Addressing the most challenging grammar topics introduced at KS2 and revisited at KS3, this pack is essential for teaching and consolidating grammar in years 5-8. The comprehensive teaching notes provide a valuable curriculum support for teachers, while the wide range of resources and activities ensures that students have high-quality opportunities to apply and extend their learning – including in cross-curricular contexts. Each topic also includes KS2 SAT style questions in preparation for the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (Paper 1) at the end of year 6. What’s included? The grammar topics are organised into three sections (teach, practise, apply), and each topic includes the following: Definitions and explanations for teachers PowerPoint presentations Student-friendly teaching resources Extended writing opportunities. The pack is organised in the following topics: Relative clauses Modal verbs and adverbs Adverbials Perfect forms of verbs Parenthesis Commas Passive verbs Subjunctive verb forms Colons and semi-colons What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-6) Relative clauses (pages 7-33) Resource - people, places and things Resource - improve by adding a relative clause Resource - possessive relative clauses Resource - relative clauses of time and place (when and where) Resource - the unusual suspects Modal verbs and adverbs (pages 34-50) Resource - strengthening and weakening Resource - school rules Resource - be the detective Adverbial phrases (pages 51-71) Resource - identify adverbials Resource - painting a picture Resource - narrative Perfect forms (pages 72-95) Resource - find the perfect verb form Resource - perfect verb forms in texts Resource - time-travelling verbs Resource - perfect verb form timeline Resource - job application Resource - my day Resource - perfect form dice Resource - ‘of’ or ‘have’ Parenthesis (pages 96-115) Resource - using brackets to indicate parenthesis Resource - using commas to indicate parenthesis Resource - extending simple sentences using parenthesis Resource - nicknames as parenthesis Commas (pages 116-140) Resource - the Oxford comma Resource - add the comma Resource - combining sentences Resource - ambiguous meaning Passive verbs (pages 141-165) Resource - rainbow writing Resource - conversion Resource - food chains Resource - snakes and ladders Resource - don’t blame me! Subjunctive verb forms (pages 166-185) Resource - identify the infinitive Resource - subjunctive poem Resource - subjunctive sentences Resource - subjunctive speeches Colons and semi-colons (pages 186-199) Resource - spot the colons and semi-colons Resource - combining clauses Resource - using colons and semi-colons Resource - semi-colon poetry

Develop your KS3 and KS4 students’ formal writing skills with our ‘toolkit’ of creative classroom activities, genuine student exemplar essays and exclusive teaching resources. This pack features activities to help students write well-planned, well-structured and sophisticated essays in readiness for GCSE English Literature and for the longer essay-style questions in GCSE English Language. Essential for teaching all aspects of essay writing for your class novel, play text or reading unit. What’s included? sections include: getting students started, planning and structuring essays, introductions and conclusions, using quotations, inference and deduction, formal essay vocabulary and drafting and redrafting real student essays from year 9 students in a range of comprehensive schools. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-5) Getting students started (pages 6-15) Planning and structuring essays (pages 16-25) Introductions and conclusions (pages 26-34) Using quotations (pages 35-48) Inference and deduction (pages 49-60) Formal essay vocabulary (pages 61-67) Drafting and redrafting (pages 68-75)

A KS3 pack designed to help students understand and identify persuasive techniques and apply them to their own writing. The pack is split into sections and features a range of practical and engaging activities aimed at familiarising students with persuasive writing, including: speeches, letters and leaflets, articles, argumentative writing, revision and exam preparation. What’s included? KS3 curriculum assessment objective map Lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources. What’s inside? Each lesson plan contains detailed teaching notes with: Suggested starter activities Suggested main activities Suggested plenary activities Suggested additional creative activities Assessment Objective map (pages ii-v) Introduction - summary of the pack (page 1) Teaching notes and lesson plans (pages 2-14) Route through – part one: familiarising students with persuasive writing Route through – part two: speeches Route through – part three: letters and leaflets Route through – part four: articles Route through – part five: focusing on argumentative writing Route through – part six: revision and exam preparation Teaching resources and activities for persuasive and argumentative writing (pages 15-135) Persuasive role play Persuading your parents Can you sell a house? Flog that house! Planet perfect! Save my dog! Persuasive techniques bingo What’s your learning style? Winston Churchill speech excerpt Comparing persuasive speeches Cats are better than dogs England riots persuasive speech analysis Writing a speech Young people’s council meeting Rewriting for audience and purpose Analysing a leaflet Kick-start discussion slides Recipe for a formal letter Rat o’burger ‘Send a cow’ practice questions and answers Preparation of a leaflet Theme park persuasive writing leaflet Self-assessment review Writing to persuade checklist Fact or opinion Tabloid or broadsheet? Newspaper bias Lead articles Analysing an opinion article Writing a feature article Why use quotations? How to use quotations effectively Using a newspaper as a stimulus Editorial decisions Summarise that! Categorising connectives Hinges, bolts and sealers Effective introductions Building an argument Writing for different purposes The man on the wall story problem To argue or persuade Literacy placemat Speed dating revision Writing revision fan Top grade persuasion All fun and games revision Card template Domino template Fishing template Analysing persuasive texts Room 101

