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. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Student Newsbites | Introduction Activity | Back to School

This FREE activity for KS3 and KS4 is a great starter, brain break or exit ticket. Learn about interesting information whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. See the video preview for a fuller demonstration! The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions.

A peer assessment carousel not only lightens your workload, but it also allows each student to gain feedback from six different classmates whilst also seeing and evaluating examples of work from their peers. How it works… Just print a six-box feedback sheet for every student and staple it to their work. The work and these feedback sheets will be passed around the carousel to collect feedback. Next, group your students equally, according to their strengths. Each student reads a piece of work and fill out the feedback box for their focus, using the student guide sheets for prompts. When the time is up for reading and giving feedback, each group piles up the work, and the piles are passed on to the next group. You can use the premade sheets, which works around the concept of six focus groups, or you could make your own with the included blank editable version. Easily adapted for different tasks, this product will serve you year in, year out! Includes a handy ‘How to Use’ guide.

11 tasks on four worksheets. Each task focuses on an image within the novel Of Mice and Men. Use individually as bell-ringers, starters, plenaries, brain breaks, or give groups of students different pictures for a more developed discussion lesson. These worksheets are best printed as a booklet. I have also provided US letter and UK A4 size documents, and Google Apps versions of the resources for you to edit as needed, including a Google Slides set of the images for those of us that don’t have colour printing!

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. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Oracy | Free Choice Talk | Individual Presentation | Planning Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT

This Silent Discussion pre-reading activity for Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men prompts students to collaborate on vintage book covers and movie posters with their thoughts, opinions, interpretations and predictions. Resources include two lesson formats with instructive slideshows. Includes: 10 pages of cover and poster prompts for a seated silent discussion 10 pages of cover and poster prompts for a gallery walk silent discussion Duplicate of the gallery version in A3 size for ease of writing Slideshow with instructions for seated silent discussion Slideshow with instructions for gallery walk silent discussion

This Silent Discussion pre-reading activity for F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel Of The Great Gatsby prompts students to collaborate on vintage book covers images with their thoughts, opinions, interpretations and predictions. Resources include two lesson formats with instructive slideshows. Includes: 18 pages of cover image prompts for a seated silent discussion 18 pages of cover image prompts for a gallery walk silent discussion Duplicate of the gallery version in A3 size for ease of writing Slideshow with instructions for seated silent discussion Slideshow with instructions for gallery walk silent discussion Follow up activity - do your students think that any of the covers belong to the same novel? Why?

Prepare to read Sharon M Draper’s timely novel Tears of a Tiger with this printable pre-reading activity. Silent Discussion, Collaborative Predictions, Written Debate… whatever you call it, these image prompts and instructions have you covered! Simply print and go - includes 15 image prompts connected to the plot. Students move around a gallery of the images or pass the sheets from person to person leaving annotations, comments and observations on every sheet. Includes: 15 US letter size printable prompt sheets 15 A3 size printable prompt sheets 7 slides of instructions for classroom and lesson use 2 slides of holistic follow-up activities

Everything you need in a single lesson for your students to compare an extract from TS Eliot’s Preludes and Rupert Brooke’s Seaside, resulting in a final essay assignment. Student read two seemingly different poems, and consider the setting or place of the two texts before comparing details, imagery, and use of figurative language.

Push your students to be accountable for their progress with these print and go accountable feedback sheets! Stick or staple them to the student work, or hand them out before submission. Students select an improvement area from the checklist, decide a course of action and provide a demonstration sample. Are they on the right track? You let them know in your response, and they have done most of the work! Includes… Worksheets for comprehension, creative writing, essays, and the basic mechanics of writing Full size, half size and quarter size sheets of all of the above Full red, full black and mixed color versions of all of the above …that’s 36 PDF worksheets!

