Secondary English], General Secondary Resources, Te Reo Maori Resources, 0-5 Preschool Resources for enjoyable and engaging learning.
I love teaching English and have been doing so for many years. I hope that my experience and resources can save you time and energy in setting up and running your classroom :)
Secondary English], General Secondary Resources, Te Reo Maori Resources, 0-5 Preschool Resources for enjoyable and engaging learning.
I love teaching English and have been doing so for many years. I hope that my experience and resources can save you time and energy in setting up and running your classroom :)
A VOCABULARY GAME for high school English students this SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS GAME is fun for students as they race the clock to come up with synonyms and antonyms that nobody else has thought of!
12 different game sheets.
Perfect for ELA English students in Years 11-13 English classes. Students will need a reasonably good vocabulary to play! Ideas for differentiation included in the instructions.
These games are excellent for vocabulary and language development in a fun and collaborative setting.
Included:
12 Synonyms and Antonyms Games
19 attractive PUNCTUATION Posters English Classroom Posters ready to print and display to make your ELA classroom look great.
All posters included in two slightly different designs, PLUS black and white.
A great visual display to help your students master punctuation skills in their writing tasks.
Punctuation Posters on:
Full stops
capital letters
commas
dashes
hyphens
colons
semicolons
subject
predicate
ellipsis
question marks
exclamation marks
…and more
17 attractive PARTS OF SPEECH Posters English Classroom Posters ready to print and display to make your ELA classroom look great.
All posters included in two slightly different designs, PLUS black and white.
Perfect for helping your students understand parts of speech in their writing.
Parts of Speech Posters on:
Nouns (as well as collective nouns, abstract nouns, concrete and proper nouns)
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Articles
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections
…and more
FUN VOCABULARY GAME for high school English students this ENGLISH SCATTERGORIES GAME includes categories such as parts of speech and types of language and is great for developing student vocabulary and English skills.
Game included game sheets for writing on, or use student workbooks!
Perfect bellringers or writing skills activities to improve student vocabulary, these VOCABULARY GAMES are perfect for ELA English students in Years 10-13 English classes. Students will develop their vocabulary through engaging games.
Full instructions included.
These games are excellent for vocabulary and language development in a fun and collaborative setting.
Included:
Over 90 categories, game sheets and alphabet set.
A VOCABULARY GAME for high school English students this BOGGLE WORD GAME is fun for students as they race other teams to find the longest words they can from the grid of letter!
20 different game sheets.
Perfect bellringers or writing skills activities to improve student vocabulary these HIGH SCHOOL VOCABULARY GAMES are perfect for ELA English students in Years 8-11 English classes. Students will develop their vocabulary through engaging games.
Ideas for differentiation included in the instructions.
These games are excellent for vocabulary and language development in a fun and collaborative setting.
Included:
20 Boggle Word Games
This 100 ENGLISH LITERARY TERMS SORTING GAME or HUNT for Secondary English Classrooms is an easy way to help students learn about language techniques and writing techniques.
Print these and cut them along the dotted lines to divide the term, definition and examples. You can mix them up in a bag and have students sort them into correct sets, or you can set up a hunt around the room and make teams find the definition and example of their team’s terms. Some ideas for use are included in the document.
While they play, you’ll be helping your students learn English terminology and vocabulary which will help them develop their vocabulary and confidence with literary terms.
Use the color / colour version to help scaffold students who need a little more help and differentiation! Use them all or use the ones you want!
All the terminology you need is here:
Analogy, Ambiguity, Alliteration, Allusion, Bias, Colloquialism, Contrast, Conflict, Cliché, Euphemism, Hyperbole, Irony, Jargon, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Paradox, Pun, Satire, Slang, Symbolism, Connotation, Homonym, Register, Mood, Suspense, Theme, Plot …
Includes character types & novel terms such as stock/static/round & red herring, resolution, turning point, etc
and many more.
NOTE: I do my best to avoid words which are spelled differently in different countries, but it is possible that you may find a word or two with British English spelling.
Included:
*100 terms in both colour and black and white.
These CLASSIC EXCERPTS EDITING WORKSHEETS for high school English students inspire interest in classic novels as students work to find the 20 spelling, punctuation and grammar errors hidden in each one.
10 different editing worksheets, with answer keys.
Perfect bellringers or writing skills activities to improve student writing skills these HIGH SCHOOL EDITING WORKSHEETS are perfect for ELA English students in Years 9-12 English classes. Students will develop their vocabulary through engaging games.
Ideas for differentiation included in the instructions.
These exercises are excellent for revision of punctuation rules, homonyms, spelling and grammar skills.
Included:
10 Editing Worksheets with Marking Keys
50 great English Classroom Posters for ENGLISH CLASSROOM DECOR showing NOVEL COVERS from a range of interesting and classic novels.
Perfect for Secondary or High School teachers wanting to inspire a bit more reading and text knowledge in their students - also good as discussion starters or writing prompts!
An easy and attractive display. Let me save you some time!
Includes:
50 Classic Covers Posters
A VOCABULARY GAME for high school English students this SYNONYMS UNSCRAMBLE GAME is fun for students as they race other teams to unscramble all the synonyms for a given word!
12 different game sheets.
Perfect bellringers or writing skills activities to improve student vocabulary these SYNONYMS GAMES are perfect for ELA English students in Years 10-13 English classes. Students will develop their vocabulary through engaging games.
Ideas for differentiation included in the instructions.
These games are excellent for vocabulary and language development in a fun and collaborative setting.
Included:
12 Synonyms Unscramble Games
Great parts of speech worksheets for students to find and sort each word type. Excellent review and revision sheets to reinforce student knowledge of their parts of speech.
Included:
5 fun worksheets complete with detailed marking/checking sheets.
25 great English Classroom Posters for ENGLISH CLASSROOM DECOR showing FAMOUS AUTHORS POSTERS from history.
Perfect for Secondary or High School teachers wanting to inspire a bit more reading and text knowledge in their students - also good as discussion starters or writing prompts!
An easy and attractive display. Let me save you some time!
Includes:
25 Classic Authors Posters
These CLASSIC EXCERPTS EDITING WORKSHEETS for high school English students inspire interest in classic novels as students work to find the 20 spelling, punctuation and grammar errors hidden in each one.
10 different editing worksheets, with answer keys.
Perfect bellringers or writing skills activities to improve student writing skills these HIGH SCHOOL EDITING WORKSHEETS are perfect for ELA English students in Years 9-12 English classes. Students will develop their vocabulary through engaging games.
Ideas for differentiation included in the instructions.
These exercises are excellent for revision of punctuation rules, homonyms, spelling and grammar skills.
Texts Used for this Editing Worksheet Set:
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (Excerpt)
2.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (Excerpt)
3.Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (Excerpt)
4.Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (Excerpt)
5.1984 – George Orwell (Excerpt)
6.Chocolat – Joanne Harris (Excerpt)
7.The Dubliners – James Joyce (Excerpt)
8.Persuasion – Jane Austen (Excerpt)
9.Tess of the Durbervilles – Thomas Hardy (Excerpt)
10.Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (Excerpt)
Included:
10 Editing Worksheets with Marking Keys
These **TEEN FICTION EDITING WORKSHEETS for high school English students **inspire interest in current teen fiction as students work to find the 20 spelling, punctuation and grammar errors hidden in each one.
10 different editing worksheets based on well-known teen fiction excerpts, complete with answer keys.
Perfect bellringers or writing skills activities to improve student writing skills these HIGH SCHOOL EDITING WORKSHEETS are perfect for ELA English students in Years 9-12 English classes. Students will develop their vocabulary through engaging games.
Ideas for differentiation included in the instructions.
These exercises are excellent for revision of punctuation rules, homonyms, spelling and grammar skills.
Texts Used for this Editing Worksheet Set:
Paper Towns – John Green (Excerpt)
2.Tomorrow, When the War Began – John Marsden (Excerpt)
3.Twilight – Stephenie Meyer (Excerpt)
4.The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins (Excerpt)
5.The Giver – Lois Lowry (Excerpt)
6.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling (Excerpt)
7.The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky (Excerpt)
8.Divergent – Veronica Roth (Excerpt)
9.Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher (Excerpt)
10.The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (Excerpt)
Included:
10 Editing Worksheets with Marking Keys
A fun set of WRITING CHALLENGES for high school English students to improve their writing skills and vocabulary with prompts on all kinds of personal growth, language technique or specific language challenge writing tasks.
Each challenge set out in easy to print worksheets, ready to write!
Perfect bellringers or writing skills activities to improve student writing and vocabulary, these WRITING PROMPTS and WRITING CHALLENGES are perfect for ELA English students in Years 10-13 English classes. Students will develop their language skills through engaging writing tasks.
Full instructions and ideas for variation included.
These writing exercises are excellent for vocabulary and language development in a fun and collaborative setting.
Included:
Over 80 writing challenges
Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity with Bruce Dawe’s Enter Without So Much As Knocking. This great poem is perfect for looking at the nature of human life and the way we become jaded by the rat-race.
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of learning between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
A poet webquest
An analysis grid
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page poetry close reading workshop
Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity with Mary Hannay Foott’s ‘Where the Pelican Builds her Nest’. This great Australian poem is an interesting snapshot of the early explorers’ frame of mind as they set out into the great unknown.
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page Australian poetry close reading workshop
Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity with Les Murray’s An Absolutely ordinary Rainbow. This great Australian poem is perfect for looking at cultural expectations and how we react when someone does not do what is considered ‘normal.’
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page Australian poetry close reading workshop
Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity with Australian Poet Henry Lawson’s ‘Up The Country’. This great Australian poem is a super fun study - with Lawson totally bagging out the Australian bush and all the idyllic images painted of it through others’ poetry. He and Banjo Paterson had an epic poetry battle - one poking fun and one defending the Aussie countryside and ideas.
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
Questions on the text
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page Australian poetry close reading workshop
This Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading using Australian Poet Banjo Patterson’s ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’ helps students learn to dig deep in poetry analysis. This great Australian poem is fun story of an overconfident horseman who decides that riding the newly invented bicycle will be too easy for him.
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
Questions on the text
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page Australian poetry close reading workshop
This Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity uses Wilfred Owen’s DULCE ET DECORUM EST to help kids learn about poetry analysis. This epic Australian poem is a memory of great men with adventuring spirits who came to Australia seeking better lives and worked hard side by side to earn it. It is also a warning to those who follow - to lead good lives and not forget the sacrifices that gave them all they have.
Workshop takes 2-4 lessons. This poetry analysis booklet can be instantly printed for students. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
13 page poetry close reading workshop