15 worksheets on Henry Slesar’s short story ‘Examination Day’. Ideal for ‘Do Now’ starter activities. PDF file Includes: Discussion questions Close language analysis Character presentations

Using Old Major’s song ‘Beasts of England’, students are to select specific literary or language techniques to show how Old Major convinces the animals that Animalism is a worthy cause. This comes with a an exemplar or model answer with grade boundaries for New Zealand NCEA Level 1 levels, A, M and E. Students can see the cumulative effect of techniques on the animals / reader. This resource is designed to take a closer look at Orwell’s language when studying Animal Farm, but also develop general reading comprehension skills.

A fun way for students to revise word classes. Each sheet focuses on different word classes with instructions at the top of the page. Sheet 1: Proper, Collective, Abstract and Concrete nouns Sheet 2: Adverbs, Verbs and Adjectives Sheet 3: Past, Present and Future Verb Tenses Sheet 4: Prepositions, Interjections and Conjunctions

A 16 page Dinosaur themed Numeracy workbook for basic addition and subtraction. Numbers mainly focus on addition and subtraction up to the number 12. Range of differentiated activities based on how confident students are with basic numeracy.

10 pages of individual stories with 4-6 questions. This small booklet is perfect for students who can read basic sentences. The worksheets begin with true or false questions and progressively work towards more complex, inference type questions.

24 flashcard set that can be used as an individual or group activity. Created for reading comprehension or unfamiliar text prose / poetry extracts but these cards can also be used as study cards for extended texts too. These cards are designed to be prompt cards to help students annotate the extract / text and perhaps use to structure their answer.

7 worksheets that focus on word class knowledge. Ideal starter activity to revise prepositions, different types of nouns, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, adjectives and pronouns. Halloween theme.

56 words cards, 56 picture cards and 28 sound cards. Phonics match up game. The cards can be laminated and used on white boards if a magnetic strip is attached to the back. Or, they can be used as a good, old fashioned cut and paste activity for students to develop their phonemic awareness. The cards can also be used to scaffold ‘sentence building’ for students.

21 posters (can be reduced to flashcards) for classroom display when teaching Film Studies or Film Media.

12 revision tasks on Del Toro’s stunning film, Pan’s Labyrinth, that are ideal for students to complete independently once they are familiar with the film and film techniques.

25 pairs / 50 flashcards of homophones. This is a fun, interactive resource to develop homophone knowledge. Students have to match the picture to the correct spelling. Ideal literacy group activity.

7 posters covering a brief outline of the different stages of reading: Preview Question Predict Connect Infer Summarise Evaluate These brightly coloured posters are ideal for classroom use but can be reduced and copied for student books.

50 colourful worksheets on basic sight words. Students can work at their own pace through the booklet as they gain confidence with sight words.

27 cards designed to help students revise features of the Ancient Greek Theatre and dramatic conventions. Will need to be pre-cut. Can be used as a group revision activity or cut and paste for an individual task.

12 colorful flashcards of the Greek Gods. 4 pages of symbols all in colour. Each God has 4 symbols traditionally attached to them - students can research what symbols belong to each God or use as a revision activity at the end of the unit. Ideal cut and paste activity into student workbooks.

4 worksheets that allow students to revise word classes. These are excellent starter activities to revise prior knowledge. Word classes covered: Adjectives Prepositions Verbs Adverbs Singular words Plural words Interjections Present Tense Verbs Past Tense Verbs

12 revision activities on Orwell’s 1984. Students can work independently on the activities once familiar with the text.

1 -20 dinosaur themed cards. This resource is designed to help your students match up the written number and digit with the corresponding picture card.

Independent student activity on HOmer’s The Odyssey. Students need to be familiar with the story and Greek myths in general. It is designed as a revision and extension activity. Students also need to be familiar with representing their ideas through metaphors / symbolism. The static image / poster is one way of students showcasing their knowledge of the myths symbolically. This can obviously be adapted to other means of presentation. Originally designed for New Zealand Curriculum NCEA Level 2 Classical Studies.

16 pictures of animals / dinosaurs designed to act as a writing prompt for basic sentence construction.