Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
This Year 3/4 Poetry Pack contains five fab resources that explore poetry in a fun and engaging way.
All resources are differentiated and contain PowerPoint presentations and accompanying worksheets.
Contents:
Acrostics
Cinquain
Haiku
Narrative Poetry
Tanka
Narrative Poetry - Year 3/4
This lower KS2 teaching resource introduces narrative poetry in a fun and engaging way. It begins with an example and explains how to identify a narrative poem before providing scaffolding to help children construct one as a class.
The second half of the lesson helps children write an individual narrative poem. Learners are given a supported approach through the differentiated ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’ worksheets.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar poetry resources:
Acrostic Poetry - KS2
Cinquain Poetry - KS2
Free Verse Poetry - KS2
Sonnets - KS2
Tanka Poetry - KS2
Haiku Poetry - KS2
Free Verse Poetry – Year 5/6 English - Poetry
This UKS2 English resource introduces free verse poetry to Year 5/6 children. First, it provides an example poem and explains how to identify a free verse poem before presenting a structure to enable the whole class to write a free verse poem as a group. The three differentiated worksheets (Gold, Silver and Bronze) give all learners an opportunity to write their own free verse poem independently with an appropriate level of support.
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Acrostic Poetry - KS2
Cinquain Poetry - KS2
Sonnets - KS2
Tanka Poetry - KS2
Haiku Poetry - KS2
Narrative Poetry - KS2
This Year 5/6 Poetry Pack contains four fab resources that explore poetry in a fun and engaging way.
All resources are differentiated and contain PowerPoint presentations and accompanying worksheets.
Contents:
Acrostics
Free Verse
Limericks
Sonnets
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
(131-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 20 worksheets)
This 14-lesson Year 5/6 unit of work is made up of a series of progressive lessons that explore the plot, characters, themes and language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for Year 5/6 pupils.
The 14 lessons contain a variety of activities for learners of all abilities and cover:
The Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare
Exploring the characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s use of structure
The play’s language and imagery
Diary writing
The play’s main themes
The comedy of Shakespeare - creating and resolving conflict
Video and audio to help UKS2 learners understand key parts of the play
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more KS2 Shakespeare resources:
Macbeth - Year 5/6
Romeo and Juliet - Year 5/6
The Tempest is a 192-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with a 22-page booklet of accompanying worksheets. The resource contains a series of engaging lessons designed to develop knowledge and understanding of the play’s context, plot, characters, themes and language. The unit is designed for Year 9 but can be used at GCSE too. It covers a range of activities for pupils of all abilities, such as:
How to approach Shakespeare (tips for reading Shakespeare’s language and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary)
Analysing the characters in The Tempest - Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Ferdinand, Antonio and Sebastian
Understanding the play’s plot and subplots
Examining Shakespeare’s use of language and poetic imagery
Exploring the play’s themes - order and disorder, power and control, colonisation, slavery and freedom, redemption and forgiveness
Getting to grips with the historical and social context of the early 1600s (attitudes to foreign countries and colonisation)
Understanding Shakespeare’s creation and resolution of conflict and order
Varied lessons - comprehension questions, spoken English tasks, extension activities, etc
Learning how to write an essay-like answer about a Shakespeare text
Use of video to help the learning of key scenes and characters
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more GCSE English Literature drama resources:
An Inspector Calls
Blood Brothers
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
The History Boys
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - KS3 Unit of Work (14 lesson unit of work, 133-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 24 worksheets)
This unit is perfect for either a high ability Year 7 group or a Year 8/9 class. It contains a series of engaging lessons that explore the plot, characters, themes and language of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream in detail.
Lessons cover:
Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare
Analysing the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Examining structure
Analysing language
Key themes
Shakespeare use of comedy
Extension activities, questions, and video links
And much more!
Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman
Boys Don’t Cry is a unit of work containing a 171-slide editable PowerPoint presentation, 22 PDF worksheets and 16 one-hour lessons. This engaging scheme of work explores Malorie Blackman’s novel chapter by chapter, analysing its plot, characters, themes and language through a range of activities. The resource has been designed for GCSE but it can also be used with Year 9 depending on ability.
To preview ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ click the images. When you click on an image it will expand, allowing you to view each slide in detail. You can view all 171 PowerPoint slides this way.
Activities contained in the lessons include:
Engaging chapter by chapter activities to consolidate understanding as learners read through the book.
Reading comprehension questions (all with example answers) to assess students’ knowledge of plot, character, language, and themes.
