Everything you need for your students to design a persuasive leaflet for a school club of their choice using differentiated, printable worksheets that can also be combined into a booklet!
Students earn their budget in dollars, pounds, or currency of your choice in the starter task, which they then cash in for features to include in their leaflet design and content. Check out the preview for the version featuring dollars!
Includes…
PDF worksheets with budgeting in dollars
PDF worksheets with budgeting in pounds
PDF worksheets with budgeting amounts, but no currency reference
Editable PowerPoint worksheets for you to add your own amounts and currency
…that’s 24 pages total!
These worksheets come in simple black and white format for easy printing.
These printable tone cards can be used to discuss and analyse the language in both fiction and non-fiction texts. Available in colour and black and white!
Prompt your students to use more sophisticated vocabulary with these sets of positive, neutral, and negative tone word mini-cards which also have the option to print four synonyms on the reverse to clarify meaning and avoid repetition in written or spoken responses.
Low prep - print and cut. For repeated use: print, laminate, cut, and store in small popper wallets or boxes.
Students can get a feel for the setting of their story or description with this set of ten graphic organizer planning sheets - select different sheets to differentiate for the needs of individual students.
Either use nine prompts to determine as many ideas or aspects of language as possible, or give more specific sheets like the five senses, one specific sense, or location building to aid development of detail.
Students can quickly and easily jot down notes, phrases, ideas and vocabulary; laminate the sheets and use with dry-wipe pens for lower printing costs!
Suitable for a range of ages - flexible mats in both US and UK document sizes.
Great for NaNoWriMo, but please note that this resource is not associated with or endorsed by the National Novel Writing Month team.
Printable book report templates in the style of a book cover or dust jacket!
Differentiated to three levels - with section headings, with limited guidance, and totally blank for student organisation or for you to instruct on specific content requirements.
All versions are provided on an A3 PDF sheet with instructions for students to fill in and cut out their cover or jacket.
Although not all book dimensions can be tailored for, if the A3 format fits the students’ books, they could wrap their finished reports around the books to create an interesting classroom display!
The headed version includes…
Title, illustration and author info
Genre, setting, characters and conflict
Favorite character and reasoning
review and star rating
Includes a completed example report.
14 grammar posters for your English classroom - simple black and white styles which are easy to print on colour paper, or keep it monochrome.
Gen Z slang used on all posters as examples of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and more!
One version features sketch images to accompany the slang, and the other is text-only. 28 posters in all!
Coach your students through writing an essay on the theme of commitment in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This resource includes two guided practice booklets (one with space for full drafting, and one slimline version with instructions only) and editable versions of all warm-up tasks and worksheets.
Use as a preparation booklet over several lessons, or dip in and out for the tasks you need.
You will need to have watched or read the play prior to or during the use of this booklet, although quotations are provided.
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Guided Practice | Literature Essay Frame
Romeo and Juliet | Quick Revision Bookmarks | 2 Characters & Play
Romeo and Juliet | The Prologue
Literature Analysis | Sentence Starters | PEEL Structure
Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors
All of my Earth Day resources in one bundle. Explore a range of differentiated speaking, listening and writing skills (both creative and non-fiction) with these tasks!
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of six mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, sensory elements, emotions and movement in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Sound worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
Please note that a copy of the full poem itself is not included with this pack.
Challenge your high school students to draft more vivid creative writing with these 20 printable Row of 4 grids, each featuring 49 winter image prompts! Complete with explanation slideshow, modelling and examples, this pack ends the needs for spoon-feeding vocabulary and sets expectations of independence… with a competitive twist!
TOTALLY INCLUSIVE: No mention of seasonal celebrations such as Christmas!
Want more? Check out my Winter ELA BUNDLE | Inclusive Tasks and Activities | Non-Christmas
This winter description game is designed to encourage middle and high school students to step out of their comfort zones. Many rely on simply using teacher or class-provided word banks and vocabulary lists to write creatively - visual prompts allow students to create their own!
This pack includes the following printables:
Three examples of writing on a printable modelling sheet
Instructions and examples slideshow
10 giant Row of 4 sheets for students to use in pairs
10 giant Row of 4 sheets for students to use in teams of up to four
Overview:
Students must write a winter description or narrative piece. The challenge is to use the ideas on the grid in some way, either as part of the plot or the description, marking the images off with counters or in pen and trying to mark off four ideas in a row – vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
Students CANNOT mark off ideas before they are down in writing, nor can they use an idea already marked off by another student. They can only claim the idea on the grid once it is down in ink or pencil in their draft.
Once a student has achieved four in a row, they gain a point which they can mark on their scoresheet as a tally
The student with the most tallies at the end of the writing session is the winner!
UPDATED! Low prep and high engagement!
