I have been teaching since 2010.
I am currently head of English and PE in a SEN school.
My specialist subject is English,
I enjoy making resources for a range of subjects and abilities.
Hope you find these useful and inspiring, and they help you to save some time.
Happy shopping
I have been teaching since 2010.
I am currently head of English and PE in a SEN school.
My specialist subject is English,
I enjoy making resources for a range of subjects and abilities.
Hope you find these useful and inspiring, and they help you to save some time.
Happy shopping
A set of lessons on a PowerPoint presentation that can be used for EL English, AQA Step up to English or lower GCSE.
The legend of sleepy Hollow
Dracula
Creative writing activities
Language analysis activities
43 slides
Suitable for KS2/3 PSHE/Careers/ ASDAN
Students are given writing frame to complete about what their strengths are and what they could improve.
PowerPoint to explain the differences between qualities and skills.
Students are then given a outline of a body and asked to write their qualities on the inside and skills around the outside.
Small but effective activity that can be adapted to suit learners.
The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes literacy lessons (6 weeks worth)
A set of creative, differentiated literacy resources that link with KS2/KS3
Suitable for SEN students
Activities include:
-Writing a letter
-Writing poetry
Writing instructions
Drawing from description
Newspaper reports
Creating own story
Wanted posters
Set of literacy activities/lessons along with diffentiated writing frames to work alongside Around the World in 80 Days.
This would link in well with AO1 and A05 of GCSE or Step up to English
Resource is also suitable/adaptable for KS3/SEN students
All on 1 PowerPoint for ease.
Includes reading and writing activities
Hope you enjoy :)
Literacy resource.
Useful for teaching KS2/3/SEN
Recount writing mat that can be laminated and used as a visual aid for students who require extra support.
Small activity to get students using the writing mat.
Resource is adaptable.
This resource can be adapted and used in a PSHE, Careers or a ASDAN PSD/CoPE lesson.
Activity 1- students research and complete the cost of living budget sheet. This enables them to work out their monthly costs and yearly costs
Activity 2- Students complete a budget for a weekly shopping comparing 3 supermarket prices.
I used this with a SEN class.
PowerPoint presentation which helps students understand different punctuation marks and when to use them.
This is a visual presentation that can be printed and used as classroom display/posters.
There are two short activities for students to complete at the end of the presentation.
Punctuation marks addressed:
Full stops
Capital letters
Commas
Apostrophes
Colon
Semi-colon
Question Marks
Exclamation Marks
Hope you enjoy :)
A small starter or plenary activity.
Suitable for GCSE/KS3/KS4/SEN
Cut out descriptions and characters and give to students.
They have to read the descriptions and draw picture of that character.
Students then match description to the real fictional character.
Good for getting students thinking about descriptions and creative writing.
Literacy activity where students get to create their own robot assistant whilst developing their creative writing.
A great resource for getting students to use adjectives.
Writing frame and activities included.
My students loved this activity.
Suitable for SEN/KS2/KS3
A Creative writing lesson (can be used for GCSE/KS3)
Students watch parts of the film and carry out a series of descriptive writing activities:
- Describing Scrooge and his personality
- Creative writing and the 3 spirits
- Scrooge’s transformation diary task
Writing frames included
A series of writing and English activities for students reading/studying Treasure Island.
Suitable and adaptable for KS2/3/4 or SEN.
All resources are creative and visual. Activities are differentiated.
Individually resources would cost £15
A brief look at the story of Hercules and his 12 labours - Comprehension activity
Task two is looking at verbs, adverbs and adjectives using the mystical beasts from Hercules. Students are asked to write their own descriptive sentences
Task 3 is writing a diary entry for Hercules and one of his labours
Task 4 and Task 5 look at two different myths and legends, students asked to identify verbs, adverbs and adjectives from the texts. I could not inlcude the texts due to copyright but the texts are hyperlinked in the slides
This can be used as part of a KS3/4 curriculum in English but has been made for AQA Step up to English lessons.
Slides can be adapted
All images from Pixabay
PowerPoint presentation that includes full lesson and resources.
Starter- students draw from character descriptions
Activity 1: Students are given a picture of character and they need to write a description for other students to guess who they are describing
Activity 2: Students are given 3 key cards (setting, character and object) they need to create short story from this using adjectives and linguistic devices
Writing frames and resources all included
Suitable for KS3/4/GCSE/SEN
My students are currently studying AQA Step Up to English, in preparation for their exam I created this resource to give them a practice for the real exam. This can be adapted for GCSE and KS3 purposes.
We have been studying component 2- Family
For this we have done a series of lessons based on The Secret Garden and The Railway Children.
I have used the AQA exam paper for this module and adapted it to fit in with the two books.
This is a good revision exercise for your students before they sit the paper or students that want to practice some English skills pre-GCSE.
Students practice:
-Inferring
-Creative Writing
-Comparing two texts
My students found it very useful
Hope you enjoy :)
I created this pack which contains 33 worksheets to help students develop their money skills.
I used this pack for my AQA Entry level students in a SEN school. However it can be used for KS2/3/4
Worksheets can be adapted if needed .
This could cover a whole unit of work.
Topics include:
Recognising coins
Exchanging money
Addition
Converting pence to pound
Decimal notation
Working out change
Equivalent values
Using calculators
This pack is differentiated starting LA and working up towards HA (Entry level 1-3)
Hope this helps
A visual placemat or classroom display resource to aid GCSE students with revision and prepare for their GCSE examination.
The resource covers aspects from the Non-Fiction paper- persuasive devices, punctuation and structure.
Also a great resource to help SEN students with their writing in the classroom/on their desk
Print and laminate!
Suitable for KS3/4/GCSE/SEN
Exploring famous mythical creatures.
Reading Activity- comprehension task
Writing Activity- Creative writing.
Key facts and questions to help develop understanding of text.
Creative writing activity - create your own mythical creatures with word mat to help.
This can be used and adapted for KS2-KS4
Can be used in conjunction with AQA Step up to English, Component 2
All clipart is royality free and sourced from Pixabay
All information is sourced from various books and internet sites
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation that includes two activities for students to complete
- Identifying features of non fiction texts
- Identifying the PURPOSE of text; why we write.
Both activities come with writing frames
Also included with this resource is two revision aids for PAF that students can use in their revision notes, they can be laminated and used as desk mats or they can be used for classroom displays
Hope you enjoy these visual resources :)
Suitable for GCSE students
Ideal for L2-6 students or SEN students
Resource can be adapted
Fun and engaging starter activity
Wordsearch- you need to find the definition to the description in the wordsearch
Helps consolidate students learning and understanding as well as improving spelling of key term definitions
Appropriate for KS3 and 4
AQA Step up to English
GCSE English Language
A simple writing frame to get students to plan a piece of creative writing using their senses.
This writing frame can be used to aid them to write about their summer/holidays.
Suitable for KS2/3/SEN
Can be adapted
Hope you find useful