Analysis of the characters of Dante, Adam, Tyler, Josh and Aunt Jackie.
Exploration of the key themes of teenage parenting, responsibility, family, prejudice, homophobia, toxic masculinity, gender, grief, bravery and growing up.
Developing the key reading skills of inference and deduction.
Analysing structural techniques such as the novel’s dual narrative and Blackman’s use of suspense and tension.
Exploring the author’s use of language for effect.
Examining the GCSE question – analysing GCSE exam questions and model answers and completing a formal assessment task
Role play - hot-seating to aid understating of characters, plot and themes.
Developing understanding of character through empathy writing tasks as well as character and growth arcs.
Constructing a Boys Don’t Cry knowledge organiser.
‘Do Now’ activities including a Boys Don’t Cry themed crossword, word search, sequencing task, matching game, anagrams and more.
Plus, lots more.
To view our Boys Don’t Cry unit slide by slide, click on the images.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE English Literature Prose resources:
A Christmas Carol
Animal Farm
Anita and Me
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Holes - Year 6
‘Holes - Year 6’ is a complete unit of work for the Louis Sachar novel ‘Holes’. This editable PowerPoint teaching resource contains 23 lessons with 27 accompanying worksheets. It explores the following in detail:
Youth detention in the USA and boot camps
The historical context of the American South (racial segregation, civil rights, Jim Crow laws)
Analysis of the characters of Stanley Yelnats, Mr Sir, Mr Pendanski, The Warden, Kate Barlow, Sam and Zero
Exploring key themes - crime and punishment, friendship, redemption
Key features of a novel – narrative hooks, building tension, setting the scene
Writing about the book using Point/Evidence/Explain
Louis Sachar’s purpose and viewpoint
Activities to consolidate understanding of the plot
Language study in key scenes
Hotseating activities
Empathy writing tasks - diary and letter writing – to show understanding of plot, character and themes
To preview ‘Holes - Year 6’ please click on the images.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular upper KS2 / lower KS3 novels:
Holes - KS3
The Silver Sword
War Horse
The Demon Headmaster
Skellig
Charlotte’s Web
Billionaire Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Christmas Carol
War Horse
War Horse is a unit of work containing a 142-slide PowerPoint, 14 PDF worksheets and 13 lessons. This scheme of work explores the novel chapter by chapter, analysing the book’s plot, characters, themes and language through a range of engaging activities. These teaching resources can be used with Year 5 or Year 6 (Upper KS2) or with a lower ability Year 7 group either as a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme.
Below are examples of the activities contained in the lessons.
Comprehension questions
Chapter by chapter activities to consolidate understanding
Research task – World War One
Making predictions about War Horse using the cover, title, author and blurb
Exploring and discussing themes
Character analysis of Joey, Albert, Father and Captain Nicholls
Understanding the features of a novel – how does Michael Morpurgo use language and narrative structure in War Horse?
Close analysis of language in key scenes
Role play and hot seating activities
Understanding War Horse’s characters through empathetic writing – diary writing
Developing inference and deduction skills
Writing a newspaper story about key events in the story
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular upper KS2 / lower KS3 novels:
Holes
The Silver Sword
The Demon Headmaster
Skellig
Charlotte’s Web
Billionaire Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Christmas Carol
This Charlotte’s Web unit of work has been created to develop key KS2 reading skills by exploring the popular children’s novel in detail. It covers the following areas of study:
Inference and deduction skills
Discussion and research skills
Exploring character in detail
How to write a response using quotations
Examining plot, themes and language
Activities for individuals, pairs and groups
Think, pair, share tasks
Hot seating and storyboarding
Making a quiz
Writing a front-page newspaper story
Writing a book review
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular KS2 novels:
The Silver Sword
War Horse
The Demon Headmaster
Skellig
Holes
Billionaire Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work is made up of an 83-slide PowerPoint and 14 worksheets. It contains 8 lessons, each created using the 4-part lesson structure all of which can be edited and differentiated to fit your teaching needs.
‘A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work’ contains a range of tasks and activities including:
A Victorian Christmas
Time and structure in A Christmas Carol
Developing reading skills such as deduction
Speaking and Listening - Scrooge on a TV talk show
Exploring characters
How Dickens uses language
How to write about A Christmas Carol using evidence from the text
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular KS2/3 novels:
The Silver Sword
War Horse
The Demon Headmaster
Skellig
Holes - KS3
Holes - KS2
Charlotte’s Web
Billionaire Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Year 6/7 Unit of Work (146-slide editable PowerPoint-based teaching resource with 28 accompanying worksheets)
This unit of work explores the Gillian Cross novel The Demon Headmaster and is designed to help Year 6/7 learners develop key English reading skills.
