A checklist of important features in narrative/story writing to guide students through self reflection at the end of a piece of writing. Can also be used to help peer review a partner’s story. The checklist includes some tick boxes for checking for important features and then an open ended sentence starter at the end for the student to reflect on what they did well and how they could improve next time. Ideal for an English or EFL classroom teaching Literature/Creative Writing skills and wanting to encourage a student centred approach to feedback.

Reading comprehension questions and literacy and class activities for guided reading through The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Ss find answers within the text, write in full sentences, give opinions, match food to the place where it’s found, find adjectives, think about articles and countable and uncountable nouns, design a plate to feed a tiger, and start to think and plan their own tea party.

A PPT guide for about 2/3 hours worth of classes on showing not telling in writing, making inferences when reading and how to write a PEEZL (could be adapted to just PEEL or PEE paragraphs) paragraph. The PPT gives information as well as different tasks to help students build their skills as well as teaching some key vocabulary.

A PPT which guides students to think about synonyms and building and developing their WOW word bank. Designed for EAL students, but would also suit a low attainment or low age literacy/English class.

A PPT designed to help students review 7 main types of figurative language: Similes, Metaphors, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Hyperbole, Idioms and Personification. Students fill in the vowels to remember and spell them correctly, then write a short definition of each one with an example sentence, then there are 10 short extracts from pop song lyrics where students need to correctly identify the types of figurative language used in each one. I also found the exact parts of the song for the students to listen to as they were thinking and this went down really well. Great for an end of term review after introducing figurative language. From my experience - students found this really engaging.

A short simple cloze activity of adding 6 linking words: because, as, so, therefore, as a result, when to basic PEE paragraphs. Ideal for students just learning to make inferences this way and practicing linking their sentences together to be more cohesive.

A PPT I made to introduce my students to what inferences are. There are tasks to make inferences based on a photograph, and then from song lyrics - one for each era. Debut and Fearless I have designed with question prompts for whole class examples, and then each other era to be printed individually for small group work. The final task is a writing task based on a photograph encouraging students to show not tell. Could also be the basis for a nice annotated class display.

A resource ideal for a revision task or homework to check students can match the quotation to the correct poem. Great for Start or End of Term.

Classroom bunting with examples of compound sentence, simile, subordinate clause, complex sentence, metaphor, conjunction, personification, rhetorical question, alliteration, assonance, oxymoron. An example is given of each feature from a taylor swift lyric, with one from each album. Ideal for KS2/3/4 classroom displays.