Poppies - AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson unit teaches students about Jane Weir's 'Poppies' 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. It is made up of a 50-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 4 accompanying worksheets. The lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context - An introduction to the poet Jane Weir and the poem’s inspiration and context. First Reading - A reading of ‘Poppies’ with comprehension / consolidation questions - answers included. Language and imagery - Analysing 'Poppies' in detail. Exploring language and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing - An essay question to assess students' initial understanding of the poem. An example response is included. Lesson Two Imagery - Analysing Weir's use of imagery. Themes - Discussing the poem's themes. Structure and Form - Considering how Weir uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme. The GCSE exam - Comparing ‘Poppies’ with ‘War Photographer’ and explaining how to write a comparison essay in the exam. This is a comprehensive resource containing a range of activities, however it can also be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs. To preview a selection of slides from the presentation, click on the images.

Wonder by RJ Palacio - Free Resource This free resource is a lesson taken from our unit of work for Wonder. It is made up of an 8-slide PowerPoint presentation and 1 worksheet and provides a sample of the complete unit which can be viewed here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12417621

Follower by Seamus Heaney This free lesson is designed to help you teach Seamus Heaney’s ‘Follower’ to pupils studying the AQA GCSE English Literature Love and Relationships Anthology. It is made up of a 34-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 3 worksheets and is the first part of our mini-unit on ‘Follower’. The complete resource can be downloaded here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12714247 This first lesson contains the following: Making predictions – From the title alone, what do you think the poem is about? Context – Learning the importance of context. How knowledge of context helps us understand the poem in detail. Here we explore Heaney and the disappearing world of traditional Irish rural life First Contact – An initial reading of the poem with a glossary included and comprehension questions with answers to assess understanding. Exploring Meaning – Analysing the poem in detail. Exploring key quotes and discussing them with comprehensive questions that delve deeper. Model answers are provided. Essay Writing – An essay question task to assess initial understanding. Includes a model answer and peer assessment opportunities. This free lesson is the first part of our teaching unit on ‘Follower’. The complete resource can be downloaded here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12714247

My Last Duchess - Robert Browning This free lesson is designed to help you teach Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ to pupils studying the AQA GCSE English Literature Love and Relationships Anthology poetry. It is made up of a 33-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 2 worksheets and is the first part of our mini-unit on My Last Duchess. The complete resource can be downloaded here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11062465 This first lesson contains the following: The lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context – A brief outline of Robert Browning’s life. First Reading – A reading of ‘My Last Duchess’ with glossary and comprehension / consolidation questions - answers included. Language and imagery – Analysing ‘My Last Duchess’ in detail. Exploring language and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing – An essay question to assess students’ initial understanding of the poem. An example response is included. This free lesson is the first part of our teaching unit on ‘My Last Duchess’. The complete resource can be downloaded here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11062465

A Christmas Carol for GCSE - Stave Four: Scrooge Repents Editable PowerPoint-based lesson with worksheets This differentiated lesson enables GCSE students to explore Dickens’ presentation of the events at the end of Stave Four of A Christmas Carol. It begins with a differentiated quiz in which pupils must answer as many question about the Three Spirits as they can in five minutes. Students then read from, ‘The Spirit stood among the graves’ down to the end of Stave Four. After reading the passage, learners will undertake activities that encourage them to think about different aspects of the scene. Suggested answers are provided for all activities. 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 - 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 is Redeemed A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Makes Amends

‘A Christmas Carol - the Rich and the Poor’ explores Dickens’ presentation of the gap between the rich and the poor in Stave One of A Christmas Carol. The resource is made up of a 13-slide PowerPoint presentation and 2 worksheets. Its contents include: A differentiated ‘Do Now’ starter activity in which pupils reflect on the importance of 6 quotations from Scrooge’s dialogue with the charity collectors. After this, students will read from ‘Meanwhile, the fog and darkness thickened so…’ down to ‘…to play at blindman’s buff’. As they read, learners will consider the differences between the lives of the rich and the poor in the passage and how Dickens presents these differences. At the highest level, learners will reflect on Dickens’ use of light and dark imagery in the extract. The next activity is for learners to contemplate the significance of the excerpt from ‘God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen’ and how Dickens adapts it in Stave One. The lesson concludes with learners summarising the events of the passage in no more than 20, 15 or 10 words. Each task is accompanied by a set of suggested answers. 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 in Stave 1 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

Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1 ‘Rudolph Saves Christmas’ is an English KS1 teaching resource that covers many of the year 1 English curriculum objectives for comprehension and composition. This bright and engaging 77 slide PowerPoint presentation includes: Whole class telling of the story by the teacher and accompanying pictures An interactive quiz to check understanding following the reading of each part of the story A retelling of the story by volunteers with accompanying pictures to help A retelling of the story writing activity with 10 accompanying worksheets Learning about rhyming words Rhyming words activities and 3 accompanying worksheets Link to a ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’ song Exploring the meaning, message or moral behind the story Story sequencing activity with an accompanying worksheet ‘Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1’ is completely editable so that teachers are able to adapt the resource to suit the individual needs of each class they teach. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 1 Christmas resources: Christmas SPAG Activities 1 - KS1 Christmas SPAG Activities 2 - KS1 Christmas SPAG Activities Bundle - KS1 The Nativity Story - KS1 Seasonal Subtraction - Year 1 Seasonal Sums - Year 1 Christmas Numbers - Year 1 Christmas Crackers - More and Less KS1 Christmas Bundle

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. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 1 Christmas resources: Christmas SPAG Activities 1 - KS1 Christmas SPAG Activities Bundle - KS1 Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1 The Nativity Story - KS1 KS1 Christmas Bundle Seasonal Subtraction - Year 1 Seasonal Sums - Year 1 Christmas Numbers - Year 1 Christmas Crackers - More and Less

Halloween 1 More or 1 Less: KS1 Maths Actvity In ‘Halloween 1 More or 1 Less’ pupils practise finding 1 more and 1 less of a given number within 20 as per the year 1 curriculum objective in the maths programme of study ( Number - number and place value). Content includes: Find 1 more animated activity and accompanying worksheet Find 1 less animated activity and accompanying worksheet Further 1 more and 1 less worksheet ‘Halloween 1 More or 1 Less’ can be edited allowing teachers to adapt the resource to suit the needs of each class they teach. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 1 Halloween resources: Spooky Subtraction - Year 1 Halloween Addition to 10 - Year 1 Halloween Counting Objects Halloween Comparing Objects Halloween Numbers to 20 Halloween Counting to 20 Halloween Ordinal Numbers Year 1 Halloween Number and Place Value Bundle