Boost interest before you even introduce the text of Romeo and Juliet by presenting students with a crime scene and asking them to solve the crime. Students take on the following roles, each taking turns to lead the investigation:
CSI Team Leader
Coroner
Toxicologist
Detective (witness statements)
Detective (evidence locker)
Investigator (suspects)
Students work through crime scene maps, toxicology reports, coroner’s reports, witness and suspect information, and cross-reference it all before feeding their conclusions back to the class.
Can be completed with groups of six or four students, and as many groups in a class as you need. Works with lessons as short as 50 minutes and as long as 100.
This resource is provided in both US letter and UK A4 document size.
Push your students to be accountable for their progress with these print and go accountable feedback sheets!
Stick or staple them to the student work, or hand them out before submission. Students select an improvement area from the checklist, decide a course of action and provide a demonstration sample.
Are they on the right track? You let them know in your response, and they have done most of the work!
Includes…
Worksheets for comprehension, creative writing, essays, and the basic mechanics of writing
Full size, half size and quarter size sheets of all of the above
Full red, full black and mixed color versions of all of the above
…that’s 36 PDF worksheets!
If you love succulents and cacti, this set of 15 posters is perfect for your themed learning environment! The posters have five background designs and explain 15 different punctuation and grammar rules - perfect for your middle or high school ELA classroom.
The posters are US letter size document and are provided as a high quality PDF file.
20 weeks of literacy slides! 20 slides with 100 activities - five per slide. Use as bellringers, exit tickets, brain breaks or for whole school home room tasks. The slides feature a combination of turn and talk, close reading, proofreading, sentence development, mime, quick writing and vocabulary tasks.
You could use one slide once a week for a set of activities together, or complete one of the five tasks on the slide each day of the week. Could also be used to support ESL.
This product includes…
UK and US versions of the above
Fully editable Google Slides versions of the above
Answer key for all proofreading tasks
28 printable activity bookmarks for frontloading and exploring new unit or topic vocabulary. A perfect addition to any study unit!
The differentiated bookmark faces range from simple responses to critical and evaluative responses. The formats are inspired by models and theories such as Bloom, Frayer and Stahl/Nagy.
The bookmarks are formatted so two styles can be printed back to back - mix and match the differentiated versions for double sided bookmarks!
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Goodbye by Alun Lewis… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of 11 mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement, people and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction.
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Sound worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of People worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
The full poem can be found online.
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of ten mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Sound worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
The full poem can be found online.
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of My Mother’s Perfume by Pascale Petit… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of 11 mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement, people and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Smell and Taste worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of People worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
The full poem can be found online.
Learn, analyze and use persuasive devices in speech with this packet of resources with cheat sheets, models, transcripts, writing frames and speech topic suggestions.
Includes:
Teacher notes for use of resources
Two differentiated cheat sheets of persuasive devices in mnemonic format
Directions to Will Stephens’ TedX Talk: How to Sound Smart in your TedX Talk
Graphic organizers for use during or immediately after viewing the talk
Transcript model of the talk for annotation
Instructive slideshow for Silent Discussion annotation activity
Talk scaffold based on the model
Talk planning frame based on the model
List of talk topic suggestions for student choice
Gamify proofreading and editing work with these 60 pages of printable Bingo grids! Task students with finding these errors in their own work, or during peer assessment. Give prizes for the most errors found and corrected - make mistake discovery a positive activity!
Aimed at secondary school students, this pack includes…
40 different printable grids of common spelling, punctuation and grammar errors
20 sheets of the above as half-page printables
Blank PPT versions to create your own with editable text boxes
Log sheet for students to write quotes as proof of errors found and corrected
That’s 64 pages and slides - enough for every student in the class, and for every student to get a different card each time you play proofreading bingo!
This booklet of 12 Christmas-themed extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for festive or winter units.
Wide-spaced for easy annotation and an editable Google Apps version of the extracts included, you can adapt the pack to your high school students’ needs.
Each extract is heavy in sense of place, figurative language, and genre. Suitable for Gifted and Talented students or Honors classes.
The pack also includes activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts. Check out the preview!
Excerpts have been selected from:
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding, Fiodor M. Dostoyevsky (1917)
The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry (1905)
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Washington Irving (1819)
Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement C Moore (1912)
At the North of Bearcamp Water, Frank Bolles (1893)
All Things Considered, G. K. Chesterton (1915)
Where the Christmas Tree Grew, Mary E. Wilkins (1892)
Bertie’s Christmas Eve, Saki (1919)
10.A Kidnapped Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum (1904)
11.The Lay of the Land, Dallas Lore Sharp (1908)
12.A Traveler at Forty, Theodore Dreiser (1913)