Information about tanks of the future with illustration that I used for a reading/research activity where my student summarised each section into one or two sentences. you could also make comprehension questions to use with this.

Following of from writing about the description of The Captain at the opening of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island this activity gets students to write their own description of a pirate encouraging the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, and speech, with speech marks. There is then a guided self and peer assessment activities followed by redrafting and final write up. I used this over a sequence of 3 lessons but mainstream learners would progress more quickly. Following on from my free resource The Captain.

Writing activity based on reading the blurb. One with questions to answer the other asking students to write what the blurb tells them and to explain why they think this.

Picture of the front cover with boxes in which to write your analysis. Differentiated to four different levels from blank to prompts and sentence starters.

A worksheet to support designing a pirate character to use in story writing.

Story board and writing frame to support story writing on a pirate theme.

A sequence of lessons to get pupils to use adjectives, persuasive writing and to evaluate themed around a creative project building pirate forts as part of a topic following the book Treasure Island. I used it in English lessons but could be adapted for DT.

A set of activities linked to the poem Amulet by Ted Hughes.

End of topic reward lesson design, then make, then decorate biscuits. The recipe I used is as follows: 200g plain flour 100g margarine 100g sugar 1 egg Grease tray. Sieve flour. Cut and rub in fat to fine breadcrumbs. add sugar and any flavourings. add beaten egg and bring together. roll out and cut out shapes bake for 10-20 mins at 180 until straw coloured allow to cool.

Picture stimulus for discriptive writing activities.

Activities linked to Chapter 3 of The Iron Man including designing a menu for The Iron Man and a picture ordering/story summery activity to recap the story up to chapter 3.

Creative writing following on from the end of Chapter 1 of The Iron Man.

Comprehension activity based on chapter 1 and an introduction activity for the book.

A sequence of lessons about the poem Ozymandias supporting SEN students to access the poem and building up to completing simple exam style question.

Structured exam questions to support SEN students to access and engage with GCSE style exam questions.

Resources for a sequence of lessons to support SEN students to access the poem, explore newspaper report structure, write a newspaper report based on the events in the poem and answer comprehension questions based on the poem.

Some information on advantages and disadvantaged of various types of ships for students to read then choose a ship and give a justification for their choice.

Fact file of the pirate Mary Read

Pictures of front cover: Blank - higher Boxes with arrows - Middle - Boxes arrows and sentence starters Lower.