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 simple poster or handout aimed at 11-16 year olds. This resource should prompt students to develop their vocabulary in English Language and Literature, and makes a good addition to a Literacy display. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Student Newsbites | Introduction Activity | Back to School

Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of a well-known poem… without the poem! This pack of nine pre-reading lesson plans will help you prepare to guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, people, emotions, movement and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations. Use these lesson plans alongside the pre-made poem packs here on TES and on TPT, and let the students do all the hard work! Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you! Includes… Deconstruction of Setting lesson plan Deconstruction of Color lesson plan Deconstruction of Sound, Smell and Taste lesson plan Deconstruction of Concept lesson plan Deconstruction of Emotions lesson plan Deconstruction of Movement lesson plan Deconstruction of Objects lesson plan Deconstruction of Imagery lesson plan Hexagonal Thinking lesson plan Deconstruction of People lesson plan coming soon! PACK AVAILABLE: Poem Deconstruction of Goodbye by Alun Lewis | Pre-Reading Poem Deconstruction of Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath | Pre-Reading Activity Poem Deconstruction of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas Poem Deconstruction of My Mother’s Perfume by Pascale Petit | Pre-Reading

Alternative statements and sentence starters for the phrase ‘it makes the reader want to read on.’ Encourage variation in your students’ analyses! Comes in UK A4 size and US letter size documents, and with both colour and BW options.

Crack some codes with some affirmation focused messages and goal-setting responses, with this FREE resource! Students use the key to decode and locate positive words in a wordsearch. The words found are prompts for positive goalsetting, which students then respond to in the spaces given. Comes as a slideshow and printable sheets. ♕As this is a free product, please consider FOLLOWING ME or leaving a REVIEW to help other teachers choose whether to download. Best wishes to you and your classrooms!♕

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!

A full main task for a lesson on extract responses using Nigel Hinton’s Buddy. Aimed at Year 9, this resource includes: A close reading and highlighting task with a single-page extract A differentiated challenge grid for structuring an extract response to the question The grid supports pupils to four levels of difficulty, and encourages contextual, social and personal responses as well as the initial PEE format. Great for mixed ability classes with both ALN and MAT students present. Models included. An editable version of the differentiated challenge grid can be found here. If you found this helpful, you might also like: 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 Literary Symbols Mat | Motifs Cheat Sheet | GCSE Support Poetry Analysis Mat | Content and Structure Cheat Sheet | GCSE Support Literature Analysis | Sentence Starters | PEEL Structure

FOREVER FREEBIE! This is an evolving support booklet for new, trainee and even first year teachers. My aim is to develop this booklet, starting with my own advice as a mentor and adding additional advice and information as my downloaders suggest it. Think there’s something missing? Please don’t give this resource a bad rating… just tell me in your review what else you would like to see in it and I’ll add it in the monthly update. I would like this to be a useful resource for everyone who makes use of it! Currently this booklet includes: A welcome to teaching Glossary of teaching terms (not exhaustive!) Preparation lists eLearning tools Resource websites Pedagogy kickstart Room for notes (4 pages)

Use the provided quotations or copies of the novel to create a map of the setting in Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black. Provided in A4 landscape document size.

Give your students time to practice using adjectives for effective description! Adjective Island allows pupils to design their own island by drawing and labelling a map with features of their choice, using adjectives to build imagery. A range of pre-populated maps are provided for differentiated support, or use the editable Google Docs version included to tailor the task to your students. A clear ‘Checklist for Success’ is featured on the sheet as well as examples, and there are two extension or ‘challenge’ tasks for more able, gifted and talented or fast finishers. US and UK document sizes provided for easy printing.

An editable venn diagram for comparing the key characters of any novel, play or poem. Editable Word documents and Google Docs versions are included, allowing you to add precise examples to model the task to your students. US and UK document sizes and spellings included.

This activity for KS3 and KS4 can complement any topic with links to the ocean. Learn about six different superstitions whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions. If you found this helpful, you might also like: St Patrick’s Day Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Mother’s Day Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Easter Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Earth Day Celebrations | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG July 4th Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Of Mice and Men | Correct the Errors | Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Or to see a similar free sample, try… FREE | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG

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.

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!

To gather quick responses from your students about any chapter from any novel or text, simply print and hand out this single sheet. It is provided in A3 size for larger sheet printing, but it can be resized to UK A4 or US letter size for smaller sheets. Editable Word version included for you to adapt or differentiate the sheet for your students. This one-pager asks for… Novel name Chapter name or number Character links or connections Favorite quotation Three personal reactions Map of setting Questions raised Predictions for later in the text Reaction to the chapter ending US and UK spellings are provided

A thoughtful ‘would you rather’ worksheet for older students with an Earth Day theme. For example, would your students rather have an hour of electricity a week, or an hour of clean water? Encourage discussion around seven prompt pairs, all focused on environmentally friendly activities, then students use the ‘why’ section to explain their choice. This resource comes in three styles (two colour and one greyscale), and in both UK A4 and US letter document formats for easy printing.

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.

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 If you found this helpful, you might also like: Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Extension Tasks | Early Finisher Choice Board | All Subjects Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy More Able and Talented Bundle | Literacy | Challenge Resources Question Cards | Promote Independence and Problem Solving

Do you need to boost group speaking skills in Years 7-11? These Oracy Mats are printable placemats or posters, designed to show kids the ways in which different sentence starters can be used for impact and precision in discussions and presentations. You will receive a file of four documents: 2 plain-text editable versions so you can customise the sentence starters for your own class, and 2 PDFs with slightly more jazzy fonts and graphics that are ready to print. These can be printed in different sizes and easily laminated for durability. If you found this helpful, you might also like: 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

A single page writing frame or scaffold to guide KS3 or KS4 pupils through writing a five-paragraph descriptive piece of writing. The 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. Matching writing paper included for those who like a theme! 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.