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Writing super sentences for an article (transactional writing)
Writing super sentences for an article (transactional writing)
Avoiding using 'The' as a sentence start
Worksheet to help students avoid using The as a sentence start.
Understanding vocabulary in A Christmas Carol
A carousel style activity inviting students to understand the meaning of the challenging vocabulary in A Christmas Carol. The words are broken up into Staves. After learning the words, students should have the opportunity to put the words into context by producing a paragraph, poem or song.
A Christmas Carol: Starter. Add the missing word from each Scrooge quote.
A useful starter activity to help remember Scrooge quotations. With the closed book examination in mind, these work well as little and often starters to help students memorise quotations.
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Literacy, Grammar & Punctuation worksheets for KS2 and KS3
20 premium resources in one bundle. Some of the topics covered in the various worksheets include:
A3 double sided literacy mat
subordinate clauses
embedded clauses
sentences and fragments
colon and semi colon
prefix and suffixes
parts of speech
writing interesting sentences
varying sentence starts
using ambitious vocabulary
similes and metaphors
paragraphs
Many worksheets include 3 levels of differentiation. There are also some songs about grammar and punctuation included to make your teaching memorable.
These worksheets are ideal to use with KS2/KS3.
Gothic horror vocabulary building and spelling lesson
Lesson introducing students to 25 ambitious adjectives to create a gothic atmosphere.
Starter: Find the words in the word search
New information: Find a synonym for each word
Construct: Write a paragraph using the adjectives
Apply: Find a spelling strategy to remember how to spell each word
Review: Spelling test
20 interesting sentences to use in a narrative (Paper 1 Section B)
20 interesting sentences to use in a creative writing response to Paper 1 Section B.
Also includes 7 ways to make writing more compelling.
Identifying the subordinate clause in complex sentences
Identifying the subordinate clause in complex sentences
To Kill a Mockingbird: Practise identifying language features in 4 extracts
4 extracts from To Kill a Mockingbird each with a challenging question investigating the impact of language features.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Revise key quotations from key chapters
To Kill a Mockingbird: Revise key quotations from key chapters
To Kill a Mockingbird Learning Journey Revision
A learning journey for To Kill a Mockingbird with 9 revision choices and 7 accompanying worksheets.
Why is Atticus a good father? Blank grid and Answer grid. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Why is Atticus a good father.
Complete the grid. Check against the answers.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Was Tom Robinson guilty. Discuss and evidence.
Discuss whether Tom Robinson was innocent or guilty and write an argument for or against using the helpful sentence stems.
To Kill a Mockingbird double zoom in to word choices
To Kill a Mockingbird double zoom in to word choices
Scout Starter Activity: To Kill a Mockingbird
Differentiated starter activity on the character of Scout.
Bronze: Define the words
Silver: Make links between the words
Gold: Use the words in a paragraph about Scout.
To Kill a Mockingbird - A highly differentiated full lesson activity
Teaching instructions:
There are 20 key extracts from the novel grouped into bronze, silver and gold for difficulty.
Give each student an extract to focus on.
Each student completes differentiated questions based on the extract.
The next step is to carousel and share answers.
Students then jot down notes for all characters on the graphic organiser which is also provided.
To Kill a Mockingbird not in the film test!
Use this test if you want to find out if your students have read the whole of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ instead of just watching the movie. All the questions test students on incidents that occur in the book but not in the film.
To Kill a Mockingbird predicting exam questions and choosing suitable extracts
To Kill a Mockingbird predicting exam questions and choosing suitable extracts.