Our Festivals and celebrations comprehension practice year 6 teaching pack is designed to help children recap, practise and consolidate comprehension and writing skills in preparation for KS2 SATs. The pack is divided into nine lessons aligned with the Y5/6 English Programme of Study. Each lesson is based on a text extract or poem relating to a particular festival or celebration. Lessons feature a starter activity, a whole class teaching activity with PowerPoint slides, paired/group or independent tasks, assessment opportunities and a plenary, with accompanying resources. Comprehension questions are KS2 SATs-style. Answers are included. Festivals and texts included in the pack: Lesson 1: Halloween – Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lesson 2: Bonfire Night – ‘The Fifth of November’ (English Folk verse) Lesson 3: Diwali – Prince of Fire by Jatinder Verma Lesson 4: Hanukkah – ‘Season of Skinny Candles’ by Marge Piercy Lesson 5: Christmas – ‘A Visit from St Nicholas’ by Clement C. Moore Lesson 6: Chinese New Year – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman Lesson 7: Easter – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Lesson 8: Earth Day – My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Lesson 9: Eid al-fitr –’Yusuf and the Great Big Brownie Mistake’ by Aisha Saeed You may also like our Festivals and celebrations maths challenges teaching pack. An extract from the resource: Read the extract from The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman on PPT slides 32-34). Then provide each child with a copy of the extract (Chinese New Year resource 1) and ask them to reread it, underlining all the different ingredients for fireworks. Take feedback and compile a list on the board. Ask: What makes these ingredients sound exciting? Draw out that the author has paired ordinary words such as powder and grains with attention-grabbing words such as thunder, fly-away and scorpion. In groups, ask children to plan their firework recipe poem using the scaffold in Chinese New Year resource 2: Firework recipe. First, they must create a list of exciting ingredients, then some powerful imperative verbs. Then children use these as an idea bank to write a recipe poem for an explosive new firework! What will be the name of their firework?

Addressing the most challenging grammar topics introduced at KS2 and revisited at KS3, this pack is essential for teaching and consolidating grammar in years 5-8. The comprehensive teaching notes provide a valuable curriculum support for teachers, while the wide range of resources and activities ensures that students have high-quality opportunities to apply and extend their learning – including in cross-curricular contexts. Each topic also includes KS2 SAT style questions in preparation for the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (Paper 1) at the end of year 6. What’s included? The grammar topics are organised into three sections (teach, practise, apply), and each topic includes the following: definitions and explanations for teachers PowerPoint presentations student-friendly teaching resources extended writing opportunities. The pack is organised in the following topics: Relative clauses Modal verbs and adverbs Adverbials Perfect forms of verbs Parenthesis Commas Passive verbs Subjunctive verb forms Colons and semi-colons What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-6) Relative clauses (pages 7-33) Resource - people, places and things Resource - improve by adding a relative clause Resource - possessive relative clauses Resource - relative clauses of time and place (when and where) Resource - the unusual suspects Modal verbs and adverbs (pages 34-50) Resource - strengthening and weakening Resource - school rules Resource - be the detective Adverbial phrases (pages 51-71) Resource - identify adverbials Resource - painting a picture Resource - narrative Perfect forms (pages 72-95) Resource - find the perfect verb form Resource - perfect verb forms in texts Resource - time-travelling verbs Resource - perfect verb form timeline Resource - job application Resource - my day Resource - perfect form dice Resource - ‘of’ or ‘have’ Parenthesis (pages 96-115) Resource - using brackets to indicate parenthesis Resource - using commas to indicate parenthesis Resource - extending simple sentences using parenthesis Resource - nicknames as parenthesis Commas (pages 116-140) Resource - the Oxford comma Resource - add the comma Resource - combining sentences Resource - ambiguous meaning Passive verbs (pages 141-165) Resource - rainbow writing Resource - conversion Resource - food chains Resource - snakes and ladders Resource - don’t blame me! Subjunctive verb forms (pages 166-185) Resource - identify the infinitive Resource - subjunctive poem Resource - subjunctive sentences Resource - subjunctive speeches Colons and semi-colons (pages 186-199) Resource - spot the colons and semi-colons Resource - combining clauses Resource - using colons and semi-colons Resource - semi-colon poetry

