Support your students in structuring a story with this pre-made editable frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in A4 size format. It can also be given to older students for them to plan their own stories.
The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation.
Want some pre-populated, ready to go frames? Check out the pre-filled versions:
Primary | The Perfect Story | Narrative Frame | Guided Writing
Secondary | The Perfect Narrative | Story Frame | Guided Writing
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Writing with Alliteration
Writing with Onomatopoeia
Writing with Personification
Writing with Similes
This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of similes for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also demonstrates a range of sentence structures for similes, and provides ten practice tasks.
Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back.
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Writing with Alliteration
Writing with Onomatopoeia
Writing with Personification
This worksheet explains and gives examples of alliteration for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides an annotation task and two sets of practice tasks.
Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back.
This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of onomatopoeia for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides a highlighting task, a categorising task, and a set of practice tasks.
Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back. Answer key included for the highlighting task.
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Writing with Alliteration
Writing with Personification
Writing with Similes
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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A simple cut ‘n’ paste Earth Day activity that allows a student to plan a narrative from the point of view of a raindrop, ray of light, seed or grain of sand. Students plan their story across five paragraphs with attention to plot and devices through the ‘pick and mix’ prompts, whilst still using their own ideas.
The activity worksheets feature:
Writing titles and prompts
Five-paragraph planning grid
Structural features for planning the plot and narrative style
Writing device labels for adding spice
Punctuation checklist for drafting
This resource comes in US letter and UK A4 size, and in color and BW versions.
This 20-question quiz is perfect for Christmas or end of year fun. Students use strings of letters to work out the lyrics from 2021 Tiktok trends.
For example, MMJYNHTBA would be ‘Marry me Juliet, you’ll never have to be alone’ - great for high school kids who finish end of year quizzes too quickly!
Please note that this is designed to be a harder quiz for older students.
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!
Recreate the 12 Days of Christmas as a DIY calendar with pictures behind each door! This fantastic craftivity can be used with a range of student ages and abilities, and makes a great gift or project.
Elements included:
Detailed teacher instructions for preparation and delivery
Printable templates with a single simple font
Printable templates with a fun variety of fancy fonts
Totally blank printable template for complete creative freedom
Versions with blank pictures spaces behind the doors
Versions with image outlines for coloring or decorating
18 graphic organisers for exploring the life and impact of the six Tudor monarchs. Three versions of each allow for differentiation or levelled instruction.
Includes sheets for:
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward VI
Lady Jane Grey
Mary I
Elizabeth I
Perfect for use alongside text-based research, webquests or group discussion, or simply as note organisers for classroom use.
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!
If you want an overview of my product quality, or you love what you see and just want to download a collection of my freebies in one go, I’ve tried to make it a little easier for you! This collection is best suited to middle and high school classrooms.
Includes:
Half-page character autopsy trio sheet
Any book codebreaker sample
Persuasive writing introduction scaffold
Activity page for chapter 10 of Tears of a Tiger
Quick opinions chain reaction example
Mindful coloring notebook cover
Blackout poetry activity page
Text to World comprehension sample
Greek and Latin roots through Dinosaur Names
Sell a haunted house planning page
Half-page wellbeing daily check-in sheet
Examples of autumn haiku
Thanks for visiting my store!
Learn about the Icelandic Jólabókaflóð (Yule Book Flood) tradition with this printable puzzle and activity booklet! This is the perfect bookish gift for your students this winter or Christmas. PLUS: Scavenger Hunt Codebreaker activity!
Includes…
Choice of covers (Jólabókaflóð or Bookflood)
Introduction page explaining the tradition
Wordsearch of Jólabókaflóð vocabulary
Crossword about the history of the tradition
Word Match to learn some Icelandic words and phrases
Labyrinth (just for fun)
Codebreaker - crack the coded message and answer the question
Fireplace mindful coloring page
Book cover mindful coloring page
PLUS
Codebreaker task as separate activity - hide the letter code cards around school for extra scavenger hunt challenge instead of providing students with the sheet of letter codes!
Challenge your high school students to use more devices and techniques in their creative writing or NaNoWriMo projects with these 80 printable Bingo grids… not just for November!!
Aimed at gifted and talented students, this pack includes…
40 different printable grids with heading Creative Writing Bingo
40 different printable grids with heading NaNoWriMo Bingo
22 sheets of quarter-page printables
Blank PPT versions to create your own with editable text boxes (full and quarter page)
Log sheet for students to write quotes as proof of devices
That’s 106 pages and slides - enough for every student in the class, whether you use these year-round or for just for narrative writing events!
Challenge your students to study with a wider range of revision and test prep methods with these 40 printable bingo grids, complete with definitions of over 20 revision activities and styles!
This revision bingo set is designed to encourage students to step out of their comfort zones. Many rely on simply reading notes, or one repetitive method of revising which does not always help the content to stand out in their minds.
This pack includes the following printables:
40 different bingo grid pages to be crossed off when the revision method or activity has been completed
two pages of definitions of each revision method
These sheets can be printed as:
class sets so that all students receive a different grid for revision or test prep in the run up to a quiz, test or exam.
individual packs for students to use for different topics within a subject
individual packs for students to use for different subjects before exam season
Challenge your high school students to study with a wider range of revision and test prep methods with these five puzzles and activities based on the definitions of over 20 revision activities and styles!
This definitions and puzzle set is designed to encourage students to step out of their comfort zones. Many rely on simply reading notes, or one repetitive method of revising which does not always help the content to stand out in their minds.
This pack includes the following printables:
Definitions of 22 revision methods
Follow-up reflection activity
Word scramble activity
Letter shapes puzzle
Matching definitions activity
Word search puzzle
Answer Keys
Challenge your high school students to draft more vivid creative writing with these 20 printable Row of 4 grids, each featuring 49 winter image prompts! Complete with explanation slideshow, modelling and examples, this pack ends the needs for spoon-feeding vocabulary and sets expectations of independence… with a competitive twist!
TOTALLY INCLUSIVE: No mention of seasonal celebrations such as Christmas!
Want more? Check out my Winter ELA BUNDLE | Inclusive Tasks and Activities | Non-Christmas
This winter description game is designed to encourage middle and high school students to step out of their comfort zones. Many rely on simply using teacher or class-provided word banks and vocabulary lists to write creatively - visual prompts allow students to create their own!
This pack includes the following printables:
Three examples of writing on a printable modelling sheet
Instructions and examples slideshow
10 giant Row of 4 sheets for students to use in pairs
10 giant Row of 4 sheets for students to use in teams of up to four
Overview:
Students must write a winter description or narrative piece. The challenge is to use the ideas on the grid in some way, either as part of the plot or the description, marking the images off with counters or in pen and trying to mark off four ideas in a row – vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
Students CANNOT mark off ideas before they are down in writing, nor can they use an idea already marked off by another student. They can only claim the idea on the grid once it is down in ink or pencil in their draft.
Once a student has achieved four in a row, they gain a point which they can mark on their scoresheet as a tally
The student with the most tallies at the end of the writing session is the winner!
Explore F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby with this printable booklet of 77 pages of activities.
Simply print and go! Includes a wide range of tasks, from literary analysis to personal responses. Includes pre-reading hook and post-reading activities suitable as assignments.
Explore Ambrose Bierce’s classic short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge with this printable booklet of 38 pages of activities and printable texts.
Simply print and go! Includes a wide range of tasks, from literary analysis to personal responses. Includes pre-reading hooks and post-reading activities suitable as assignments.
This is also a growing booklet - more activities to come!