This July 4th activity for KS3 and KS4 is a great seasonal starter, brain break or exit ticket. Learn about eight different traditions whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions, and US and UK spellings.

This Mother’s Day activity for KS3 and KS4 is a great seasonal starter or exit ticket. Learn about six different traditions whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. See the video preview for a fuller demonstration! 13 slides, six tasks, and 18 errors that can be used as a full lesson or shorter tasks. The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions, and US and UK spellings.

Great starter and exit tasks for lessons on Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This slideshow features summaries for all six chapters; every chapter summary is split across two slides and there are six spelling, punctuation or grammar errors in each. That’s 12 errors per summary. Each summary also comes as a printable worksheet, and answer keys are built into the slideshow. There are also recap extension tasks at the end of each summary for additional stretch!

A simple cut ‘n’ paste Earth Day activity that allows a student to plan a narrative from the point of view of a raindrop, ray of light, seed or grain of sand. Students plan their story across five paragraphs with attention to plot and devices through the ‘pick and mix’ prompts, whilst still using their own ideas. The activity worksheets feature: Writing titles and prompts Five-paragraph planning grid Structural features for planning the plot and narrative style Writing device labels for adding spice Punctuation checklist for drafting This resource comes in US letter and UK A4 size, and in color and BW versions.

Explore the more sophisticated vocabulary of Earth Day through these word search and definition matching tasks. Aimed at KS4 students, or MAT KS3 students, these sheets make a great starter task before moving on to an extended writing task linked to Earth Day. These tasks come with full answer keys and in both US letter and UK A4 size for easy printing. This Earth Day activity for Years 7-11 is a great seasonal starter or exit ticket. Learn about six different Earth Day celebrations whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Earth Day | Would You Rather | Discussion and Reasoning Earth Day Bingo | Persuasive and Exposition Writing Earth Day | Figurative Language | Writing Devices | Differentiated Easter Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT

This Earth Day activity for Years 7-11 is a great seasonal starter or exit ticket. Learn about six different Earth Day celebrations whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. The slideshow is also accompanied by printableUK A4 and US letter size worksheet versions, and UK and US spellings.

This resource includes a bingo grid of 25 prompts to encourage students to research and develop their opinion on school uniforms, ready for a debate on whether they should be worn or not. Great for competitive classes, and can be used with students who do or don’t already wear a school uniform. The resource also includes a graphic organizer for students to prepare their information, and all sheets come in both UK and US document sizes.

A thoughtful ‘would you rather’ worksheet for older students with an Earth Day theme. For example, would your students rather have an hour of electricity a week, or an hour of clean water? Encourage discussion around seven prompt pairs, all focused on environmentally friendly activities, then students use the ‘why’ section to explain their choice. This resource comes in three styles (two colour and one greyscale), and in both UK A4 and US letter document formats for easy printing.

Encourage your students to write persuasively with this Earth Day themed task. The writing task asks students to consider whether schools should have an ‘environmental hour’ every day or not, and to express their viewpoint in the form of a speech, letter or essay. The bingo grids feature 25 prompts; from details to consider to techniques to include. Prep some rewards for full rows and columns, and let your students aim for a Full House! The shopping lists feature the same 25 prompts reformatted, with space for your class to check them off as they use them. I have also included a printable themed sheet of writing paper for extra festivity. Both the bingo grid and the shopping list come in US and UK sizes, and with dyslexia-friendly font versions.

Enjoy using these differentiated figurative language worksheets as a starter, main, fast finisher or homework task. Use the Earth Day theme to build your students’ understanding of alliteration, similes, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole and sensory language. Some sheets provide prompts at every level, whilst others are more open for inspiration or challenge. The three sheets at each level can be used together or separately. I have also provided simple colour-free versions of every sheet: that’s 8 activities altogether!

Fully editable template for you to create a takeout menu full of homework tasks for your subject or topics. Just replace the task texts with your own activities! I recommend stipulating that pupils need to choose a starter, main and dessert task for each homework deadline. Use the ‘Set Meals’ for pre-set combinations, or the ‘Extras’ page for Gifted and Talented tasks. This resource comes in UK A4 and US letter size documents, and with a few pizza and food graphics to get you started.

This double-sided worksheet relies on the close study of light-themed quotations from the novel. The sheet includes several quotations from each chapter, and promotes discussion and more complex analysis for MAT students. This resource comes in both UK A4 size and US letter size, and includes a detailed answer key to support new teachers of the novel.

Alternative statements and sentence starters for the phrase ‘it makes the reader want to read on.’ Encourage variation in your students’ analyses! Comes in UK A4 size and US letter size documents, and with both colour and BW options.

This is a persuasive writing graphic organiser on a single A3 sheet, aimed at KS3 and KS4. Print on a large sheet of paper for planning and creative thinking, or on a smaller letter-size or A4 sheet if needed. This organiser prompts your students to plan for writing about: Main opinion Situation, action, outcome 3 reasons or arguments Tripling, similes, alliteration and exaggeration Rhetorical questions and repetition Emotive language Facts and statistics Punctuation checklist …and available with both UK and US spellings.

This is a descriptive writing graphic organiser on a single A3 sheet, aimed at KS3 and KS4. Print on a large sheet of paper for planning and creative thinking, or on a smaller A4 sheet if needed. This organiser prompts your students to plan for writing about: 5 senses Thoughts and emotions Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs Textures and patterns Similes and personification Colours and synonyms Varied punctuation …and includes a selection of scenes to choose from and describe if writer’s block hits. Available with both UK and US spellings.

A full main task for a lesson on extract responses using Nigel Hinton’s Buddy. Aimed at Year 9, this resource includes: A close reading and highlighting task with a single-page extract A differentiated challenge grid for structuring an extract response to the question The grid supports pupils to four levels of difficulty, and encourages contextual, social and personal responses as well as the initial PEE format. Great for mixed ability classes with both ALN and MAT students present. Models included. An editable version of the differentiated challenge grid can be found here. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Literary Symbols Mat | Motifs Cheat Sheet | GCSE Support Poetry Analysis Mat | Content and Structure Cheat Sheet | GCSE Support Literature Analysis | Sentence Starters | PEEL Structure

18 posters featuring six different figurative language and writing devices. Each poster includes the Greek or Latin word roots for the device, and five quotations from literary works as examples. The posters demonstrate: Alliteration Imagery Metaphors Oxymoron Personification Similes Use as classroom posters or print as smaller handouts. Includes both UK and US document sizes, and colour, low ink, and black and white styles.

Four workshop tasks in worksheet format to explore the context of Of Mice and Men from a slightly more unusual angle. Set the worksheets up at stations around the room, or print them as packs and move students on at their own tables. The tasks are: Inference and Deep thinking Themes and connections Experience and Empathy Food and Diet All sheets come in both UK and US document sizes and with respective spelling and terminology. You might like… Character Revision Placemats | Of Mice & Men Theme Revision Placemats | Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | Character Sketch Bundle | GCSE Study Of Mice and Men | Light Symbolism | Post-Reading | GCSE Close Study

Punctuation feedback stickers in a pastel background design! 15 types of printable stickers for drawing attention to grammar improvement areas. The larger stickers fit nicely at the bottom of pages, and the smaller stickers can be perfectly placed in the margin of an exercise book or sheet of paper. The stickers come as one sheet with all grammar stickers in one print, or as full sheets of each individual punctuation focus for you to top up when you run out. The 11 different stickers are… I is your name for yourself and needs a capital letter. All sentences must start with a capital letter. All names of people, places and companies need a capital letter. Sentences must not ‘run on’ from each other. Use a full stop. Make sure you stay in the same tense when writing. Is this past, present or future tense? Stay consistent! Check you are using there, their and they’re correctly. Check you are using here and hear correctly. Check you are using your and you’re correctly. Check you are using where, were, we’re and wear correctly. Check you are using to, too, and two correctly. Plurals do not need an apostrophe. Apostrophes must be added to show possession. Use names instead of vague pronouns. could have, should have, might have …not ‘of’. If you like this, you might also like… Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Question Cards | Promote Independence and Problem Solving Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Printable Punctuation Feedback Stickers | Marking | Literacy | Wild Design