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Christmas Reading Big Bundle
Immerse your learners in the enchanting world of Christmas with this delightful collection of five beloved holiday classics. Explore the magic of the season through the timeless words of Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” Hans Christian Andersen’s cherished tales, “The Little Match Girl” and “The Little Fir Tree,” the Grimm Brothers’ tale “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” and a lovely retelling of "The Nutcracker."
This captivating collection is complemented by a wide range of differentiated worksheets, ensuring that every learner can engage with the material at their own pace and level. From SAT-style multiple-choice questions to classic written responses, sequencing activities, cloze exercises, and vocabulary-building crosswords, these worksheets provide a comprehensive and joyful learning experience.
Share the magic of the season with your learners through this captivating collection of holiday classics and engaging worksheets.
Proper Nouns: Sorting Cards & Worksheets
Master proper nouns with this hands-on resource!
This engaging pack includes:
• 4 A4 pages of sorting cards (96 cards in total) for sorting common vs. proper nouns like mountain/Mount Everest, holiday/Christmas, language/English
• 2 contrasting example illustrated posters of common and proper nouns
• 3 double-sided worksheets (2 higher, 1 lower level) for reinforcement
Give your students fun practice identifying and using proper nouns correctly through interactive sorting activities and targeted worksheets. Also makes a great classroom display.
Perfect for whole class, small group, or independent work!
EAL Newcomer: Essential Verbs & Verb Tenses
Engage EAL newcomer learners with this interactive, fun, social-based vocabulary activity.
“Ask Around: Essential Verbs” is designed to make learning English enjoyable and effective for EAL students. This activity encourages children to walk around the classroom, engaging with their peers by asking and answering essential, repetitive questions. This method incorporates key grammar and vocabulary building, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.
Key Features:
Interactive Learning: Children interact with classmates, asking and answering questions to build social and academic vocabulary.
Balanced Development: Combines social English and academic classroom English for accelerated learning, as research shows EAL social English develops faster.
Comprehensive Grammar Coverage: Each set of verb sheets covers essential verb tenses in both asking and answering formats:
Simple present tense third person singular (What does he do? He verbs or +es)
Simple present tense with the modal verb can (What can she do? She can verb)
Present continuous tense (+ing form) (What is he doing? She is verb+ing)
Simple future tense using auxiliary will (What will she do tomorrow? Tomorrow, she will verb)
Simple past tense (What did he do yesterday? Yesterday, he verb+ed)
Present perfect tense 1st & 2nd person with auxiliary have/h (Have you ever verb? Yes, I have verb)
Identifying and articulating V1 (base form), V2 (simple past), and V3 (past participle)
Blank version with just clipart for additional questions or usage
Matching flashcards
Progressive Levels:
6 sets of question sheets, each with 15 verbs and 9 different verb tense practice versions.
Labeled and Unlabeled Versions: Each sheet comes in both labeled (with words) and unlabeled versions for learners to either write themselves or try to remember without reading.
Flashcards Included: Includes 100 matching flashcards for both direct teaching and various flashcard games, perfect for EAL specialist teachers, class teachers, or classroom assistants.
Versatile Usage: Ideal for primary school level grammar lessons in the Kagan “Find Someone Who” format.
Why Choose “Ask Around: Essential Verbs”?
This resource seamlessly integrates essential verb practice with social English, creating a dynamic learning environment. By focusing on verbs and progressing through levels, students gain a solid foundation in English while enjoying the process. Additionally, this activity helps new EAL children make friends and feel a sense of belonging. Once familiar with the format, EAL learners can engage independently, allowing others to continue their grade-level work. Perfect for EAL specialists, classroom teachers, and assistants, this versatile tool supports EAL students effectively.
Also see
EAL Newcomer Classroom Nouns and Verbs
And phonics vocabulary workbook
Countable Uncountable Nouns Activities
Enhance your students’ understanding of grammar with this comprehensive set of Task Cards, Sorting Cards, and Worksheets designed to teach:
Countable and Uncountable Nouns,
Quantifiers (How Much/How Many),
and
Determiners (a, an, some, any).
What’s Included:
60 Task Cards for Countable and Uncountable Nouns
60 Task Cards for Quantifier Questions (How Much or How Many)
60 Task Cards for Determiners (a, an, some, any)
Sorting Cards for categorizing nouns as Countable or Uncountable
27 Differentiated Worksheets (A4 and A5 versions)
Differentiated
3 Levels of Difficulty: Tailored to different skill levels - Easier, Mild, and Tricky - ensuring all learners are challenged appropriately.
