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Of Mice and Men - Context: The American Dream and The Great Depression
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Of Mice and Men - Context: The American Dream and The Great Depression

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This engaging and interesting lesson aims to improve students’ knowledge of the social, historical, and cultural context of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. It also aims to build their skills in creating clear and specific links between the text and it’s context, focusing on a specific extract from the novel. The lesson uses a range of tasks, that require students to use their visual and interactive skills. It follows this learning journey: - Understanding what dreams are and how they differ for each of us; - Defining the American Dream, The Wall Street Crash and The Great Depression; - Creating a timeline which visually depicts the other influential events of the time; - Reading and reflecting on an extract from the text; - Analysing the links between texts and contexts, from a success criteria; - Evaluating each others’ analytical attempts. All images in this resource are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the lesson presentation. You can choose to buy this resource alone, or as part of the ‘Of Mice and Men - All Lessons and Scheme’ bundle, which contains seven full lessons, resources, teachers notes, and PowerPoint presentations, plus a Pointless Of Mice and Men game, for just £5!
Pointless - Template to Create Your Own Games!
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Pointless - Template to Create Your Own Games!

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Template for you to create your own Pointless games - whatever subject or topic you are teaching! Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', this resource is perfect for use as a starter activity, plenary, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change the questions/answers. Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several built-in rounds of questions to build students' understanding in your topics, including: - Identifying terms from definitions - Anagrams of key terms round - Recalling the highest level knowledge. The nature of the game ensures that this resource can challenge students of all levels. NOTE: You can buy this resource alone, or in a bundle of 8 Pointless games, for only £1 more!
Islam Knowledge Organiser!
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Islam Knowledge Organiser!

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This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning about/ revising their understanding of Islam. It contains comprehensive sections under the following headings: -Islam Overview; -Islamic Beliefs; -Islam Timeline; -Key Vocabulary; -Top Ten Facts; -Answers to the Important Questions. 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).
Judaism Knowledge Organiser!
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Judaism Knowledge Organiser!

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This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning about/ revising their understanding of Judaism. It contains comprehensive sections under the following headings: -Judaism Overview; -Jewish Beliefs; -Judaism Timeline; -Key Vocabulary; -Top Ten Facts; -Answers to the Important Questions. 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).
Informal Letter Writing!
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Informal Letter Writing!

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This stimulating and informative lesson develops students’ skill in creating informal letters that precisely meet the content, language and structural features of the form. In particular, they gain an in-depth understanding of how informal letters should be set out on the page, what information should be included within them, and what style they should be written in, in order to meet form, audience and purpose. Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: -Understand why letter writing is still important in the present day; -Unjumble a model example of an informal letter in order to establish its structure; -Work collaboratively to identify and analyse the content and language features in further model examples of informal letters; -Create a success criteria for effective informal letters (although a ready-made success criteria is included); -Write their own informal letters, using a structure strip and helpsheet (if needed) and the techniques that they have learnt; -Peer/self-assess their writing attempts. There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including: -Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint; -Informal letters x 3 (based on The Simpsons, Batman, and Harry Potter characters) -Informal letters structure strip; -Informal letters helpsheet; -Step-by-step lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
Stone Cold Big Bundle!
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Stone Cold Big Bundle!

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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE STONE COLD LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION 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 Swindells’ ‘Stone Cold.’ 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, understanding dramatic and language devices, 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 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.
Antarctica Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
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Antarctica Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!

