Do you need to boost group speaking skills in Years 7-11? These Oracy Mats are printable placemats or posters, designed to show kids the ways in which different sentence starters can be used for impact and precision in discussions and presentations.
You will receive a file of four documents: 2 plain-text editable versions so you can customise the sentence starters for your own class, and 2 PDFs with slightly more jazzy fonts and graphics that are ready to print.
These can be printed in different sizes and easily laminated for durability.
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Support your students to write about literature and language with this PEEL mat, filled with sentence starters to help them take their main Point, back it with Evidence, Explain their thoughts and Link them back to the original question.
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Challenge your MAT and Gifted and Talented students by asking them to edit work using this Ambitious Punctuation mat. There are five styles in this download, including a low-ink option.
Includes guidance on…
Parenthetic commas
Ellipses
Colon
Semi colons
Dashes
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Great starter and exit tasks for lessons on Louis Sachar’s Holes. This slideshow features opening quotations from all 50 chapters; there are six spelling, punctuation or grammar errors in each, and answer keys built in. That’s 300 errors to correct in one slideshow.
Use as bellringers, brain breaks, exit tickets or as mini-lessons.
This differentiated informal letter task requires students to finish or redraft Stanley’s letter from chapter 9 of Louis Sachar’s novel Holes. If Stanley is twisting the truth so that his mom won’t worry, what else might he write?
There are three styles of worksheet for the writing activity included, plus a printable sheet of checklist slips (four per sheet) to give out as necessary. Introduction and planning activity also included…
All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.
A single page writing frame or scaffold to guide KS3 or KS4 pupils through writing a five-paragraph persuasive piece of writing. The page features five sections for planning five paragraphs, and there are three columns for each paragraph: what to include, useful sentence starters, and space to plan or make notes for the written content. Matching writing paper included for those who like a theme!
There are prompts for appropriate punctuation at the bottom of the page, and this can be used as a worksheet, handout or poster.
This resource comes in both UK A4 and US letter document sizes.
Kickstart or end your lessons with some creative thinking. Use as bellringers or brain breaks - reveal comparative images for the picture in the center of the slide, and ask your students to use the comparisons to write or share interesting similes.
Google Slides version included!
No-Prep Group Work!
Just print, pass and problem-solve! A set of desk placemats to encourage groups to discuss and share information about quotations, themes and context, specifically linked to individual characters from the novel. This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper, or use with the included Character Thoughtpad to record the discussion.
Includes eight characters, six tasks per sheet, and works well with 4-8 groups of students. Laminate for multiple use!
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Just print, pass and problem-solve! A set of desk placemats to encourage groups of students to discuss and share information about quotations, characters and context linked to specific m the novel. This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper.
Includes a double-sided ‘Thoughtpad’ sheet for students to log ideas along the way.
Includes five characters, six tasks per sheet, and works well with groups of 4-8 students. Laminate for multiple use!
18 posters featuring six different figurative language and writing devices. Each poster includes the Greek or Latin word roots for the device, and five quotations from literary works as examples.
The posters demonstrate:
Alliteration
Imagery
Metaphors
Oxymoron
Personification
Similes
Use as classroom posters or print as smaller handouts. Includes both UK and US document sizes, and colour, low ink, and black and white styles.
This resource includes a bingo grid of 25 prompts to encourage students to research and develop their opinion on school uniforms, ready for a debate on whether they should be worn or not. Great for competitive classes, and can be used with students who do or don’t already wear a school uniform.
The resource also includes a graphic organizer for students to prepare their information, and all sheets come in both UK and US document sizes.
A single page writing frame or scaffold to guide KS3 or KS4 pupils through writing a five-paragraph descriptive piece of writing. The page features five sections for planning five paragraphs, and there are three columns for each paragraph: what to include, useful sentence starters, and space to plan or make notes for the written content. Matching writing paper included for those who like a theme!
