'Punctuation Marks Are People, Too' explains the main punctuation marks as characters. This clarifies the job that each one of them does. This sheet can be used to introduce a whole series of punctuation worksheets that will be uploaded here soon. Alternatively, this sheet can be used for revision. Capital letters, full stops, commas, semi colons, colons and the apostrophe are all in this cast of characters!

This works as an introduction to Shakespeare’s characters and stories for young children. It also gives older pupils the experience of working with Shakespeare&'s raw materials of character, motive and props. This makes them think about how he wrote for the stage: crucial for gaining marks in Shakespeare exams! Please read Lesson Notes to understand how it works. I have provided two of the sheets in a version with cartoons: Characters and Props. Useful if you are doing this in an MFL. The other sheets would probably need a translation on the back. Have fun! - Also, check out my YouTube Channel, “pavertutor”, for my Shakespeare Puppet videos!

Goethe’s terrifying poem based on a Danish folktale about the ‘Erlkonig’, possibly meaning ‘Elven King’, but the name is a mystery. Give 1-2 verses at a time to build suspense. {Anyone who Googles the ending and tells the class gets a detention! ;o) ] Let them illustrate each verse to build up a storyboard. Divide class into groups who each learn a different part to recite in a spooky chorus, with the lights off. First web link is Schubert’;s menacing song version, dramatically performed! Second web link is an eerie cartoon version that makes the different voices clear.

This is written directly for students, so you can give out the whole thing or pages from it as you wish, at any stage of GCSE English. Getting pupils to write their own examples of techniques listed in these pages is a nice quick homework for you to mark and a great way to check that they have grasped something. It helps their knowledge about language to 'stick&': they are more likely to notice techniques in others&'; writing when they have used the techniques - and named them - themselves. Hope it helps!

Lyrics and YouTube version of a Pirate Song in Spanish. Fun to get the class to write new verses for this song using the vocabulary of everyday life. So pirates are not only the demons of the sea - 'Lavamos los platos&' as well!

A song about a puffer fish who has a terrible social life. Can his only friend, Jeremy the octopus, help him to solve his problems? A funny children's song or a study of friendship between very different sea creatures? You decide. For a follow-up piece in a creative writing class, pupils could write Henry&'s diary and Jeremy&';s diary at various points in the story. I wrote, performed & recorded the song myself, so the copyright is mine, but you can use it in lessons é school concerts however you wish!

This sheet uses cartoon people to explain what a sentence is and how to punctuate it with capital letters and full stops. The companion worksheet to this is ‘PUNCTUATION DRAGONS - Practise Capitals & Full Stops’. I teach grammar, punctuation this way. Imagining the letters and punctuation marks as little people draws learners into the detail by bringing them to life. Each time you explain a rule and/or examine an example, it’s like telling a little story. This is easier to picture, easier to remember, and can be quite funny at times. Check out my HANDWRITING PEOPLE too! That resource is called HANDWRITING: A CLASS OF 26 LITTLE PEOPLE.

To encourage pupils of all ages to find things out for themselves, and to make links between different subjects, this labelled cartoon dinosaur can be displayed on classroom walls, in libraries. It can also be photocopied and given to classes to stimulate discussion about what we mean by 'independent learning&'.

A study aid to help pupils connect a poem's techniques to its overall impact and meaning. Helps them to see how techniques work together, e.g. a metaphor may change the tone. By connecting the petals (techniques) to the centre (overall impact/meaning), pupils write more than just 'Look! A simile.' What is it doing? How does it relate to the rest of the poem? Pupils learn to move between the overall force of a poem and its details. They just need to think: 'I'm a bee. I can fly where I like!' To compare poems, fly between two flowers. Blank version is for your use or for their own notes. See also my 'HOW TO STUDY A NOVEL'.

