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.
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.
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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**Punctuation feedback stickers in a watercolour background design! **
11 types of printable stickers for drawing attention to punctuation improvement areas. The larger stickers fit nicely at the bottom of pages, and the smaller stickers can be perfectly placed in the margin of an exercise book or sheet of paper.
The stickers come as one sheet with all punctuation stickers in one print, or as full sheets of each individual punctuation focus for you to top up when you run out.
The 11 different stickers are…
Don’t forget your capital letters
Don’t forget your full stops
Don’t forget your commas
Don’t forget your apostrophes
Don’t forget your question marks
Don’t forget your speech marks
Don’t forget your colon for a list
You could use a colon
You could use an ellipsis
You could use a semi colon
You could use a dash
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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 compile an end of year playlist - differentiated, printable one-pagers.
Includes…
All worksheets for end of year 2022, 2023 and blank for your own year
All worksheets in standard January-December format
All worksheets in August-July format to reflect the school year
Versions with and without prompts
Everything in US letter and A3 size
…that’s 60 PDF worksheets!
These worksheets come in simple black and white format for easy printing.
Crack some codes and reflect on the school year for any subject with my codebreaker activity pack! The eight coded messages are perfect escape room alternatives.
First, students use the school-themed key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are reflective tasks and questions, which students then respond to - set all messages as a booklet, or individual pages to differentiate!
Spread them out as warm-ups or bellringers, or build a lesson around all eight tasks.
Printable support mats, posters and strategy cards for student mental health.
Start conversations and create a of individual sections in your classroom with this pack, which includes…
A3 support mat with all strategies
Smaller posters of individual sections
Quarter size strategy cards of individual sections
These mindful coloring sheets for older students feature 20 sheets of inclusive winter messages and images, with borders for extra detail. Simply let students choose their colors for a beautiful stained-glass window effect.
TIP:
Choose blues, purples and grays for winter
Choose reds, greens and golds for Christmas
Perfect for fast finishers or wellbeing activities. 20 sheets included. Trim for additional effects!
Explore Valentine’s Day traditions with some student-led research and creative responses, with added challenge!
First, students use the key to decode the five messages (although you can set fewer messages to differentiate). The messages revealed are research and creative thinking tasks and questions, which students then respond to in the spaces given.
Additional tasks ask students to:
write messages using the given code, then decode and respond to each others messages
create presentations based on one of their responses, and take a class vote for a new, alternative celebration
Includes eight activity pages and an answer key.
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!
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.
A great bellringer, brain break, warm up or ‘getting to know you’ task that can also be used as an extended task. Differentiated in nine different ways, this resource encourages students to select and edit their thoughts to a strict limit… harder than they anticipate! It’s also worth using for fast finishers.
Includes:
9 levels of differentiation
Quick and extended versions of the task
US letter and UK A4 document sizes and terminology
Fully editable Google Docs version
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.
A fun bellringer based on the TikTok ‘put a finger down’ trend. This slideshow includes 15 editable statements about high school that students can ‘confess’ to. A great lead into goalsetting and expectations!
Engage your class with a problem-solving task for your unit on Homelessness or Global Issues. Use this differentiated activity to promote discussion and critical thinking - if you had $100 or £100, how would you help a homeless person?
US and UK currency versions included, plus appropriate document sizes. Either select items from a tabled list of resources, or use the image-based list. Quick bellringer task version provided, plus a vocab word search for fast finishers.
This task also includes editable Google Docs versions for online learning or homework tasks. Please note: The images on the second page are not editable or moveable due to the terms of use.
Using simple countdown prompts to guide students, this resource allows your class to get on with research responsibly with clear starting and finishing points. Supplement your unit on homelessness or social issues as either a classroom or a homework task.
There are three differentiated versions of this worksheet - one with suggested search terms and foci for pupils needing support, one without prompts but including writing lines, and one without prompts for more independent students.
This resource includes:
3 differentiated versions of the task
PDF versions for quick, no-prep printing
US and UK document sizes
Four printable, editable Halloween bookmarks to give as gifts or use and purposeful gift tags in your class.
Simply edit the message and font in PowerPoint, print, laminate and go!
A fun, thoughtful ‘would you rather’ slideshow for secondary school students focused on Halloween. Great for October or autumn!
Encourage discussion around 20 prompt pairs, all focused on the winter season. Perfect for warm-ups, bell-ringers or brain breaks.
A fun, thoughtful ‘would you rather’ slideshow for KS3 and KS4 school students focused on winter traditions and festivals around the world. Great for Christmas!
Encourage discussion around ten prompt pairs, all focused on the winter season. Perfect for warm-ups, bell-ringers or brain breaks.