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This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to Antarctica, as a part of their study of physical and human geography. It contains comprehensive sections on: Overview and Map; Areas and Territories of Antarctica; Longest Rivers; Highest Mountains; Human Geography Features; Physical Geography Features. 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 students in KS2 or KS3.
Learning Walk/ Teacher Development Checklists
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Learning Walk/ Teacher Development Checklists

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These comprehensive checklists have been created to aid school leaders when performing learning walks with a particular focus e.g. questioning, differentiation, etc. Clearly structured and organised, they present a central idea surrounded by a breakdown of a number of its key components. For the user, this layout provides a simple reference list of each of the desirable skills, categorised appropriately. The checklists also provide an alternative to regular feedback methods, which often focus too heavily on the standard or ‘judgement’, as opposed to being a developmental tool. Alternatively, these are really handy for teachers looking to develop their practice in the key teaching areas listed below. Included in the pack are checklists for: -Questioning -Differentiation -Utilising Resources (including support staff) -Engagement -Building Literacy Skills -Planning and Expectations -Building Learning Power -A blank template for you to design your own based upon your own focus Note: The checklists offer a range of desirable strategies that teachers should look to implement over time - it would be damaging to expect teachers to utilise each of these strategies in every lesson! Many Thanks
Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences!
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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences!

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This detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of simple, compound and complex sentences, and to use a variation of sentence types in their own writing for clarity and effect. Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to: - Define and exemplify simple, compound, and complex sentences; - Identify them in writing; - Understand and analyse how different types of sentences can be used for clarity and effect; - Create a written piece using a variety of sentence structures for clarity and effect; - Evaluate their use of different sentence structures. The resources include: -Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation; -Resources for the card-sorting activity; -A model example and analysis worksheet; -A success criteria; -Step-by-step lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
Pride and Prejudice Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
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Pride and Prejudice Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!

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This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ It contains comprehensive sections on: Context; Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes); Main Characters; Themes; Austen’s Language Devices; Features of Romantic Novels. 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).
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time KS3 Comprehension Activities Booklet!
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time KS3 Comprehension Activities Booklet!

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This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Mark Haddon’s ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.’ 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: Asperger’s Syndrome’ - 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.’ - ‘Haddon’s Description - The Police Station’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Know how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, present meaning.’ - ‘Ed Boone’ - 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 21 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included).
Holes Huge Bundle!
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Holes Huge Bundle!

7 Resources
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HOLES LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION 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 Louis Sachar's 'Holes.' 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, understanding dramatic and language devices, 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 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.
Pigeon English - Big Bundle!
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Pigeon English - Big Bundle!

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This resource bundle contains all of the ‘Pigeon English’ lessons, plus knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet! The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the text. A double-lesson is provided for each chapter, meaning that there are 10 lessons in total. Lessons 1 and 2 - March Lessons 3 and 4 - April Lessons 5 and 6 - May Lessons 7 and 8 - June Lessons 9 and 10 - July The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students in KS4, but may be used for slightly older or younger classes, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.
Past Perfect and Present Perfect Tense!
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Past Perfect and Present Perfect Tense!

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This interesting and engaging lesson enables students to understand, identify and use past perfect and present perfect tense in writing. Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: -Define the terms past perfect tense and present perfect tense; -Understand what these tenses show, and identify them in writing; -Switch sentences from simple past tense to past perfect and present perfect tense; -Apply their understanding of past perfect tense and present perfect tense to a fun ‘police statement’ writing attempt; -Peer/self-assess their learning attempts. All resources are provided in both office (Word and PowerPoint) to allow for easy editing, and PDF, in case formatting differs on your computer. Resources are eye-catching and purposeful, including: -Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint; -An interesting, imaginative, and well-presented worksheet (in Word and PDF); -Two interesting and purposeful helpsheets (also in Word and PDF); -Step-by-step lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
Refugees - Brian Bilston - Comprehension Activities Booklet!
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Refugees - Brian Bilston - Comprehension Activities Booklet!

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This 16-page resource booklet contains a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Brian Bilston’s poem ‘Refugees.’ This is a clever poem that can be read in two ways - offering two perspectives regarding attitudes to refugees. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for revision or guided reading sessions. 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.’ ‘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.’
Italy Knowledge Organiser - KS2 Geography Place Knowledge!
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Italy Knowledge Organiser - KS2 Geography Place Knowledge!

