Students solve the riddle to find a word in the dictionary and answer the question about it. The first section, students will find the answers in the dictionary, the second the thesaurus and the third in the classroom. You can edit questions or add. This took one lesson for my year 7s to solve. I had them working in pairs and gave the winning pair small easter eggs. Students found it challenging but competitive and fun!

Ambitious vocabulary for students aiming for the highest levels. This resource provides students with a wide range of specific and high level vocabulary to meet the top of the assessment criteria. It challenges students to demonstrate their understanding of these terms by writing the meaning and using it in a an example answer. Students should then feel more confident and get used to using ambitious vocabulary and key terms in their written responses. Extension task encourages students to identify where these terms can apply to other Literature texts. Support is given in the form of examples and more challenging meanings completed for them.