Library Activity Cards & Reading Records Help to keep even the most reluctant students engaged in Library lessons with these activity cards. Avoid a situation where a student disrupts your library lesson because they just can’t focus by giving them a task card. Each of the eight cards contains eight different activities to give them a brief movement break when needed. Once they’re done, they can get right back to their book! They can be given quietly to targeted students, or placed in a central area where all students can help themselves when they are struggling to focus. The activities are in the style of a scavenger hunt so will also help learners become familiar with the library setting and systems. Bonus! In addition to the eight activity cards, you will get seven versions of a reading record. As well as recording what’s been read across the week, these are ideal for the last five minutes of a weekly Library/Reading Lesson. In addition to recording what’s been read, there is space for students to complete an activity, encouraging them to focus on their book during the lesson. Colours of the rainbow have been used to highlight differentiation. This saves you having to hunt for the right sheet for each student/class - just glance at the colour at the top. The closer to the top of the rainbow it is, the more complex the skill required to complete the reading activity. These sheets can be used in class or as homework. In this bundle, you will get: eight activity cards, each containing eight different tasks seven copies of a reading record, each with a different activity at the bottom to enable targeted/differentiated work in a quick and easy format

Capitals, Punctuation & Spelling Worksheets for 11-14 Year Olds Quickly monitor the progress of your pupils in relation to capitals, punctuation and spelling with these worksheets. This pack contains 17 no-prep worksheets with answer keys for quick completion and self-marking. With only printing required, you can have students on-task within seconds of walking through the door. Four different elements are included: capitals, apostrophes, dialogue & spelling. With minimal writing required, teachers can secure meaningful & useful outcomes for even the most reluctant writers. There are also two challenge sheets that cover all four elements, for when a full progress-check is required. All they have to do is identify and correct the errors, which gives a clear demonstration of their confidence level with that element of punctuation/spelling. There are different levels of challenge across the different worksheets so there’s something for every middle-school learner here, whatever their ability. Differentiation can be applied in numerous ways: the literary text given to a student the total number of errors a student’s required to identify the element a student is being assessed on You will get: six capital letters worksheets three apostrophes worksheets three dialogue worksheets three spellings worksheets two ‘all-elements’ worksheets answer sheets for all of the above two pupil result trackers (one blank & one pre-populated) Prep is quick and easy. Just print and go! And there’s no need to frantically answer them before the lesson…all answer sheets are included. Bonus! These worksheets will introduce your students to multiple classic literary texts. Reading & punctuation in one…win-win!

War Poetry Annotated Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen An ideal resource for English lessons in the approach to Remembrance Day. This resource includes two iconic war poems - The Soldier and Dulce et Decorum Est. For each poem, there is: a blank copy where students can make their own annotations a highlighted copy, which guides students towards sections they may want to focus on when annotating a highlighted and annotated version -> this is an ideal teacher guide, or can be used by students to self-check what they identified These variations make this a valuable resource that can be used with different ages/abilities. It is also helpful for non-specialists as key talking points are identified for each poem. Also included is a comparison grid, which encourages students to think about key aspects of the poems. There is a blank version for students to complete and a teacher version, which includes some pointers for each aspect.

A Christmas Carol Cut & Paste Quote Revision Activity | High School This cut & paste activity will support learners with their quote revision. It will also show how well they know each of the characters and the key points about them. There are two ways to complete this activity: Print and give it straight to students. They cut out the character names and glue them into the appropriate boxes. Print and laminate. You could cut up the character names, and students have to place them on the correct section. Alternatively, give your students wipeable markers and they write in the names. It will save you time laminating and cutting, but still means you can use them over and over again! There are three different worksheets in this activity: character speech character descriptions a ‘best-fit’ combination of speech and description You may also be interested in the other ‘A Christmas Carol’ products in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-annotated-extracts-12933695 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-game-13120979 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845

Christmas 2024 Advent Calendar of English Literacy Activities Keep your students focused and on-task with this English Literacy Activities Advent Calendar. We all know that students find it harder to focus in the build-up to the Christmas holidays, so why not give them something festive to keep them occupied? This advent calendar has a literacy-based activity for each school day in December. With only minimal writing, students will complete activities that feel fun, but that also encourage them to think about words, spelling, vowels, consonants, and to apply their speaking, listening and reasoning skills. There are numerous different types of activity across the different days, so there is something for every learner here. These tasks are versatile and can be used as starters, treat tasks to end lessons, or even as a mid-way break during a lesson where focus is particularly hard to find! Examples of activities include: placing festive words in alphabetical order deciphering Christmas anagrams discussing the ideal Christmas dinner options visualising based on what they hear There is no prep required. Just load up the PowerPoint before the session and the day’s hyperlink will take you to the relevant activity. And if you need to get back to the main page, just click on the date icon in the corner. Create a sense of community. This advent calendar can create a sense of community within class or, better yet, across a whole year/school if every student starts their day with the same festive activity. NB: for anyone who purchased the 2023 version, activities are the same but hyperlinks have been updated

