This worksheet will help students practise different ways to vary the structure of their sentences. It gives ideas on how to open sentences in different ways and how students can vary the structure of their sentences to make their writing more interesting.

This is a practice sheet to help pupils use parenthesis to make their writing style more interesting. It gives examples of how to use parenthesis and 10 practice questions. Use as a one off lesson to improve writing style.

This worksheet explores how authors open their stories and students can then practise opening narratives in different ways.

This selection of tasks teaches students the differences between news report and magazine article writing. It allows students to discuss the features of both styles of writing and practise a directed writing task. These tasks practise skills needed for CIE First Language English papers 0500. This resource includes: Sample news reports and magazine articles Ordering a news report tasks Venn diagram to fill, illustrating the differences in styles.

This easy to follow Power Point leads the teacher and students through improving a description of a castle. It encourages them to add adjectives, adverbs and figurative language as well as change simple vocabulary to create more of an impression. This lesson gives a balance of classroom discussion led by the teacher and personal writing.

This easy to follow lesson helps students to improve their descriptive writing. It takes the class through three stages of editing a description of a storm and allows them to practise their descriptive writing, editing their own work until they have an interesting and inspiring piece of description. The students will learn about: Personification Similes and metaphors Using powerful vocabulary The use of parenthesis How to vary sentences Teachers can use just the Power Point or copy the passages and paste them into a worksheet for the students to highlight.

This Power Point is a guide for two to three lessons which teachers can use to help students use pathetic fallacy when writing an atmospheric opening for a piece of narrative writing. This Power Point includes: Pictures to use for class discussion, Writing tasks to practise descriptive writing.

This Power Point gives examples of political cartoons that students can discuss and analyze. This skill is important when thinking about satire, bias, propaganda and symbolism in political cartoons when analyzing primary sources. Use this as part of your classroom discussion for History or Research Skills.

This Power Point will be very useful when teaching students to write an interesting narrative. It practises writing attention-grabbing description and creating more attractive characters. It is SHOW DON’T TELL!

This 28 page unit gives busy teachers ready and easy to follow activities for helping students aged 11 - 14 learn how to research and take notes. As teachers, we often just tell the children to research and take notes when planning an essay but we need to remember that we, as their guides to learning, should help them develop these important skills. The booklet includes 7 activities on: Questioning Topic research Paraphrasing passages Using mind maps and spider diagrams Creating a bibliography Using sub-headings. Each activity has steps a teacher can take to conduct a lesson using these worksheets.

This Power Point saves you time in creating a lesson on how to use a comma! It is to be used in a lesson suitable mainly for Years 8, 9 and 10 or even a reminder for Year 11! The teacher can use this Power Point on the screen for an interactive discussion and then there are 15 questions at the end for the student to practise. These could be copied and pasted onto a worksheet if the teacher prefers. *NB: This lesson does not use the Oxford comma. *

**This Power Point is a one-off lesson on how to use semi colons if you are in need of a quick punctuation lesson. ** It is suitable for mainly Years 7, 8 or 9 but could still be used for Year 11 as revision. It includes: An explanation of when to use a semi colon, Examples of using semi colons in a sentence, Questions to answer by writing or discussion in class, Conjunction alternatives to semi colons.

This resource focuses on speech writing techniques, using Greta Thunberg’s speech to the U.N in 2019. It includes 4 different tasks to explore speech writing techniques and pupils use what they have learned to write a persuasive speech on something they are passionate about.

This practice task is perfect for the IGCSE CIE descriptive writing task in First Language English 0500 Paper 2. It encourages students to look at pictures to see what they can describe and to think about the other senses such as touch and sound. The students plan their descriptive writing and then write an exam length composition. A simplified marking scheme is included.

This fun one-off lesson will teach students how to use personification in the opening of a narrative. It encourages them to use interesting vocabulary to describe a person as an animal. The students then carry the activity on to write a narrative piece.

This unit teaches students about literary techniques through writing fun poetry. It has 11 activities and lots of examples of poems using a variety of poetic techniques. As a teacher of English, I have found that by planning, writing and reciting poetry students learn literary techniques that they can use in their writing in a fun way. The literary techniques include:  Hyperbole  Metaphors  Similes  Personification  Repetition  Nouns and abstract nouns  Verbs  Onomatopoeia  Alliteration

This extensive pack contains 40 pages of analytical questions, writing tasks and essay titles from Act 1 to Act 5. This pack will give teachers all the activities they could possibly need for studying ‘Twelfth Night’. You can use the worksheets straight from the pack or adapt them to suit your class. The pack includes: Analytical questions for extracts from the play Character studies Creative writing tasks such as letters, speeches, diary entries and more Essay planning sheets Opportunities for students to work in pairs or small groups and discuss and argue their ideas, 34 exam-style essay titles for use in the classroom I have included both the Word and PDF form of this document.

Use this simple news report based on the fairy tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to illustrate the features of writing a news report. Pupils write their own news report based on a fairy tale of their choice. This includes a scaffolding planning sheet to help pupils organise their ideas.

This is a two-lesson plan for anlaysing the poem ‘This is my Throat’. This modern Ukrainian poem is a change from studying the war poetry from World War I and is something that students can relate to as part of their personal experiences. This resource includes: Teacher’s notes on the poem to aid discussion, Discussion points for analysing the poem as a class, Paired activity A writing task where students create the voice of a character fleeing from conflict.

This comprehension focuses on the skills of analysing language and exploring the intention of the writer in creating effect. This is based on the skills required in the CIE IGCSE Paper 1 and any other task that requires an in-depth analysis of the use of language.