Everything you need for your students to design a persuasive leaflet for a school club of their choice using differentiated, printable worksheets that can also be combined into a booklet! Students earn their budget in dollars, pounds, or currency of your choice in the starter task, which they then cash in for features to include in their leaflet design and content. Check out the preview for the version featuring dollars! Includes… PDF worksheets with budgeting in dollars PDF worksheets with budgeting in pounds PDF worksheets with budgeting amounts, but no currency reference Editable PowerPoint worksheets for you to add your own amounts and currency …that’s 24 pages total! These worksheets come in simple black and white format for easy printing.

Everything you need for your students to compile an end of year playlist - differentiated, printable one-pagers. Includes… All worksheets for end of year 2022, 2023 and blank for your own year All worksheets in standard January-December format All worksheets in August-July format to reflect the school year Versions with and without prompts Everything in US letter and A3 size …that’s 60 PDF worksheets! These worksheets come in simple black and white format for easy printing.

Crack some codes and reflect on the school year for any subject with my codebreaker activity pack! The eight coded messages are perfect escape room alternatives. First, students use the school-themed key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are reflective tasks and questions, which students then respond to - set all messages as a booklet, or individual pages to differentiate! Spread them out as warm-ups or bellringers, or build a lesson around all eight tasks.

40 printable book report templates in the style of a bento box! Student can either write, draw, or glue information or images into the sections to represent their book. Fantastic for creating visual summaries with appealing results! Four designs each differentiated to multiple levels - with prompts, with four or five sections, with flaps to lift, and totally blank for student organization or for you to instruct on specific content requirements… that’s 48 pages!

Printable support mats, posters and strategy cards for student mental health. Start conversations and create a of individual sections in your classroom with this pack, which includes… A3 support mat with all strategies Smaller posters of individual sections Quarter size strategy cards of individual sections

These mindful coloring sheets for older students feature 20 sheets of inclusive winter messages and images, with borders for extra detail. Simply let students choose their colors for a beautiful stained-glass window effect. TIP: Choose blues, purples and grays for winter Choose reds, greens and golds for Christmas Perfect for fast finishers or wellbeing activities. 20 sheets included. Trim for additional effects!

Explore Valentine’s Day traditions with some student-led research and creative responses, with added challenge! First, students use the key to decode the five messages (although you can set fewer messages to differentiate). The messages revealed are research and creative thinking tasks and questions, which students then respond to in the spaces given. Additional tasks ask students to: write messages using the given code, then decode and respond to each others messages create presentations based on one of their responses, and take a class vote for a new, alternative celebration Includes eight activity pages and an answer key.

Aimed at KS2 and KS3, use this figurative language worksheet as a starter, main, fast finisher or homework task in October! Use the Halloween theme to build your students’ understanding of alliteration, similes, personification, and onomatopoeia. This resource comes in US letter and UK A4 size, with a link to a Google Apps editable version. Black and white and colour versions provided. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Oracy | Free Choice Talk | Individual Presentation | Planning Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Student Newsbites | Introduction Activity | Back to School Secondary Persuasive Writing Bingo | Any Topic | Differentiated Layouts Primary Persuasive Writing Bingo | Any Topic | Differentiated Layouts Primary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Primary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Guided Practice | Literature Essay Frame

Blackout Poetry is a great creative pre-reading activity, and this activity focuses on the three different versions of the lullaby in Louis Sachar’s Holes. Different worksheets allow you to explore single stanzas, pairs of stanzas, or all three versions. You also have the option to use worksheets with fully redacted words, or redacted words with grammatical prompts (noun, adjective, verb, etc). Editable Google Apps version included, and all worksheets are provided in US letter size and UK A4 size.

This differentiated art, sketching or drawing task requires students to create an image of the Yellow Spotted Lizard from Louis Sachar’s novel Holes. There are three styles of lizard outline included, and five levels of differentiation: Outline only Outline with empty quote boxes Outline with empty quote boxes and prompt arrows Outline with pre-populated quote boxes Quotation boxes only (no outline) All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.