Engaging: Students can select the correct answer on each task card and record their responses on the provided answer sheets, making this activity perfect for individual practice, small group collaboration, or even homework assignments.
Sorting Cards:
Perfect for Sorting: Includes cards for categorizing nouns as Countable or Uncountable.
Versatile Use: These cards are not only great for sorting activities but can also be used for display purposes, enriching your classroom environment.
Differentiated Worksheets:
Comes with matching worksheets where learners can color or circle their answers- perfect for reinforcing concepts in class or at home.
With 180 task cards in total, differentiated activities, versatile sorting cards, and comprehensive worksheets, this set offers extensive practice for varied levels of learners.
An organised ZIP file with folders and clear file names is also included in the download.
Verb Tense Games | Past Tense Cards
EAL Past Tense Verb Memory Games: Classroom & Everyday Essential Verbs
Master English Verbs Through Fun Memory Games!
What’s Included:
72 Classroom & School-Related Verbs
108 Essential Everyday Verbs
3 Game Variations for each verb set
Game Versions:
Simple Present Match (match identical verb cards)
Present-Past Match (match present to past tense)
Complete Verb Forms (match V1, V2, V3 - base form, past tense, and past participle. Example: write, wrote, written)
Perfect for EAL Learning!
Each card features clear illustrations paired with the verb text, making learning intuitive and engaging. These memory games build confidence and fluency while reinforcing verb tenses through active play.
How to Play:
Shuffle and lay out the cards face-down
Players take turns flipping two cards
Find matching pairs (identical illustrations with corresponding verb forms)
Player with the most pairs wins!
Game Details:
Players: 2-5 students (ideal for small groups)
Duration: 20-30 minutes per game
Cards per Game: 48 cards (24 pairs) - Create hundreds of unique game combinations from the ≈170 provided verbs (72 classroom verbs + 108 everyday verbs)!
Printing Tip: Print on thin card stock for durability. Decorative card back patterns are included to prevent see-through and create a professional finish.
Extended Learning Activities:
Create sentences using the verbs in different tenses
Use illustrations as conversation starters
Practice talking about the illustrations using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions
Mix and match verb sets for endless combinations!
Perfect for EAL learners, tutoring sessions, and language learning centers. Watch your students’ confidence grow as they master essential English verbs through play!
Complete your verb teaching toolkit with:
EAL Newcomer: Essential Verbs & Verb Tenses
Irregular Verbs V1,V2,V3
Verb Mats
EAL Newcomer - Interactive ESL Activity
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Fun Simile Activities Bundle
Transform your simile teaching with this money-saving bundle combining my popular Simile Matching Cards and Quiz-Trade Simile Cards.
Progress from recognition to creation with hundreds of illustrated cards that support differentiated learning. Start with visual matching activities, build understanding through clear explanations, and advance to independent simile creation through active learning. Save $ on these complementary resources!
Simile Flashcards: Quiz-Quiz-Trade Activity
Get Moving with Similes: Active Learning Cards
Enliven your English lessons with this dynamic set of simile cards, perfect for active learning and speaking activities. This comprehensive resource uses the Quiz-Trade approach to develop pupils’ understanding and creative use of figurative language through movement and peer interaction.
Contents:
Set 1: Illustrated Simile Cards (70 double-sided cards)
Front: Vibrant illustrated similes
Reverse: Concise explanations detailing both the literal meanings and, for similes with dual meanings, the idiomatic interpretations.
Set 2: Creative Writing Simile Prompts (70 single-sided cards)
Illustrated writing prompts (such as “as strong as,” “as boring as,” “as fun as”)
Designed for independent simile creation
Supports creative thinking and literacy development
Ideal For:
Key Stage 2 and 3 English
Literacy intervention groups
EAL pupils
Whole-class active learning
Creative writing warm-ups
This hands-on resource transforms simile learning into an active, engaging experience as pupils move about the classroom, exchanging cards and crafting their own similes. The two-tiered approach supports differentiated learning - starting with complete similes before progressing to independent creation - perfect for meeting National Curriculum requirements while keeping pupils active and engaged as they develop from understanding existing similes to confidently creating their own descriptive comparisons.
For additional simile practice, check out my Simile Matching Cards resource