There are prompts for appropriate punctuation at the bottom of the page, and this can be used as a worksheet, handout or poster.
This resource comes in both UK A4 and US letter document sizes.
An opportunity to teach persuasive language devices through literature; students read and annotate Atticus Finch’s closing speech in To Kill a Mockingbird.
This resource includes:
Editable and PDF versions of all sheets
Options to provide students with the full speech (best printed as a short booklet) or one of six parts of the speech (best printed as a double-sided sheet)
Suitable for individual or group work
Every version of the sheet includes written student instructions and a table of persuasive devices. However, instead of differentiating by difficulty, the devices have been split into different style categories. This way, students can select the styles they engage with most, without ‘coasters’ opting for the simplest choice.
These categories are:
Numerical devices
Emotional devices
Visual devices
Social devices
Logical devices
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This booklet of 12 Christmas-themed extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for festive or winter units.
Wide-spaced for easy annotation and an editable Google Apps version of the extracts included, you can adapt the pack to your high school students’ needs.
Each extract is heavy in sense of place, figurative language, and genre. Suitable for Gifted and Talented students or Honors classes.
The pack also includes activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts. Check out the preview!
Excerpts have been selected from:
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding, Fiodor M. Dostoyevsky (1917)
The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry (1905)
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Washington Irving (1819)
Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement C Moore (1912)
At the North of Bearcamp Water, Frank Bolles (1893)
All Things Considered, G. K. Chesterton (1915)
Where the Christmas Tree Grew, Mary E. Wilkins (1892)
Bertie’s Christmas Eve, Saki (1919)
10.A Kidnapped Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum (1904)
11.The Lay of the Land, Dallas Lore Sharp (1908)
12.A Traveler at Forty, Theodore Dreiser (1913)
A single page writing frame or scaffold to guide KS3 or KS4 pupils through writing a five-paragraph narrative piece of writing. The page features five sections for planning five paragraphs, and there are three columns for each paragraph: what to include, useful sentence starters, and space to plan or make notes for the written content. Matching writing paper included for those who like a theme!
There are prompts for appropriate punctuation at the bottom of the page, and this can be used as a worksheet, handout or poster.
This resource comes in both UK A4 and US letter document sizes.
Challenge your high school students to recognize a wider range of poetic devices, techniques and terms with these six puzzles and activities based on the definitions of 25 poetry vocabulary words!
This definitions and puzzle set is designed to encourage students to become comfortable with academic and stylistic language.
This pack includes the following printables:
Definitions of 25 poetry devices and techniques
Follow-up reflection activity
Word scramble challenge
Letter shapes puzzle
Matching definitions activity
Word search puzzle
Crossword challenge
Answer Key
A self assessment form in high school not only lightens your workload, but it also allows students to reflect and evaluate their progress and open a dialogue with you as their teacher. Whether students are talking about an interest or hobby, or delivering their own Ted Talk, this task raises awareness of the communication skills required.
This resource comes in both US and UK document sizes (with appropriate spellings), editable Google Apps, and prompts your students to consider the following:
The topic of their presentation or talk
How they planned for it
Which speaking skills they used
Which listening skills they used
How they used them (giving examples)
Confidence levels at the beginning, middle and end of the discussion
Areas to improve based on the skills
Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the characters of the play An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley, or allow them to work independently on the hexagon diagram pieces.
Then instruct them in the creation of a hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between characters and explaining their reasons.
This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions.
Writing frames for descriptive, exposition, persuasive, narrative and review written pieces. Each resource is a single page writing frame or scaffold to guide pupils through writing a five-paragraph piece, plus matching themed writing paper.
The scaffold page features five sections for planning five paragraphs, and there are three columns for each paragraph: what to include, useful sentence starters, and space to plan or make notes for the written content.
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A simple poster or handout aimed at 11-16 year olds. This resource should prompt students to develop their vocabulary in English Language and Literature, and makes a good addition to a Literacy display.
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