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The Victorian Era Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to the Victorian era. It contains comprehensive sections on:
The British Empire in Victorian Times map (annotated);
Prominent Victorians;
Victorian timeline;
Victorian events;
Victorian daily life.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). It is most suitable for children in KS2 and KS3.
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Victorians Non-Fiction Guided Reading Texts and Activities!
Included in this resource pack are three non-fiction information texts, with corresponding activities, about the following areas of Victorian life:
-Life for Rich and Poor Victorian Children;
-Chimney Sweeps;
-The Life of Queen Victoria.
The activities aligned with each text become progressively more difficult, allowing children to showcase different skills, including: retrieving, interpreting, inferring, identifying, analysing, evaluating and creating. This enables you to tailor the learning to children’s individual needs.
All files are provided as PDFs and Word files (in the zip files). I have previously used these resources with Year 3, 4, and 5 children.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade - Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to the Atlantic Slave Trade. There are comprehensive sections on:
-Atlantic Slave Trade Overview;
-Atlantic Slave Trade Map;
-Major Events;
-Timeline;
-Features of the Slave Trade;
-Key Vocabulary;
-Top Ten Atlantic Slave Trade Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). It is most suitable for students in KS3.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade Comprehension Activities Booklet!
This 16-page resource booklet contains a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s war poem ‘Charge of the Light Brigade.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
It is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities within the booklet include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
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Pride and Prejudice - Social and Historical Context!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to gain a detailed insight into the social and historical context of Jane Austen’s 'Pride and Prejudice.' In particular, students learn about love, class, inheritance, and reputation in the Georgian and Regency eras – key themes throughout Austen’s novel. They then make clear and sustained links between the features of context and the text.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Playing a fun and interactive quiz about the life of Jane Austen;
- Completing carousel activities in groups to learn about the key features of love, class, inheritance, reputation, and royalty in the Georgian/ Regency eras;
- Linking their understanding of context to the key elements of the text;
- Analysing how Austen is influenced by key features of 19th Century life in 'Pride and Prejudice.'
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- All resources for the carousel activities, including sheets needed for 'Love and Courtship Blind Date', 'Social Class Detectives', and 'Georgian and Regency Royalty.'
- Analysis template with success criteria for creating well-structured responses;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
Please note that one of the introduction activities requires internet access.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Winston Churchill Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Winston Churchill as a part of their history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in His Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Winston Churchill Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Secrets of a Sun King - Chapters 1 and 2 - Double Lesson!
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapters 1 to 2 of Emma Carroll’s 'Secrets of a Sun King.’ In this section of the text, Lil’s grandfather is taken to hospital, and she is both mystified and captivated after opening the package containing the ancient Egyptian jar.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Making predictions;
-Retrieving information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Summarising the key events of the chapters.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning.
There’s a lot in the session (20 slides in total) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are most suitable for children in key stage 2, (they were originally used for those in years 4 and 5).
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Ancient Greek Clay Pottery - Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning about Ancient Greek Clay Pottery as a part of their art and design study. This was originally used alongside a history study of the Ancient Greeks.
It contains comprehensive sections on:
-Overview;
-Styles and Techniques;
-Significant Places/ Artists;
-Creative Ideas and Examples;
-Key Vocabulary;
-Timeline of Ancient Greek Clay Pottery.
This resource can be adapted for all ages, but was originally designed for KS2 children.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Ancient Egypt Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to the Ancient Egyptians. It contains comprehensive sections on:
Ancient Egyptian socal structure (with diagram);
Ancient Egyptian pharaohs;
Ancient Egyptian gods;
Ancient Egyptian places;
Ancient Egyptian objects and occupations.
Ancient Egyptian timeline.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The resource is most suitable for children in KS2 or KS3.
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Poppies - Jane Weir
This engaging, comprehensive lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of Jane Weir’s contemporary war poem ‘Poppies’ with particular focus upon the symbolism, language, and structure used within the poem. By the end of the lesson, students demonstrate their knowledge of the text analytically, through assured, appropriate, and sustained interpretations.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Defining what symbols are, and considering some popular examples (including poppies);
- Securing contextual understanding of both the use of poppies, and Jane Weir the poet;
- Reading and interpreting the poem, using a provided line-by-line analysis, and interactive group activities;
- Developing their understanding through inferring and analysing key language and structural choices;
- Analysing how the themes of loss and remembrance are conveyed through Weir's use of symbolism;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlinks to informative and engaging videos)
- Copy of poem;
- Deeper thinking worksheet (and teacher answer sheet);
- Analysis template with success criteria for creating well-structured responses;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 9/10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Exposure - Wilfred Owen - Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Wilfred Owen’s World War I power and conflict poem 'Exposure.’ It contains comprehensive sections on:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
Thoughts of the Poet.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Mary Anning Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Mary Anning as a part of their history study. It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in Her Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Mary Anning Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Charles I - Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Charles I. It is particularly useful for those completing a history study of the monarchy in England, the English Civil War or significant individuals in historical societies. It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in His Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Charles I Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Nelson Mandela Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Nelson Mandela as a part of their history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in His Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Nelson Mandela Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Stevenson’s language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Huge Bundle!
This bundle contains each of the engaging lessons on poems from the AQA ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology, in addition to the detailed and hugely popular knowledge organisers/ revision mats, and the 16-page comprehension activity booklets, for the poems:
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Exposure - Wilfred Owen
Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
Poppies - Jane Weir
In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique!
Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Charles Darwin Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Charles Darwin. It is particularly useful for those completing a history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in His Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Charles Darwin Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Queen Victoria Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Queen Victoria as a part of their history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in Her Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Queen Victoria Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Emmeline Pankhurst Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Emmeline Pankhurst, particularly those completing a history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in Her Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Emmeline Pankhurst Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Christopher Columbus Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Christopher Columbus as a part of their history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in His Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Christopher Columbus Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.