The 'ff' Sound - EYFS The ‘ff’ Sound is an EYFS phonics teaching resource introducing children to the digraph ‘ff’. Content includes: 1. A ‘ff’ digraph explanation 2. A link to a ‘ff’ sound introductory video 3. A ‘ff’ sound activity with an accompanying worksheet 4. One further differentiated worksheet with answers 5. 12 flashcards which can also be used for a word matching game ‘The ‘ff’ Sound - EYFS’ is fully editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to suit the needs of each class they teach.

Writing for Different Purposes Our ‘Writing for Different Purposes’ teaching resource explains how the purpose of a text affects its composition. The resource has been made with KS3 learners in mind, but it can be easily adapted for use with KS4 students. This fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource covers the following: What do we mean by the purpose of a text? How to identify the purpose of a text. Exploring different purposes. Adapting written work to fit an explicit purpose. . Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Writing for Different Purposes Writing for Different Audiences Writing for Different Audiences and Purposes

Writing for Different Audiences ‘Writing for Different Audiences’ English teaching resource explains how the audience of a text affects its composition. The resource has been made with KS3 students in mind but it can be easily tweaked for use with upper KS2 or lower ability KS4 students. Content includes: An editable PowerPoint lesson Activities to support the teaching of this objective 1 accompanying worksheet . Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Writing for Different Purposes Writing for Different Audiences and Purposes

The Prefix ‘super-’ - Year 3 and 4 (16-slide editable PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets) This differentiated teaching resource introduces Year 3/4 learners to prefixes with a focus on the prefix ‘super’. It includes a definition and explanation of the prefix, whole-class activities and three differentiated worksheets to put children’s knowledge into practice. Full answer keys are also included. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: The Prefix ‘re’ The Prefix ‘in’ The Prefix ‘mis’ The Prefix ‘inter’ The Prefix ‘sub’ The Prefix ‘auto’ The Prefix ‘anti’ The Prefix ‘dis’ The Prefix ‘un’ The Prefixes ‘il’, ‘im’ and ‘ir’ Developing Reading Skills - Prefixes

**The Prefix ‘mis-’ - Year 3 and 4 ** (16-slide editable PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets) This differentiated teaching resource introduces Year 3/4 learners to prefixes with a focus on the prefix ‘mis’. It includes a definition of the prefix ‘mis’ with examples, whole-class activities and three differentiated worksheets to assess understanding. Full answer keys are included. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: The Prefix ‘re’ The Prefix ‘in’ The Prefix ‘inter’ The Prefix ‘sub’ The Prefix ‘auto’ The Prefix ‘super’ The Prefix ‘anti’ The Prefix ‘dis’ The Prefix ‘un’ The Prefixes ‘il’, ‘im’ and ‘ir’ Developing Reading Skills - Prefixes

This resource is made up of five lessons, an editable 126-slide PowerPoint and 32 worksheets. It is a complete unit of work for Year 10/11 students who are following the AQA GCSE English Language course. It explains how to produce a piece of effective descriptive writing as required by the AQA GCSE English Language exam. Activities and lessons cover: An introduction to descriptive writing Examples of exam questions with pictures and example answers Examples of descriptive writing for analysis Planning and structuring using the ‘zoom’ method Using the senses to create imagery How to use descriptive devices - metaphors, personification, similes, sentence variety, imagery, vocabulary, semantic fields and show not tell Exploring the AQA GCSE Mark Scheme and assessing example responses And much more! Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: GCSE English Descriptive Writing KS3 Descriptive Writing Descriptive Writing - Year 7/8 Descriptive Writing - Year 5/6

Compound Sentences - KS3 (21-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with 5 worksheets) This lesson is aimed at KS3 pupils who are relatively confident with simple sentences and need to progress onto compound sentences. After a recap of the basics of simple sentences, pupils are introduced to the concept of compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions and the popular acronym FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So). Pupils will then use the ‘Coordinating Conjunctions in Action’ worksheet to help them respond to a range of differentiated tasks aimed at helping them to develop their confidence in the use of compound sentences. The lesson concludes with a brief plenary in which students identify and correct the mistakes in six compound sentences. Suggested answers are provided for all tasks. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more KS3 Essential English resources: Adjectives - KS3 English Essentials Capital Letters - KS3 Essential English Full Stops - KS3 Essential English Skills Question Marks - KS3 Essential English Inference Skills - KS3 Essential English Simple Sentences - KS3 English Essentials

