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!
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.
Everything you need in a single lesson for your students to compare an extract from TS Eliot’s Preludes and Rupert Brooke’s Seaside, resulting in a final essay assignment.
Student read two seemingly different poems, and consider the setting or place of the two texts before comparing details, imagery, and use of figurative language.
40 printable book report templates in the style of a bento box!
Student can either write, draw, or glue information or images into the sections to represent their book. Fantastic for creating visual summaries with appealing results!
Four designs each differentiated to multiple levels - with prompts, with four or five sections, with flaps to lift, and totally blank for student organization or for you to instruct on specific content requirements… that’s 48 pages!
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.
This set of 66 worksheet activities explores Jaques’ speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, also known as the monologue All the World’s a Stage or the Seven Ages of Man.
Includes…
How to Use guide
Printable sheet of the full speech from As You Like It
27 Line by line sheets for individual students to translate and illustrate in both a fun font and plain font
Full page of selected lines for students to translate and illustrate in small bubbles
Double-sided page of the same selected lines for students to translate and illustrate in slightly larger bubbles
4 differentiated versions of modernized Seven Ages of Man worksheet in both a fun font and plain font
You can also use classroom discussion, group discussion, Turn and Talk and other collaborative methods to build and bank ideas before completing the activities.
Take a trip to an imaginary remote island! Students start by selecting one island from four descriptions and explaining their choice before going on to select seven items to take with them.
Students will have different choices and reasoning depending on their island choice…
Wrap the activity up with a piece of narrative, imaginative writing for their first night on the island.
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!
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)
This booklet of 18 activities for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a great flexible resource for festive or winter units, and includes an editable Google Docs version. Select differentiated activities as necessary for your students!
Includes:
Character Sketches
Scrooge
Marley’s Ghost
Scroogify Christmas Carols
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Christmas Tree
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Diaries of the Ghosts
Marley’s Ghost
The Ghost of Christmas Past
The Ghost of Christmas Present
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Close reading - Sense of Place
Annotation of three extracts
Comparison of three extracts
Differentiated Comprehension Question Worksheets
Character
Setting
Mood
Theme
Language
Comprehension Question List (simplified version of above)
Differentiated Close Analysis Essay – Impressions of Scrooge
Extract for annotation
Differentiated planning sheet with model row
Differentiated planning sheet with model row and supplied quotations
Additional reverse side of sheet
16 character autopsy worksheets and printable interactive bookmarks require students to create a study of a specific character using body parts as prompts. A perfect addition to your novel study unit!
The differentiated sheets and bookmarks range from full creative control to clearly labelled and with prompt questions included.
Distribute this resource in traditional worksheet format, or print and trim the bookmark versions for a more engaging version. The bookmarks are formatted so two styles can be printed back to back - mix and match the differentiated versions for double sided bookmarks!
This editable pack of three activities about Romeo’s use of language in Acts 1.4 and 1.5 of Romeo and Juliet promotes close study of the play.
Assess Romeo’s emotions
Analyze his positive and negative language
Read closely into his use of themes and semantics
Categorize his speech
US and UK document sizes and terminology provided, plus fully editable Google Docs version.
A winter opinion writing activity that prompts your class to determine their preference before embarking on a webquest to find evidence and information to support their argument. Do your students prefer snow or rain? No mention of Christmas, Thanksgiving, or other festivities for a fully inclusive task!
ELEMENTS INCLUDE:
Guided mind map
Graphic organizers in favor of and arguing against rain and snow (2 differentiated levels; 1 includes suggested search terms)
Themed writing paper for the final written exposition or speech
US and UK document sizes and spelling
Editable Google Docs version
Mix and match the webquest worksheets according to the needs of your pupils!
No-Prep Group Work - a set of desk placemats to encourage groups to discuss and share information about quotations, themes and context linked to individual characters from JB Priestley’s 1940s play.
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, plus a Seven Deadly Sins bonus task for those who finish early.
Includes 8 characters, multiple tasks per sheet, and works well with 4-8 groups of students. Laminate for multiple use!
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’.
This fun descriptive writing task includes everything you need to support your less able students and stretch your gifted ones.
First, students explore ideas for describing a turkey, pumpkin or pumpkin pie as individuals, or in pairs or as a class, using the visual prompts on the first sheet.
Some students might wish to express some of their ideas through color as well as words.
Next, share the differentiated word bank of sensory words to support and stretch your students as needed.
Included are banks for sight, sound, smell and touch - taste is not included, but you could always do this as a separate bank or as another collaboration project. There is also a vocabulary bank for verbs, and space in each section for students to add ideas of their own.
The outcome will be interesting and vivid descriptions of the humble turkey or pumpkin pie. Enjoy!
Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the themes of the play An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley with these theme revision placemats or graphic organisers.
Includes sheets for the themes of responsibility, social class, age and generation gaps, gender expectations, and time.
Also includes a diagram sheet for the Well Made Play structure. Great for exam prep!
This resource includes A3 size versions.
Use WW1 poetry to bring November 11th into your lessons.
Includes both UK and US terminology - Remembrance Day or Veteran’s Day - and document sizes.
Analyse the structure and literary devices in the poem For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon through graphic organizers, summary tables and a one-pager template.
Includes:
Poem handout
Context handout
Structural comprehension
Differentiated literary device comprehension
One-pager template
Answer keys
This pack of four activities about Capulet and Paris in Act 1.2 of Romeo and Juliet can be used individually or as a set to build understanding.
Assess Capulet’s use of creative and persuasive language in Act 1.2 of the play.
Consider Paris’ character and motives, and create his dating profile based on what you know.
US and UK document sizes and terminology provided.