29 cards that help scaffold your pupil’s learning of simple present tense. At the farm theme, 14 cards have the verb in brackets to help the students. They simply have to add an ‘s’. The remaining cards require the students to think of the verb required. Answer cards are included.

56 flashcards (28 pairs) displaying basic sentences using a prepositions. Students look at the picture of the and fill in the spaces within the sentences. Differentiated resource as the first card contains only the preposition that needs to be filled in. The second card contains the same picture but the preposition and the remainder of the sentence needs to be filled in. Answer sheet included. Ideal for helping students understand what a preposition is and basic sentence structure.

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

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

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.

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.

8 page PDF file. 4 on ‘The Kiwi’ and 4 on the ‘Tasmanian Devil’. Non-fiction. Students can develop their comprehension skills with basic inference questions, identify language techniques such as adjectives, verbs and onomatopoeia. Some questions require students to research dictionary definitions. Students are asked to sharpen their editing skills with misspelled words, inserting capital letters correctly and missing punctuation. Answers included.

King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream are included in this PNG file. Designs will need to be but into strips for border trim.

3 page Word document. Copy of the poem, The Harvest Moon, and a model answer for the question: Explore how the poet creates a sense of reverence towards the Harvest Moon. Aimed as KS 4 / GCSE level but the Word document can be adapted.

10 pairs or 20 cards each displaying a symbol or motif from Del Toro’s amazing film, Pan’s Labyrinth. There is space on each flashcard for students to write notes on the symbol depicted. The symbols are designed to be matched up. Additionally, students can then explain their paired choices, showing how Del Toro has both connected and juxtaposed the items / concepts.

A 26 page workbook for students who are developing phonological awareness. This is a brilliant resource for students who recognise different letters but need to focus on the sounds made at the start, in the middle and the end of the words.

5 posters of different scenes. A neat way for students to practice finding and listing nouns as seen in the poster. This is an ideal group activity (group competitions can be created adding some excitement to the activity) where students have to find the nouns in each picture. You can introduce a time challenge or first group to find 15 nouns etc. For the 3 posters where activities are being shown , the same can be done for verbs. Great for developing parts of speech understanding.

A set of 10 cards (5 picture cards and 5 word cards). Colour resource to help your students develop their phonemic and phonic awareness. This game can be played by having the words or pictures pre-cut and matching cards are placed on the opposite card or they can be matched up via pen /pencil. Can be used as a group or individual activity.

Visual display featuring Benny, his bowl, dog biscuits and his friend Henry the cat. Ideally, cut out and laminate. 4 story cards are included. Instructions are on each card. They contain basic facts about Benny and need to be read aloud to the student(s) as this activity is designed to focus on phonological sounds, not the written word. Excellent kinesthetic activity for students as they need to listen carefully for the number of sounds emphasised by the teacher and place the biscuits in Benny’s bowl accordingly.

28 pages (4 to a page) of basic sight words. 19 pages (4 to a page) of slightly higher level sight words. These can be copied to a size of your choice. Students who struggle with letter formation appreciate the enlarged size. The larger letters also allow for wooden / plastic letters to be placed on them depending on the size of the copy. Also a good sized card for class display purposes.

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.

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

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.

Two Level 3 / Year 13 Excellence essays on Doctor Faustus NZ Curriculum / NCEA Level 3 Written Text standard.

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.