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.
Winter Swans
This two-lesson mini-unit explores Owen Sheer’s ‘Winter Swans’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA’s Love and Relationships Poetry, this resource looks at the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 52-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 4 accompanying worksheets.
The two lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Context – A brief outline of Owen Sheers and factors that may have inspired the poem.
First Contact – An initial reading of ‘Winter Swans’ with a glossary included. Comprehension questions with example answers.
Language and imagery – Analysing ‘Winter Swans’ 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 ‘Winter Swans’ - Romantic love, nature and distance
Structure and Form – How Sheers uses rhyme, rhythm, caesura and enjambment.
The GCSE Exam – Comparing ‘Winter Swans’ with other poems from the anthology. Model answer included.
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
Mother, Any Distance
Before You Were Mine
Walking Away
Follower
Letters From Yorkshire
Singh Song!
Climbing My Grandfather
AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Love and Relationships Pack
Exclamation Marks - KS1
'Exclamation Marks - KS1’ introduces pupils to exclamation marks as per the curriculum objectives of the KS1 English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. This engaging PowerPoint lesson includes class activities with an accompanying worksheet for children to use during the lesson. It contains 1 further worksheet with answers.
‘Exclamation Marks - KS1’ can be edited giving you the freedom to adapt the resource if needed to suit each class you teach.
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Exclamation Marks
Exclamation Marks - Year 1
This Year 7 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
Limericks
Sonnets
Cinquain
Tanka
Limericks - Year 7
This Lower KS3 lesson teaches pupils about limericks in a fun and engaging way. First, it provides examples of limericks and explains the ‘rules’ of limericks. It then provides a task that requires students to explore the examples and discuss the poems regarding layout, structure and language. The second half of the lesson explains how to write a limerick. Learners are given a scaffolded approach and an example to help them construct a class and then individual limerick.
The resource is differentiated using ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’ activities to help all children achieve.
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Limericks - KS2
Acrostic Poetry - KS2
Acrostic Poetry - KS3
Cinquain Poetry - KS2
Cinquain Poetry - KS3
Sonnets - KS2
Sonnets - KS3
Tanka Poetry - KS2
Tanka Poetry - KS3
Free Verse Poetry - KS2
Haiku Poetry - KS2
Narrative Poetry - KS2
Acrostic Poetry - Year 7
This lesson teaches children about acrostic poetry in a fun and engaging way. First, it provides three examples of acrostics and explains what the ‘rules’ of acrostics are. It then provides a task that requires children to explore the examples and discuss the poems regarding layout, language and poetic devices. The second half of the lesson explains how to write an acrostic. Pupils are given a scaffolded approach and another example to help them construct a class and then individual acrostics.
The resource is differentiated using ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’ activities to help all children achieve.
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Acrostic Poetry - KS2
Limericks - KS2
Limericks - KS3
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Cinquain Poetry - KS3
Sonnets - KS2
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Tanka Poetry - KS2
Tanka Poetry - KS3
Free Verse Poetry - KS2
Haiku Poetry - KS2
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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
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
Eden Rock
This two-lesson mini-unit explores Charles Causley’s ‘Eden Rock’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying the AQA Love and Relationships cluster, this resource looks at the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 57-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 7 accompanying worksheets.
The two lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Context – A brief outline of Charles Causley’s life and factors that may have inspired the poem.
First Contact – An initial reading of ‘Eden Rock’ with a glossary included. Comprehension questions with answers.
Exploring Meaning – Analysing ‘Eden Rock’ 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 ‘Eden Rock’ - parent/child relationships, memory, distance and death.
Language – Exploring Causley’s use of language. An analysis of imagery and a line-by-line examination of the poem, with questions and answers.
Structure and Form – How Causley uses the first-person perspective, caesura, rhyme and enjambment.
The GCSE Exam – Comparing ‘Eden Rock’ with ‘Neutral Tones and ‘Mother, Any Distance’. Model answers included.
