Looking to engage students with an interest in gaming? This differentiated resource allows your gamer students to design or describe a live stream similar to those seen on Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok and Facebook. Bring their world and your world together with this alternative writing task!
One version of this task allows students to design or draw their ideas, and two versions offer prompts for written descriptions on a computer screen style graphic organiser.
All three versions of the sheet are provided in both US letter and UK A4 size document.
This activity focuses on the idea of a time capsule - what would your students put in a time capsule to be opened more than 100 years from now? The resource features three formats:
What eight items would you put in a time capsule, and why?
What six items would you put in a time capsule, and how would people react if they dug it up in 100 years?
What six items would you put in a time capsule, and how would the people in the society in your novel react if they dug it up?
This makes this set of worksheets suitably flexible for one-off lessons, or linked to a range of tasks and subjects, or linked specifically to the study of a dystopian or futuristic novel or story.
All worksheets are provided in US letter size and UK A4 size, and also as a Google Docs editable version.
Here are all of my resources that are specifically created for using alongside any fiction text. Adapt the tasks to your needs, or mix and match for your classes.
Great for KS3 and KS4!
This bundle of activities for use alongside study of the novel Holes currently includes 10 tasks.
I am teaching this novel to my students at the time of writing, and will add resources to the bundle as I create, use, and improve them with my classes. Buy this novel companion bundle now, and benefit when I add new resources!
A fun, thoughtful ‘would you rather’ slideshow and accompanying worksheets for KS3 and KS4 students with a back to school theme. For example, would your students rather do lessons one day a week without electricity, or one day a week outdoors in any weather, and why?
Encourage discussion around fifteen prompt pairs, all focused on the school theme. Great for warm-ups, bell-ringers or brain breaks. Either use the PowerPoint alone for verbal responses, use the full worksheets as a longer activity, hand out individual pairs as slips for a quick task… or a use as a combination!
US and UK document sizes included, and Google Apps versions with editable worksheets provided.
20 weeks of literacy slides! 20 slides with 100 activities - five per slide. Use as bellringers, exit tickets, brain breaks or for whole school home room tasks. The slides feature a combination of turn and talk, close reading, proofreading, sentence development, mime, quick writing and vocabulary tasks.
You could use one slide once a week for a set of activities together, or complete one of the five tasks on the slide each day of the week. Could also be used to support ESL.
This product includes…
UK and US versions of the above
Fully editable Google Slides versions of the above
Answer key for all proofreading tasks
Learn about your students by asking them to design themselves as a video game character. As well as asking students to draw themselves as a character, they are also asked to outline the name, color scheme, skills, powers, travel method and mission for their character. For older or more able students, this can be followed up with a ‘why’ explanation to encourage discussion and reasoning.
This pack includes…
US and UK document sizes
US and UK spellings
PDF versions
PNG versions for you to use in your own lesson planning
These printable bookmarks for secondary school students add a touch of literary humour to your awards. This pack includes 59 different awards with space for you to add the year, student name and your signature, and one blank one for you to create your own award by adding text boxes. Use them year on year!
These are provided as PNG files so that you can organise them as required and to your preferred size.
Character Awards:
Most likely to be the action hero
Most likely to be a famous activist
Most likely to be an anime or manga character
Most likely to be the comedy relief
Most likely to be the mayor of a dystopia
Most likely to know too much
Most likely to be the lead character in a romance
Most likely to be the terrifying leader
Most likely to be the mad scientist
Most likely to be the terrifying matriarch
Most likely to be the terrifying patriarch
Most likely to be the President
Most likely to be the Prime Minister
Most likely to be a private detective
Most likely to save lives
Most likely to be a spy
Most likely to survive a horror novel
Most likely to be the sheriff in a Western
Most likely to quietly take over the world
Plot Point Awards:
Most likely to be abducted by aliens
Most likely to go on the road with their band
Most likely to accidentally open a black hole
Most likely to run away with the circus
Most likely to reintroduce dinosaurs to the earth
Most likely to undergo a dramatic transformation
Most likely to lead a life straight out of a Film Noir
Most likely to invent life-changing technology
Most likely to discover that mythical creatures are real
Most likely to have a Number 1 Hit
Most likely to be in a paranormal mystery
Most likely to have their diaries published
Most likely to be bitten by a radioactive spider
Most likely to reject civilisation
Most likely to accidentally release a demon
Most likely to fight against a robot uprising
Most likely to feature in a romcom
Most likely to go into space
Most likely to time travel
Most likely to travel the world
Most likely to discover the truth
Most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse
Device Awards:
Most likely to be an allegory
Most likely to be an example of dramatic irony
Most likely to foreshadow
Most likely to become a hyperbole
Most likely to become a juxtaposition of their school personality
Most likely to be a literary symbol
Most likely to be a metaphor
Most likely to be a paradox
Misc Awards:
Most likely to work with animals
Most likely to write an autobiography
Most likely to work with kids
Most likely to make national news
Most likely to work with plants
Most likely to be a pro streamer
Most likely to create a new slang word
Most likely to be a stand up comedian
Most likely to write a novel
Most likely to write a screenplay
…plus a blank version!
