The Magic Lamp – Creative Writing
A fun creative writing lesson based around a magic lamp situation.
Students are given an exciting scenario with a magic lamp and can continue the story based upon their own ideas.
Lesson objectives, writing tips, video clip writing tip resource, planning sheet and descriptive bingo lesson plenary all included!!
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A fun murder mystery generator to help students write a murder mystery story! The generator will provide a random generation of suspect, motive, weapon and setting.
Great for creative writing or drama!
Also includes a murder bingo activity.
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(Credits: royalty free images, Pixabay, Gamevuze.)
The Summer Holiday Murders
Fantastic creative writing murder mystery story, with a clear scenario and structure to help students write an amazing story.
Lesson scenario:
The summer is finally here. School’s over and you are on the perfect holiday, away and relaxing by the pool in a private and secluded hotel. Until you realise, one by one, someone is killing the guests…
Lesson includes attract imagery, full lesson prompts, lesson objectives, starters and interesting plenary activity! Planning sheet included.
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(Credits: images are free to use commercially with accreditation to Heather Cowper, https://www.flickr.com/photos/heatheronhertravels/4228315581, http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/.)
The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson.
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
Also included are a 5 lesson pack of find the word starters!
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
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Visually attractive Christmas descriptive writing lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Active snow scene gif title page.
* Lesson starter – post-it note activity.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and figurative language techniques.
* A quick warm-up exercise where students finish off Christmas sentence in descriptive language (see image on the Power Point to support ideas.)
* A recap of five language technique prompt.
* Short writing activity prompt asking students to describe their perfect Christmas scene.
* A review page encouraging some students to read out their written descriptions.
* Fantastic “The Perfect Christmas Bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s caller's card and 30
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
If you enjoyed this resource, you will enjoy the Christmas Murder Mystery:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-murder-mystery-full-lesson-11179016
(Snow image by Frank Norman, Flickr, Tree by Minden ami Karacsony, outdoors scene desttopnexus.com/wallpaper/676017/ bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
A bumper 68 page quiz pack, featuring riddles, logo quiz, catchphrases and more. Hours of fun for just £2.00!
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A complete lesson on the film Jaws! Students watch a 10 minute clip of Jaws (choose a dramatic section at the start of the film) and do an extract analysis using the planning and prompt sheets provided.
Power Point includes additional prompts, starter and plenary ideas and lesson objectives.
Resources included are:
* Planning Sheet
* Prompt Sheet
* Additional Images (if required, these can be printed off and placed around the room for immediate impact to go with the starter.)
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(Copyright free: to the best of my knowledge all images are copy right free.)
A Collection of Easy One-Off English Lessons
A value bundle download of easy to teach, one-off English lessons.
Particularly suitable for key stages 2 and 3.
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The Magic Lamp – Creative Writing
A fun creative writing lesson based around a magic lamp situation.
Students are given an exciting scenario with a magic lamp and can continue the story based upon their own ideas.
Lesson objectives, writing tips, video clip writing tip resource, planning sheet and descriptive bingo lesson plenary all included!!
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(Credits: copyright free images and myfreebingo.com.)
Romeo and Juliet Prologue and Act 1 Revision Lesson
An introduction, revision or recap lesson on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Prologue and Act 1. Lesson includes:
* Starter cloze activity
* Lesson objectives
* DIRT/purple pen slide
* Who’s who, character activity
* One page brief summary
* Guess the quotation quiz
* Extract analysis and discussion prompt review
Particularly suitable to lower ability students or those new to Shakespeare.
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Massive English Starter Bundle
This is a huge collection of English starters, suitable for various audiences and occasions, including literacy starters, general English starters, word starters, fun starters and much more.
Suitable for KS2-KS4. Something for everyone!
Download this pack and never worry about starters for the rest of the year!
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The Adventure Bundle
A fantastic collection of one-off lessons.
Pack consists of:
* The Island – Survival Diary
* Bakerfield Lodge – Creative Horror Lesson
* The Sandman – Poetry Lesson
* Climbing Mount Everest – Descriptive Writing Lesson
* The Ultimate Apocalypse
£14.50 of quality premium lessons for just £5.95!
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Word Games and Puzzle Pack
An excellent collection of literacy and word game resources!
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Dracula extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature.
Lesson includes:
* Title page
* Starter
* Lesson objectives
* Link to video clip
* Extract prompt (extract included)
* Find the key word prompt (sheet included)
* Spelling activity (worksheet included)
* Mini writing task
* Plenary post-it-note activity
All resources included at the back of the Power Point.
This lesson is available in a double pack with The Hound of the Baskervilles for £4.50 here:
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Visually attractive introduction lesson on context and characters in Willy Russell’s play, Our Day Out.
Power Point includes:
• Title page.
• Starter activity.
• Lesson objectives page.
• Two context pages followed by a question.
• Meet the author bio page.
• Blurb pages followed by a question.
• Reading prompt of scenes 1-4.
• Main task – spider diagramming of the main characters.
• Key word spelling plenary (spelling sheets and suggested spellings at the back of the Power Point.)
The layout in this eye-catching Power Point could be copied for future lessons, in order to create a visually impressive scheme of work.
You may be interested in this engaging Cornish Mystery story: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cornish-mystery-full-lesson-11192380
(All images copyright free. Images from Wikipedia commons. Scenery images from Geography UK.)
Campervan Travels – Creative Diary Writing
Excellent creative writing diary lesson, giving students a taste for adventure and the opening road!
Lesson outline:
Schools out and you and a group of friends head out on an adventure of a lifetime. All you have is an old campervan, plenty of food and the open road. Where will you go, what will you do?
Complete lesson includes starter, lesson objectives, writing tips, video clip link and full lesson prompts with fantastic, engaging images throughout. Planning sheet included.
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(Credits, copyright free images from: Startravel.co.uk, Backpackingmatt.com, Greybit.com, Funkyleasuire.com)
Highly engaging, poetry lesson based on the original Sandman image by Dina Bova.
Attractive Power Point includes:
* Cryptic starter
* Lesson objectives
* Full size image for discussion point
* Task Explanation
* Planning sheet slide
* Writing tips shared activity
* Writing prompts and plenary quiz
Planning sheet resource included.
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Also available as a creative writing lesson:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-sandman-creative-writing-lesson-11277758
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(Credits: Sandman image by Dina Bova at www.dinabova.com, sand image from wiki.)
An Olympics observation quiz with two rounds.
Round 1 – Students watch a clip of Olympic events and have to answer four questions based on what they have just seen.
Round 2 – Students watch a ‘what happens next clip’ and are rewarded for imagination as well as accuracy.
Quiz sheet included.
Ideal for form time as the quiz should take around 20 minutes.
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Here you get £52.00 of resources for £9.25!!
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