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Macbeth Comprehension Activities Booklet!
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in exam revision, comprehension tasks, or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the KS4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework - this makes the tasks suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that students gain a deep understanding of the play.
Activities within the booklet include:
- ‘Context: Shakespearean Britain’ - to aid students with ‘Drawing on knowledge of the purpose, audience and context of the writing, including its social, historical and cultural context and the literary tradition to which it belongs, to inform evaluation;’
- ‘Shakespeare’s Description’ - to aid students with ‘Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;’
- ‘Lady Macbeth’ - to aid students with ‘Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence;’
- ‘Editing the Play’ - to aid students with ‘Making an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 30 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
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Macbeth: Shakespeare's Figurative Language!
This interesting and stimulating lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of Shakespeare’s use of figurative language in Macbeth, focusing particularly on similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and euphemisms. Students learn to analyse the intended effect of these devices through a close-reading and interpretation of Act 5 Scene 1: The sleepwalking scene involving Lady Macbeth.
The lesson utilises a range of tasks, that require students to be visual and interactive learners. It follows this learning journey:
- Defining the key term 'figurative language' and establishing its importance as a literary technique;
- Defining and exemplifying each of the key terms 'simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and euphemisms through collaborative group opportunities;
- Understanding how and why figurative language is used to add depth to writers' ideas;
- Reading and interpreting Act 5 Scene 1, and establishing how figurative language impacts upon the scene;
- Reflecting upon why this may/ what effect this may have had on audiences at the time;
- Summarising the events of the scene;
- Peer/self evaluating the learning in the lesson.
Included in this resource pack are:
- A well-presented, thorough, and informative, whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- Resources for the reading and interpreting activity - full scene transcript with space for notes;
- A template to help scaffold the main task, complete with P.E.E instructions;
- Cards for the card sorting group activity
- A comprehensive teacher guidance form/lesson plan to assist delivery.
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Gangsta Granny KS2 Comprehension Activities Booklet!
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of David Walliams’ ‘Gangsta Granny.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the upper KS2 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text.
Activities within the booklet include:
‘An Interview with Granny’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Understand what is read by drawing on information from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas, and using quotations for illustration;’
‘Walliams’ Description’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Explain meanings of words that they know and ask the meaning of new words. Link the meaning of new words to words that they already know;’
‘Mr Parker Character Profile!’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Understand what is read by drawing on information from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas, and using quotations for illustration;’
‘Figurative Language in Gangsta Granny’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, to create an impact on the reader.’
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is 21 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
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War Horse KS3 Comprehension Activities Booklet!
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Michael Morpugo’s ‘War Horse.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS3 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text.
Activities within the booklet include:
‘Context: World War I’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Know the purpose, audience and context of the writing and drawing on this knowledge to support comprehension.’
‘Morpugo’s Description’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Know how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, present meaning.’
‘Captain Nicholls Character Profile’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Study setting, plot, and characterisation, and the effects of these.’
‘Vocabulary Inspector’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Learn new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries.’
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is 23 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
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Romeo and Juliet Revision Cards!
These colourful, comprehensive, and well-structured revision cards have been creatively designed for students securing their understanding of William Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ Each card is visually-appealing and highly-detailed, covering aspects of each feature including a full summary, cited quotations from the play, definitions/ examples, and a consideration of audience reactions. They are tried and tested, with teachers incorporating them in revision games, using them as essay writing aids, or utilising them as home revision aids. They are provided as both PDFs (to prevent formatting issues between computers) and as Word documents (for easy editing).
The revision cards included in this pack are:
Characters - Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Friar Laurence, The Nurse, Tybalt;
Context - William Shakespeare, Patriarchal Society, Religion;
Devices - Dramatic Irony, Soliloquies, Dramatic Tension;
Scenes - Act 1 Scene 5 (The Masquerade Ball Scene), Act 2 Scene 2 (Juliet’s Window Scene), Act 3 Scene 1 (The Death of Mercutio/ Tybalt Fight Scene);
Themes - Love, Hatred, Fate and Free Will.
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Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare - Understanding Historical Context!
This engaging and informative lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of the context of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Some of the primary areas of the historical context that are explored are William Shakespeare himself, life at the end of the Elizabethan era, and the life and times of Julius Caesar (and the parallels between the Roman and Elizabethan periods).
