10 worksheets dedicated to three letter words. The picture guides students to fill in the missing vowel letters.

26 colourful cards designed to help students match the words with the picture. This resource can also help students learn ‘an’ for vowel nouns and ‘a’ for consonant nouns. The cards will need to be pre-cut for students in order to match them up. Can be used as a cut and paste activity or as a group game.

30 pairs of colourful flashcards that need to be paired up. Can be used as an individual paste activity or as a group matching task.

6 pages of notes on George Orwell’s Animal Farm. They focus on the literary aspect of conflict. Three types of conflict are covered: Physical Thematic Stylistic or Language These notes are designed as teacher’s notes. Students may find some use in annotating with specific evidence from the text.

10 pages of missing vowel letters. Students are able to practise their spelling and phonetic awareness by using the pictures to guide them,

19 flashcards that are designed to help students reinforce their knowledge of literary terms connected to Shakespeare’s plays (or plays in general.) Will need to be pre-cut to use as a revision activity. Can be used as a group activity or individual cut and paste so students are able to use for future reference.

11 quotes from Animal Farm analysed. Ideal revision tool for students.

10 pages of worksheets where students have to fill in the missing vowel letters in four letter words.

21 slide Power Point on teaching the difference between Indefinite and Definite articles. Exercises for students to complete as you go through the Power Point.

36 flashcards to be used as revision of the play studied. Students can write an example of the term in the play on the flashcard to help with their revision. Examples of terms include: Bombast Chorus Epilogue Conceit Soliloquy Stichomythia

12 revision activities based on Wright’s adaptation of McEwan’s novel. These activities can be completed in any given order; in groups, pairs or independently. Mind maps, essays, or discussion can be used to stimulate critical thinking about this amazing text.

A fun resource for students when developing awareness of basic tense types. 10 templates, 9 of which have a verb written at the bottom of the rainbow. Students can write a past tense sentence relating to the verb in the orange band, a present tense sentence in the green band and a future tense in the purple band. One template is free for students to use a verb of their choice. A popular activity with students and ideal for classroom displays

10 pages of templates. Verbs include: drive, say, fly, wear, ride, swim, eat, but, see and write. This resource is a little more challenging from my rainbow template version due to the past tense word change. The gaps next to the tense words can be used to write the word (according to the tense) or to write a whole sentence. I have used it for both. Tenses can also be colour coordinated.

Flashcard game relating to sentence types. 11 sentences covering terms such as clause, predicate, simple, compound, complex sentence, phrase etc. 11 definitions. 11 examples. Cards will need to be pre-cut. This activity can be group based or an individual, cut and paste exercise to put in student workbooks.

Dinosaur themed visual sentence building cards. Students will need to include an auxillary verb, possessive noun and a preposition (or more depending on the length of the sentence.) This is a neat confidence boosting activity for early literacy. (Boys who sometimes struggle with reading fluency and polysyllabic words seem to engage with dinosaurs really well!) 8 who cards 8 what cards 8 where cards. Students are free to mix and match but must use at least one card from each colour group to make the sentence.

Paragraph structure is explained in this 2 page Word document. Topic, Evidence, Explanation and Comment are defined and exemplar responses are created for each, showing students how a main body paragraph is constructed. Originally designed for NCEA Level 3 English (Visual Text study) Text: Joe Wright’s Atonement

3 page document providing a writing stimulus for “five senses” descriptive writing. Students are given the choice of four landscapes; have prompts for each sense and two differentiated exemplar paragraphs to help support their writing. This is an ideal resource for those needing to go beyond basic adjectives and provide sensory detail in their writing.

6 cards / 12 pairs of everyday Latin terms used in English.

5 colourful worksheets that provide a defintion, examples and exercises relating to subject, predicate and objects; simple, compound and complex sentences and adjectives.

5 colourful worksheets containing commonly misspelled words. Students have to choose the correct spelling to match the picture. A neat starter activity. This resource can be easily paired with teaching a specific spelling rule.