This scaffold for Authors is a great tool for writers to plan out their scripts, screenplays, novels or any other stories with ease. Have you ever thought about writing a novel for your students, your own children, or just for fun? Or are you running a writer’s club for older students? This tool will help you or your students plan out every detail of any story so that writing becomes a breeze. By filling in the details as and when the ideas come to you, you’ll have all the notes you need to begin your writing. First, you’ll outline roughly what you want to happen in the story - beginning, middle and end. You’ll decide on a genre and you may decide on a working title. Then, you’ll plan out everything you need on each of the characters who affect the plot - what do they look like? What is their back story? What can they do? and all the other details which are important. After that, you’ll write in the steps of each character’s journey - Beginning with their normal life, following through 12 steps which will bring you to the conclusion. You’ll then jot down any additional steps or flashback scenes you want to include and finally decide on the order you want to tell the story to give the reader the best experience. This really is writing the easy way. Enjoy becoming an author, and helping your students do the same.

Lesson objective :Begin a poster containing facts about Australia. This is a class designed to lead students to create a fact sheet about Australia, which will then be adapted to be a non-fiction text later. It begins with True/False questions with fun facts. This then changes to Fact/Fiction. Students then do a pair reading activity to find out some more facts. They then set to work on their posters about Australia. In a 45 minute class, they will just have time to begin the posters, so they could finish it for homework or in the next class.

A short PPT introducing the Be verb in the present tense. Students practise using the be verb for different subjects and then shortening the sentences using an apostrophe.

A simple introductory PPT for the silent E. Students practise the short vowel sounds of CVC words and then the long vowel sounds of silent E words, with a short explanation. They then practise reading the words with different vowel sounds and identify which words have which vowel sounds.

A very simple presentation to introduce the past tense of the Be verb as ‘was’ and ‘were’. Students make sentences in affirmative and negative forms, identify sentences as past or present and change sentences from present to past.

A complete class introducing furniture for ESL students. Vocabulary introduced before students do various activities to practise the language.

A complete class for English Language learners to learn descriptions of people and animals. Introduces lots of adjectives in the beginning, followed by a chance for students to describe various animals and people. Then there is a writing prompt for students to practise the structure (Eg. There is a tall boy).

A beautifully preseented full class on classroom instructions for Englis language learners using the language structure ‘Please…’ and ‘Please don’t…’. Using Manga style characters to introduce the vocabulary, then a guessing section and a game at the end to practise.

A complete class to introduce and practise body and face vocabulary, with pair work and interaction built in.

A powerful tool to track and calculate all assessments against weighted criteria. Simply decide on your modes of assessment and the weighting you want to apply to each mode for the final score. Add student names and input student assessments and maximum scores. The tool will immediately calculate percentages and recalculate against your weightings to find a percentage. Student missed an assessment or joined the school late? No problem! An easy input option allows you to prevent a student’s final percentages being effected by missed assessments. Instructions included to ensure that the tool is simple for you.

This class is designed to allow students to practice manipulating decimal numbers with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Place accessories around the room for the students to choose for the scariest witch in the world. They calculate how much it will cost (addition) and do a quick estimation to see if they are probably right. Then, they move onto the subsequent steps which involve recalculating due to a lack of money (subtraction), getting a 15% discount, followed by 15% tax (multiplying by decimals), and sharing the bill with some friends (division). Finally, they draw their witch using only the items they bought and try to explain why theirs is the scariest of them all.

A stylish template for a multiple choice question game with ten questions. Just add multiple choice questions and put the answers into the correct places.

A fantastic 40-question money game in which students compete to correct errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Teams choose a question and answer it, and are either rewarded with coins or they get the opportunity to take coins from other teams, switch coins with other teams, or they lose their coins completely. The game will easily last at least one class period. There are five types of question in this version of the game; 1)Correct the tense error, 2)Replace the incorrect homophone, 3)Correct the punctuation, 4)Insert the parenthesis , 5)Insert the correct conjunction This is a fully editable game PPT which will drive your students wild, so once you’ve been through all the questions, just replace the questions with 40 more of your own and you can use this game again and again.

This is the third in my series of English competitions for English speakers. Public speaking/ English competition to be used in school-wide events or within the class for confidence building. These competition PPTs are elegant looking PPTs guiding the organisers and students through a three round competition. First, ten competitors describe a picture based on the number they choose. 8 competitors go to round two, where they take part in a pair role play based around a real life situation. 3 competitors go to the final round, in which they are given a question to talk about. The format allows students to use a range of speaking skills, pushing them towards fluency and accuracy through practice.

A very simple PPT introducing simile. It starts with a link to a video (song) on Youtube/Youku, then defines simile before giving examples, highlighting the structure and asking students to try to make their own similes with varying support.

A ready to go speaking competition for English language learners. Describe one of ten pictures, take part in a role play and give a short speech. Divided into 3 rounds. Use this as a whole school competition (10 competitors) or simply as a class activity. In the first round, up to ten competitors will describe a picture. Judges will choose up to eight competitors to continue to round 2. In round two, competitors will participate in a role play with a partner, based on a given scenario. Judges will choose up to 3 competitors for the final round. In the final round, each competitor will give a talk on the chosen topic. Judges will choose a winner.

This is a spelling and vocabulary review game generator. it works with any words, so use it to review your weekly spelling lists in game form. A very straight forward tool. Simply type 20 words which you want students to review into a list, choose whether you want a snakes 'n ladders format or a more generic board game and print onto A4 or A3 paper. Words are placed randomly over the board. If you want to re-order the words, press F9 for a refresh and the games will regenerate. The games work as follows. Students roll a die, move a counter and spell or define the word they land on (variations would be simple, too - give a synonym/antonym etc). Playing small review games often is a much more effective system to get students to remember vocabulary than simply giving them a list of words. The game itself will work in any language. Try English, French, German, even Chinese. The kids will love it, too!

A ready to go speaking competition for English language learners. Describe one of ten pictures, take part in a role play and give a short speech. Divided into 3 rounds. In the first round, up to ten competitors will describe a picture. Judges will choose up to eight competitors to continue to round 2. In round two, competitors will participate in a role play with a partner, based on a given scenario. Judges will choose up to 3 competitors for the final round. In the final round, each competitor will give a talk on the chosen topic. Judges will choose a winner. Use this as a whole school competition (10 competitors) or simply as a class activity.

PPT containing 4 pair role play scenarios and 3 speaking topics for English learners to build their confidence in speaking in real life scenarios and presenting their ideas. The PPT would work well either in class as activities for speaking practice or as the basis of an English speaking competition. Contains 4 scenarios for two-person role plays and 3 topics for individuals to state their views, along with two selector slides to allow for easy navigation around the PPT.