Contents include:
Reading and comprehension activities (answers included)
Analysing characters and writing about them in detail using quotations
Developing inference and deduction skills
Exploring the author’s use of language
Developing descriptive writing skills
Quizzes to assess understanding informally – crossword, word search and pub quiz
Using constructive criticism to improve key skills
Exploring and discussing the novel’s themes
Examining how the author builds tension
Writing empathetically in character to show understanding
Post-reading review writing
And lots more!
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular upper KS2 / lower KS3 novels:
The Silver Sword
War Horse
Skellig
Holes - KS3
Holes - KS2
Charlotte’s Web
Billionaire Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Christmas Carol
War Horse Free Lesson
This FREE resource for War Horse contains one full PowerPoint editable lesson with three accompanying worksheets from our complete unit of work ‘War Horse’.
To view the full unit of work please click here.
GCSE English Teachnig Resources: Macbeth - Structure
(21-slide PowerPoint presentation and 5 worksheets)
This resource contains a range of activities which help learners develop a sound understanding of how Shakespeare uses structure in Macbeth. The lesson begins with a collaborative group task in which pupils explore and discuss the structure of the play as a whole.
Differentiated activities allow all students to access the topic, as do visual and active group tasks. The resource has a particular focus on Shakespeare’s use of cyclical narrative struture and dramatic irony.
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Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - Answering the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
Macbeth - The Extract Question (Edexcel / Pearson GCSE English Literature)
(45-slide PowerPoint presentation with 9 worksheets)
This PowerPoint-based teaching resource offers a detailed, step by step guide to the Edexcel / Pearson GCSE English Literature examination extract question on Macbeth. The resource works through a demonstration of how to analyse an extract, before asking students to apply their learning in a range of individual and paired activities. Visual images are used to extend the range of ways students can engage with an extract as well as a number of active learning methods to secure learning and aid easier recall on future tasks. The lessons and activities within this resource are engaging, well-paced and fully differentiated.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Structure
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
Macbeth’s House of Games
(140-slide PowerPoint presentation)
Welcome to Macbeth’s House of Games - an animated Macbeth themed quiz inspired by the House of Games television show. The quiz works with both individuals and groups and is a fun way to recap and revise the text.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more ‘House of Games’ themed resources:
House of Games - A Christmas Carol
House of Games - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
House of Games - Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Structure
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - Answering the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
KS4/GCSE English - Macbeth - Characterisation
(36-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 6 accompanying worksheets)
Lessons begin with the close analysis of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and build towards a complete ‘Escape Room’ activity. ‘Macbeth - Characterisation’ is designed to engage and promote independent learning and co-operation, as well as long term retention through a kinaesthetic style of learning. Lessons include answers to all the differentiated tasks and regular intervals are built in for feedback to ensure that learning is inclusive and collaborative. The resource also provides a healthy competitive element to maximise motivation, engagement and enjoyment.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Structure
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - Answering the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Preparation - Macbeth
(38-slide PowerPoint presentation with 5 worksheets)
This two-lesson teaching resource provides a step-by-step guide to the AQA GCSE English Literature exam question on Macbeth. It tracks through the question paper and shows students how to produce an effective answer under exam conditions. It offers guidance on approaching the question, planning and managing time effectively. It also explains how to structure and write a higher band answer. Learners are then given an exam question and extract and are required to write a response in exam conditions.
To preview a selection of slides from ‘AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Preparation - Macbeth’, click on the images.
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Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Structure
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: Macbeth and the Theme of Courage
(12 slide PowerPoint presentation with 3 accompanying worksheets)
This teaching resource opens with a thought-provoking quote from Julius Caesar about the theme of courage. Courage is then defined through a range of definitions which are in turn used to study an extract from the text.
The resource is designed to help students consider Macbeth as courageous initially, then not so courageous in the central scenes, before looking at how he is presented in the final battle scene. Activities are ‘play based’ and include a Treasure Hunt and a relatable first impressions activity that securely acknowledges the need for SMSC in lessons. Differentiated worksheets and answers are included. This lesson concludes with an exam style question in order to allow students to demonstrate their understanding.
This GCSE English resource is fun, engaging and is shaped appropriately in order to get ‘that light bulb moment’ all teachers love to hear!
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Structure
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - Answering the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work