Reading and Understanding Instructions - Year 3 and 4 (32-slide PowerPoint-based lesson with 14 worksheets) This differentiated resource (gold, silver and bronze tasks) introduces Year 3/4 children to instructional texts. It guides them through a whole-class comprehension task and analysis of the main features of instructions before they move on to individual exercises, which are supplied with full answer keys. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Retrieving and Recording Information - Non-Fiction - Year 3 and 4 SATs English Reading Test Prep - Information Retrieval SATs English Reading Test Prep - Thoughts and Feelings

Year 3 / Year 4 Retrieving and Recording Information From Non-Fiction is an editable PowerPoint based lesson with 3 differentiated worksheets and answer keys, which can be used to introduce this topic for the first time or as general comprehension practice. In this resource, pupils learn what non-fiction and fiction are, how to quickly and accurately find and retrieve information, and how to present this information in full sentences. Look at the example texts together and use the discussion prompts to assess understanding before assigning the appropriate level worksheet for each learner. Bronze Activity: Scan the text, look for keywords and answer comprehension questions in full sentences. Silver Activity: Scan the text, look for keywords and answer comprehension questions in full sentences. Gold Activity: Scan the text, look for keywords and answer comprehension questions in full sentences. Use reference materials, such as dictionaries or the internet to answer additional questions. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Reading and Understanding Instructions - Year 3 and 4 SATs English Reading Test Prep - Information Retrieval SATs English Reading Test Prep - Thoughts and Feelings

A Christmas Carol - WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature Exam Question (67-slide editable PowerPoint with 9 worksheets) This teaching resource provides a step-by-step guide to the Eduqas GCSE English Lit exam question on A Christmas Carol. It tracks through the paper and explains how to produce an effective answer under exam conditions. It offers guidance on approaching the question, planning and managing time effectively. It explains how to structure and write a higher band answer and asks students to study a range of exemplar exam responses which they are required to mark using the Eduqas GCSE English Literature mark scheme. Learners are then given an exam question and extract and are required to write a response under exam conditions. The resource includes an editable PowerPoint presentation, question papers, mark schemes, extracts and exemplar responses in PDF format. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more GCSE resources for A Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol (GCSE) Stave 1 A Christmas Carol (GCSE) Stave 2 A Christmas Carol (GCSE) Stave 3 A Christmas Carol (GCSE) Stave 4 & 5

OCR GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts is a 94 slide PowerPoint presentation with 9 accompanying worksheets and 9 step by step lessons specifically designed to teach reading non-fiction texts in preparation for the OCR GCSE English Paper 1 exam - Communicating Information and Ideas. The lessons contain a range of tasks, skills and activities, including: An Introduction to the OCR GCSE English Paper 1 exam - Communicating Information and Ideas. How do audience and purpose affect non-fiction texts? How to follow an argument in a non-fiction text. How are fact and opinion used in non-fiction texts? Analysis of common language techniques used in non-fiction. And much more… Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts AQA GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts Edexcel GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts

Wonder - Unit of Work Part 4 (17 lessons, 129-slide PowerPoint and 7 worksheets) This ‘Wonder – Part Four’ resource is the fourth and final section of our unit of work for ‘Wonder’ by R J Palacio. The unit contains seventeen lessons which explore the text from the chapter ‘In Science’ to the end of the book , ‘The Walk Home’. It contains a range of teaching and learning activities including: Developing reading and vocabulary skills Differentiated tasks (Gold, Silver and Bronze) to provide appropriate learning for all abilities Reading and comprehension tasks GPS activities that cover colons, the subjunctive form, parenthesis, dialogue punctuation, word classes, homophones, extended lists Find and retrieve tasks Formal writing, fact and opinion, participating in discussion and expressing an opinion Discussing key themes Character analysis and empathy And more! Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Wonder resources: Wonder - Part 1 Wonder - Part 2 Wonder - Part 3 Wonder - Part 4 Wonder - Unit of Work Bundle

