Gingerbread house for sale! Students step into an estate agent role and use their persuasive and descriptive writing skills to sell a gingerbread house. 19 differentiated versions of the sheet allow you to mix and match fronts and backs to make custom worksheets for your students. Blank versions allow students to design their gingerbread houses from scratch, whilst versions with images give your students a springboard. More able students may opt to design a floor plan, whilst other students might choose to bring humor to the pros and cons of their ‘property’.

This fun descriptive writing task includes everything you need to support your less able students and stretch your gifted ones. First, students explore ideas for describing a turkey, pumpkin or pumpkin pie as individuals, or in pairs or as a class, using the visual prompts on the first sheet. Some students might wish to express some of their ideas through color as well as words. Next, share the differentiated word bank of sensory words to support and stretch your students as needed. Included are banks for sight, sound, smell and touch - taste is not included, but you could always do this as a separate bank or as another collaboration project. There is also a vocabulary bank for verbs, and space in each section for students to add ideas of their own. The outcome will be interesting and vivid descriptions of the humble turkey or pumpkin pie. Enjoy!

Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the themes of the play An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley with these theme revision placemats or graphic organisers. Includes sheets for the themes of responsibility, social class, age and generation gaps, gender expectations, and time. Also includes a diagram sheet for the Well Made Play structure. Great for exam prep! This resource includes A3 size versions.

Use WW1 poetry to bring November 11th into your lessons. Includes both UK and US terminology - Remembrance Day or Veteran’s Day - and document sizes. Analyse the structure and literary devices in the poem For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon through graphic organizers, summary tables and a one-pager template. Includes: Poem handout Context handout Structural comprehension Differentiated literary device comprehension One-pager template Answer keys

This pack of four activities about Capulet and Paris in Act 1.2 of Romeo and Juliet can be used individually or as a set to build understanding. Assess Capulet’s use of creative and persuasive language in Act 1.2 of the play. Consider Paris’ character and motives, and create his dating profile based on what you know. US and UK document sizes and terminology provided.

This Bloom’s Ball template for close character study features two sides for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy - remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create. Each side has a prompt for character study: Remember the character’s first appearance Remember the character’s key details Understand the character’s choices Understand the character’s conflict Apply one of the character’s beliefs to the real world Apply one of the character’s quotes to an impression you get of them Analyze the meaning of the character’s name Analyze the impact of the character on the story Evaluate how good or bad the character is Evaluate the character’s future Create a picture of the character Create a meal for this character

14 grammar posters for your English classroom - simple black and white styles which are easy to print on colour paper, or keep it monochrome. Gen Z slang used on all posters as examples of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and more! One version features sketch images to accompany the slang, and the other is text-only. 28 posters in all!

This pack of five activities about Romeo’s use of language in Act 1.1 of Romeo and Juliet can be used individually or as a set to build understanding. Assess Romeo’s character and motives, analyse his language, read closely into his use of oxymoron, translate his speech into current slang, and write a letter of advice from Benvolio or an Agony Advisor. US and UK document sizes and terminology provided.

Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the themes of any novel, short story or play, and then instruct them in the creation of a hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between the themes and explaining their reasons. Allow more able students to work independently on the hexagon diagram pieces. Includes two differentiated versions - one with headings for three quotations, characters, context and symbolism for the theme, and one with subheadings in each of these areas. VERSION 1 SIDES: Characters Context Symbolism Quotations x3 VERSION 2 SIDES: Characters Main characters Secondary characters Tertiary characters Context Historical context Social context Symbolism Symbol Meaning Quotations x3 Who said it? When? This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions.

Create an interactive decoration for your classroom by asking your students to fill out one of these strips as a record of their reading. Each strip includes space for the title and author of the book, and the name of the student who finished the book as well as the date they finished it. Simply add the book loop to the chain or garland and watch your class’s collective book log grow! Five styles of ‘link’ are provided in this pack: library shelf, comic books, pages, white with color text, and white with black text for printing on colored paper.

Printable book report templates in the style of a book cover or dust jacket! Differentiated to three levels - with section headings, with limited guidance, and totally blank for student organisation or for you to instruct on specific content requirements. All versions are provided on an A3 PDF sheet with instructions for students to fill in and cut out their cover or jacket. Although not all book dimensions can be tailored for, if the A3 format fits the students’ books, they could wrap their finished reports around the books to create an interesting classroom display! The headed version includes… Title, illustration and author info Genre, setting, characters and conflict Favorite character and reasoning review and star rating Includes a completed example report.

