A collection of Of Mice and Men lessons that are fully differentiated and resourced. Keep checking back as I add more and more resources to this collection.
This bundle includes lessons on:
Introduction and Historical Context
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Curley
Curley’s Wife
Assessment Preparation
Slim and Chapter Three
Assessment Lesson/Review
Analyzing Structure
Creative Writing
Women in Context
Grammar and Punctuation Workshop
Model Essay
Escape Room Lesson
Crooks in Chapter Four
Curley’s Wife and Crooks in Chapter Four
Lennie and Curley’s Wife
Comparing Settings in Chapters One and Six
The Ending
We’ve also added in a Scheme of Work document that is free to download.
This engaging and stimulating lesson enables students to create travel brochure texts containing appropriate and imaginative language choices, utilising a range of different language techniques with subtlety in order to craft writing that serves the dual purpose of being descriptive and persuasive. In particular, students learn how descriptive language such as of similes, metaphors, and personification, in addition to persuasive devices such as statistics, rhetorical questions, and personal pronouns, can help to create truly authentic and effective travel brochure pieces.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
- Define what travel brochures are and understand their purposes;
- Identify the persuasive and descriptive language devices that travel brochure writers employ
- Analyse the effects of the language in a model travel brochure text;
- Utilise a clear and challenging success criteria document in order to construct their own travel brochure pieces;
- Self/Peer assess travel writing attempts.
This resource pack includes:
- A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- An interesting and ambitious travel writing extract (with a highlighted version for teachers):
-A logical and challenging worksheet, encouraging students to analyse key features;
- A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
This informative and engaging double lesson aims to improve students’ ability to compare and contrast two different texts based on a similar subject. They will focus particularly on the purpose, audience, language, and structure of texts, and will learn to use comparing and contrasting connectives to highlight any similarities and differences. This has always been a crucial skill in English, but has an increased importance in the new GCSE for English Language, as there is a greater requirement for students to be able to make links and comparisons between texts.
The lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey, with students learning to:
- Understand the key terms 'compare' and 'contrast', and the importance of these skills in English;
- Categorise the different features that they can compare, under the headings 'Purpose', 'Audience', 'Language' and 'Structure;'
- Read (and identify the key features within) two morally and ethically intriguing texts, offering diverse views of young people in the media;
-Compare the two texts, using a clear and concise template, and newly-acquired knowledge of different types of connectives;
- Peer-assess each other's comparative essay attempts.
Included in this resource pack are:
- Whole double lesson, colourful and engaging PowerPoint presentation (Including assessment for learning referral slides)
- Cards for card-sorting activity;
- Two interesting and thought-provoking non-fiction media extracts (one a newspaper extract from The Evening Standard, and another a persuasive leaflet, both focused on the issue of how young people are perceived.)
- Template for main comparative analysis task;
- Full teacher guidance plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint presentation
Big English Christmas Quiz – Christmas 50+ Questions for that perfect end of term subject based lesson. This Christmas quiz has a mixture of questions and rounds and skills. Some of the rounds will be subject based with subject based knowledge whilst others will be Christmas themed giving that perfect mix for an end of term Christmas lesson.
This resource will last a full 50 minutes to 1 hour.
This resource contains:
1x PowerPoint with questions and answers
1x Student Answer Sheet double sided out of /54+ Marks
3 sets of Editable Team Certificates (1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place)
Skills reflection slide
Personal reflection questions
What does the Christmas quiz comprise of?
Round 1:
Identify winter inspired images
Round 2:
True or False - good variety of themed questions
**Round 3: **
Matching and strategy can you find the correct links and eliminate all others
Round 4:
Linking Round - be able to make the correct links between left and right lists
Round 5:
Numbers Round -all the answers will involve numbers.
Round 6:
Jumbled up Round - Unravel these to find the answer staring directly back at you
Round 7:
Multiple Choice theory - Put your team to the test
Round 8:
Observation Round - Look at the image , remember everything you see….
Round 9:
Wordsearch Round - Locate the words before time runs out…
**Round 10: **
Tie Breaker - Design it but use all your team’s creative abilities
This will last a full hour for the full quiz by the time you get students into small teams and run through the quiz and the interactive way the answers appear. This informative, fun and engaging quiz will be a great way to celebrate the end of term and Christmas.
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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ANIMAL FARM LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE ANIMAL FARM COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell.
All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including:
- The Russian Revolution;
- Old Major’s Dream;
- The Rise of the Pigs;
- Dictatorship;
- Squealer;
- The Ending (Orwell’s Message)
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations.' Teachers have found them particularly useful in exam revision, comprehension tasks, or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the KS4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework - this makes the tasks suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that students gain a deep understanding of the text.
Activities within the booklet include:
- 'Context: 19th Century Britain' - to aid students with 'Drawing on knowledge of the purpose, audience and context of the writing, including its social, historical and cultural context and the literary tradition to which it belongs, to inform evaluation;'
- 'Dickens' Description' - to aid students with 'Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;'
- 'Abel Magwitch' and 'Miss Havisham' - to aid students with 'Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence;'
- 'Editing the Text' - to aid students with 'Making an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.'