A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits (Lesson 4) (17-slide editable PowerPoint and 2 worksheets) This fourth GCSE lesson enables learners to continue to explore Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchit family in Stave 3 of ‘A Christmas Carol’. Please note that it focuses on the following passage: From: ‘At last the dinner was all done…’ Down to: ‘…on hearing his own name.’ The lesson begins with a differentiated ‘Do Now’ starter activity which encourages revision and retrieval of quotations from the novella so far. In preparation for their reading, learners will then consider how an image of a caterpillar eating a leaf might represent Scrooge. The image is intended to illustrate the idea of the ‘insect on the leaf’ metaphor contained within the passage. Learners will then read the passage indicated above and following on from this, they will respond to five passage-focused tasks on a worksheet. Suggested answers are included on the PowerPoint. The lesson concludes with a quick plenary that asks learners to think of points that either support or challenge a statement regarding the Cratchits’ function in Stave Three. 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 5 A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim 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 Royal Exchange (17-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 7 worksheets) This GCSE lesson enables learners to explore Dickens’ presentation of the businessmen discussing Scrooge’s death in Stave Four. It begins with a differentiated retrieval task as a ‘Do Now’ activity. Learners will then read from ‘They scarcely seemed to enter the city’, down to, ‘It made him shudder, and feel very cold’. During their reading, learners are asked to reflect on: What we learn about Scrooge’s death How the men feel about Scrooge’s death What their dialogue suggests about Scrooge. Following on from this, learners will complete a worksheet that enables them to explore the passage in greater depth. The lesson concludes with a brief learning review in which learners answer five retrieval questions relating to the passage. 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 - The Death of Tiny Tim A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s 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 - The Cratchits (Lesson 3 ) This third GCSE lesson enables learners to continue to explore Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchit family in Stave 3. Please note that it focuses on the following passage: From: ‘Such a bustle ensued…’ Down to: ‘…to hint at such a thing.’ The lesson begins with a differentiated ‘Do Now’ starter activity in which learners examine a range of quotations from Staves 1-3 with a view to deciding which is the odd one out. Suggested answers are included. This is followed by a revision task in which learners decide which four out of a possible eight statements about the Cratchits are true. Following on from this, learners will read the passage indicated above. Learners will then analyse Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchits by responding to prompts on a passage-based worksheet. Suggested ideas are included on the PowerPoint. The lesson concludes with a quick plenary that asks learners to summarise what they have learnt about the Cratchits during the lesson in no more than 20, 15 or 10 words. 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 4 A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5 A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim 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 Penitent Spirits (15-slide PowerPoint-based GCSE lesson with differentiated worksheets) At the end of Stave One, Scrooge sees into the purgatorial realm that he is currently doomed to enter. This resource enables students to examine how Dickens presents the penitent spirits that Scrooge observes. It includes: A differentiated starter activity quiz to help revise the main ideas in Stave One Students will then study from, ‘It held its chain up at arm’s length…’ down to the end of chapter, thinking about how Dickens describes the scene outside of Scrooge’s window and its implications for Scrooge himself. After this, pupils will examine an illustration of the scene in question, evaluating the artist’s depiction of the passage they have just read. The lesson concludes with learners producing a short list of the different things that Scrooge might learn in Staves 2-4. 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 in Stave 1 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 Rich and the Poor

Seasonal Sums - Year 1 ‘Seasonal Sums - Year 1’ is a Christmas themed maths teaching resource covering some of the the year 1 curriculum objectives (Number - addition and subtraction). Pupils practise addition within 20 using a number line. ‘Seasonal Sums - Year 1’ is a colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation containing: A using a number line to add explanation Addition within 10 activity with accompanying worksheet Addition within 20 activity with accompanying worksheet 1 further worksheet with answers 2 colouring pages ‘Seasonal Sums - Year 1’ can be edited giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to meet their individual teaching needs. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 1 Christmas resources: Seasonal Subtraction - Year 1 Christmas Numbers - Year 1 Christmas Crackers - More and Less Christmas SPAG Activities 1 - KS1 Christmas SPAG Activities 2 - KS1 Christmas SPAG Activities Bundle - KS1 Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1 The Nativity Story - KS1 KS1 Christmas Bundle

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. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 1 Christmas resources: Christmas SPAG Activities 2 - KS1 Christmas SPAG Activities Bundle - KS1 Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1 The Nativity Story - KS1 KS1 Christmas Bundle Seasonal Subtraction - Year 1 Seasonal Sums - Year 1 Christmas Numbers - Year 1 Christmas Crackers - More and Less

KS2 Maths Teaching Resources: Multiply by Three In 'Multiply by Three’ pupils practise the x 3 multiplication table as per the year 3 maths programme of study - Number (multiplication and division): 'Multiply by Three’ is an animated PowerPoint presentation which includes: interactive activities x 3 flash cards 2 worksheets 'Multiply by Three’ can be fully edited allowing teachers to adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as needed. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for similar Year 3 multiplication resources: Multiply by Four Multiply by Eight Introducing Multiplying 2-Digits by 1-Digit - Year 3 Multiplying 2-Digits by 1-Digit - Year 3 Year 3 Multiplication and Division Bundle 2