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
Mother, Any Distance
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
Following Instructions - Year 5 and 6
(35-slide PowerPoint-based lesson with 5 worksheets)
This differentiated resource (gold, silver and bronze tasks) helps upper KS2 children develop their reading comprehension skills. It explains how to follow written instructions, why people sometimes make mistakes when following instructions and why understanding instructions can be essential in certain situations.
The resource features whole-class, small group and individual activities. All answers are provided.
Walking Away
This two-lesson mini-unit explores Cecil Day-Lewis’s ‘Walking Away’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying the AQA Love and Relationships cluster, this resource studies the poem in depth and explains how to write an essay comparing it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 59-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 7 accompanying worksheets.
The two lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Context – A brief outline of Cecil Day-Lewis’s life and factors that may have inspired the poem.
First Contact – An initial reading of ‘Walking Away’ with a glossary included. Comprehension questions with example answers.
Exploring Meaning – Analysing ‘Walking Away’ in detail. Exploring key imagery and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided.
Essay Writing – An essay question to assess initial understanding. A model answer is included.
Lesson Two
Themes – Analysing the themes of ‘Walking Away’: parent/child relationships, memory, time, distance and growing up.
Language – Exploring Day-Lewis’s use of language. An analysis of imagery and a line-by-line examination of the poem, with questions and answers.
Structure and Form – How Day-Lewis uses the first-person perspective, direct address, caesura, rhyme and enjambment.
The GCSE Exam – How to write a comparison essay. Comparing ‘Walking Away’ with ‘Before You Were Mine’ and ‘Mother, Any Distance’. Model answers included.
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
Mother, Any Distance
Before You Were Mine
Follower
Letters From Yorkshire
Winter Swans
Singh Song!
Climbing My Grandfather
AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Love and Relationships Pack
This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help GCSE students develop their reading assessment skills. It is made up of a 43-slide PowerPoint presentation, 7 worksheets and an assessment task using an extract from the crime novel ‘A Gun for Sale’.
Contents:
Lesson One
An introduction to the ‘Reading Fiction’ section of the GCSE English exam
How to approach the exam task
Analysing an extract - first and second reading
Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, consolidation and using deduction skills
How to write an extended answer about language
Lesson Two
How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively
How to write about structure
How to answer a 20 mark evaluation question effectively
A 45-minute assessment task
Lesson Three
Feedback and discussion of student responses
All five GCSE-type assessment questions and answers explored in detail
Exemplar answers for all five questions
GCSE Reading Fiction Comprehension has everything you need to help you develop essential exam skills.
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GCSE English Language - Reading Fiction Comprehension 2
KS3 Comprehension – A Gun for Sale
KS3 Comprehension - Frankenstein
KS3 Comprehension - Jamaica Inn
KS3 Comprehension Bundle
KS3 Comprehension Bundle
This KS3 Reading bundle contains three Year 9 comprehension units of work:
Frankenstein
A Gun for Sale
Jamaica Inn
Click the images to find out more about each unit.
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KS3 Comprehension - Jamaica Inn
This three-lesson unit is designed to help Year 9 learners develop their comprehension skills in preparation for GCSE. It is made up of a 44-slide PowerPoint presentation, 4 worksheets and a comprehension assessment that uses an extract from Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Jamaica Inn’.
Unit Contents:
Lesson One
An introduction and advice about approaching a GCSE-type comprehension task
Analysing the extract – what to do on a first and second reading
Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary and reading between the lines
How to write an extended answer about language and techniques
Lesson Two
How to refer to the text and use quotes and quotation marks accurately and effectively
How to write an extended answer about structure
How to answer a 20 mark evaluation question effectively
A 45-minute 5-question comprehension exercise
Lesson Three
Feedback on student responses to the previous lesson’s comprehension task and discussion of success criteria
All five comprehension questions and answers explored in detail
Detailed exemplar/model answers for all five questions discussed
KS3 Comprehension – Jamaica Inn has everything you need to help you develop essential comprehension skills at upper KS3.