Aimed at developing students’ critical reading skills, Reading non-fiction texts is an anthology of ten literary non-fiction texts from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries combined with supporting lesson plans and resources. There are two overview lesson plans for each text, with starter activities, main lesson activities and plenaries which teachers can easily pick up and run with. What’s included? 10 non-fiction text excerpts with a thematically linked ‘partner’ text 20 lesson plans and ideas along with 41 tailor-made resources to developed students’ understanding of assessment objectives Exam-style questions for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas for every text. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) Text 1: Jane Austen’s letter to her sister, Cassandra Austen (pages 4-18) Resource - Jane Austen: true or false quiz Resource - uncovering context: What was life like in 1805? Resource - picture clues Resource - reading non-fiction text analysis grid Text 2: The Guardian article: ‘Why teaching table manners can do more harm than good’ (pages 19-27) Resource - summarise and attack Resource - exploring food, exploring language Text 3: Excerpt taken from The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves (pages 28-43) Resource - pre-reading activity Resource - unpicking imagery Resource - whizzy wiki: Factsheet on The Elephant Man and Frederick Treves Resource - attitudes towards the Elephant Man Text 4: Excerpt taken from My Left Foot by Christy Brown (pages 44-52) Resource - exploring and comparing attitudes Text 5: Charlotte Brontë’s letter to her father (page 53-64) Resource - word sort activity Resource - whizzy wiki: Factsheet on The Great Exhibition Resource - Great Exhibition quiz Resource - letter writing lingo Resource - what was the Great Exhibition like? Text 6: Excerpt from A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr (pages 65-77) Resource - comprehending the text Resource - caption competition Resource - what was the Millennium Dome like? Resource - chain of comparison Text 7: Excerpt from Henry Morley, Household Words, ‘Our Phantom Ship: China’ (pages 78-90) Resource - the typhoon unravelled Resource - views about visiting China Resource - comparing attitudes about China Resource - attitude adjectives Text 8: Excerpt from Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron (pages 91-100) Resource - comprehending the text Resource - Chinese cultural revolution Text 9: Excerpt from Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle (pages 101-114) Resource - quick recall quiz Resource - attitudes towards the native tribes Resource - formal and informal vocabulary grid Resource - close-up on writing technique Text 10: Excerpt from Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (pages 115-123) Resource - pre-reading activity Resource - the language of pain and suffering

Save time with our Non-fiction and media pack; a collection of relevant and useful source materials alongside creative teaching ideas and resources. Aimed at both KS3 and KS4 students, this pack is sure to motivate! What’s included? links to non-fiction source material lesson plans and ideas alongside tailor-made resources practical, student-facing activities. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 1-2) Summary of pack Non-fiction and media source material Route through – part one: non-fiction overview (pages 3-5) Route through – part two: structure (pages 6-7) Route through – part three: tone and influence (pages 8-10) Route through – part four: pictures and other presentational devices (pages 11-12) Route through – part five: PAF language and tone (pages 13-14) Route through – part six: assessment and exam (pages 15-16) Resources (pages 53-87) Strategies for tackling writing weaknesses Importance of tone Analysing persuasive texts Views of Stonehenge Persuasive writing worksheet Newspaper bias The key to a good blurb Word analysis quadrant Analysing a still image Analysing an opinion article Colour symbolism Speed dating revision Rewriting for audience and purpose Crocodile language: making it snappy

