I have been a teacher for 20 years and have made a lot of resources that have worked in my classroom. You can find them on Tes . I have also made some Boomcards which you can preview on the linktree link below.
I have been a teacher for 20 years and have made a lot of resources that have worked in my classroom. You can find them on Tes . I have also made some Boomcards which you can preview on the linktree link below.
★★Test Your Knowledge of Lord of the Flies with This Engaging Quiz! Explore the depths of human nature and survival in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies with this comprehensive quiz. Designed for students, literature enthusiasts, and scholars, this quiz will challenge your understanding of the novel’s key themes, characters, and pivotal moments. Ideal for exam preparation or deepening your appreciation of the book, each question comes with detailed feedback to help you grasp the complexities of this classic work.★★
What’s Inside?
30 thoughtfully crafted questions with detailed feedback.
Why This Quiz?
►Comprehensive Feedback: Gain insightful explanations for each answer, highlighting the significance of crucial events and character developments in Lord of the Flies.
►Thorough Coverage: Delve into major themes, symbolic moments, and critical dialogues, ensuring a complete and nuanced understanding of the novel.
►Engaging and Interactive: This multiple-choice format is designed to keep you thinking critically and fully engaged with the text.
Perfect for Exam Prep and Enthusiasts – Whether you’re studying for an exam or simply passionate about literature, this quiz offers a valuable opportunity to test and enhance your knowledge of Lord of the Flies. Dive in and see how well you understand the complexities of this powerful story! ❤❤
★Elevate language and spelling skills with this Level 2 Phonics Word Builder Game focusing on the short O vowel! Perfect for CVC words, this 16 task card digital activity engages learners in learning cvc words containing short vowel ‘o’. Students will be asked to select the correct ‘short o’ word that corresponds to the picture. Students can press the sound button to listen to the word. The game will help to improve your pupils’ language and spelling skills by helping them to practise spelling these words: such as fox, box, cob, jog…★
★Ideal for whole-class interactive whiteboard play, team activities, or individual learning, it’s a paperless solution for instant phonics fun.♥
★The self-marking feature ensures efficient independent learning, saving you time on assessment. Students will enjoy the vibrant illustrations and spoken sounds, staying focused and motivated while building essential language skills. Download now for an interactive and engaging phonics experience!♥♥
★Elevate language and spelling skills with this Level 2 Phonics Word Builder Game focusing on the short O vowel! Perfect for CVC words, this 16 task card digital activity engages learners in dragging and dropping letters to create words based on spoken word and image clues. The game will help to improve your pupils’ language and spelling skills by helping them to practise spelling these words: such as fox, box, cob, jog…★
★Ideal for whole-class interactive whiteboard play, team activities, or individual learning, it’s a paperless solution for instant phonics fun.♥
★The self-marking feature ensures efficient independent learning, saving you time on assessment. Students will enjoy the vibrant illustrations and spoken sounds, staying focused and motivated while building essential language skills. Download now for an interactive and engaging phonics experience!♥♥
Engage students with this “Interactive TH Digraph Quiz” – self-marking, with sounds and images! Perfect for speech therapy, it’s visually appealing on student devices or the interactive whiteboard. Download now for effective and enjoyable learning! Contains 15 task cards.
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The resource is contained as a clickable link with the pdf that comes with purchase.
★Silent Letters Phonics Reading Comprehension Passages: Enhance Fluency with Engaging Content! Unlock the door to phonics mastery with this Silent Letters Phonics Reading Comprehension Passages, meticulously designed to captivate young learners while reinforcing the understanding of silent letters. Tailored for Primary Key Stage 1 learners in years 2-3, these passages offer an immersive and enjoyable way to tackle the nuances of silent letters, promoting increased fluency and comprehension.
Key Features:
► Focused Silent Letters Exploration: Immerse your students in a journey through carefully crafted passages that emphasize words with silent letters. Each passage serves as a linguistic adventure, providing an opportunity to identify and comprehend these elusive letters.
► Simple and Sweet Composition: Our passages strike a perfect balance, ensuring simplicity and sweetness. By incorporating appropriate sight words and vocabulary, we create an environment conducive to building fluency and confidence in young readers. The engaging narratives make learning a joyous experience.