Ozymandias This two-lesson mini-unit covers Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA Power and Conflict poetry, this resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 47-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 3 accompanying worksheets. The two lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context – A brief outline of Shelley and Romanticism. First Reading – A reading of ‘Ozymandias’ and discussion of the poem’s inspiration by the poet Percy Shelley. Language and imagery – Analysing 'Ozymandias' in detail. Exploring key imagery and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing – An essay question to assess initial understanding. An example answer is included. Lesson Two Themes – Analysing the themes of 'Ozymandias' – human power, art and nature. Structure and Form – How Shelley uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme. The GCSE Exam – Comparing ‘Ozymandias’ with ‘The Prelude’ and ‘London’. To preview 'Ozymandias' click on the images.

Mother, Any Distance - GCSE English (26-slide PowerPoint and 5 worksheets) This two-lesson mini unit enables GCSE students to explore Simon Armitage’s ‘Mother, Any Distance’ in detail. The first lesson covers the context of the poem and introduces the sonnet form. After a differentiated ‘Do Now’ activity, students undertake tasks in response to information about Armitage’s ‘Book of Matches’. Following this, they are introduced to the Italian and English sonnet and the concept of iambic pentameter. The lesson concludes with a brief ‘true or false’ activity as a learning review. In the second lesson, students apply what they have learnt to an exploration of Armitage’s poem. After a similarly differentiated ‘Do Now’ activity, students undertake a double-sided worksheet and respond to a range of questions that cover content, structure and form and finally, language and imagery. At the end of the lesson, students summarise what the poem is about in no more than 20, 15 or 10 words. Suggested answers are provided for all tasks. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more AQA Anthology Poetry - Love and Relationships resources: When We Two Parted Love’s Philosophy Porphyria’s Lover Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ Neutral Tones The Farmer’s Bride Eden Rock Before You Were Mine Walking Away Follower Letters From Yorkshire Winter Swans Singh Song! Climbing My Grandfather AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Love and Relationships Pack

A Christmas Carol for GCSE - The Death of Tiny Tim (14-slide PowerPoint lesson with 2 worksheets) This GCSE lesson enables learners to contrast Dickens’ presentation of the death of Tiny Tim with that of Scrooge in Stave 4. It begins with a differentiated information retrieval task which asks learners to recall different facts and ideas about the Cratchit family. Learners will then read from, ‘The Ghost conducted him through several streets…’ down to ‘…Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God.’ After reading the passage, learners will complete a comparison table in which they gather ideas and evidence in relation to Dickens’ presentation of the two characters’ deaths. Suggested answers are provided for all tasks. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 4 and Stave 5 of A Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s A Christmas Carol - The Royal Exchange A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Grave A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Death A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Repents A Christmas Carol - Scrooge is Redeemed A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Makes Amends

A Christmas Carol - Scrooge and the Charity Collectors This GCSE resource enables learners to explore Scrooge’s response to the charity collectors in Stave One of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It includes a differentiated ‘Do Now’ activity, in which pupils work in pairs to answer ten short-answer questions under timed conditions. In order to answer these questions, learners will need to have read from the beginning of the novella up until to Fred’s departure. Learners feedback their answers to ‘earn’ the right to participate in a ‘Catchphrase’-style activity in which they must work out what the picture behind the squares is showing. (The image is Hogarth’s ‘In the Madhouse’, a representation of the inside of Bedlam.) After this, learners will read from ‘There’s another fellow…’ down to ‘…a more facetious temper than was usual with him’. The main activity is for learners to analyse how Dickens presents Scrooge’s wilful ignorance of the harsh reality of life for the poor. They will use the information and ideas in a context sheet to consider the significance of five important quotations from the passage. This task contains three levels of challenge. At higher levels, learners will reflect on the methods that Dickens is using to convey Scrooge’s ignorance of the hardship that others face. The lesson concludes with learners writing down five things they have learnt during the lesson. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol: Introducing A Christmas Carol at GCSE A Christmas Carol - Introducing Scrooge A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Vs Fred A Christmas Carol - The Workhouse A Christmas Carol - Thomas Malthus A Christmas Carol - Marley’s Ghost A Christmas Carol - The Penitent Spirits A Christmas Carol - The Rich and the Poor

