This chart helps students understand the relationships between the main characters in the play ‘Twelfth Night’. Students use bullet point notes to explore the characters and how they are linked.

This selection of tasks teaches students the differences between news report and magazine article writing. It allows students to discuss the features of both styles of writing and practise a directed writing task. These tasks practise skills needed for CIE First Language English papers 0500. This resource includes: Sample news reports and magazine articles Ordering a news report tasks Venn diagram to fill, illustrating the differences in styles.

This Power Point clearly sets out the differences between news reports and magazine article in both content and writing style. This is useful for writing news reports or magazine article in the CIE First Language English papers.

This resource gives pupils 7 rules for punctuating dialogue in a simple and easy to follow Power Point. It also includes 12 practice questions with answers. Used as a stand alone lesson, this gives pupils the chance to practice their punctuation dialogue skills. It can be used to teach younger learners 7 - 11 but it can also serve as a practice for older pupils 11 - 14.

This booklet includes 5 tasks for pupils to learn about the persuasive nature of advertising. The tasks include group work and discussion about how advertisers persuade consumers to buy products. They have the chance to create a radio advert and analyse magazine and T.V advertisements. This resource guides teachers on how to design lessons that encourages pupils to analyse both the language and visual technqiues of advertising.

This resource focuses on speech writing techniques, using Greta Thunberg’s speech to the U.N in 2019. Students analyse speech writing techniques and put them into action. It includes 4 different tasks to explore speech writing techniques and pupils use what they have learned to write a persuasive speech on something they are passionate about.

Use this simple news report based on the fairy tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to illustrate the features of writing a news report. This is a great one-off lesson which consolidates news report writing skills. Students write their own news report based on a fairy tale of their choice. This includes a scaffolding planning sheet to help pupils organise their ideas.

This is a practice sheet to help pupils use parenthesis to make their writing style more interesting. It gives examples of how to use parenthesis and 10 practice questions. Use as a one off lesson to improve writing style.

**This Power Point is a one-off lesson on how to use semi colons if you are in need of a quick punctuation lesson. ** It is suitable for mainly Years 7, 8 or 9 but could still be used for Year 11 as revision. It includes: An explanation of when to use a semi colon, Examples of using semi colons in a sentence, Questions to answer by writing or discussion in class, Conjunction alternatives to semi colons.

This Power Point saves you time in creating a lesson on how to use a comma! It is to be used in a lesson suitable mainly for Years 8, 9 and 10 or even a reminder for Year 11! The teacher can use this Power Point on the screen for an interactive discussion and then there are 15 questions at the end for the student to practise. These could be copied and pasted onto a worksheet if the teacher prefers. *NB: This lesson does not use the Oxford comma. *

This quick one-lesson activity makes writing an hyperbole poem fun. Students will understand how hyperbole can add humour to a poem and make poetry more fun. It gives three examples of short hyperbole poems and sets a writing task. Use this worksheet as a fun addition to your poetry unit.

This worksheet explores how authors open their stories and students can then practise opening narratives in different ways. Help students write creatively in this one-off lesson - no preparation for you as a teacher.

This Power Point will be very useful when teaching students to write an interesting narrative. It practises writing attention-grabbing description and creating more attractive characters. It is SHOW DON’T TELL!

This comprehension focuses on the skills of analysing language and exploring the intention of the writer in creating effect. This is based on the skills required in the CIE IGCSE Paper 1 and any other task that requires an in-depth analysis of the use of language.

Help! Don’t throw me out!! A fun one-off lesson. Students choose to be someone famous and write a persuasive speech to persuade others not to throw them out of a sinking balloon. Tips on writing a persuasive speech included. Turn this activity into an oral presentation lesson where students read their speeches aloud and the class votes who to keep in the balloon.

After teaching the use of apostrophes and how to punctuate dialogue, use this worksheet to encourga ehte students to demonstrate their understanding through creation.

This worksheet will help students practise different ways to vary the structure of their sentences. It gives ideas on how to open sentences in different ways and how students can vary the structure of their sentences to make their writing more interesting.

This Power Point gives examples of political cartoons that students can discuss and analyze. This skill is important when thinking about satire, bias, propaganda and symbolism in political cartoons when analyzing primary sources. Use this as part of your classroom discussion for History or Research Skills.

In this single activity, students are asked to question themselves about what they know and would like to know about the topic Space Exploration. After reading a passage students make notes on what they have learned. This activity helps to develop research and note taking skills for 11-14 year olds. This activity also appears in my Research and Note Taking Unit 1 booklet. If you enjoy this resource, take a look at both Research and Note Taking Unit 1

This 28 page unit gives busy teachers ready and easy to follow activities for helping students aged 11 - 14 learn how to research and take notes. As teachers, we often just tell the children to research and take notes when planning an essay but we need to remember that we, as their guides to learning, should help them develop these important skills. The booklet includes 7 activities on: Questioning Topic research Paraphrasing passages Using mind maps and spider diagrams Creating a bibliography Using sub-headings. Each activity has steps a teacher can take to conduct a lesson using these worksheets.