Writing for different genres – SEND is a downloadable set of lesson plans that can be used to support students with special educational needs and disabilities at key stage 3. It has been adapted specifically for SEND students and reluctant writers, and is designed to work in targeted intervention sessions. It features seven comic strips as prompts to engage neurodiverse students, such as those with dyspraxia, dyslexia or ADD/ADHD. The images, alongside simplified definitions of key terms, vocabulary exercises, word banks and writing prompts will also help to support EAL learners (students who speak English as an additional language) and INA students (International New Arrivals). Seven genres of writing It includes lesson plans, teaching notes, exemplars, scaffolded writing templates and worksheets to help students to learn about the language, structure and form of seven different writing styles. By understanding the writing process, they will learn how to produce a range of text types, some of which might be new genres for students. The writing activities are based on themes to appeal to young adults, such as music, football, aliens and pets, and cover a range of different genres: a fictional diary a formal letter a playscript a fictional recount a list a poem a comic strip. Each lesson includes suggestions for starters, as well as a range of differentiated activities to develop students’ vocabulary and writing skills. Students will feel more confident developing their own writing style and writing in specific genres. They will also understand the differences between writing fiction and non-fiction texts. Key features: It is accompanied by a PowerPoint for use in class, which contains useful checklists of the language features and structure of each writing genre. Includes a lesson plan and teaching notes for each of the seven different writing genres. Includes seven original comic strips as writing prompts. Includes a PowerPoint with 22 slides of checklists and activities, summarising the language features and structures of each text type. Includes a range of carefully scaffolded activities to take students step-by-step through the process of writing for each particular genre, including vocab exercises and word banks, sentence starters and frames, and planning and writing templates. What’s included? There are 57 pages of classroom activities: ‘A Week’s Excuses’ – writing a diary ‘Something Odd Out There’ – writing a formal letter ‘Alien Arrival’ – writing a playscript ‘Jennifer Jones’ – writing a recount ‘Sad I Ams’ – writing a bulleted list ‘StereoHead’– writing poetry ‘The Dark Avenger’ – writing a comic strip

Help your children achieve punctuation perfection with our KS2 teaching pack. Featuring animated clips from Professor Punc and ideas and resources for the teaching of commas, colons, apostrophes, speech marks and parentheses, this pack will give your punctuation teaching a bit of pizazz! What’s included? 23 supporting resources includes introductory activities, main teaching points, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Section 1: Punctuating direct speech (pages 1-15) Teaching ideas Dialogue difficulties – punctuating direct speech Look who’s talking! – turning scripts into narratives Direct or reported? – types of speech Who said what? Punctuation pitfalls – direct speech Rules of speech Section 2: Possessive apostrophes (pages 16-23) Teaching ideas Professor Punc’s misplaced apostrophes Don’t be addled by apostrophes! Section 3: Extending sentences: using commas beyond lists (pages 24-33) Teaching ideas Subject / object / verb cards Subordinating connectives discussion game Adverb acting Can I use commas to mark clauses? Section 4: Extending sentences – inserting parentheses (pages 34-40) Teaching ideas Professor Punc’s parentheses! Punctuation for parentheses – a fan Don’t be puzzled by parentheses! Building complex sentences Section 5a: Linking clauses with semi-colons (pages 41-51) Teaching ideas Clause confusion – using semi-colons Using semi-colons Semi-colons – right or wrong Section 5b: Linking clauses with colons (pages 52-54) Teaching ideas Colon conundrums Section 6: Keeping things ticking over (pages 55-62) Teaching ideas Punctuation fan Punctuation prowess Spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes

Move away from traditional spelling tests with our KS1 teaching pack. Creative teaching ideas and a variety of resources will support your teaching of spelling strategies and rules and engage your year 1 and 2 classes in this tricky area of learning. The pack includes sections on grapheme/phoneme correspondence, high frequency words, compound words, homophones, plurals, silent letters and apostrophes. It’s as easy as a, b, c! What’s included? 32 supporting resources includes both five minute activities and activities for longer sessions, extension suggestions, assessment opportunities, home learning tasks and ideas to keep things ticking over links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Section 1: Words we use a lot: high frequency words, numbers, tricky words (pages 1-7) Teaching ideas Rhyming words for numbers High frequency crosswords Section 2: Recognising and matching graphemes and phonemes (pages 8-25) Teaching ideas Matching words and pictures – ee sounds Four corners – digraphs and graphemes word sets Digraph word group display templates Section 3: Recognising, matching and blending digraphs and graphemes (pages 26-43) Teaching ideas Digraph picture word cards Making word cakes – blending digraphs and graphemes Making word cakes – blending split digraphs and graphemes Digraph snap for real and non-real words Section 4: Linking words and definitions (pages 44-53) Teaching ideas Loop game word definitions Loop game word definitions – missing letters Section 5: Compound words (pages 54-59) Teaching ideas Compound word dominoes Word sums Word building challenge Section 6: Chunking words by number of syllables (pages 60-64) Teaching ideas Syllable counter Syllable tricks Section 7: Reinforcing high frequency word knowledge (pages 65-79) Teaching ideas Common usage words top 100 Tricky high frequency word cards Missing keywords Anagram word ladders – HFW HFW anagram cards Section 8: Plurals of words including those ending in y (pages 80-90) Teaching ideas One dog, two dogs – plurals picture cards Words ending in ‘y’ – picture cards Section 9: Recognising common homophones (pages 91-102) Teaching ideas Homophone fan More homophones Homophone squares Section 10: Spelling words ending with /dz/ sound (pages 103-105) Teaching ideas Word building blocks – dge and ge Section 11: Words beginning with silent letters (pages 106-108) Teaching ideas Shh! – silent letters Section 12: Apostrophes – possessive and contractions (pages 109-118) Teaching ideas Expand and contract Contractions all around us Dogs or dog’s – singular possessive nouns Cartoon apostrophes to show possession

