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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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 practice task is perfect for the IGCSE CIE descriptive writing task in First Language English 0500 Paper 2. It encourages students to look at pictures to see what they can describe and to think about the other senses such as touch and sound. The students plan their descriptive writing and then write an exam length composition. A simplified marking scheme is included.

This fun one-off lesson will teach students how to use personification in the opening of a narrative. It encourages them to use interesting vocabulary to describe a person as an animal. The students then carry the activity on to write a narrative piece.

Use these Act by Act questions to ensure students have understood what is happens in each Act. Students can do these questions for homework or in pairs in class. They can be self marked in class with guidance from the teacher.

This worksheet gives students practice in using parenthesis and varying the length and style of sentences in their writing. Use it as a lesson to consolidate a student’s understanding how to develop a more mature writing style. Please leave a review if you found this useful.

This Power Point is a guide for two to three lessons which teachers can use to help students use pathetic fallacy when writing an atmospheric opening for a piece of narrative writing. This Power Point includes: Pictures to use for class discussion, Writing tasks to practise descriptive writing.

This easy to follow lesson helps students to improve their descriptive writing. It takes the class through three stages of editing a description of a storm and allows them to practise their descriptive writing, editing their own work until they have an interesting and inspiring piece of description. The students will learn about: Personification Similes and metaphors Using powerful vocabulary The use of parenthesis How to vary sentences Teachers can use just the Power Point or copy the passages and paste them into a worksheet for the students to highlight.

This worksheet gives the options of two essays: one on poems that explore how WWI poetry condemns war and one on poems that explore how poetry glorifies war. It has 10 poems to use in class discussion, where students identify which are glorifying war and which are condemning war. They then choose two poems to write an essay on - either poems that glorify the war or condemn the war.

This easy to follow Power Point leads the teacher and students through improving a description of a castle. It encourages them to add adjectives, adverbs and figurative language as well as change simple vocabulary to create more of an impression. This lesson gives a balance of classroom discussion led by the teacher and personal writing.

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 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.