This uses cartoon people to explain the job of the semi colon. It’s like a door ajar between two sentences! Check out my HANDWRITING PEOPLE too! That resource is called HANDWRITING: A CLASS OF 26 LITTLE PEOPLE. I teach grammar, punctuation this way. Imagining the letters and punctuation marks as little people draws learners into the detail by bringing them to life. Each time you explain a rule and/or examine an example, it’s like telling a little story. This is easier to picture, easier to remember, and can be quite funny at times.

This uses cartoon people to explain the job of the colon in a sentence. Check out my HANDWRITING PEOPLE too! That resource is called HANDWRITING: A CLASS OF 26 LITTLE PEOPLE.

This worksheet goes with 'PUNCTUATION PEOPLE - Capital Letters & Full Stops'.

This is longer than most glossaries, because I have included examples of each term. The title is just my opinion, of course! For homework, you could choose five terms and tell pupils to find their own examples of each. These could be from songs as well as poems. It is often examples we like that fix in the mind what a technique is, and even more importantly, what it can do. You could then use this Amazing Glossary in conjunction with my POETRY FLOWER. This would help pupils to keep the bigger picture in mind and not get swamped in detail.

The Lesson Plan (in two parts) tells you how to help pupils to build their own fairy tales step by step. It can be used to teach any language. The videos are The Sleeping Beauty and Snow White in Spanish. There are plenty more fairy tale cartoons in Spanish on YouTube where I found these! Just watch out - a few of them are parodies, so goodness knows what's in those!

The Lesson Plan tells you how to help pupils to write their own fairy tales using a worksheet that gives them a series of simple choices about character, setting and plot. Two French fairytale websites follow, then the videos are cartoon versions of fairytales. Finally, enjoy Part 1 of 'La Belle et la Bête&' - a magical, classic film! The other parts are on YouTube.

A step-by-step study guide for GCSE and A Level students to help them study any novel for exams or coursework. It helps to give pupils the pdf first: this cartoon will help them to visualise the learning process. Then you can give pages 1-3 of the notes, 'How To Study A Novel'. You can add more topics to the final section on technique, e.g. present tense, flashbacks, fallible narrator, to suit the novel studied. By going up and down the pyramid, pupils build for themselves a sense of how form, structure and language shape meanings. They learn how to move between the big picture and the details when using quotes and references in essays. They produce their own set of notes, helping them become independent learners. This is particularly valuable in helping GCSE students prepare for A Level, and A Level students prepare for university. Above all, they won’t keep asking you for examples – they will have their own! See also 'HOW TO READ OLD BOOKS', 'MORE TIPS ON READING OLD BOOKS' and my poetry sheet, 'THE POETRY FLOWER'.

The Lesson Plan tells you how to help pupils to create their own fairy tales using a series of simple choices of character, description and plot. The videos are examples of some of tne many cartoon versions of famous fairy tales in German. Finally, a feisty German Rapunzel finishes this set of resources!

Here are three short, accessible poems by great French poets - Verlaine, Hugo and Alfred de Vigny. Pupils then write the fourth season - Le Printemps!

You can give this sheet to pupils to introduce them to grammar. Thinking of grammar as an octopus, with all his tentacles working together, is a way into thinking of a sentence as a group of words working together, each with its own job to do. Pupils can talk in pairs about how they would describe the job that each word does in the sentence on the sheet. In plenary, you could get pupils' own descriptions of each &'word job&';. Then, when they’ve understood the concepts, you can ‘drop in’ the correct terms. See LESSON PLAN for more ideas!

The famous part in 'A La Recherche du Temps Perdu&' by Marcel Proust when he takes a spoonful of madeleine (cake) soaked in tea and is suddenly strangely happy, and puzzled, and remembers...A brilliant evocation of how taste prompts memory - and also of tea and cake! Worth reading aloud as the French is so delicious. This sheet starts with a short biog of Proust that suggests why he was &';in search of lost times'. Long extract; pages 4, 5 or 6 could stand alone, though. Double spaced for annotation. Pupils could write their own memories prompted by childhood sweets.