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 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!
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.
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.
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.
Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 2 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
Coach your students through the close reading and annotation of an extract about Chapter 13 from Wonder, then instruct them in the use of the differentiated essay frame to challenge and stretch pupils at all levels.
What are August’s thoughts and feelings in this extract?
The extract and annotation sheet includes instructions and suggested quotations underlined, and the essay frame shows a clear route of progress and has a built-in example and extension column.
This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size documents, and in colour and black/white 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!
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.
Analyse the figurative language and literary devices from eight Tiktok sound trends and viral songs seen during April 2021! Use either as a full lesson in preparation for a bigger analysis task, as individual recap tasks for skills, or as a series of engaging starters for figurative language and device lessons. Best suited to upper KS3 and KS4.
This resource comes in both US and UK document sizes (letter and A4), features eight sets of lyrics (recognisable to many students who use Tiktok), colour-coded answer keys, and an additional PowerPoint version for class collaboration.
If you love this resource, follow me for an update when I release the sound trend tasks for May 2021 and beyond!
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of six mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, sensory elements, emotions and movement in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Sound worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
Please note that a copy of the full poem itself is not included with this pack.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
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.
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!