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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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.
This booklet of nine extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for sports fiction or units to engage students with sporting interests.
Wide-spaced for easy annotation and including activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts, you can adapt the pack to your secondary school students’ needs.
Each extract is heavy in description and can be differentiated towards MAT students.
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.
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
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.
Four workshop tasks in worksheet format to explore the context of Of Mice and Men from a slightly more unusual angle. Set the worksheets up at stations around the room, or print them as packs and move students on at their own tables.
The tasks are:
Inference and Deep thinking
Themes and connections
Experience and Empathy
Food and Diet
All sheets come in both UK and US document sizes and with respective spelling and terminology.
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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.
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)
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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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
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.
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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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.
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.
Aimed at Years 5-11, this resource includes two Literacy Mats for general writing support in middle and high school. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students’ written work!
Each mat covers…
Common errors
Apostrophes
Connectives and conjunctions
Paragraphs
Sentence types
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An easy cheat-sheet to prompt your students into considering at least six aspects of a poem. Ready to print in A4 or A3, you can stick these in folders and exercise books, or laminate them as reusable class handouts.
Me? I laminate them and stick them to the desks, so they’re always on hand!
The six areas are…
themes
tone and mood
poetic forms
common symbolism
the vocabulary of structure
senses
…plus a couple of handy tips.
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