Middle school teaching resources

30 pages of phonics activities perfect for practising alien words from phase 2-5 for the Phonics screening check.

10 fully resourced lessons to prepare students for the AQA English Language Paper 2, Section A exam: 'Writer's Viewpoints and Perspectives'. This resource bundle includes: Two powerpoint presentations totalling 142 slides. A full lesson by lesson scheme of work including clear learning objectives and outlining assessment opportunities. Eight different extracts to use with students from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Each lesson is clearly structured with learning objectives, learning start activities, learning review activities and opportunities for students to demonstrate and assess their learning in a number of ways. The lessons aim to develop a common approach for tackling each question to build students' confidence. There are a number of opportunities for students to tackle the different question types and the presentations provide clear steps and guidance to support students during the assessment process. Model answers and assessment sheets also included. Extracts included: 'American Sniper', Chris Kyle 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', William Howard Russell 'Letter to My Mother', Wilfred Owen 'A Beautiful Job', Gunner William Towers (WW1) 'The Death of Lord Nelson', William Beatty 'We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches', Winston Churchill 'Surrender Speech', Chief Joseph (taken from the AQA Reading Support Booklet) 'The Gettysburg Address', Abraham Lincoln In addition to this, the presentations also include some optional Paper 2, Section B questions that link to the extracts and aim to develop students' nonfiction writing skills. The lessons and extracts are focused around the theme of war so they can be linked with the 'Power and Conflict' AQA poetry anthology to develop students' contextual understanding for the English Literature exam. Any feedback on the resource would be greatly appreciated!

Intended to be printed and laminated for a wall display on literary devices. Uses examples from a lot of modern films (lots of Harry Potter!) to make explanations clear and relevant to pupils. I hope it comes in handy.

Goes from the dinosaurs through key periods of history to the present day. Use MS Word to adapt it. I have added the Stone, Bronze, Iron and Middle Ages to the updated version. As well as the first public railway in 1825, England winning the World Cup in 1966 and the 2012 Olympics.

A self-contained game to be played in pairs. Use to revise reading coordinates on a grid. Best played once coordinates have already been introduced, as a consolidating activity. Differentiated versions of the game within this pack, including use of the first quadrant only, as well as all four quadrants. You will also find instructions on how to play the game within your pack. Suitable for Years 4 and 5 (on one quadrant) and Year 6 and KS3 (on all four quadrants).