Christmas Wordsearch | Aimed at KS3/11-14 Year Olds This Christmas wordsearch contains 45 seasonal words to find. Once they have been found, there are instructions for how to colour-code the remaining spaces to reveal a Christmas-related image. This resource includes: the list of words and instructions for the whole activity the word grid a completed example of the wordsearch, including the colouring of the image This worksheet could be used in the following ways: as a quiet, individual activity during a lesson or form time as a paired/group activity to include a competitive element as a ‘reward’ task before the holidays or for completing all other work You may also be interested in this Christmas literacy activity pack, which contains 20 seasonal tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13128246 I also have some festive anagrams available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12942667

Christmas Literacy Activities Secondary School This PowerPoint includes 20 literacy-based activities all centred around the theme of Christmas. Tasks engage students with key aspects of literacy, including: the alphabet vowels consonants spelling The types of task include: anagrams identifying missing vowels/consonants putting words into alphabetical order creating their own words finding hidden words in grids Ideal as lesson starters in the weeks building up to Christmas to keep engagement levels high whilst still completing meaningful tasks. They could also be used to create a sense of community within a class or community of students by having these as set form time activities. All answers are included and the PowerPoint is editable so that you can add other activities or change colours/fonts to suit the needs of your learners. If you like this resource, have a look at some other festive activities I have available: Christmas Anagrams: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-anagrams-12942667 Annotated extracts from A Christmas Carol: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-annotated-extracts-12933695 Christmas Colour-by-Number (spellings): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-colour-by-number-spellings-12942709

GCSE English Language Revision Checklists (WJEC) These checklists are to support learners in the build-up to mock exams and external exams. They can be used by individuals to identify gaps in their own knowledge, or they can be used on a whole class level to identify areas of concern across the class to guide targeted teaching/learning/revision in the build-up to exams. If a student cannot tick all columns for a skill, they should focus on that skill until they can. Once all columns have been ticked, they can move on to the next row. The first checklist focuses on reading skills required across Units 2 & 3, including the editing section of Unit 2. The second checklist focuses on the writing skills required across Units 2 & 3, including the proofreading task on Unit 2. Once gaps have been identified, some of these resources may be useful in addressing them: Revision Pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-exam-revision-pack-wjec-12969501 Reading Skills Success Criteria Card Sort: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-reading-skills-wjec-12979433 How to plan writing task responses effectively: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-writing-planning-wjec-12984776 A GCSE English Language Resource Bundle, containing the above: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-bundle-wjec-12986501

Creative Writing Prompt Cards | Upper Primary School-Lower High School These creative writing prompt cards would be useful for upper-primary or lower-high school aged students. There are five categories of cards: main character, setting, season/weather/time, emotion and object. The intention is for students to pick one card from each category and use these to create their own original story. This task can be differentiated up or down, depending on the needs of the students in the class, as outlined on the first page of the resource. If this product is helpful to you, you may also like to have a look at these products in my shop: Punctuation of Speech Activity: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/punctuation-of-speech-peter-pan-worksheet-12979465 Capital Letter Challenge Sheet: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/capital-letters-worksheet-the-secret-garden-12979226 Group Reading Task Sheet Bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/inference-worksheets-12974999

Halloween Wordsearch | Aimed at KS3/11-14 Year Olds This Halloween wordsearch contains 36 seasonal words to find. Once they have been found, there are instructions for how to colour-code the remaining spaces to reveal a Halloween-related image. This resource includes: the list of words and instructions for the whole activity the word grid a completed example of the wordsearch, including the colouring of the image This worksheet could be used in the following ways: as a quiet, individual activity during a lesson or form time as a paired/group activity to include a competitive element as a ‘reward’ task before the holidays or for completing all other work You may also be interested in this Halloween literacy activity pack, which contains 10 seasonal tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-word-games-and-activities-pack-13107470

Of Mice and Men | Quotes Revision | I Have Who Has | GCSE This resource is targeted towards high school students in need of key quotes revision. It is a great way to get students revising whilst making it feel like a game. There are 60 cards included, and these are divided into two games of 30 cards each. Each card contains a quote and act. The two games have been colour-coded - blue and green - for ease of use. A student will read the quote on their card, and students must identify which character said it, or which character/setting the quote relates to, depending on which version is being played. They must also identify whether the quote is from the chapter specified on their card. Full instructions are included in the resource, as are all of the answers on a separate teacher sheet. There are also suggestions for differentiation, including making the game more or less challenging, as needed. If you found this resource helpful, you may also like: my essay planning tool: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-essay-planning-tool-wjec-12972679 an essay structuring pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-essay-structures-12970873