► Comprehensive Comprehension Check: Following each passage, students encounter a set of thought-provoking text-based questions. These questions are strategically designed to assess comprehension, enabling teachers to gauge the effectiveness of the lesson and students to consolidate their understanding.
► No-Prep Printables for Versatile Use: Busy educators, rejoice! These no-prep printables are ready to go, making them ideal for various settings such as group work, literacy centers, homework assignments, or quick assessments. Effortlessly integrate them into your lesson plans for a seamless and effective learning experience.
► Suitable for Primary Key Stage 1 Learners: Tailored to the specific needs of Primary Key Stage 1 learners in years 2-3, these passages align with curriculum objectives and foster the development of essential reading skills in a targeted and age-appropriate manner.
** Why Choose Silent Letters Phonics Reading Comprehension Passages?**
With our meticulously crafted resources, you’re not just teaching silent letters; you’re fostering a love for reading. Elevate your phonics lessons, empower your students, and watch as their fluency and comprehension soar! Perfect for educators seeking engaging, effective, and easy-to-implement tools for language development. Grab your Silent Letters Phonics Reading Comprehension Passages today and embark on a journey of literacy success!❤❤❤❤
This colourful Easter themed PowerPoint teaches children basic place prepositions. Great for learning positional vocabulary and describing where things are positioned. Suitable for ages 5-7.
Includes
Above
Below
Around
Behind
Between
Inside
In front of
Next to
On Top
Outside
Over
Under
Find other prepositions resources below
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/matching-prepositions-activity-easter-theme-12820581
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/easter-themed-prepositions-filling-in-the-blanks-activity-12820280
This handy in prepositions worksheet will help your students gain an understanding of positions. The worksheet includes a variety of Easter themed images, demonstrating an Easter chick in various positions alongside and Easter egg. Children have to fill in the sentences under each picture with the correct preposition.
This prepositions worksheet will teach children how to identify positional language and how to use it correctly in their own writing. Once they’ve filled in the missing words, children could colour in the pictures to bring some extra fun to this grammar activity. Plus, there are three different worksheets included in this pack - enough to keep children busy.
This Boomcards set will help your child work on the t sound at the end of words, which can cause problems for many children. In this set children have to click the speaker icon and listen to a sentence which includes a word that ends in ‘t’. They then click the correct picture which represents this word. This is an eighteen card deck
Boom cards provide a great way to incorporate technology in your classroom. They play on interactive whiteboards, computers, and tablets. Please watch the the preview before you purchase the item! :)
❤ These digital task cards would be perfect for:
One to one work with speech therapist or parents
Independent Work
Assessment
These Adverb Boom Cards will help your students to identify adverbs in sentences. This set was made with Primary 2 in mind, but you can use it with Primary 1 to challenge them and with Primary 3 to review this standard. These are great for ESL learners, too!
Boom cards provide a great way to incorporate technology in your classroom. They play on interactive whiteboards, computers, and tablets.
❤ These digital task cards would be perfect for:
Whole Class Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Independent Work
Centers
Assessment
Homework
Use this lovely parts of speech game to identify verbs and adjectives
This resource asks students to find the imposter in a group, or find the odd one out. Each slide shows 3 verbs and one adjective, learners need to identify which word is not a verb for example. Students could then go on to make their own categories with an imposter in them in order to challenge their classmates.
Learners will love the game, the images from the popular game Among Us and the music that plays throughout the game.
Suitable for Primary 2-3 learners
These Adjective Boom Cards will help your students to identify adjectives in sentences. This set was made with Primary 2 in mind, but you can use it with Primary 1 to challenge them and with Primary 3 to review this standard. These are great for ESL learners, too!
Boom cards provide a great way to incorporate technology in your classroom. They play on interactive whiteboards, computers, and tablets.
❤ Videos about Boom Cards:
What are Boom Cards?
How to Get Started on Boom Cards (FAQs)
❤ These digital task cards would be perfect for:
Whole Class Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Independent Work
Centers
Assessment
Homework
Master essential non-fiction reading skills with this BoomCard deck based on a short text about The Great Fire of London. Suitable for Primary 1 to 3
In this Deck you will find a short non fiction text on The Great Fire of London and 13 activity cards with True or False questions, multiple choice , fill in the missing word and drag and drop questions based on the text. Learners can click a link to return to the text to reread throughout the deck.
