The 3 Ticking Texts books encourage early readers to understand texts. Book 3 is aimed at KS2 plus KS3 pupils with literacy problems. Each book includes various types of short texts with a low reading level and a high interest level, and the format allows children with poor coordination/writing ability to concentrate solely on text comprehension skills. The sheets are useful for shared and guided reading and for homework and are also suitable for speaking and listening work. Discussion points and extension activities are included for each text. This is a useful resource for children who have ‘learnt to read’ and are now ‘reading to learn.’ Previously available through Easylearn.

This is a bundle of three comparing texts activities that can be used for Pearson Functional Skills English, particularly for the more challenging questions of the Level 2 Reading Exam, that is, Question 10 (identifying language features) and Question 13 (comparing texts). Although Level 1s can also benefit from these activities if adapted to suit Question 15 of the Level 1 Reading Exam. If adapted they can be used to support GCSE English Language (AQA) learners for Paper 2, Question 2 (the summary question). Topics include: dogs, vaping, hobbies and university (new!) Enjoy! T.

Planning sheet for explanation texts. Suitable for KS2.

The 3 Ticking Texts books encourage early readers to understand texts. Book 2 is aimed at KS2 plus older pupils with literacy problems. Each book includes various types of short texts with a low reading level and a high interest level, and the format allows children with poor coordination/writing ability to concentrate solely on text comprehension skills. The sheets are useful for shared and guided reading and for homework and are also suitable for speaking and listening work. Discussion points and extension activities are included for each text. This is a useful resource for children who have ‘learnt to read’ and are now ‘reading to learn.’ Previously available through Easylearn.

A handy resource with a checklist for the features (including examples) and word banks to support with sentence openers, time conjunctions and cause and effect conjunctions. A very hand little resource.

This lesson has been designed for anyone studying Functional Skills English Level One and Level Two. The lesson goes through two different texts and helps learners to understand how to use quotations to make comparisons and respond to the higher value questions on the reading exam paper. If you enjoyed this lesson, then please check out our shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

The 3 Ticking Texts books encourage early readers to understand texts. Book 1 is aimed at KS1 plus older pupils with literacy problems. Each book includes various types of short texts with a low reading level and a high interest level, and the format allows children with poor coordination/writing ability to concentrate solely on text comprehension skills. The sheets are useful for shared and guided reading and for homework and are also suitable for speaking and listening work. Discussion points and extension activities are included for each text. This is a useful resource for children who have ‘learnt to read’ and are now ‘reading to learn.’ Previously available through Easylearn.

Whoosh! text for Shakespeare’s history play, Richard III. A Whoosh is an activity based on Royal Shakespeare Company training and it’s an extremely useful tool to help engage students with the story of a play through drama-based pedagogy (find out more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ANp0cbRasU). It’s super useful for introducing the main events of plays and can be used whether the class are ultimately going to read the whole play or not. Acting out the scenes helps cement the events in pupils minds. Richard III, in particular, can be quite confusing so a Whoosh is a great way to introduce important characters which can then be tracked through the whole story. This text includes a summary of the important events of the play, with characters in bold for Whoosh purposes. The teacher can choose students to act out each part or students can jump up and choose themselves. There are also quotations embedded at strategic points. For reference, this Whoosh took about 40 minutes with a group of Year 8 students.

Example diary entry texts written from the points of view of King Hrothgar and Grendel from Beowulf plus feature find worksheet and answers, differentiated planning templates and word bank. These exemplar texts are perfect to use as WAGOLLs after reading the first seven pages of Michael Morpurgo’s re-telling of the classic Anglo-Saxon story. Resources provided: • Two exemplar diary entry texts • Feature Find worksheets differentiated 2 ways • Feature Find answers • Planning template differentiated 3 ways • Contractions word bank The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents. Pupils read the model diary entries, examine the features using the Feature Find worksheets and then plan and write their own diary entries from the point of view of one of the characters, such as King Hrothgar, Grendel, Edgetheow, King Hygelac or the heroic Beowulf himself, using the differentiated templates. The following language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the WAGOLLs: • Alliteration • Expanded noun phrases • Fronted adverbials • Introductory paragraphs • Rule of three • Synonyms to avoid repetition • Rhetorical questions • Subordinate clauses • Thoughts/feelings/opinions If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free. Other Beowulf themed resources: ✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE ✦ Beowulf Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack ✦ Beowulf Character Profile Model Text Pack ✦ Beowulf Fronted Adverbial Differentiated Worksheets You may also be interested in: ✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4 ✦ Stig of the Dump Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4 ✦ The Twits Character Profile BUNDLE ✦ The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE ✦ Character Profile Example: Journey by Aaron Becker ✦ Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example Text Pack ✦ How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Text Pack ✦ Stone Age Boy Character Profile Example Text Pack ✦ Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example Text Pack Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

This 2 hour session explores how the English language has changed as a result of technological advancements with regards to texting, considering key terminology, a prescriptivist stance on language change and the affordances of texting with references to theories from Dr Wood and David Crystal. The assessment task at the end is designed for the OCR syllabus but can be easily adapted to suit other exam boards.