An Inspector Calls | Quotes Revision | I Have Who Has | GCSE This resource is targeted towards high school students in need of key quotes revision. It is a great way to get students revising whilst making it feel like a game. There are 40 cards included, and these are divided into two games of 20 cards each. Each card contains a quote and act. The two games have been colour-coded - blue and green - for ease of use. A student will read the quote on their card, and students must identify which character said it, or which character the quote relates to, depending on the version of the game being played. They must also identify whether the quote is from the act specified on their card. Three cards per game include stage directions rather than speech. Full instructions are included in the resource, as are all of the answers on a separate teacher sheet. There are also suggestions for differentiation, including making the game more or less challenging, as needed. If you found this resource helpful, you may also like: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-essay-structures-12973418 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-essay-planning-tool-12973414 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-revision-bundle-12973433

A Christmas Carol | Quotes Revision | I Have Who Has | GCSE This resource is targeted towards high school students in need of key quotes revision. It is a great way to get students revising whilst making it feel like a game. There are 36 cards included, and these are divided into two games of 18 cards each. There are also two blank cards with each set in case you would like to write in a couple of your own to each game. Each card contains a quote and stave. The blue version of the game includes quotes that describe characters. The green version of the game includes quotes said by different characters. A student will read the quote on their card, and students must identify whether the character on their card said this quote, or whether the description is about their character (depending on which version of the game they’re playing). They must also identify whether the quote is from the stave specified on their card. Full instructions are included in the resource, as are all of the answers on a separate teacher sheet. There are also suggestions for differentiation, including making the game more or less challenging, as needed. If you found this resource helpful, you may also like: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-annotated-extracts-12933695 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-bundle-12972692 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845

King Lear A-Level Quote Revision Game This resource is targeted towards A-Level students in need of key quotes revision. It is a great way to get students revising whilst making it feel like a game. There are 32 cards included, each containing a quote, act and character. A student will read the quote on their card, and students must identify whether the character on their card said this quote. They must also identify whether the character said it in the act specified on their card. Full instructions are included in the resource, as are all of the answers on a separate teacher sheet. There are also suggestions for differentiation, including making the game more or less challenging, as needed. If you found this resource helpful, you may also like: King Lear Exemplar Annotated Extracts - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-lear-a-level-extract-analysis-13018351 King Lear Revision Bundle - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-lear-a-level-revision-bundle-13019013

Halloween Word Games & Activities Pack for High School Keep your students engaged this Halloween with these short, seasonal literacy activities. This pack includes 10 no-prep English word activities with a seasonal twist to keep students focused. With only printing required, you can have students on-task within seconds of walking through the door. Four different seasonal activity types are included. Wordsearches, word grids, anagrams and a colour-by-number. Students will enjoy these activities that will feel like a Halloween reward but in reality gently encourage them to think about consonants, vowels, spelling and language features: trick or treat! They make great individual activities but can also be used as group/challenge task. Students love competition: why not set an activity a day and build up points towards the end of the week? Or why not have them as reward tasks for early finishers? There are different levels of challenge across the different types of activity so there’s something for every learner here, whatever their ability. You will get: three wordsearches three sheets of anagrams three word grid activities one colour-by-number activity This resource is perfect for your regular English class and is one I use as starter activities in the build-up to Halloween. This then leaves the colour-by-number as a reward once we get closer to the holidays. You could also use it with a form to give them a daily literacy boost in the build up to Halloween: cross-curricular skills…check! Prep is quick and easy. Just print and go! The resource has been designed so that the colours are seasonal but the worksheets are still clear if you have to print in grayscale. And there’s no need to frantically look through wordsearch grids…all answers are included for all activities. You may also like: Halloween Mega-Wordesearch, which turns into a colour-by-number once all words have been found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13125178

The Merchant’s Tale (Chaucer) annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts: 33-54: presentation of January 318-341: presentation of marriage 611-638: presentation of January 948-972: presentation of January 1108-1133: presentation of January and May If you haven’t seen it already, there’s also a free annotated extract available - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13030820

World Oceans Day Literacy Activities This editable PowerPoint contains 20 literacy-based activities for World Oceans Day. These make perfect starter activities or form time tasks. Slides have a simple colour scheme so that they can be printed at a lower cost if hard copies are needed. As well as being enjoyable and competitive, these activities will encourage learners to apply their knowledge of the alphabet, vowels, consonants and languages. Activities include: placing words into alphabetical order matching terms to different languages anagrams identifying missing vowels/consonants word grids creating their own words