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

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.

40 cards. 2 containing a definition of active and passive voices. 20 examples of active voice. 20 examples of passive voice. Students are given a card / cards and have to convert the sentence into the opposite voice. Can be used as a verbal group activity or as a written independent activity.

31 bright, colourful flashcards depicting cinematography terms. Colour coordinated: Green: shot, scene, sequence Blue: Camera angles Yellow: Lighting, filters Purple: Diegetic, non-diegetic and dialogue Orange: Editing techniques Pink: costume, props, mise-en-scene This is a neat revision game where students (in groups or independently) can match the definition to the term.

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.

17 pages of 5 letter word spelling lists grouped by their initial blend sound. Blends include: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, gl, pl, sl, sm, sn, sp, sc, sk, st, sw and tw. Each list has 16 - 18 words (tw has 12.)

A neat flashcard game for students who mispronounce blended sounds. Students need to match the cards based on the full beginning blend with its “opposite”, the card with the part of the blend missing. For example, plate = late; brush = rush; branch = ranch. 19 sheets (3 pairs per card), 57 colourful pairs that need to be precut for students.

4 bright, vibrant posters for your classroom. Posters can be reduced in size to be used as word mats for individual students. Tense types Sentence types 10 rhetorical device / persuasive language definitions

14 slide Power Point looking at the aspect of Setting in Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. Discussion questions / lecture style notes on the physical and socio-political setting of the film. Suitable for Year 13 / Level 3 NCEA Visual Text study.

Example paragraph with Point, Evidence, Explanation and Response / Link highlighted. This was created for NCEA Level 1 Visual Text study on Nolan’s The Dark Knight. The term ‘foreshadowing’ is used in the paragraph showcasing how students can show how the technique used affects the structure of the text too. An additional section is analysis is included that shows how students can combine film techniques in a paragraph to achieve a higher grade.

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

10 colourful flashcards, each card citing an aspect of the Tragic Hero. There is space for the students to write the evidence from their text onto each card showing how the character meets (or not) the criteria for a tragic hero. Group or individual activity. Not text specific.

Designed for NCEA Level 2 Written Text Standard. Example essay of Glenn Colquhoun’s poem Uncle Tu. Merit level (imbalanced, the analysis gets better as the essay continues). Designed to show students the difference in paragraph quality (the first main body paragraph needs to follow an effective paragraph structure more closely, address the question and increase the analysis provided.) Paragraph 2, whilst providing relevant information, needs extending. Paragraph 3 contains secure analysis and addresses the question. Students are able to annotate (editable document) and explain where / how / why the essay receives a Merit grade at Level 2 once familiar with the standard and poem.

28 quote cards to be matched to 7 different characters from McTeigue’s adaptation of V for Vendetta. Ideal group revision activity.

24 card domino pack. A fun, interactive way to help your students discover / revise animal themed collective nouns.

10 Pack of worksheets that focus on word class / parts of speech revision. Students are to decide if the word in each picture matches the word class at the top of the worksheet and, if so, colour in the picture. Word classes covered: Verbs Abstract nouns Collective nouns Prepositions Conjunctions Irregular verbs Past tense verbs Adjectives Adverbs Pronouns This worksheet pack is ideal for fun, Christmas-themed literacy activities.

10 pack of worksheets that require students to highlight the word class or language technique specified. Similes Metaphors Irregular verbs Conjunctions Prepositions Onomatopoeia Interjections Abstract nouns Collective nouns Adverbs A fun, festive literacy activity for the Christmas season.

If you are looking to brighten up your classroom walls with a condensed version of the creative or formal writing process, this is it. A3 size PDF files, 2 posters included. It outlines the writing stages in order to achieve the final written product, ready for submission.

20 flashcards designed to help students spell common ‘ough’ words. Two possible answers are presented. Note: The line in the sentence indicating the missing word does not reflect the number of letters in the answer.

21 examples of conjunctions arranged in correlative, subordinating and co-ordinating groups. Flashcard or Wall display resource.