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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Reading Skills - Annotating Poetry
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Reading Skills - Annotating Poetry

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A PowerPoint and resources to introduce the idea of annotating poetry to upper KS3 and all KS4. This allows whole-class annotation followed by peer work and answering questions to aid understanding.
Narrative (1)
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Narrative (1)

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A PowerPoint to help students understnad the basic parts of narrative structure through the Fairy Tale genre.
Superheroes (3) - Creating a Superhero Persona
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Superheroes (3) - Creating a Superhero Persona

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Allowing students to develop their own superhero, asking them to create a list of what we would want to know and then devise a plan telling me about their superhero. Task 3 allows them to write a monologue about a rescue they have done (as their Superhero!)
Wordsearch Proforma
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Wordsearch Proforma

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A basic Wordsearch grid and answers sheet. Can be used by most subjects and departments to explore key words, jog the memory of students, etc.
The Tempest - Quotation Matching
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The Tempest - Quotation Matching

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An activity designed to enable students to explore the language of Shakespeare and identify the modern-day equivalents of certain phrases from Act 1 Scene 2 of the play. Students are then required to answer a question exploring the relationship between the different characters. Easily adaptable for students of different abilities and ages. *** All quotes from the play are the intellectual property of William Shakespeare***
GCSE English Language - Descriptive Writing
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GCSE English Language - Descriptive Writing

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A set of resources to help students revise their descriptive writing skills. With a task, specimen answer and the FT grade descriptors included, the students can really grasp what an examiner will be looking for.
My Family Tree
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My Family Tree

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Used as an initial resource for work on a topic entitled 'All About Me' this resource is really useful to enable students to ask questions about their family. Have used it it with many groups, and with students who are adopted or fostered. It can be a great way of introducing discussion around the topic of families, and their diversity.
Holiday Box
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Holiday Box

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I have used this with various groups, and always get interesting and diverse results! Great practice for selecting and explaining choices. Great to use as a pair/share or whole-class individual speech task.
Christmas Criss-Cross
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Christmas Criss-Cross

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A Crossword/Criss-Cross activity for students to test their recapping skills in terms of Christmas. A fun activity to use in a session near the holidays!
Word scramble (2)
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Word scramble (2)

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An starter activity designed to help students to get to grips with word formation. The LA version gives students the first letter(s) of the words to help them. Can be easily altered or adapted.
Writing Triplets (Purposes - An Introduction)
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Writing Triplets (Purposes - An Introduction)

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A PowerPoint to explain and demonstrate how writing triplets can be used to identify the purpose of any type of writing. Used with students to introduce the idea and give them an understanding of how they can use them in their writing. Easily adaptable and, in my experience, a great way of getting the purposes to ‘stick’ in students’ memories.
Speech Train
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Speech Train

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This is one way of helping students understand how to plan and draft their work and ideas on presenting a speech. The speech train provides a visual representation of their speech - showing how each section should be linked and how important it is to have a direction and destination for your speech. I enlarged this to A3 before getting the students using it, then it's spacious enough for lots of ideas!
Unseen Poetry Revision (Island Man - Nichols)
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Unseen Poetry Revision (Island Man - Nichols)

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A practice exam question for any students undertaking an unseen poem. This particular activity focusses on the poem Island Man by Grace Nichols, and asks the students to complete a planning grid, helping them to focus and note down their ideas. ***The poem is the property of Grace Nichols***
An Inspector Calls - Theme Table Task
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An Inspector Calls - Theme Table Task

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An activity used by students to help aid their understanding of the themes of the play 'An Inspector Calls' and how the themes affect each character. Can be simplified or made more challenging easily, so suitable for all students.
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Annotating Text
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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Annotating Text

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An activity designed to help students develop a deeper understanding of how the author of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' uses his writing to delve further into the lives of Bruno and his family, and the background of life in Germany at that time. ***The extracts are the property of John Boyne.***
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) 19th Century Fiction Scheme - Session 6
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Edexcel GCSE (9-1) 19th Century Fiction Scheme - Session 6

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These resources form Session 6 of the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) 19th Century Fiction Scheme of Work. They are designed to allow students to revise the parts of a sentence, and then develop their understanding of how vocabulary is used in extracts. ***All extracts are the intellectual property of their author***
Poetic Techniques - Similes
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Poetic Techniques - Similes

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A Powerpoint to explain (or revise) of similes in poetry and sentences. This explains what a simile is, and then gives students the opportunity to practice creating similes.