Aimed at Secondary level, this resource includes six grammar mats for general writing support. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students’ written work!
Each mat covers…
Homophones
Connectives
Conjunctions
Capital letters
Improving vocabulary
Aimed at Years 5-11, this resource includes two Literacy Mats for general writing support in middle and high school. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students’ written work!
Each mat covers…
Common errors
Apostrophes
Connectives and conjunctions
Paragraphs
Sentence types
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No-Prep Group Work!
Just print, pass and problem-solve! A set of desk placemats to encourage groups to discuss and share information about quotations, themes and context, specifically linked to individual characters from the novel. This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper, or use with the included Character Thoughtpad to record the discussion.
Includes eight characters, six tasks per sheet, and works well with 4-8 groups of students. Laminate for multiple use!
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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!
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 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!
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
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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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Aimed at KS4 More Able and Talented students, this is a full lesson guide for comparing several areas of poetry for two or more poems chosen by the teacher. Use this PowerPoint and set of modelling sentence sheets with any poems!
Includes challenging concepts such as semantic fields and forms of poetry.
The slideshow includes built-in discussion prompts and a quick ‘language of comparison’ starter task to draw students in. The sheets can be used as a cloze activity with students’ own ideas, or to be completed as the class discusses and shares suggestions.
Includes both UK and US spellings and document sizes.
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.
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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)
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Extract for annotation
Differentiated planning sheet with model row
Differentiated planning sheet with model row and supplied quotations
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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.
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!
Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 4 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage!
Level 1 is Easy, Level 2 is Moderate, Level 3 is challenging and Level 4 is Expert.
Includes:
Level 1 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide
Level 2 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide
Level 3 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide
Level 4 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide
Level 1 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide
Level 2 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide
Level 3 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide
Level 4 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide
Encourage developed sentences in creative writing with this summer-themed worksheet. Using the prompts (what, who, where, when, how, and why) your students start with a single detail and build it into a fully developed, image-filled sentence.
One sentence-building process is modelled for your students, then two prompts are provided, and finally there are two empty spaces for students to create their own ideas from scratch.
This worksheet is in graphic organizer format, comes in 2 black and white styles and 2 color styles, and all of these come in both US letter and UK A4 document sizes with appropriate spellings and terminology on each.
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.
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.