4 activities on Poe’s famous short story The Tell Tale Heart. These activities are designed to be starter activities to promote literacy and analysis skills. 1 x Match the literary technique to the quote (Answers included) 1 x Match the symbol to the definition (Answers included) 3 x Analyse the quote. Example given on the first page showing students how to identify and explain the literary technique used. 1 x Identify the punctuation and find an example of its use in the text.

10 sheets, each containing two adjectives. Answer sheets included (synonyms listed not a full list) Designed as a quick ‘do now’ literacy activity to help boost student vocabulary.

2 activities on persuasive or rhetorical techniques. Cut and paste activity (answers included) Worksheet match up (answers included)

10 worksheets focusing on Edmund and Edgar in King Lear. A copy of their first soliloquies, literary techniques treasure hunt, connecting the characters to themes and concepts in the play. Comparison chart of the brothers’ qualities. Ideal for ‘Do Now’ starter activities.

42 flashcards relating to the weather. Ideal for helping young learners expand their vocabulary when learning to describe the weather.

DC’s Black Adam (20 pages) Worksheet Pack. Worksheets / Discussion questions on aspects such as: Themes Characters Symbolism Challenges Cinematography Setting Character - quote mix and match Film technique scene template x 3 Close analysis questions relating to the end scene (2 pages) No answers included. PDF file.

Confusing words match up activity where students have to match the word with the correct ‘picture’ interpretation of the word. It presents an additional activity to matching homophones. Students have to decide which picture matches each word, focusing on the meaning of the homophones in order to connect the word to the picture. An easy extension activity asks students to make a sentence out of each word / picture match up they find. 68 cards. 34 words and 34 picture cards.

Space themed Bingo Game Set 1 - basic sight words. 72 spaceships cards that can be used to announce the word the students have to find on their bingo cards. 6 bingo cards. Ideal group activity for early literacy learners.

5 Worksheets predominantly focusing on Auxiliary Verbs but also includes action verbs and adverbs. Auxiliary “Helper” sheet listing auxiliary verbs. Honeycomb activity sheet (answers included) Alphabet verbs activity Variety of Verbs (answers included) Colour the verbs x 2 (answers included)

20 sets (3 word banks in a set) covering themes such as: Beach, Cafe, Hospital, Airport, Farm, Fairground, School, Bedroom, Garage, Outer Space, Dinosaurs, Soccer, Park, Garden, Kitchen, Supermarket, Music. These sets are designed to help students with vocabulary and spelling. All words are in lower case. As an additional challenge students can identify the proper nouns in each word bank, use them in a sentence etc.

8 worksheets (PDF file) focusing on the classic confusing words / homophones. Answers included. Students have to match the words contained in the word bank at the top of the page into the boxes below.

40 words that contain silent letters. 2 PDF files 1 file contains the 40 words with a missing letter. 2nd file contains 40 letter tiles that fit into into the words. Students have to place the correct tile into the word. Once cut out and laminated, ideal group activity for early literacy learners.

A bundle of activities for helping students embed their knowledge of irregular verbs. Bookmarks Bingo sheets x 6. Irregular verbs word cards included. Word wall (answers included) and blank template. Irregular verb wordsearch. Students have to convert the words in the word bank into the past tense in order to find the verb.

36 word banks featuring parts of speech including adjectives, adverbs, proper nouns, concrete nouns, abstract nouns, verbs, interjections, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and contractions. Handy lists to remind students examples of the different parts of speech.

3 posters displaying Beginning Blends The first poster is a display page only (advert is only on a duplicate of the first poster you will download as a PDF. The posters are free of this display. General objects = Poster 1 Food = Poster 2 Animals = Poster 3

Ideal group activity for early literacy learners. 6 dinosaur themed bingo cards. 72 Sight Words cards. This set is the same as the Space Bingo Set 1.

32 picture card game. 20 cards contain pictures of items beginning with ‘st’. 12 cards are random items. An individual or group game for students to develop their phonic sound awareness. A list of the items is included for your convenience.

Eight pairs (16 cards) of quote / analysis match up on William Blake’s ‘London’. On each of the analysis cards, a specific language technique or word class (e.g. alliteration, sibilance, verb etc.,) is used as a clue to help the students match the analysis to the quote. This task is ideal as a quick revision activity, focusing on specific language use by Blake. Cards with the PennyLemon design are duplicated, so your PDF will have a clear version too : )

A quick, fun literacy game focusing on prepositions. 24 domino card game where students have to match the picture to the word equivalent.

60 sheets (120 altogether) of CVC words. The vowels are in place, students have to fill in the consonant letters either side. Each vowel set is colour co-ordinated.