These Boomcards work well as sell-paced work on learners devices or as a whole class activity on Interactive Whiteboard
You do not need to buy a Boom Cards membership!! Just create a free account with the link provided and this resource is yours to use in class on IWB or to share with students to use on their devices. Instructions re provided in the the document that is downloaded with this resource.
How to use:
After purchase click on the REDEEM link provided in the download to access the Boom Cards™deck.
This will redirect you to the Boom Learning™ website.
Select the ‘Redeem’ option.
This will prompt you to set up an account if you don’t already have one
If you already have an account simply sign in to access your new deck of Boom Cards™
Why use this Handwriting Alphabet Worksheet?
This essential Handwriting Alphabet sheet contains letter formation outlines for the Upper case variations of every letter of the English alphabet.
Simple and adaptable to a wide range of English handwriting exercises, it is a great way of enforcing key letter shapes with your pupils that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. The Handwriting Alphabet worksheet is easy to print and use instantly, and is also helpful for ESL/EFL students who are learning English.
Regardless of the learning scenario, these alphabet handwriting worksheets are sure to become a staple of your English lesson plans. This is a fantastic addition to any handwriting lesson.
How can I use this resource at home or in the classroom?
This handwriting alphabet sheet is a great activity on its own, but is also a great gateway into other literacy actvties. Children could use the letter shapes to form familiar words, and more advanced pupils could create independent stories from the letters used in practice.
What is the importance of handwriting in education?
Handwriting isn’t just about neat writing! This activity is a perfect introduction to fine motor skills.
An easy to use reading comprehension pack with a 3 page article on Easter Around The world and a set of questions to test comprehension skills. This activity focuses the origins of Easter and how is celebrated around the world. It can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, in an English lesson for KS3/4 GCSE comprehension teaching or for Functional Skills English
It is interesting, useful, very easy to use and a good way to delve into the global impact of Easter and explore how different societies and cultures celebrate. Did you know, for example, that Good Friday in German reads as Karfreitag? “Karas” being old German for mourn or grieve, which translates as “Grieving Friday.”
Answer sheet included
Give your students the opportunity to review and consolidate their knowledge of synonyms with this fun interactive matching game. There are 15 Activity cards in the Boom Deck. The game presents students with jumbled pairs of synonyms that must correctly be sorted and matched. This task is best suited to students in Primary Years 3 and 4
Check out a PREVIEW here
Your child can play this interactive matching game to learn and practise identifying synonyms, which are words that have the same or a similar meaning. For example, ‘big’ and ‘large’ are synonyms because they can be substituted within a piece of writing without changing the meaning. A good understanding and sound knowledge of synonyms is a great strength for students in supporting their writing.
You do not need to buy a Boom Cards membership!! Just create a free account with the link provided and this resource is yours to use in class on IWB or to share with students to use on their devices. Instructions re provided in the the document that is downloaded with this resource.
How to use:
After purchase click on the REDEEM link provided in the download to access the Boom Cards™deck.
This will redirect you to the Boom Learning™ website.
Select the ‘Redeem’ option.
This will prompt you to set up an account if you don’t already have one
If you already have an account simply sign in to access your new deck of Boom Cards™
Suitable for GCSE English A complete lesson to talk about the 1930s depression and dust bowl and link it to Of Mice and Men
Contains
1 xThe Effects of Unemployment Worksheet OMAM
1 xWhat Am I Thinking Worksheet
1 x18 slide Context of Mice and Men Powerpoint
Give your students the opportunity to review and consolidate their knowledge of antonyms with this fun interactive matching game. There are 15 Activity cards in the Boom Deck. The game presents students with jumbled pairs of antonyms that must correctly be sorted and matched. This task is best suited to Primary school students in Years 3 to6
Check out a PREVIEW here
Your child can play this interactive matching game to learn and practise identifying antonyms , which are words that have the opposite meaning. .
Antonyms are words or phrases that mean the opposite of another word or phrase. A good way of testing if a word is an antonym is by replacing your original word with it in a sentence. If the sentence makes sense but is also the opposite of what it said originally, then congratulations, you’ve found an antonym! A good understanding and sound knowledge of antonyms is a great strength for students in supporting their writing.
