The Halloween Murder Mystery – Creative Writing Story
A fantastically engaging lesson with arresting imagery. Students write a Halloween murder mystery story following a set scenario.
The scenario:
On a stormy Halloween night, you and your friends set off to attend a ‘spooky’ Halloween fancy dress party.
You make your way through the storm in good spirits and arrive at the house on the hill where the party is taking place.
Inside the house, the party is in full swing and you are happy to take shelter from the storm and join in the fun! Until…
You realise someone has been murdered…
But who and why?
And will you make it out alive?
Highly attractive Power Point includes:
* Full lesson scenario
* Starter task
* Lesson objectives
* Planning sheet
* Writing and discussion prompts
* Interactive murder mystery bingo with callers card and 30 individual bingo cards (from myfreebingo.com)
Also included: things to include in descriptive writing, writing checklist and word banks!
All the material for an excellent, one-off lesson or lessons.
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Fantastic bundle download of halloween lessons, consisting of:
* The Halloween Murder Myster
* Zombie Land - Terror at the Fun Fair
* The Hound of the Baskervilles
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A literacy ‘health check’ booklet containing 25 questions, ideal for Y6-Y9 low or average ability range. The short assessment is intended as a brief, low pressure test (hence the ‘health check’ not a ‘test’) and comprises of simple fill-in-the-blanks questions on: capital letters; there, their and they’re; to and too; apostrophes and common spelling errors.
Included on the Power Point are all the answers to the test, as well as a starter and literacy plenary ideas. All resources are included at the back of the Power Point.
Attractive 21 page Power Point includes:
• Title page.
• Fun facts - true or false starter.
• Literacy objectives page.
• Prompt pages for the test.
• Full answers for each section.
• Reflective area for students to respond to on the back of the test.
• Discussion prompt.
• Creative literacy word search activity (provided at the back of the Power Point.)
• Links to a literacy ‘Block Buster’ online game and image.
• All resources, with instructions on how to create the booklet.
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All about you - a perfectly simple, but engaging lesson which explores students' wishes, dreams and hopes. The lesson is ideal as an introductory lesson or just as a one-off lesson any time. The main lesson objectives include testing students' ability to think creatively with emphasis on attention to detail and descriptive writing skills.
Attractive lesson Power Point includes:
* Word link puzzle starter activity.
* Mini-task - three wishes, students choose any three wishes they would choose if given the choice (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.)
* Dream home and location - students choose their dream house and location (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.)
* Ideal job - students choose their ideal job (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.)
* Main task perfect day - students describe their perfect day (writing frame and word bank included.)
* Puzzle plenary activity.
No photocopying or printing required, simply download and teach - word document writing frame included if needed.
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A fantastic bundle, consisting of Zombie Land and the Halloween murder mystery and a starter pack.
Great value.
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Dracula extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature.
Lesson includes:
* Title page
* Starter
* Lesson objectives
* Link to video clip
* Extract prompt (extract included)
* Find the key word prompt (sheet included)
* Spelling activity (worksheet included)
* Mini writing task
* Plenary post-it-note activity
All resources included at the back of the Power Point.
This lesson is available in a double pack with The Hound of the Baskervilles for £4.50 here:
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Should Britain have left the EU?
Hugely topical writing to argue and persuade writing task based on the shock result of the EU referendum.
Students get to offer their opinions on the result.
24 Page Power Point includes
* Title pages
* Lesson objectives
* Prompt pages
* Statistic pages
* Immediate reactions
* Positives and negatives
* Writing prompt pages and review
Guaranteed to engage!
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(Credits: all images taken from The Guardian and the BBC website.)
The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson.
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
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The Hauntings - A Collection of Ghost Lessons
A collection of exciting creative and descriptive haunting lessons, kids will love. Amazing value!
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New York Descriptive Writing
A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from New York and scenes Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan. Students fill in the senses sheet, watch and briefly analyse the opening of Manhattan (resources and links provided) before writing their own pieces of description.
Great engaging lesson!
For the New York Descriptive Monologue version of this lesson, see here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-york-monologues-descriptive-writing-11309329
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The Beast of Bodmin Moor Investigation - Fact or Fiction
An amazing investigation lesson into the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor.'
Students get to explore and research the legend of the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor' in groups, moving from investigation area to investigation area before writing their final reports.
All resources included.
The investigation areas are:
* Newspaper reports
* Photos
* Video footage
* Fact files
* Eyewitness Accounts
Students fill in their investigation sheets as they go to each area.
An outstanding lesson.
Teacher note included.
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(Credits: copyright free images. Articles taken from the Mirror, Telegraph and Daily Star taken from the public domain.)
The Chocolate Bar Lesson + The Time Machine
Fantastic value pack of these two premium resource lessons + quizzes.
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A fantastic collection of starter material featuring:
* Karlk Pilkington's SPAG and PEE pack.
* Funny Captions
* General Starters
* Find the word starters
* Word game PP
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Zombie Land + Christmas Horror Story with a Christmas Quiz
Fantastic value pack. Two wonderful lessons and a full 30 question Christmas quiz. Excellent value bundle!
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Bargain sale of premium resources, grab a bargain now!
Here you get £52.00 of resources for £9.25!!
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Massive English Bundle Download
This really is a HUGE download of premium, tried and tested lessons and resources, saving you HUGE amounts of time. Available at a limited time only at the price.
Download and chill out a bit.
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The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson.
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-four-lesson-bundle-11256414
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New York Monologues – Descriptive Writing
A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from New York and scenes Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan. Students fill in the senses sheet, watch and briefly analyse the opening of Manhattan (resources and links provided) before writing their own monologues!
Great engaging lesson!
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(Credits: all images copyright free, available from Wikipedia and other royalty free sites.)