This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of onomatopoeia for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides a highlighting task, a categorising task, and a set of practice tasks.
Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back. Answer key included for the highlighting task.
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Writing with Alliteration
Writing with Personification
Writing with Similes
This worksheet explains and gives examples of alliteration for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides an annotation task and two sets of practice tasks.
Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back.
This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of alliteration for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides a sheet of practice tasks.
Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back.
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Writing with Onomatopoeia
Writing with Personification
Writing with Similes
This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of similes for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also demonstrates a range of sentence structures for similes, and provides ten practice tasks.
Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back.
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Writing with Alliteration
Writing with Onomatopoeia
Writing with Personification
Support your students in structuring a story with this pre-made editable frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in A4 size format. It can also be given to older students for them to plan their own stories.
The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation.
Want some pre-populated, ready to go frames? Check out the pre-filled versions:
Primary | The Perfect Story | Narrative Frame | Guided Writing
Secondary | The Perfect Narrative | Story Frame | Guided Writing
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Writing with Alliteration
Writing with Onomatopoeia
Writing with Personification
Writing with Similes
Support your Primary level students in structuring a story with this pre-made frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in both colour and black and white, and in A4 size format.
The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation.
Looking for a similar mat aimed at older or more able students? Check out the version for Secondary level.
Secondary | The Perfect Narrative | Story Frame | Guided Writing
Want more flexibility? Check out the blank editable version:
The Perfect Narrative | Editable Story Frame | KS2, 3 and 4
Support your Secondary level students in structuring a story with this pre-made frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in both colour and black and white, and in A4 size format.
The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation.
Looking for a similar mat aimed at younger or less able students? Check out the version for Primary level.
Primary | The Perfect Story | Narrative Frame | Guided Writing
Want more flexibility? Check out the blank editable version.
The Perfect Narrative | Editable Story Frame | KS2, 3 and 4
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Writing with Alliteration
Writing with Onomatopoeia
Writing with Personification
Writing with Similes
Close-reading, creative character tasks for GCSE study. Students use quotations about George, Lennie, Slim, Crooks, Carlson and Curley’s Wife from the novel* Of Mice and Men*, building a picture of the character with these references.
This product includes…
‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations
‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided
…for all characters. That’s 18 sheets!
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A close-reading, creative character task for GCSE study. Students use quotations about Lennie Small from the chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references.
This product includes…
‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided
That’s three formats for the same task!
A close-reading, creative character task for GCSE study. Students use quotations about George Milton from the early chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references.
This product includes…
‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided
That’s three formats for the same task!
A close-reading, creative character task for GCSE study. Students use quotations about Curley’s wife from the chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references.
This product includes…
‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided
That’s three formats for the same task!
A close-reading, creative character task for GCSE study. Students use quotations about Crooks from the early chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references.
This product includes…
‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided
That’s three formats for the same task!
**Punctuation feedback stickers in a sweetie background design! **
11 types of printable stickers for drawing attention to punctuation 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 punctuation 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…
Don’t forget your capital letters
Don’t forget your full stops
Don’t forget your commas
Don’t forget your apostrophes
Don’t forget your question marks
Don’t forget your speech marks
Don’t forget your colon for a list
You could use a colon
You could use an ellipsis
You could use a semi colon
You could use a dash
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A close-reading, creative character task for grades 9-12. Students use quotations about Slim from the early chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references.
This product includes…
‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided
That’s three formats for the same task!
A close-reading, creative character task for grades 9-12. Students use quotations about Carlson from the chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references.
This product includes…
‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided
Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided
That’s three formats for the same task!
Save 45%! This pack is for stretching students who are already very capable when writing. It includes…
Ambitious Punctuation Mat
Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat
Accuracy Passport
All three resources enourage young writers to look at the next step in improving their fiction and non-fiction writing.
Challenge your MAT and Gifted and Talented students by asking them to edit work using this Ambitious Sentence Structures mat. There are seven styles in this download, including the ones shown in the cover and greyscale/low ink versions.
Includes guidance on…
Four sentence purposes
Starting with conjunctions
Starting with adverbs and verbs
Using parenthetic commas
Dependent clauses
Variation of sentence lengths
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This Easter activity for KS3 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.
The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions, and US and UK spellings.
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No-Prep Group Work!
Just print, pass and problem-solve! A set of desk placemats to encourage groups of students to discuss and share information about quotations, characters and context linked to specific m the novel. This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper.
Includes a double-sided ‘Thoughtpad’ sheet for students to log ideas along the way.
Includes five characters, six tasks per sheet, and works well with groups of 4-8 students. Laminate for multiple use!