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This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to Italy, as a part of their study of place, human and physical geography. It contains comprehensive sections on: Overview and Maps; Physical Geography; Human Geography; Comparison with the United Kingdom; Italy Timeline; Key Vocabulary. The organiser is designed to help children to learn the relevant place, human and physical geography knowledge from the KS2 Geography National Curriculum: -‘understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom and a region in a European country’ ‘physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes’ -‘human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy.’ 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).
DT Mechanisms - KS1 Sliders and Levers - Making!
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DT Mechanisms - KS1 Sliders and Levers - Making!

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This engaging and purposeful lesson enables children to make their slider and lever mechanism projects. The lesson was originally taught as a part of a series of lessons created to guide children towards creating polar slider and lever scenes, but the resources can easily be adapted to fit your own particular project. This lesson enables children to: -Recall how slider and lever mechanisms work; -Recall key terminology relating to slider and lever mechanisms; -Understand a clear design brief; -Understand the key considerations of the design, including the functionality of the mechanism, in addition to its appearance and its appropriateness; -Follow guidance in order to create the slider/ lever mechanisms; -Test and improve their mechanism; -Peer and self-assess their designs in relation to the success criteria. Included is an eye-catching and comprehensive 16-slide PowerPoint presentation, and pictures for children to cut out use (if they are not drawing their own pictures - these are provided as both Word and PDF). These lessons were originally created for children in years 1-2, but may be adapted for slightly older year groups.
Huge KS2 Science Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
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Huge KS2 Science Knowledge Organisers Bundle!

20 Resources
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for all 20 units from Years 3-6 within the science National Curriculum. Year 3 Knowledge Organisers: -Animals, including Humans; -Forces and Magnets; -Plants; -Rocks; -Light. Year 4 Knowledge Organisers: -Animals, including Humans; -Electricity; -Living Things and their Habitats; -Sound; -States of Matter. Year 5 Knowledge Organisers: -Animals, including Humans; -Earth and Space; -Forces; -Living Things and their Habitats; -Properties and Changes of Materials. Year 6 Knowledge Organisers: -Animals, including Humans; -Evolution and Inheritance; -Electricity; -Living Things and their Habitats; -Light. 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).
Rooftoppers - KS2 Comprehension Activities Booklet!
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Rooftoppers - KS2 Comprehension Activities Booklet!

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This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Katherine Rundell’s 'Rooftoppers.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 expectations within the 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: ‘Rundell’s Language Techniques’ - 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;’ ‘Character Analysis of Sophie and Matteo’ - 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;’ ‘An Interview with Charles Maxim’ - 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;’ ‘Storyboarders’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read books that are structured in different ways and for a range of purposes.’ Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is over 20 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer. The resource is suitable for home/ remote learning.
KS1 RE - The Guru Granth Sahib!
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KS1 RE - The Guru Granth Sahib!

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In this engaging and informative lesson, students gain a clear understanding of the Guru Granth Sahib. They learn about how the holy book is treated and used by Sikhs, and they also learn about how it relates to the teachings and songs of Guru Nanak. The learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through the following step-by-step journey: -Reflecting on and recalling knowledge that they already built about special words and stories in their RE learning; -Learn key facts about Guru Nanak; -Read a story about Guru Nanak’s disappearance, his reappearance, and his special purpose, and answer comprehension questions; -Learn about how the Guru Granth Sahib - including how it contains Guru Nanak’s songs, how it is housed by Sikhs, its role in baby-naming, and how Sikhs customarily show respect to the book; -Consider their own personal spirituality, thoughts and ideas, in relation to the information that they have learnt; -Compose their own songs about things that are special to them; -Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective. This resource pack includes the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (16 slides) and the story for reading (in both Word and PDF). There is everything that you need here to teach the lesson. In the past, I have used this lesson with children from across Key Stage 1 - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for RE, and also the content prescribed by most diocese regions. All images are licensed for commercial use.