts included on Word documents. Texts are pitched easier than the real exam in order to give students confidence in basic information retrieval and so are suitable for bottom set groups. Two lessons with this download, though you might want to include another activity as each lesson is suitable for around 45 minutes. *Now with another lesson Messi - Modern Football Legend* Power point includes same text style and activity as above but with a literacy activity after a word starter. (Images are copyright free, wiki.com.)

A collection of lesson ideas for the book "Who's a Big Bully Then" by Michael Morpurgo, with starters included at the back of the Power Point. This easy reader text is suitable for lower ability students. The Power Point contains lots of simple activities to get you started for planning a whole scheme of work on this book. 37 page Power Point and starters included. Images copyright free. Cover detail from Amazon.com.

Straight-forward lesson on analysing dystopia book blurbs. Book blurbs included are from the books “Zombie Camp” and “Monument 14.” Just download, print and teach. Lesson breakdown: 1. Boggle starter activity. 2. Discussion on the front cover of each book. 3. Annotating “Zombie Camp” and “Monument 14” blurbs 4. Students create their own story blurb based on language techniques they have just seen. 5. Review - students share their work. Attractive Power Point with all resources included for just £2. This lesson can also be bought as part of the Horror and Dystopia Bundle pack for £6.50: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dystopian-and-horror-bundle-11219710 Please rate, thank you. * Thanks for the feedback. Background images are probably just a question of taste. Personally, I like to use strong visual images as backgrounds as I find this works well for me and engages my classes. This was especially so in this lesson as the theme is dystopia so I wanted a strong image for impact. These can be easily changed to suit preference though.* (Royalty free images used throughout. Blurb taken from the books “Zombie Camp” and “Monument 14.”)

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 Please rate and visit my shop store for more great resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish Thank you. (Credits: images royalty free, taken from Wikicommons and pininterest.com)

Amazing resource bundle pack! See individual links for further details. Zombie Apocalypse full lesson Pack £3.50: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-zombie-apocalypse-complete-lesson-package-11210211 Can your students survive the zombie apocalypse? Full creative lesson pack. Your Disaster Story £4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/your-disaster-story-full-lessons-11198854 Welcome to the end of the world... The Haunting £3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-haunting-full-lesson-11180479 Can you survive the weekend? Dystopia Blurb Complete Lesson £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dystopia-blurb-complete-lesson-11232621 Write your own dystopia blurb. *New - quick starter and ICT research sheets.* Please rate!!

30 individual murder mystery cards and a callers card, great for a fun plenary activity. See also the murder mystery generator: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/murder-mystery-generator-11219707 See my shop page for more great resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: bingo cards from myfreebingo.com, images royalty free, pixabay.)

A fun murder mystery generator to help students write a murder mystery story! The generator will provide a random generation of suspect, motive, weapon and setting. Great for creative writing or drama! You may also be interested in Murder Mystery Bingo: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/murder-mystery-bingo-11219709 See more great resources here from my shop page: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: royalty free images, Pixabay, Gamevuze.)

20 creative classroom ideas from starters to plenaries. The above pack represents the best 20 activities I've used in my teaching over the last 10 years+ !! I'm sure you will be familiar with some of them, as they are the top tips I have picked up over the years, but many of them are my original ideas or twists on well-known ideas. I'm sure that in this pack you will find something to spark your teaching. Download now and try something new today! Included is the first idea as a preview. Also includes a free download gift worth £2! Inspiration cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/inspiration-cards-11035329 Visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish Please rate, thank you. (All images are from copyright free sources, pixabay and wikipedia.)

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Of Mice and Men Mini Bundle Of Mice and Men resource bundle featuring a complete lesson on themes and two packs of starter resources. Of Mice and Men Themes Lesson £3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-themes-1-full-lesson-11140263 Of Mice and Men Quiz Pack £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-quiz-pack-11134213 Of Mice and Men Spelling Starter and Cloze Activity £1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-spelling-starter-and-cloze-activity-11154529 Also included as an extra is Literacy Bingo 1 £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-bingo-1-11034763 50% savings if bought in this bundle! Please rate, thank you.

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? Students must record their survival story as a series of diary entries (for lower ability students a comic strip story sheet is available.) Visually attractive and engaging creative writing lesson package. Includes full lesson and all resources, including an alternative power point for lower ability students. Lesson package includes: • Attractive title pages. • Zombie Apocalypse word search starter. • Attractive scenario pages. • Lesson objective page. • Planning sheet resources (blow up to A3). This is structured so that students are encouraged to increase the tension as the ‘waves’ of zombie attacks increase daily. • Comic strip resources for lower ability students. • Key word bingo plenary activity, including 30 individual bingo cards and caller card. • Prompts and slide prompt for lesson 2 **Now available in a dystopian and horror bundle*: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dystopian-and-horror-bundle-11219710 For other engaging resources, including full lessons, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: royalty free images – zombie images pixabay, scenery from Geography UK. Bingo cards from myfreebingo.com)

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Monster bingo and mini monster word search. 30 individual monster bingo cards and callers card, plus a monsters word search, great for plenary activities or starter. Visit my shop page here for more great resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: image from Youtube copyright free. Bingo from myfreebingo.com.)

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English Quizzes and Starter Pack Bundle Amazing value pack of English starters and quizzes!!! Comprising of: Word quizzes Power Point £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/word-quizzes-11195792 KS4 Exam style starters pack 1 of 3 £1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-exam-style-starters-pack-of-3-11161391 KS4 Exam style starters pack 2 of 3 £1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-exam-style-starters-2-pack-of-3-11166057 Of Mice and Men spelling starter and cloze activity £1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-spelling-starter-and-cloze-activity-11154529 Of Mice and Men quiz pack £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-quiz-pack-11134213 Literacy starter pack £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-starter-pack-11035919 Engaging starters pack 1 £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/engaging-starters-pack-1-11035916 Great value download. Please rate. Visit my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish