Great starter and exit tasks for lessons on Louis Sachar’s Holes. This slideshow features opening quotations from all 50 chapters; there are six spelling, punctuation or grammar errors in each, and answer keys built in. That’s 300 errors to correct in one slideshow.
Use as bellringers, brain breaks, exit tickets or as mini-lessons.
This booklet of nine extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for sports fiction or units to engage students with sporting interests.
Wide-spaced for easy annotation and including activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts, you can adapt the pack to your secondary school students’ needs.
Each extract is heavy in description and can be differentiated towards MAT students.
A single page writing frame or scaffold to guide KS3 or KS4 pupils through writing a five-paragraph review or a product, place, or experience. The page features five sections for planning five paragraphs, and there are three columns for each paragraph: what to include, useful sentence starters, and space to plan or make notes for the written content. Matching writing paper included for those who like a theme!
There are prompts for appropriate punctuation at the bottom of the page, and this can be used as a worksheet, handout or poster.
This resource comes in both UK A4 and US letter document sizes.
Writing frames for descriptive, exposition, persuasive, narrative and review written pieces. Each resource is a single page writing frame or scaffold to guide pupils through writing a five-paragraph piece, plus matching themed writing paper.
The scaffold page features five sections for planning five paragraphs, and there are three columns for each paragraph: what to include, useful sentence starters, and space to plan or make notes for the written content.
There are prompts for appropriate punctuation at the bottom of the page, and this can be used as a worksheet, handout or poster.
This resource comes in both UK A4 and US letter document sizes.
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.
This pack of five activities about Romeo’s use of language in Act 1.1 of Romeo and Juliet can be used individually or as a set to build understanding.
Assess Romeo’s character and motives, analyse his language, read closely into his use of oxymoron, translate his speech into current slang, and write a letter of advice from Benvolio or an Agony Advisor.
US and UK document sizes and terminology provided.
An easy cheat-sheet for 69 symbols in literature, and possibly film and TV… Ready to print in A4 or A3, you can stick these in folders and exercise books, or laminate them as reusable class handouts.
Me? I laminate them and stick them to the desks, so they’re always on hand!
The 69 symbols and their meaning have been split into the following categories for easy indexing…
Illumination
Seasons
Daily Cycles
Celestial Bodies
Weather
Landscape
Animals
Human Environment and Tools
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An easy cheat-sheet to prompt your students into considering at least six aspects of a poem. Ready to print in A4 or A3, you can stick these in folders and exercise books, or laminate them as reusable class handouts.
Me? I laminate them and stick them to the desks, so they’re always on hand!
The six areas are…
themes
tone and mood
poetic forms
common symbolism
the vocabulary of structure
senses
…plus a couple of handy tips.
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Blackout Poetry is a great creative pre-reading activity, and this activity focuses on the three different versions of the lullaby in Louis Sachar’s Holes. Different worksheets allow you to explore single stanzas, pairs of stanzas, or all three versions. You also have the option to use worksheets with fully redacted words, or redacted words with grammatical prompts (noun, adjective, verb, etc).
Editable Google Apps version included, and all worksheets are provided in US letter size and UK A4 size.
Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the characters of any novel, short story or play. Then instruct them in the creation of a hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between characters and explaining their reasons.
Allow more able students to work independently on the hexagon diagram pieces.
This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions.
This print and trim resource includes three differentiated bingo grids of 24 prompts for the topic: “The best part of a festive meal is…”
The three levels of differentiation are a bingo grid of instructions, a bingo grid of persuasive devices, and a bingo grid of sentence starters.
Print back to back versions to cover all levels of support, and laminate for repeated use; students simply cross off the squares with a dry-wipe pen!
All prompts encourage students to share their opinion about the best part of a Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving or other festive meal. Will they talk about the food, or something deeper? Great for competitive classes in middle and high school!
Colour and greyscale worksheets included, and large/small printing sizes. Check out the video preview for a closer look.
Gingerbread house for sale! Students step into an estate agent role and use their persuasive and descriptive writing skills to sell a gingerbread house.
19 differentiated versions of the sheet allow you to mix and match fronts and backs to make custom worksheets for your students.
Blank versions allow students to design their gingerbread houses from scratch, whilst versions with images give your students a springboard.
More able students may opt to design a floor plan, whilst other students might choose to bring humor to the pros and cons of their ‘property’.
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.
A fun, imaginative task for secondary level. Students use or find quotations about Miss Maudie from the early chapters of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, building a picture through the eyes of Maycombe residents.
Students draw an image of the character, using the quotations, then annotate their drawings to show close attention to detail.
This product includes…
Sheet with 16 quotations provided
Sheet with 16 quotations and space for additional ideas
Sheet with empty spaces for students to find their own quotations
…and each of the three sheets above come with three different centres: blank, gingerbread man outline and realistic outline. That’s nine formats for the same task!
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A single page writing organiser, frame or scaffold to guide KS2 and KS3 pupils through planning a five-section descriptive piece of writing. The page features five sections for planning five paragraphs with written and visual prompts for using the senses. Differentiated and designed in several different ways for visual learners, this resource comes in ten different styles, including with and without writing guidelines.
This resource comes in both UK A4 and US letter document sizes. That’s 20 sheets in one!
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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This activity for KS3 and KS4 can complement any topic with links to the ocean. Learn about six different superstitions 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.
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This set of worksheet activities introduces your students to the basics of Early Modern English in preparation for any Shakespeare unit.
Includes…
Introduction to Shakespearean vocabulary
Outline of Early Modern English pronouns
Outline of Early Modern English verbs
Five levels of differentiation for each of the above
Two Shakespearean vocabulary extension tasks
Early Modern Insult Creator
Each worksheet has a difficulty level indicated by a star rating. You can assign the activities in different ways:
Teacher determines the difficulty level for individual students and distributes tasks accordingly
Student treats the five task options as a choice and selects own difficulty level
You can also use classroom discussion, group discussion, Turn and Talk and other collaborative methods to build and bank ideas before completing the activities.
A bunting set aimed at high school classrooms featuring eight different writing devices. Decorate your classroom with purposeful and attractive flags! Each poster includes the Greek or Latin word roots for the device, and five quotations from literary works as examples.
The posters demonstrate:
Alliteration
Assonance
Imagery
Metaphors
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Personification
Similes
Use as classroom bunting, posters or print as smaller handouts or flashcards.