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GCSE English Language - Reading Fiction Comprehension 2
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
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.
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Retrieving and Recording Information - Non-Fiction - Year 3 and 4
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Christmas SPAG Activities Bundle - KS1
This KS1 English grammar teaching bundle contains the following 2 PowerPoint teaching resources with accompanying worksheets:
Christmas SPAG Activities 1 - KS1
Christmas SPAG Activities 2 - KS1
Each of these English teaching resources has been designed to help deliver lessons covering some of the curriculum objectives of the year 1 and 2 English programme of study (Writing -vocabulary, grammar and punctuation).
For a full description and preview of each resource please click on the images below.
This bundle gives you a saving of 25% when compared to buying each resource individually.
Christmas SPAG Activities 2 - KS1
This Christmas themed KS1 SPAG teaching resource concentrates on punctuation, sentence structure, plural nouns and alphabetical order. Content includes:
Capital letters and end of sentence punctuation activity with an accompanying worksheet
Using commas to separate items in a list explanation with an activity and an accompanying worksheet
Possessive apostrophe explanation with an activity and an accompanying worksheet
Ordering words in a sentence activity with an accompanying worksheet
Singular nouns to plural nouns (adding -s) explanation with activity and an accompanying worksheet
Alphabetical order explanation with an activity and accompanying worksheet
'Christmas SPAG Activities 2 - KS1’ is a fully editable resource so you can adapt, personalise and differentiate it to suit your teaching requirements.
GCSE English - Reading Fiction
This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help GCSE students develop their reading assessment skills. It is made up of a 44-slide PowerPoint presentation, 8 worksheets and a reading assessment task using an extract from the novel Frankenstein.
Contents:
Lesson One
An introduction to the ‘Reading Fiction’ section of the GCSE English exam
How to approach the exam task
Analysing an extract - first and second reading
Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, consolidation and using deduction skills
How to write an extended answer about language
Lesson Two
How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively
How to write about structure
A 45-minute assessment task
Lesson Three
Feedback and discussion of student responses
All five GCSE-type assessment questions and answers explored in detail
Exemplar answers for all five questions
GCSE Reading Fiction Skills has everything you need to help you develop essential exam skills.
Christmas SPAG Activities 1 - KS1
This Christmas themed KS1 SPAG teaching resource concentrates on word class, covering many of the curriculum objectives of the year 1 and 2 English programme of study. Content includes:
A noun explanation with an activity and an accompanying worksheet
An adjective explanation with activities and an accompanying worksheet
A verb explanation with activities and two accompanying worksheets
An adverb explanation with activities and two accompanying worksheets
A word class sorting activity with an accompanying worksheet
A Christmas super sentences activity with an accompanying worksheet
'Christmas SPAG Activities 1 - KS1’ is a fully editable resource so you can adapt, personalise and differentiate it to suit your teaching requirements.
Year 9 Comprehension – A Gun for Sale
This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help upper KS3 learners develop their comprehension skills with an eye towards GCSE. It is made up of a 44-slide PowerPoint presentation, 8 worksheets and a comprehension exercise using an extract from Graham Greene’s ‘A Gun for Sale’.
Contents:
Lesson One
An introduction to KS3 comprehension
How to approach a comprehension exercise (the dos and don’ts)
Approaching an extract – what to look for on a first and second reading
Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary and using deduction skills
How to write an extended answer about language and techniques
Lesson Two
How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively
How to write an extended answer about structure
A 45-minute comprehension exercise
Lesson Three
Feedback on student responses to the comprehension task and discussion of success criteria
All five comprehension questions and answers explored in detail
Exemplar/model answers for all five questions
Year 9 Comprehension - A Gun for Sale has everything you need to help you develop essential comprehension skills at upper KS3.
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KS3 Comprehension - Frankenstein
KS3 Comprehension - Jamaica Inn
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GCSE English Language - Reading Fiction Comprehension
GCSE English Language - Reading Fiction Comprehension 2