Students can get a feel for the setting of their story or description with this set of ten graphic organizer planning sheets - select different sheets to differentiate for the needs of individual students. Either use nine prompts to determine as many ideas or aspects of language as possible, or give more specific sheets like the five senses, one specific sense, or location building to aid development of detail. Students can quickly and easily jot down notes, phrases, ideas and vocabulary; laminate the sheets and use with dry-wipe pens for lower printing costs! Suitable for a range of ages - flexible mats in both US and UK document sizes. Great for NaNoWriMo, but please note that this resource is not associated with or endorsed by the National Novel Writing Month team.

Four reading comprehension questions focused on setting for any novel, poem or extract. Use this list of differentiated questions as ideas for lessons, or print and hand out all questions and determine which students should complete. Use the worksheet version of each question as note-making activities or visual guides. The four questions explore: gathering evidence for inferring the setting, changes in the setting, details and features of the setting, and evaluating the importance of a setting. Perfect for literature stations, lit circles, or homework tasks.

Support social-emotional learning or start a conversation about mental health by asking your students to fill out the sides of a hexagon with information about their reflections and emotions. Use in one-to-one counselling sessions, in smaller nurture groups or with classes to help students share their experiences. Six different designs of hexagon allow students to draw, graph or write about their moods and feelings, and track their experiences over days or weeks. Create personal diagrams for one student, or collaborate with larger groups! This resource includes quick-print sheets of large and smaller hexagons, both US letter and UK A4 document sizes.

This fun descriptive writing task includes everything you need to support your less able students and stretch your gifted ones. First, students explore ideas for describing a pumpkin, bat or skeleton as individuals, or in pairs or as a class, using the visual prompts on the first sheet. Some students might wish to express some of their ideas through colour as well as words. Next, share the differentiated word bank of sensory words to support and stretch your students as needed. Included are banks for sight, sound, smell and touch - taste is not included, but you could always do this as a separate bank or as another collaboration project. There is also a vocabulary bank for verbs. US letter and UK A4 size documents included. The outcome will be interesting and vivid descriptions of the humble pumpkin, misunderstood bat and spooky, scary skeleton. Enjoy!

Round up independent reading or book tasting sessions by asking your students to fill out the sides of a hexagon with information about their own book. Then instruct them in the creation of a whole-class hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between the books to make a fantastic wall display. This resource includes quick-print sheets of large, medium and small hexagons, and two differentiated versions. Version 1 has sides for protagonist, antagonist, genre, theme, favorite quote, and setting. Version 2 has sides for hero, conflict, setting, favorite moment, genre, and pages. An exciting activity that will also help your students to recommend new novels to each other!

This print and trim resource includes three differentiated bingo grids of 24 prompts for the topic: “The best part of a festive meal is…” The three levels of differentiation are a bingo grid of instructions, a bingo grid of persuasive devices, and a bingo grid of sentence starters. Print back to back versions to cover all levels of support, and laminate for repeated use; students simply cross off the squares with a dry-wipe pen! All prompts encourage students to share their opinion about the best part of a Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving or other festive meal. Will they talk about the food, or something deeper? Great for competitive classes in middle and high school! Colour and greyscale worksheets included, and large/small printing sizes. Check out the video preview for a closer look.

This differentiated quotation analysis task requires students to look closely at quotes from chapters 14 to 18 of Louis Sachar’s novel Holes and pick out the figurative language, devices and techniques Sachar has used. This is followed by the opportunity to analyse the quotations for meaning and impact. There are three levels of differentiation within the lists of writing techniques included, plus a double sided worksheet of fifteen quotations. Answer key also included. All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.

Four activities and a booklet containing the short story of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Explore the symbolism of color in a pre-reading activity Introduce the vocabulary of the text Recreate the wallpaper with traditional art materials, or use the Easel version for students to add their digital art Study the characters through hexagon diagrams (large and small provided) Great for Halloween!

Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the characters of any novel, short story or play. Then instruct them in the creation of a hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between characters and explaining their reasons. Allow more able students to work independently on the hexagon diagram pieces. This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions.