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After being in Education for 10+ years, I recognize now more than ever how busy and stretched teachers are. One of my biggest skills as a teacher is creating resources that are eye catching, clear and helpful.
I will specialize creating materials for general filler activities, English, Humanities and academic writing.
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Thank you for stopping by my shop!
After being in Education for 10+ years, I recognize now more than ever how busy and stretched teachers are. One of my biggest skills as a teacher is creating resources that are eye catching, clear and helpful.
I will specialize creating materials for general filler activities, English, Humanities and academic writing.
My store is growing, so save this page and come back soon.
This free wordsearch will engage your students in key vocabulary to support their learning!
Please enjoy and review :)
You might also like some of my other products available. I have the following bundles that might be of interest – if you don’t want the whole thing, just click on the individual products!
Activities and Worksheets
Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Verbal Reasoning Odd One Out Bundle
Analogy Verbal Reasoning English Bundle
Start of Year Activity Bundle
Alternatively, my shop has LOADS of classroom displays, reading and other English resources! Please stop by :)
This free wordsearch will engage your students in fun vocabulary to support their learning!
Please enjoy and review :)
You might also like some of my other products available. I have the following bundles that might be of interest – if you don’t want the whole thing, just click on the individual products!
18 Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Start of Year Activity Bundle
Greek Mythology English Reading, Vocabulary and Activity Bundle
Reading Strategies Pair of Resources
Ultimate Literature Circle Bundle
13 English Classroom Display Bundle
Alternatively, my shop has LOADS of classroom displays, reading and other English resources! Please stop by!
This free wordsearch will engage your students in fun vocabulary to support their learning!
Please enjoy and review :)
You might also like some of my other products available. I have the following bundles that might be of interest – if you don’t want the whole thing, just click on the individual products!
18 Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Start of Year Activity Bundle
Greek Mythology English Reading, Vocabulary and Activity Bundle
Reading Strategies Pair of Resources
Ultimate Literature Circle Bundle
13 English Classroom Display Bundle
Alternatively, my shop has LOADS of classroom displays, reading and other English resources! Please stop by!
Enjoy this FREE Roald Dahl Day Word Search.
If you are looking for other resources like this please see below. You can download as a bundle, or just click each individual product within the bundle for single download.
Roald Dahl Day English Bundle
18 Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Start of Year Activity Bundle
Greek Mythology English Reading, Vocabulary and Activity Bundle
Reading Strategies Pair of Resources
Ultimate Literature Circle Bundle
13 English Classroom Display Bundle
This free crossword will engage your students in fun vocabulary to support their learning!
Please enjoy and review:)
You might also like some of my other products available. I have the following bundles that might be of interest – if you don’t want the whole thing, just click on the individual products!
9 Essential Spelling Skills for Upper Primary
Suspense PETER Analytical Reading and Writing English Workbook Bundle
Dracula Gothic Literature Fiction Reading Mini-Unit English Workbook
18 Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Start of Year Activity Bundle
Greek Mythology English Reading, Vocabulary and Activity Bundle
Reading Strategies Pair of Resources
Ultimate Literature Circle Bundle
13 English Classroom Display Bundle
Alternatively, my shop has LOADS of classroom displays, reading and other English resources! Please stop by! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/valerienesbitt
This free wordsearch will engage your students in fun vocabulary to support their learning!
Please enjoy and review:)
You might also like some of my other products available. I have the following bundles that might be of interest – if you don’t want the whole thing, just click on the individual products!
9 Essential Spelling Skills for Upper Primary
Suspense PETER Analytical Reading and Writing English Workbook Bundle
Dracula Gothic Literature Fiction Reading Mini-Unit English Workbook
18 Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Start of Year Activity Bundle
Greek Mythology English Reading, Vocabulary and Activity Bundle
Reading Strategies Pair of Resources
Ultimate Literature Circle Bundle
13 English Classroom Display Bundle
Alternatively, my shop has LOADS of classroom displays, reading and other English resources! Please stop by! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/valerienesbitt
This free wordsearch will engage your students in fun vocabulary to support their learning!
Please enjoy and review:)
You might also like some of my other products available. I have the following bundles that might be of interest – if you don’t want the whole thing, just click on the individual products!
9 Essential Spelling Skills for Upper Primary
Suspense PETER Analytical Reading and Writing English Workbook Bundle
Dracula Gothic Literature Fiction Reading Mini-Unit English Workbook
18 Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Start of Year Activity Bundle
Greek Mythology English Reading, Vocabulary and Activity Bundle
Reading Strategies Pair of Resources
Ultimate Literature Circle Bundle
13 English Classroom Display Bundle
Or what about some autumnal English activities?
7 Autumn / Fall Figurative Language English Workbook Bundle
What about some Black History Month resources?
10 Black History Month Bitesize Reading Comprehensions Bundle
Black History Month Activity Bundle
7 Black History Month Scaffolded Reading Comprehension Bundle
Black History Month English Writing Bundle
Alternatively, my shop has LOADS of classroom displays, reading and other English resources! Please stop by! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/valerienesbitt
Enjoy this free Black History Month Word Search!
Are you looking for further resources surrounding Black History Month? If so, I have the following you can download either as bundles or individually (just click on the individual resources if that is what you wish!)
10 Black History Month Bitesize Reading Comprehensions Bundle
Black History Month Activity Bundle
7 Black History Month Scaffolded Reading Comprehension Bundle
Black History Month English Writing Bundle
Or what about some autumnal English activities?
7 Autumn / Fall Figurative Language English Workbook Bundle
These other language based activities and workbooks might be of interest…I have the following available in my store:
Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
Suspense PETER Analytical Reading and Writing English Workbook Bundle
9 Essential Spelling Skills for Upper Primary
Dracula Gothic Literature Fiction Reading Mini-Unit English Workbook
Enjoy this free wordsearch!
Are you looking for other anti-bullying week activities?
Anti-Bullying Week English Bundle
What about other language-based activities and workbooks? I have the following available in my store:
5 Thanksgiving English Writing Bundle
4 Thanksgiving Scaffolded English Reading Comprehension Bundle
5 Thanksgiving Bitesize Reading Comprehension
9 Thanksgiving English Activities – Fillers and Starters
7 Thanksgiving Figurative Language English Bundle
Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes English Reading and Writing Bundle
9 Essential Spelling Skills for Upper Primary
Verbal Reasoning Ultimate English Bundle
7 Autumn / Fall Figurative Language English Workbook Bundle
Reading Strategies Pair of Resources
Ultimate Literature Circle Bundle
13 English Classroom Display Bundle
Greek Mythology English Reading, Vocabulary and Activity Bundle
Four English activities for World Oceans Day for upper primary/middle school:
Differentiated reading comprehension (3 levels)
Self-editing spelling activity with (3 parts)
Crossword
Wordsearch
Our planet Earth is vitally important to learn about. Why not support your students to engage in learning a little more about our world’s oceans through this differentiated reading comprehension to celebrate World Oceans Day on the 8th June.
What’s included?
Two-page reading comprehension
3 x 10 differentiated question worksheets (Level 1-3)
Questions include fact retrieval, analytical and conceptual questions (Level three designed for mostly independent research)
Answers for all three levels (11 pages in total)
Why not check out the following resources I also have available for World Oceans Day?
World Oceans Day Wordsearch - End of Year Activity
World Oceans Day Crossword - End of Year Activity
World Oceans Day Spelling Self-Editing Worksheet - End of Year Activity
Please enjoy and review!
This great World Oceans Day crossword will not only engage your students, but get them thinking about vocabulary associated with such an important day.
If you’re looking for something else engaging and educational about World Oceans Day, why not check out my differentiated reading comprehension which is suitable for upper primary/middle school aged students.
[World Oceans Day Wordsearch - End of Year Activity]World Oceans Day
World Oceans Day Spelling Self-Editing Worksheet - End of Year Activity
Please enjoy and review!
This great World Oceans Day wordsearch will not only engage your students, but get them thinking about vocabulary associated with such an important day.
If you’re looking for something else engaging and educational about World Oceans Day, why not check out my:
differentiated reading comprehension which is suitable for upper primary/middle school aged students.
World Oceans Day Spelling Self-Editing Worksheet - End of Year Activity
World Oceans Day Crossword - End of Year Activity
Please enjoy and review!
Are you looking for a way to engage your student’s learning about Father’s Day around the world?
This differentiated reading comprehension will support inquiry and curiosity.
What’s included?
Reading text about 6 different Father’s Days across the world.
3 x 10 differentiated question worksheets (Level 1-3)
Questions include fact retrieval, analytical and conceptual questions (conceptual questions at L3 students may need access to the internet for researching further information)
Answers for all three levels (13 pages in total)
Please enjoy and review!
Are you looking for a workbook that supports students to both learn about the passive voice and apply it in various sentences? This workbook does just that!
What’s included in the 40-page workbook?
• General information page – when to use the passive voice
• Instruction page – how to form the passive voice
• Passive voice sentence mat + negative version
• Three-page worksheets for EACH of the following passive sentence types:
Present simple passive
Past simple passive
Future simple passive
Present continuous passive
Past continuous passive
Be going to passive
Present perfect passive
Past perfect passive
Future perfect passive
• 9 pages of answers (one for each section of the workbook)
Teaching note: each worksheet for the individual passive voice tense has four scaffolded parts.
Part 1: writing basic passive sentence from an active sentence (doesn’t need the use of ‘by’)
Part 2: filling in the gaps using the tense + past participle (most of them are irregular past participles)
Part 3: writing more developed passive sentences from active sentences (use of irregular past participles + using ‘by’ on more occasions)
Part 4: changing passive sentences back to active sentences
Teaching note: this resource should be used with students who have been working with forming the past participle or are using verb tense mats to support learning. The workbook begins with more basic tenses and builds up to the more difficult ones.
You could use this booklet at intervals across the year, or even for revision before key grammar-based exams.
Are you looking for something to engage your students at the start of class? Or what about when you finish an activity sooner than planned and forgot to have a ‘Plan B’?