Six summer acrostic poem worksheets with different fonts, and with or without writing guidelines. Students use the letters in the phrase ‘SCHOOL’S OUT’ to write a reflective acrostic poem about their school year.
These worksheets come in simple black and white format for easy printing, and in both US letter and UK A4 size documents.
Encourage your students to step into the shoes of a character or historical figure by creating a TikTok account for them. Great fun, but requires thought and justification! What would their TikTok handle be? What’s the profile picture? How about the bio? How many followers do they have, and what do their last six videos look like?
As well as a profile screen, this set of sheets includes screens for followers, following and suggested follows. It also has screens for paused videos and comment sections. There are three types of sheet provided, and one of them is individual screens each on a single page.
US and UK document sizes included. have fun!
A thoughtful ‘would you rather’ worksheet and PowerPoint for older students with a summer theme. For example, would your students rather spend every day at the beach, or every day in the woods, and why?
Encourage discussion around eight prompt pairs, all focused on summer activities, then students use the ‘why’ section to explain their choice. Check out the video preview for a closer look!
This resource comes in two styles (one color and one black and white), and in both US letter and UK A4 document formats for easy printing, plus accompanying PowerPoint to make it easy for you to use these tasks as individual bell-ringers or exit tickets.
I have also ensured that US and UK spellings are included on the appropriate documents.
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A thoughtful ‘would you rather’ worksheet and PowerPoint for older students with an appreciation theme; perfect for Mother’s and Father’s Day. For example, would your students rather make their parents breakfast, or make their parents dinner, and why?
Encourage discussion around eight prompt pairs, all focused on parents and grandparents, then students use the ‘why’ section to explain their choice.
This resource comes in two styles (one color and one black and white), and in both US letter and UK A4 document formats for easy printing, plus accompanying PowerPoint to make it easy for you to use these tasks as individual starters or exit tickets.
I have also ensured that US and UK spellings are included on the appropriate documents.
A peer assessment carousel not only lightens your workload, but it also allows each student to gain feedback from six different classmates whilst also seeing and evaluating examples of work from their peers.
How it works…
Just print a six-box feedback sheet for every student and staple it to their work. The work and these feedback sheets will be passed around the carousel to collect feedback. Next, group your students equally, according to their strengths. Each student reads a piece of work and fill out the feedback box for their focus, using the student guide sheets for prompts.
When the time is up for reading and giving feedback, each group piles up the work, and the piles are passed on to the next group.
You can use the premade sheets, which works around the concept of six focus groups, or you could make your own with the included blank editable version.
Easily adapted for different tasks, this product will serve you year in, year out! Includes a handy ‘How to Use’ guide.
This FREE activity for KS3 and KS4 is a great starter, brain break or exit ticket. Learn about interesting information whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. See the video preview for a fuller demonstration!
The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions.
This St Patrick’s Day 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.
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 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.
This Mother’s Day activity for KS3 and KS4 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. See the video preview for a fuller demonstration!
13 slides, six tasks, and 18 errors that can be used as a full lesson or shorter tasks.
The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions, and US and UK spellings.
This is an Earth Day activity mat on a single A3 sheet, aimed at KS3 and 4 students. Print on a large sheet of paper for creative thinking and discussion, or on a smaller letter-size or A4 sheet if needed. This graphic organiser prompts your students to plan for writing about:
Creating Earth Day inventions
Carrying out an earth-related survey
Eco-friendly class rules
Earth colors and synonyms
Designing a school Earth Day badge
Writing an Earth Day tweet
Creating an Earth Day smoothie
Exploring hopes and dreams for the earth
Plus more!
This resource includes versions with both US and UK spellings.
Explore the more sophisticated vocabulary of Earth Day through these word search and definition matching tasks. Aimed at KS4 students, or MAT KS3 students, these sheets make a great starter task before moving on to an extended writing task linked to Earth Day.
These tasks come with full answer keys and in both US letter and UK A4 size for easy printing.
This Earth Day activity for Years 7-11 is a great seasonal starter or exit ticket. Learn about six different Earth Day celebrations whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included.
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