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 30 pages in length!) I've also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included).
These anagram wheels provide an opportunity for children to practice their spelling techniques/rules as well as having fun!
20 wheels and answers included.
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A Christmas Carol revision materials that include:
A knowledge organiser
An escape room revision lesson
Key quotes pack and lesson
Mock exam review lesson
10 exam practice questions and answers
Exam preparation lesson
Essay writing lesson
Revision quiz
Contextual links through names
NEW Revision guide
Christmas revision materials
Perfect materials for getting your students ready for their Charles Dickens AQA English Literature Paper 1 exam questions!
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This detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of simple, compound and complex sentences, and to use a variation of sentence types in their own writing for clarity and effect.
Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to:
- Define and exemplify simple, compound, and complex sentences;
- Identify them in writing;
- Understand and analyse how different types of sentences can be used for clarity and effect;
- Create a written piece using a variety of sentence structures for clarity and effect;
- Evaluate their use of different sentence structures.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation;
-Resources for the card-sorting activity;
-A model example and analysis worksheet;
-A success criteria;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE STONE COLD LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Robert Swindells’ ‘Stone Cold.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE CIRQUE DU FREAK LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Darren Shan’s ‘Cirque Du Freak.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
This ‘The Iron Man’ big bundle contains all of The Iron Man lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet!
The engaging and thought-provoking lessons aid students in developing a secure understanding of each of the chapters:
-Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man
-Chapter 2: The Return of the Iron Man
-Chapter 3: What’s to be Done with the Iron Man?
-Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man
-Chapter 5: The Iron Man’s Challenge.
In each lesson, children are guided through the lesson via a colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, which includes a range of thought-provoking activities and model examples/ answers. The tasks are comprised of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, summarising, explaining and deeper thinking activities. Templates are also provided for a number of the creative activities.
There’s a lot in the each lesson and so you may wish to either select the content that is pertinent to you/ your class or spread each lesson resource over two sessions.
The resources are ideally pitched for children in lower KS2, but could feasibly be used with slightly older or younger children, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.
The students love this idiom activity based on the TV game show ‘Catchphrase.’ The students have to guess the idiom catchphrase and then explain what it means. They have 22 to complete! There is also a fun activity on ten international idioms where the students discuss what they mean.
A comprehensive set of resources for anyone to be able to teach a block on writing discussion texts. Planned for Year 5 but very easily adaptable to Year 4 or Year 6.
Included are:
Full lesson plans for 15/16 lessons, with differentiated activities for children.
IWB slides for every lesson that go step by step through the lesson. (N.B. In the shared writing sessions, the example paragraphs just need playing around with to a new topic. Whilst I could have done these, it is more powerful to do them with the class at the time)
Resource sheets required for lessons.
Word banks for children to use.
A self-assessment/ teacher assessment marking sheet that helps children assess as they write and can then be used for a simple marking sheet to pick out positives and targets for children.
This engaging and detailed resource pack has been designed to make the learning of expanded noun phrases (particularly prominent in the new curriculum) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout the lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise expanded noun phrases within their own writing compositions.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
- Define what expanded noun phrases are;
- Identify varied and interesting nouns and adjectives;
- Analyse and evaluate what it is that makes some nouns and adjectives more effective than others;
- Utilise prepositions in order to open up new levels of detail in their own expanded noun phrases;
- Write an extended piece with the employment of exceptional expanded noun phrases;
-Peer/self-assess learning attempts.
This resource pack includes:
- A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- A clear and interesting worksheet for the development task;
- Picture resources for the main activity;
- A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE FRANKENSTEIN LESSONS, PLUS THE 30 PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of Mary Shelley's horror classic 'Frankenstein.' The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key themes and ideas running throughout the text.
All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including:
- The Context of Frankenstein;
- Victor Frankenstein - The Tragic Hero;
- Shifting Narrative Viewpoints:
- Shelley's Description of the Monster;
- The Monster's Murders - Justified?
- The Frankenstein Pointless Game
- Frankenstein Comprehension Booklet
- Frankenstein Knowledge Organiser
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
2 x easy to use reading comprehension packs with three sections of differentiated questions. These activities focus what exactly county lines is, the attractions of joining a gang compared to what the reality is like, where teens can get help and why gang crime is on the increase.
It can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in an English lesson for KS3/4 GCSE comprehension training.
It is interesting, useful, very easy to use and includes an editable word version and a PDF version.
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Quiz - Christmas Quiz: A fun and accessible English Christmas Quiz with over 20 questions and hidden YouTube surprises. Works on PowerPoint. Questions focus on lessons students have been using to prepare for GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature.
An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on urgent environmental issues . It can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in an English lesson for KS3/4 GCSE comprehension training.
It is interesting, useful, very easy to use and good to raise awareness of envirornmental issues.
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This poster explains parts of our speech and what they are called. For example similes, metaphors, personification, amongst others, with each giving an example to help with understanding