Match the ice cream to its correct cone by matching the letter the animal begins with to the picture. A fun literacy game for pupils learning to recognise initial sounds.

6 worksheets featuring soft ‘c’ words. A fun colouring activity for students who are gaining confidence in distinguishing between hard and soft c sounds. PDF file.

30 colourful cards to help your students use (and spell) prepositions. Dinosaur themed. PDF file.

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.

12 pairs (24 cards) of quote / analysis match up on Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. 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 Shelley. Cards with the PennyLemon design are duplicated, so your PDF will have a clear version too : )

32 flashcards and 3 worksheets that focus on spelling words with ee, ea or ey at the end of the word.

56 brightly coloured dinosaur themed flashcards containing 14 sets of synonyms. Great to print out as match up game or for use as vocabulary word banks.

32 sheets or 62 phonics pairs. Colour coded flashcards broken into M, L, K, T and P words. Cards need to be pre-cut and students are to match the sounds, not letters. This is an excellent game for students who are confident in phonic awareness as it requires the understanding of multiple blended sounds.

32 flashcards with a word and corresponding picture. 8 x soft G cards 8 x hard g cards 8 x soft c cards 8 x hard c cards Where there is both a ‘c’ and ‘g’ in the word, or both a hard and soft version of the letter, the sound needing to be identified is in both italics and bold. A neat activity for students learning the different sounds for these specific letters. Cards will need to be pre-cut.

41 quick fire revision questions on the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel. The card with the asterisk begins the game. This is an excellent way to promote listening skills amongst your students : )

40 pairs of adult / baby names for animals. This is a neat resource for helping students discover the natural world and the accurate names for various animals at different stages of life.

15 sheets (75 sounds covered) A colourful collection of the various sounds produced with the English language. White background sheets are included too. PDF file. This resource can be used as a classroom wall display or as a individual flashcards / bookmarks for students when needing to work on a particular sound. Each bookmark is an excellent way to show students that the same letters can produce different sounds when combined with other letters. Sounds covered, a, b, c. d. e, f, g, h, i, j, l, m, n, o, p, qu, r, s, t, u, v, w, oo, x, y, z, sh, ch, zh, th, ng, ar, er, or, ear, air, oy, ow.

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.

5 worksheets helping students to find verbs / auxillary verbs in a sentence. This resource is designed as a quick revision activity once students have been taught parts of speech.

Exemplar paragraph (1 only) written to show students effective paragraph structure involving: Topic sentence / Point Evidence (Techniques) Explanation Comment / Link / Response on Ian Mudie’s famous poem.

PEER or PEEL paragraph chart using Glenn Colquhoun’s The Other Side of the River. Each column represents an aspect of the paragraph. Page 1 is a model answer for the students. Two columns on page 2 and 3 are complete leaving the final columns for students to complete. A scaffolded activity showing students how to develop their analysis when writing paragraphs. Aimed at Year 9 or KS 3 level.

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.

21 slide Power Point on a psychoanalytical interpretation of Pan’s Labyrinth. Franco and Fascism are defined. Psychoanalysis (basic) is explained. Links to characters and events in Pan’s Labyrinth is explained. Used with Year 13 Visual Text study Standard NCEA but could be adapted to any film study of Pan as it is general analysis of the above concepts.

An example of an Excellence, Merit and Achieved essays written for NCEA Level 1 Visual Text Nolan’s The Dark Knight.