A challenging but differentiated grid-style frame to guide and support pupils in planning 5 paragraphs for a sophisticated close study of any literary character. Each row represents a paragraph, and each column represents a layer of understanding which boosts their understanding of a quotation or point. Simply use the pre-populated guide questions, or insert your own to tailor the essay focus to your needs. Fully editable Google App included. This resource is provided in both US letter and UK A4 size documents. Students use the stages of the planning grid to analyse: Precise quotations Character impressions Impactful words Tone Sentence structure Punctuation effects Both aspirational and differentiated - make achieving easy!

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 If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Alliteration Writing with Onomatopoeia Writing with Personification Writing with Similes

Seven tasks on seven double-sided worksheets. Each task focuses on a quotation about loneliness, and features four points or ideas about the quotation. Students must evaluate how much they agree with the points, rank them, and explain their reasoning… but beware - one point in each four is totally inaccurate! Use individually as bell-ringers, brain breaks, or give groups of students different quotations for a more developed discussion lesson. These worksheets are double-sided and come with answer keys to show the inaccurate points. I have also provided US letter and UK A4 size documents, and spellings for both the US and the UK.

Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 1 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage! Level 1 is Easy, Level 2 is Moderate, Level 3 is challenging and Level 4 is Expert. Includes: 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

Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 2 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage! Level 1 is Easy, Level 2 is Moderate, Level 3 is challenging and Level 4 is Expert. Includes: 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

Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 3 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage! Level 1 is Easy, Level 2 is Moderate, Level 3 is challenging and Level 4 is Expert. Includes: 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

Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 4 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage! Level 1 is Easy, Level 2 is Moderate, Level 3 is challenging and Level 4 is Expert. Includes: 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

Printable sticker labels to help you give fast, individualised feedback based on the needs of each student. Save time and give higher-quality feedback in one go! Each sticker explains the punctuation or grammar error, outlines the rules for use, models the correct usage and suggests an improvement task. The stickers are laid out in printable sheets of 8, with colourful headings and dyslexia-friendly font. Four sets included to give a choice of colour backgrounds to meet your school’s marking policy or your marking style. Choose from pink, blue, green or yellow! This pack now includes feedback sticker sheets for: Possessive apostrophes Omissive apostrophes Capitalisation of the word I Capital letters Single commas Parenthetic commas Connectives Conjunctions Full stops Semi colons Speech marks Question marks Improving vocabulary choices Ellipses Here/Hear It’s/Its There/Their/They’re Too/To/Two Where/Were/Wear/We’re Whose/Who’s Your/You’re Paragraphing Synonyms If you found this helpful, you might also like: Question Cards | Promote Independence and Problem Solving Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Literature Analysis | Sentence Starters | PEEL Structure Guided Practice | Literature Essay Frame Extension Tasks | Early Finisher Choice Board | All Subjects

This Silent Discussion pre-reading activity for F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel Of The Great Gatsby prompts students to collaborate on vintage book covers images with their thoughts, opinions, interpretations and predictions. Resources include two lesson formats with instructive slideshows. Includes: 18 pages of cover image prompts for a seated silent discussion 18 pages of cover image prompts for a gallery walk silent discussion Duplicate of the gallery version in A3 size for ease of writing Slideshow with instructions for seated silent discussion Slideshow with instructions for gallery walk silent discussion Follow up activity - do your students think that any of the covers belong to the same novel? Why?

This booklet of nine extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for sports fiction or units to engage students with sporting interests. Wide-spaced for easy annotation and including activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts, you can adapt the pack to your secondary school students’ needs. Each extract is heavy in description and can be differentiated towards MAT students.

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’.

Prepare to read Sharon M Draper’s timely novel Tears of a Tiger with this printable pre-reading activity. Silent Discussion, Collaborative Predictions, Written Debate… whatever you call it, these image prompts and instructions have you covered! Simply print and go - includes 15 image prompts connected to the plot. Students move around a gallery of the images or pass the sheets from person to person leaving annotations, comments and observations on every sheet. Includes: 15 US letter size printable prompt sheets 15 A3 size printable prompt sheets 7 slides of instructions for classroom and lesson use 2 slides of holistic follow-up activities

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

Aimed at KS2 and KS3, use this figurative language worksheet as a starter, main, fast finisher or homework task in October! Use the Halloween theme to build your students’ understanding of alliteration, similes, personification, and onomatopoeia. This resource comes in US letter and UK A4 size, with a link to a Google Apps editable version. Black and white and colour versions provided. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Oracy | Free Choice Talk | Individual Presentation | Planning Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Student Newsbites | Introduction Activity | Back to School Secondary Persuasive Writing Bingo | Any Topic | Differentiated Layouts Primary Persuasive Writing Bingo | Any Topic | Differentiated Layouts Primary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Primary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Guided Practice | Literature Essay Frame

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.

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!

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.

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.

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