Worksheets to teach The Midas Touch.
Includes text to the story:
Differentiated storyboard activity
Differentiated activity exploring the question: Is Midas a good father?
Printer friendly resource for a differentiated carousel group activity in which each group has to teach others a myth and complete the table.
The 5 myths in order of difficulty starting with the hardest:
Tantalus
Icarus
Trojan Horse
Perseus
Orpheus
Week of lesson activities on Theseus and the Minotaur which would work for KS2/KS3
Includes the text to the story
A differentiated storyboard activity (bronze, silver, gold)
A myth mountain to study the structure of the story
A differentiated worksheet on who is the cruellest character
The accompanying PowerPoint with learning outcomes
Complete lesson analysing language in the opening to Great Expectations with a focus on the skills for English Language Paper 1 Question 2.
Contains detailed annotations of the extract along with exemplar responses to the exam-style questions.
Plenary asks students to review the features of a successful analytical paragraph.
A worksheet in which students have to match 50 key A Christmas Carol quotations to 50 brief explanations.
Also includes a follow up worksheet for students to then explain each quotation independently.
Use for a final revision session or series of sessions on A Christmas Carol
Present the students with 6 big ideas about the novel.
Students use the attached top 50 quotations sheet to help add their ideas about each big idea.
I have also included a top 100 quotation version for higher ability students.
Then go through possible answers on the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is animated and each answer appears on the mouse click so you can talk through each one as it appears.
I have also included 6 predictions about what extract might come up. Now we are 3 years into the 9-1 syllabus, I predict they might use a more obscure extract so I have picked 6 less obvious extracts. Students read each extract and complete the planning grid.
Also includes some sample exam style responses to different generic questions.
New for 2022 is a large PowerPoint encouraging students to choose and explain their top 3 quotations for 9 different themes.
A cloze activity based around selecting word choices for effect and then commenting on the word choices.
Students then listen to the song and compare their word choices with the original.
An ideal differentiated end of term activity after a series of lessons on writing interesting sentences or at the start of a term to test how much students know about sentences. There is a test on the second page.
It covers the following:
What is a sentence
Varying the subject of a sentence
Long and short sentences
Subordinate clauses
4 sentence types
Varying sentence starts
Active and passive voice
Students revise the information sheet about sentences and then go on to complete the knowledge test.
Also contains detailed guidance on what makes a powerful sentence.
Worksheets aimed at helping students consciously use a range of simple, compound and complex sentences to describe an image.
Task 1: Students combine the sentences already provided to describe the image.
Task 2: Students must come up with their own examples of simple, compound and complex sentences and then produce their description.
This task is very repeatable - just change the image each time. It is worth repeating until students find it easy to come up with simple, compound and complex sentence examples.
A free resource to use with low ability students.
Students are provided with 5 grade 3 level paragraphs on the poem Remains.
Students must extend the paragraphs by developing better inferences, zooming in to words/techniques or by zooming out to bigger ideas such as PTSD.
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A series of lessons based around producing a piece of creative writing inspired by images of Hiroshima.
All lessons include differentiation and learning objectives. There is also a model response to annotate.
Also includes a lesson that looks at high grade exemplars of a lighthouse description.
A helpsheet containing 10 generic ways that students can improve their sentences in a second draft of a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Ideal for Key Stage 2/3 or for low ability students at Key Stage 4. Examples are included.
The 10 strategies are differentiated in order of difficulty and are designed to help students in a mixed ability class to respond to feedback on narrative writing by selecting the methods to help them improve.