List of techniques with their common effects. Useful for revision purposes and focused analysis.

A short factual story which needs to be punctuated with capital letters, full stops, commas etc.

A shortened oral text and story map for the book Zog. This can be used for a T4W unit of work. Ideally for Y1 or Y2.

This pack includes: 10 model/ example/ WAGOLL setting description texts, with pictures. Each text describes a different setting (stormy sea, rainforest, desert, funfair etc). A worksheet to support students to identify the key features within the example texts. A ‘Create Your Own Setting Description’ writing task. A ‘Key Features Checklist’ to aid self/peer/teacher review. This pack is designed to help students produce powerful, high-quality descriptive writing. It aims to help students to identify and use the following features: The five senses (see, hear, smell, feel, taste) High-quality vocabulary Figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration) Words and phrases to create mood and atmosphere Background: I decided to create this resource after reading through some stories that my class had written. One thing really stood out to me: a lack of good quality description. How to fix the problem? I knew the first place to start was to provide them with some examples of high-quality descriptive writing. However, it takes a lot of teacher time to find and copy examples from existing texts, or to write new examples from scratch. For this reason, I decided to create a bank of example paragraphs to use myself, and to share with other teachers. Along with the example texts and related worksheet, I have also added a writing task and ‘key features checklist’. This aims to support students to take features from the example texts, and use them in their own writing. These resources could be used in a stand-alone lesson, or as part of a wider unit. By the end of the session(s), students should be able to write a high-quality setting description, packed full of powerful vocabulary and figurative language.

Copies of J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls in bilingual format: English - French English - Urdu English - Portuguese English - Italian English - Ukrainian Plus the MASTER Copy for you to use and translate into any additional languages required via the REVIEW - TRANSLATE function on PowerPoint. Translations might not be perfect as they have been translated using Microsoft Translations. More translations to come in another bundle. Bundle fee covers the time required to format the script into a bilingual page presentation and translate into the other languages.

This 100 page Word document resource is aimed at pupils following Edexcel International GCSE English Language specification A. It focuses on preparation for question 4 of the Paper 1 examination on the ten non-fiction Anthology texts: The Danger of a Single Story; A Passage to Africa; The Explorer’s Daughter; Explorers or Boys Messing About; Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Young and Dyslexic; A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat; Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan; H is for Hawk; Chinese Cinderella. FOR A DETAILED PREVIEW, SEE THE FREE RESOURCE ‘THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY: WORKBOOK WITH ANSWERS’ WHICH IS THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THIS BOOKLET The booklet can be used as a basis for teacher-led lessons, as a revision pack, or as self-study materials for pupils who have missed the teaching of the Anthology due to absence or starting courses late. The study of each anthology text is divided into the following sections: Background and context: Brief details about the writer and the topic of the extract Summary of the text: Summary of the main issues covered in the extract Get started: Pre-reading activity to lead pupils into the text Read the text: Instruction to read the whole text in the Anthology before starting the activities Key vocabulary: List of vocabulary to aid understanding of the text Analyse the language and structure of the text: Questions and activities to encourage analysis Consolidate your understanding: Activity to highlight key points about language or structure Answer a practice examination question: An exam-style question 4 with ten sentence starters Detailed suggested answers are given for sections 1-7 plus a simplified mark scheme for pupils to self-assess their Section 8 practice essays if working independently. A glossary of ‘Language Features: Technical Terms’ is included at the end of the booklet and words in the booklet marked * are explained in this list with examples from the Anthology extracts. The non-fiction extracts are NOT included in this booklet. Pupils should have their own copies of the EdExcel IGCSE English Anthology which is issued by the examination board.

Students do lots of texting in their L1 and are often keen to learn how to text in English too. In this lesson students have a discussion, learn some useful texting abbreviations and read an article about texting and literacy.

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Attendance leaflet - raise awareness of the importance of attendance. Text is editable.