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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Features of Adverts
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Features of Adverts

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A PowerPoint and Activity to help students understand and identify the features of adverts. The features are named and explained, and then students are required to identify them in printed ads and label and explain their reasoning.
Reading Skills - Making Predictions
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Reading Skills - Making Predictions

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A PowerPoint on the skill of predicting what might happen in a book, leaflet, etc. Students are asked to predict the contents of writing using various sources, and are able to identify primary and secondary elements in texts. The Activity 'What does the Cover say?' asks students to say what they think a book may be about from the cover&'s primary and secondary elements. * Image links are included and can be easily found on the internet.
Writing Triplets (Introduction)
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Writing Triplets (Introduction)

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A powerpoint to explain and demonstrate how writing triplets can be used to identify the purpose of any type of writing. Used with students to introduce the idea and give them an understanding of how they can use them in their writing.
Wallace Hartley Comprehension Activity
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Wallace Hartley Comprehension Activity

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A comprehension practice activity using Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster of the RMS Titanic, as the topic. The information links to the questions and requires the students not only to read carefully, but to read between the lines and pick out alternative information. * The source of the information is indicated on the information sheet*
Punctuation/Paragraph Practice
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Punctuation/Paragraph Practice

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This resource can be used with either Higher Level KS3 students, or students in KS4. All the capital letters, full stops and paragraphs have been removed from a review of Homeland Season 1. The students just have to figure out where they should be put! Could be made easier for Lower Ability students. Article is the intellectual property of the writer (name and newspaper on the sheet)
Writing a Letter of Complaint
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Writing a Letter of Complaint

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A powerpoint talking students through how to write a letter of complaint. This explores a possible structure, and demonstrates how addresses should be correctly presented. Following the information section, there is a task asking students to write a letter of complaint about a mobile phone.
Basic Punctuation - The Rules
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Basic Punctuation - The Rules

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A quick guide to the basic punctuation marks and what they mean/are used for. Could be diasplayed on Classroom Walls or used as a prompt for students who are struglling individually.
There, Their and They're - What's the Difference?
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There, Their and They're - What's the Difference?

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A PowerPoint and Activity to help stuggling students understand the difference between the tricky there, their and they're homophones. The accompanying homework sheet helps the students to demonstrate their understanding independently.
Harry Potter Comprehension
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Harry Potter Comprehension

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An activity to revise and test students understanding of a story. Using Harry Potter allows the students to connect to a well known text. ***The extract used is copyright of the author J.K Rowling.
Identifying Meaning (Context)
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Identifying Meaning (Context)

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An activity designed to help students understand difficult words. The students are asked to try and work out what the word means just by seeing it in a sentence/in context. Can be easily adapted, or students who are struggling can use a dictionary for additional support.
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Scheme Resources
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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Scheme Resources

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BSP Powerpoints and Resources. Accompanies the Scheme of Work created by TESEnglish for the text. Brilliant Scheme that has enabled me to adapt and use the activities/tasks with mixed ability groups, and differentiate by outcome. ***The extracts are all copyright of the author, John Boyne.
Reading Skills - Visualising Descriptions
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Reading Skills - Visualising Descriptions

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An activity designed to explore how we all read descriptive passages but see them differently. It requires students to read the extracts from the novels and then draw their interpretation of the description. Both extracts are copyright of their authors.
Homophones - What Are They?
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Homophones - What Are They?

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A PowerPoint designed to explain Homophones to students. It requires them to be able to identify them and work out whether the words they've chosen are actually homophones or not - through discussions with peers. Can be easily adapted for different groups and abilities.
50-Word Story Telling
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50-Word Story Telling

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An activity template to help students retell a story in just fifty words. Helps them to practice summarising and identifying the most important points of a story.
Christmas Cryptograms
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Christmas Cryptograms

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These activities have been created for groups of KS3 (and LA KS4) to give the students a challenge at the end of term. I like that they take time to do, when doing them properly. These activities are not like the usual Christmas activities, so the students really engage with them also!
Unseen Poetry Revision (Autumn - Alan Bold)
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Unseen Poetry Revision (Autumn - Alan Bold)

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A revision exercise for students studying GCSE English Literature, allowing them to practice their understanding of a unseen poem, and also writing an answer to the question in their exam. ***The poem is the copyright of the author***
Debate Topics for Speaking & Listening
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Debate Topics for Speaking & Listening

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An activity sheet to help students prepare for their debate/discussion Speaking and Listening Task. The topics are phrased as questions and can be given one-by-one or all together, depending on the ability of the group.
Introducing Tenses
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Introducing Tenses

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A PowerPoint designed to be a basic introduction to the idea of past, present and future tenses. Can be added to with own examples, and followed up with worksheets or examples dependent upon the ability of the group.
The Unseen Poetry Question - How to Start
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The Unseen Poetry Question - How to Start

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A powerpoint explaining an appropriate method for approaching an unseen poetry question in an exam. This shows students a step-by-step simple approach that can be accessed by most students. ***You will need t select a poem for the students to use - possibly one from a previous paper***
Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding
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Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding

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An activity to help students understand textual extracts by annotating them. It's really interesting to do this with groups that struggle to take the information within the text and develop it further. ***All extracts belong to the authors who wrote them***