Our GCSE revision guide for students studying Romeo and Juliet covers all the key acts, characters and themes with active revision strategies and practice exam questions and answers for all exam boards. Perfect for independent study and remote learning, it includes a helpful overview of the play, an act by act summary of events and guidance on key quotations. Revising Romeo and Juliet also helps to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding through self-checks, quizzes and a detailed exploration of character, setting, Shakespeare’s language and the play’s tragic structure. What’s included? Covers key characters and themes (love, fate, family, death, conflict, roles of women) plus a summary of the play. Includes practice exam questions for all exam boards and suggested answers. Features active revision strategies to build students’ knowledge. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Plot summary (pages 5-7) Overview: whole play revision activities (pages 8-17) Terminology – language and structure WYOO (What’s your opinion on …?) Love revision activities (pages 18-28) Revision activity 1: Types of love Revision activity 2: A love timeline Revision activity 3: Stickman summary Revision activity 4: Structure (and language) analysis Love practice exam questions Fate revision activities (pages 29-39) Revision activity 1: True or false Revision activity 2: Close analysis Revision activity 3: The Prince’s perspective Revision activity 4: The wheel of fortune Fate practice exam questions Family revision activities (pages 40-50) Revision activity 1: Rules were meant for breaking? Revision activity 2: Surrogate parents Revision activity 3: All the married ladies (all the married ladies …) Revision activity 4: Exploding quotations Family practice exam questions Conflict revision activities (pages 51-62) Revision activity 1: Types of conflict Revision activity 2: Ordering the fight scene Revision activity 3: Context and conflict Revision activity 4: Analysing Juliet’s inner conflict Conflict practice exam questions Death revision activities (pages 63-75) Revision activity 1: The ‘extra’ deaths Revision activity 2: Understanding the key elements of tragedy Revision activity 3: Romeo’s imagery Revision activity 4: The families unite Death practice exam questions Roles of women revision activities (pages 76-90) Revision activity 1: Juliet’s change Revision activity 2: What did Shakespeare think? Revision activity 3: Strong or weak? Revision activity 4: Close analysis Roles of women practice exam questions

Our GCSE revision guide for students studying Macbeth covers all the key acts, characters and themes with active revision strategies and practice exam questions and answers for all exam boards. Perfect for independent study and remote learning, it includes a helpful overview of the play, an act by act summary of events and guidance on key quotations. Revising Macbeth also helps to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding through self-checks, quizzes and a detailed exploration of character, setting, Shakespeare’s language and the play’s tragic structure. What’s included? Covers key themes (ambition, the supernatural, guilt, gender and relationships, appearance and reality) plus a summary of the play. Includes practice exam questions for all exam boards and suggested answers. Features active revision strategies to build students’ knowledge. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Synopsis of the play (pages 5-8) Overview revision activities (pages 9-20) Theme: ambition (pages 21-31) Revision activity - Arguments for and against killing Duncan Revision activity - Tale of two kings Revision activity - Why does Macbeth kill Duncan? Revision activity - Exploding quotation Theme: the supernatural (pages 32-42) Revision activity - Animal imagery Revision activity - Banquo’s version of the meeting with the witches Revision activity - The witches Revision activity - Writing an incantation Theme: guilt (pages 43-53) Revision activity - Exploding quotation Revision activity - Innocence Revision activity - The murder: before, during and after Revision activity - Blood and symbolism Theme: gender and relationships (pages 54-65) Revision activity - Family circle Revision activity - How to be a man/woman Revision activity - Tale of two marriages: the Macbeths and the Macduffs Revision activity - Exploding quotation Theme: appearance and reality (pages 66-75) Revision activity - How to be a perfect hostess Revision activity - The power of asides and soliloquies Revision activity - That’s ironic Revision activity - That’s sensational