A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Past (15-slide PowerPoint and 4 worksheets) This GCSE resource enables learners to explore Dickens’ presentation of the Ghost of Christmas Past. Contents include: A differentiated starter activity that encourages learners to revise characters, quotations and ideas from Stave One. Activities exploring how Dickens presents the Ghost of Christmas Past and why Scrooge yearns to see the Ghost put on its extinguisher cap. Learners use a sheet of visual clues to help them interpret key details from Dickens’ description of the Ghost. The lesson concludes with a differentiated review which asks learners to examine three images and suggest how they relate to Scrooge. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Childhood A Christmas Carol - Old Fezziwig A Christmas Carol - Fezziwig and Scrooge A Christmas Carol - Scrooge and Belle A Christmas Carol - Belle’s Family

A Christmas Carol – Tiny Tim (14-slide editable teaching resource with three worksheets) This GCSE lesson begins with a starter activity that encourages students to reflect on some of Stave Three’s underlying moral issues. There are then further questions which require pupils to recall key ideas about Tiny Tim and consider why Dickens included this character in A Christmas Carol. The central activity is for students to make a mind map which explores the function of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. This will involve selecting and applying relevant information from an ideas and context sheet. The lesson concludes with a quick review that asks learners to identify five things that they have learnt in the lesson. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 2 A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 3 A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 1 A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2 A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 3 A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4 A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5 A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want

A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (2 lessons, a 28-slide PowerPoint presentation and 9 worksheets) This double GCSE lesson enables learners to explore the background to – and Dickens’ presentation of – the Ghost of the Christmas Yet to Come in A Christmas Carol. It begins with a differentiated retrieval task as a Do Now starter activity. Learners will then read from the beginning of Stave Four down to ‘…and carried him along’. During their reading, learners are asked to reflect on: What we learn about the Ghost in terms of its outward appearance How the Ghost communicates with Scrooge What the Ghost’s form seems to suggest about Scrooge’s future. Following on from this, learners will complete a worksheet that enables them to compare the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come with the Grim Reaper. After feedback, learning is reviewed and this constitutes the end of the first part of the lesson. In Part 2, the Do Now task asks learners to identify the odd image out on three rows, with the bronze row being the easiest and the gold row being the most difficult. After giving feedback, learners will then use a second worksheet to focus on Dickens’ presentation of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Suggested answers for this and the Do Now task are included. Park 2 concludes with learners listing what they have learnt about the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in terms of the following criteria: The most important thing that they have learnt The least important thing that they have learnt Why the Ghost of Christmas Yet to come is important How Dickens’ presentation of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come increases tension for the reader (identify two reasons) A prediction of two things that it will show Scrooge. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 4 of A Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol - The Death of Tiny Tim A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s A Christmas Carol - The Royal Exchange A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Grave A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Death A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Repents

The Highwayman - Unit of Work - Teaching Resources The Highwayman is a unit of work containing a 128-slide PowerPoint, 26 PDF worksheets and 15 lessons. This engaging scheme of work explores the poem verse by verse, analysing its narrative, characters, themes and language through a range of stimulating activities. These teaching resources can be used with either Year 6 (KS2) or Year 7/8 (KS3) depending on the ability of the students. Our unit for The Highwayman includes planning (planning provided with a 15-lesson unit of work overview), a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and 26 accompanying PDF worksheets. The resource can be used to teach a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme. Activities contained in the lessons include: Engaging verse by verse activities to consolidate understanding as children read through the poem Analysis of the characters of The Highwayman, Bess and Tim the ostler Exploration of the poem’s key themes Developing knowledge and understanding of poetic devices – similes, metaphors, building tension, tone and mood Using Point/Evidence/Explain to write about the poem Alfred Noyes’s ‘message’ – exploring the author’s purpose Cloze and sequencing activities to consolidate understanding Analysis of language in detail Role play - hot-seating activities to aid understating of characters Developing understanding of key characters through empathy writing activities Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for similar poetry units: The Lady of Shalott Conflict Poetry Christmas Poetry