Through the comprehensive slideshow, learners are guided on the following learning journey:
Understanding who William Shakespeare was, and remembering key details about his life;
Identifying words and phrases that he coined that are still in use today;
Understanding the events and prevailing ideas in existence at the end of Elizabeth I’s reign;
Taking part in a quiz about the some of the basic key events and ideas of the time;
Researching the key events of Julius Caesar’s life (particularly the parts pertinent to the play, e.g. his assassination, his acquaintances, etc.);
Utilising speaking and listening skills in order to communicate gathered knowledge, and obtain knowledge from others.
Evaluating the learning in the lesson.
The lesson includes a colourful and detailed PowerPoint presentation, and the well-structured research template - provided in both Word (to allow editing) and PDF (to protect formatting) versions.
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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases!
This interesting and engaging lesson (there are actually enough resources to fill 2-3 lessons here) enables students to learn a range of different prepositions, to use different prepositions in their writing, and to understand and use prepositional phrases. In particular, students become familiar with the importance of prepositions and prepositional phrases in a wide range of writing, through a number of fun and interactive tasks.
Throughout the lesson, students learn to:
- Define and exemplify prepositions;
- Secure their understanding of different types of prepositions;
- Identify prepositions in writing and analyse their effect;
- Understand what prepositional phrases are, and identify them in writing;
- Accurately use their own prepositions and prepositional phrases;
- Peer/ self assess their partners/ their own prepositions and prepositional phrases.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson/s PowerPoint;
-Prepositions worksheet;
-Prepositional Phrases worksheet
-Model Example;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
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Templates for Writing Forms (Social Media, Messaging, Newspapers and more!)
Perfect for enhancing writing tasks, these writing forms templates are perfect for helping to relate to students using a variety of writing forms that they are familiar with. Visually engaging and accurate, these templates can be used across the curriculum, enriching students' writing experiences whilst simultaneously proving their knowledge of texts, characters, key skills, and other learning.
Included:
- Social media page template
- Tabloid newspaper template
- Broadsheet newspaper template
- Online blogger template
- Email template
- Whatsapp/messenger template
- Postcard template.
Most of these documents can be easily edited to suit your students' needs.
Please note: All pictures are licensed for commercial use, details of authors can be provided upon the request.
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Jane Eyre - Bertha Mason: The Gothic Monster!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make precise and perceptive interpretations of the character of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre. Through close analysis of specific extracts from the text, students develop an understanding of how Bertha fits the conventions of a quintessential ‘gothic monster’, and also explore her position as a prime example of the ‘Other’ in Victorian society.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
Defining the key term ‘gothic novel’ and understanding the key conventions of gothic literature;
Reading selected extracts from the text and answering comprehension questions considering Bertha Mason as fulfilling the role of the gothic monster;
Considering ideas of the Victorian ‘Other’ and establishing how Bertha Mason recycles these ideas;
Analysing how ideas of Bertha link to predominant 19th Century ideas about mental health and ethnicity;
Using the knowledge they have gathered over the lesson to design and describe their own gothic monsters;
Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Bertha Mason worksheet;
Selected extracts (from chapters 11, 20, and 26);
Character profile template;
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. Worksheets are provided as word docs (so that you can edit) and PDFs (to protect formatting).
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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New GCSE English Language Reading: 19th Century Bundle Pack! (Context, Fiction, Non-Fiction)
This bundle contains all of the resources for:
- New GCSE English Language Reading: 19th Century Context; New GCSE English Language Reading: 19th Century Fiction; New GCSE English Language Reading: 19th Century Non-Fiction.
These informative and engaging lessons enable students to build the skills needed to interpret and analyse 19th Century non-fiction texts. This will aid students through the new GCSE English Language - for which they need to become confident readers of 19th, 20th, and 21st Century fiction and non-fiction texts. These resources give students a strong foundation of knowledge of features of fiction and non-fiction texts in the 19th Century, using a range of visual and varied resources. There are easily enough resources for at least two lessons within this resource pack.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint presentations;
- Visually engaging worksheets;
- Resources for all activities;
- Writing purposes help-sheet, to aid longer writing tasks;
- All Lesson plans;
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of each PowerPoint. These lessons can also be bought individually - priced at £2.00 each
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GCSE English Literature Knowledge Organisers/Revision Mat Huge Bundle!
These detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning or revising any of the following GCSE texts:
- A Christmas Carol
- A View from the Bridge
- An Inspector Calls
- Animal Farm
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Frankenstein
- Great Expectations
- Lord of the Flies
- Macbeth
- Of Mice and Men
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sign of Four
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections on:
- Context;
- Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes);
- Main Characters;
- Themes;
- Language Devices;
- Features of Form
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided in both PDF and Word versions (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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KS1 Science Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for all 8 units from Years 1-2 within the science National Curriculum.
