40 printable book report templates in the style of a bento box!
Student can either write, draw, or glue information or images into the sections to represent their book. Fantastic for creating visual summaries with appealing results!
Four designs each differentiated to multiple levels - with prompts, with four or five sections, with flaps to lift, and totally blank for student organization or for you to instruct on specific content requirements… that’s 48 pages!
Writing frames for descriptive, exposition, persuasive, narrative and review written pieces. Each resource is a single page writing frame or scaffold to guide pupils through writing a five-paragraph piece, plus matching themed writing paper.
The scaffold page features five sections for planning five paragraphs, and there are three columns for each paragraph: what to include, useful sentence starters, and space to plan or make notes for the written content.
There are prompts for appropriate punctuation at the bottom of the page, and this can be used as a worksheet, handout or poster.
This resource comes in both UK A4 and US letter document sizes.
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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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)
Differentiated Close Analysis Essay – Impressions of Scrooge
Extract for annotation
Differentiated planning sheet with model row
Differentiated planning sheet with model row and supplied quotations
Additional reverse side of sheet
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.
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!
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!
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
Learn, analyze and use persuasive devices in speech with this packet of resources with cheat sheets, models, transcripts, writing frames and speech topic suggestions.
Includes:
Teacher notes for use of resources
Two differentiated cheat sheets of persuasive devices in mnemonic format
Directions to Will Stephens’ TedX Talk: How to Sound Smart in your TedX Talk
Graphic organizers for use during or immediately after viewing the talk
Transcript model of the talk for annotation
Instructive slideshow for Silent Discussion annotation activity
Talk scaffold based on the model
Talk planning frame based on the model
List of talk topic suggestions for student choice
Perfect for those studying Foster by Claire Keegan as part of the revised WJEC Literature specification.
37 pages of close analysis and thoughtful discussion prompts in quick-print format. More activities to come, and although this pack does NOT currently include an answer key, this will be added in the future and previous buyers will have free access to all updates.
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.
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!
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!
This bundle includes all of my To Kill a Mockingbird resources to date. This pack includes:
9 character sketch worksheets for Atticus Finch
9 character sketch worksheets for Boo Radley
9 character sketch worksheets for Calpurnia
9 character sketch worksheets for Miss Maudie
7 sheets for Atticus Finch’s closing speech
Guided practice frame for literature essays
PEEL structure guide and sentence starters for literature essays
4 posters with vocabulary for English lessons
Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapters 1-4 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage. Perfect for homework or cover/sub work too!
Chapters 5-17 to be added as they are created.
Includes the following for EACH chapter:
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
These activities for KS3 and KS4 are great seasonal bellringers, brain breaks, starters or exit tickets. Learn about lots of different traditions whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer keys included.
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.
All of my Romeo and Juliet resources to date. This pack includes:
CSI pre-reading activity
Prologue walkthrough
Language analysis of scenes and characters
3 double-sided bookmarks
2 Guided practice essay booklets
1 pack of guided practice worksheets
Guided practice frame for literature essays
Extension task mat for fast finishers
4 posters for using more ambitious vocabulary in English