These 15 short, 5 minute English activities will save you time and stress! They are fully editable, so you can copy and create more slides as you need.
Upon purchase you will receive a link to Canva (free to sign up and use!) to an editable template (you can download the PPT file from there).
The following slides are included:
Word of the day (enhancing vocabulary)
Riddle me this! (Deciphering riddles)
Pun-tastic (re-writing sentences with puns to ‘make sense’)
Mystery message (word scramble)
Word wonder (making smaller words out of a bigger word)
Emoji emotions (writing about emotions)
Quote crew (reading quotes and writing their own)
Describe it! (Using sensory words, adjective and adverbs to describe a picture)
Synonym showdown (writing synonyms of common words)
Awesome antonyms (thinking of opposites of common words)
Grammar gallop (identifying incorrect grammar in sentences and correcting them)
Figurative language fun (writing metaphors and similes from pictures)
Story starter stage (5 minute short story prompts)
News blast! (Writing informatively about a topic)
Tongue twister time (practicing funny tongue twisters with a partner)
It’s sometimes hard to get students engaged in writing. It can be daunting and stressful at times for students who find literacy difficult. This personal narrative writing unit, which is suitable for upper primary/middle school aged students, is an excellent way to build a love of writing within your classroom.
It is planned to be scaffolded, meaning all levels of students can plan to succeed! What’s better, it can be adapted for any curriculum!
What’s included?
For all parts, you will get a template link to Canva (free account required!), so you can edit anything to your curriculum needs. I have included all the accompanying worksheets as PDF files for download as well as the template link, but the powerpoint you can download directly (or use through Canva) from Canva.
Six Lessons + Writing Workshop Guide: 36 slides in total (You may want to break these up even more depending on the pace your class usually works at!)
What makes a story?
• Brainstorm what students know already
• Personal narrative explanation
• Elements of a personal narrative (story mountain)
• Analyzing personal narrative structure. Worksheet 1: sample story, story analysis worksheet + answers)
Brinstorming
• What would you rather game for whole class – narrative edition!
• Brainstorming topics using prompts (space for own topic too!) – Worksheet 2 (Part 1)
• Discussion questions for pair oral review of brainstorms
• Focusing on one topic from brainstorm – Worksheet 2 (Part 2)
Planning your narrative
• Reviewing story structure using the plot mountain – Worksheet 3
• Putting ideas for the narrative into an organizer using the plot structure – Worksheet 4 (Part 1)
• Peer review of organizer – Worksheet 4 (Part 2)
The power of the senses
• Discussion about showing, not telling
• Understanding the five senses
• Identifying the senses within a text – Worksheet 5 (Part 1)
• Thinking with the senses by relating sensory details to students’ own narratives – Worksheet 5 (Part 2)
Using figurative language
• Discussion about what makes writing ‘pop’
• Working with similes, metaphors and personification
• Using figurative language to describe pictures (pairs)
• Identifying various types of figurative language – Worksheet 6 (Part 1)
• Applying figurative language to an element of the students’ plot for practice – Worksheet 6 (Part 2)
Crafting a compelling lead
• Discussing what a good hook, or lead sentence, entails
• Deconstruct examples of good opening lines (leads) by talk time in pairs
• Brainstorm leads by creating a number of different opening sentences, then choosing the best one – Worksheet 7
Writing Workshop Lessons
These lesson lengths should be tailored to your class and needs.
• Setting up for writing workshops – instructions
• Using transition words (Transition word mat included)
• Check while you write – student checklist, teacher checklist, teacher feedback form and peer assessment worksheets all included.
Are you looking for a fun way to get your students thinking past weak verbs and developing their vocabulary? This verb court display will support them to think in more depth about the verbs they use when speaking and writing.
The best thing is, these posters can be printed, laminated and kept for years! This saves you time, money and your impact on the environment.
What’s included?
21 page tennis themed display that is designed so you can alternate the word per week or even a few per week:
1 x title poster - “Verb Court - Using Verbs Meaningfully”
20 x “weak verb” + “stronger verb” synonyms:
Say
Go
Get
Put
Make
Do
Have
Tell
See
Look
Find
Give
Take
Want
Walk
Run
Jump
Sit
Like
Think
Are you looking for other English display resources to complete your classroom aesthetic? I have the following bundle that you’ll love!
If you don’t want the whole bundle, you can click on the link and purchase each part of the bundle separately – just click on the image you are interested in! Here you will also find links to other great products!
13 English Classroom Display Bundle - Start of Year, Back to School
Your students must be getting excited to celebrate Father’s Day? Why not use this FREE wordsearch to get them ready for the big day?
If you are looking for more Father’s Day resources, I also have this differentiated reading comprehension about celebrating Father’s Day in various countries around the world.
Please enjoy and review!
Your students must be getting excited to celebrate Father’s Day? Why not use this FREE crossword to get them ready for the big day?
If you are looking for more Father’s Day resources, I also have this differentiated reading comprehension about celebrating Father’s Day in various countries around the world.
Please enjoy and review!