Year 1 Knowledge Organisers:
-Animals, including Humans;
-Plants;
-Everyday Materials;
-Seasonal Changes.
Year 2 Knowledge Organisers:
-Animals, including Humans;
-Plants;
-Living Things and their Habitats;
-Use of Everyday Materials
The organisers are separated into logical compartments, based on the key curriculum expectations.
Each 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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Of Mice and Men Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. 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, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
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 a 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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Descriptive Devices Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons are designed to help students build their descriptive writing skills, through utilising a range of sophisticated and original language techniques.
Included in this bundle are lessons focusing on:
- Varied Verbs and Adverbs;
- Adventurous Adjectives;
- Personification and Oxymorons;
- Alliteration and Assonance;
- Similes and Metaphors.
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 - there is everything included that you need to teach!
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Lord of the Flies Huge Bundle!
This bundle contains all of the Lord of the Flies lessons, the comprehension activities booklet, the knowledge organiser and the Pointless game!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in William Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Golding’s key intentions in writing the novel.
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. Savagery vs Civilization;
- 2. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy;
- 3. Golding’s Language Devices;
- 4. The Beast
- 5. Simon and Roger
- 6. The Ending
Plus the 30-page comprehension booklet, the knowledge organiser and the Lord of the Flies Pointless Game!
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.
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Billionaire Boy Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE BILLIONAIRE BOY LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET 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 David Walliams’ ‘Billionaire Boy.’ 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, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding 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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Edexcel Conflict Poetry Knowledge Organisers Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF EDEXCEL CONFLICT POEMS!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the Edexcel 'Conflict’ anthology:
Exposure - Wilfred Owen;
Catrin - Gillian Clarke;
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Poppies - Jane Weir
War Photographer - Carole Satyamurti
Belfast Confetti - Ciaran Carson
The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron
Cousin Kate -Christina Rossetti
The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
A Poison Tree -William Blake
What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah
The Prelude (Extract) - William Wordsworth
Half-caste - John Agard
The Class Game - Mary Casey
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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KS2 History Knowledge Organisers Huge Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to 16 KS2 history topics, including:
The Ancient Egyptians
The Ancient Greeks
The Vikings
The Romans
The Aztecs
Baghdad c.900AD
World War I
World War II
Tudors and Stuarts
The Great Fire of London
Anglo-Saxons
The Shang Dynasty
Ancient Sumer
The Peasants’ Revolt
Boudica
The Hundred Years’ War
Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections to guide learning and revision including:
Overviews of the era;
Annotated maps/ diagrams;
Timelines;
Rulers/ Emperors/ Prominent People;
Daily Life at the time;
Important facts/ dates
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (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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Creativity Assembly!
This fun and original assembly aids children in understanding the value of being creative in all of their endeavours, through:
Understanding what creativity is, and recognising why it is such an important skill;
Understanding that creativity is a trait within everyone (including themselves) that should be encouraged and harnessed;
Observing some amazing examples of what creativity can result in;
Learning strategies to demonstrate creativity in their own lives.
This assembly is tried and tested, and has always been really well received in the past. The slides are visually engaging and well-presented, and the subject matter is tailored to the interests and needs of young people.
The session also includes a fun role-play task to demonstrate how everyone can be creative and the internet link to a beautiful, thought-provoking video demonstrating the power of creativity. There are also various discussion prompts to enable children to understand how they can be creative in different areas of their own lives.
The slides are fairly self-explanatory, but I’ve included guidance notes to assist the speaker. Hope that you find this useful!
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A Christmas Carol: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make insightful and developed interpretations of Dickens’ use of language in describing ‘The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come’ in A Christmas Carol. In particular, they explore how the descriptive language used to describe the appearance, mannerisms, and movements aid the haunting portrayal of the ghost.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Reading and understanding the key plot elements of stave 4 - in which The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come appears;
- Identifying and exemplifying the key language features used by Dickens in describing the ghost, including its appearance, actions, and mannerisms;
- Analysing the extent to which the language used creates a haunting and imposing image of the ghost;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Extract - Stave 4 of A Christmas Carol;
- Dickens' Language: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Worksheet (and completed answer sheet for teachers);
- 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 mixed ability year 10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
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