You do not need to buy a Boom Cards membership!! Just create a free account with the link provided and this resource is yours to use in class on IWB or to share with students to use on their devices. Instructions re provided in the the document that is downloaded with this resource.
How to use:
After purchase click on the REDEEM link provided in the download to access the Boom Cards™deck.
This will redirect you to the Boom Learning™ website.
Select the ‘Redeem’ option.
This will prompt you to set up an account if you don’t already have one
If you already have an account simply sign in to access your new deck of Boom Cards™
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. As a token of appreciation, you can have a free resource of your choice up to the same value as your purchased resource. Just email derrybeg1973@gmail.com with your user name, the resource you have reviewed and the resource you would like for free.
Promote “A Christmas Carol” Quotation Flashcards to Teachers
Engage your students in the timeless tale of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” with our comprehensive set of quotation flashcards! These carefully curated flashcards are designed to enhance students’ understanding and retention of key quotes from the novel, making your literature classes more interactive and effective.
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Why Flashcards?
►Flashcards are a proven educational tool that facilitate active recall, a critical process in learning and memory. By regularly testing their knowledge with flashcards, students can:
►Improve Memory Retention: Repeated exposure and self-testing with the flashcards help cement key quotes and concepts in long-term memory.
►Enhance Understanding: Analyzing quotes allows students to delve deeper into Dickens’ themes, characters, and literary techniques.
►Boost Confidence: Frequent practice builds confidence in students’ knowledge and their ability to recall information under pressure.
Key Benefits for Teachers:
★Versatile Teaching Aid: Integrate the flashcards into various classroom activities, from group discussions to individual study sessions, making learning more dynamic.
★Comprehensive Coverage: The flashcards cover a wide range of significant quotations from “A Christmas Carol,” ensuring that all critical aspects of the novel are addressed.
★Engaging Format: The interactive nature of flashcards keeps students engaged and motivated, transforming the learning process into an enjoyable experience.
★Visual Learning: The flashcards include images of characters from the novel, aiding visual learners and making the study of literature more vivid and memorable.
★GCSE Exam Preparation: Specifically designed to align with the GCSE English Literature curriculum, these flashcards are an excellent resource for exam revision and practice.
Example Questions from the Flashcards:
“Solitary as an _______.”
Oyster
“Another idol has displaced me. A ______ one.”
Golden
“External heat and cold had little _______ on Scrooge.”
Influence
Make the most of this valuable resource to enrich your teaching toolkit and help your students excel in their study of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Download our quotation flashcards today and bring the spirit of Dickens’ classic to life in your classroom!
This Burns Night word search is a great way to explore the different traditions and ideas associated with Burns Night.
Use each word as a theme to explore with your class. You can talk about poetry, bagpipes and even haggis!
The Burns Night word search will create an interest in the topic and inspire your teaching. Plus, the colourful illustrations bring the topic to life so children can engage more with event.
Team the activity up with my Burns Night Presentation
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/robert-burns-and-burns-night-lesson-assembly-presentation-12049874
CVC words are simple, three letter words that follow the letter sequence of Consonant Vowel Consonant. For instance, ‘hat’, ‘cat’ and ‘dog’ are all CVC words. This activity involves learners dragging and dropping 3 letters to create a word, a clue is given by an image. Includes sounds. This set was made with Primary 2 in mind, but you can use it with Primary 1 to challenge them and with Primary 3 to review this standard. These are great for ESL learners, too!
How can I use this Phonics Word Builder Game?
This phonics game will help to improve your pupils’ language and spelling skills by helping them to practise spelling these words: such as dad, sad, cat…
Boom cards provide a great way to incorporate technology in your classroom. They play on interactive whiteboards, computers, and tablets. Please watch the the preview before you purchase the item! :)
This Phonics Word Builder Game - is completely digital. Meaning no paper or printing, just instant fun. You can play this on the interactive whiteboard as a whole class, let children play in teams, or on their own.
The self-marking function makes this a great resource for independent learning and saves you heaps of time with marking too - what more could you want from a resource?
Preview
❤ Videos about Boom Cards:
What are Boom Cards?
How to Get Started on Boom Cards (FAQs)
❤ These digital task cards would be perfect for:
Whole Class Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Independent Work
Centers
Assessment
Homework