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Connotation - close word analysis
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Connotation - close word analysis

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Ideal for practicing world level analysis for KS3 or weaker KS4 classes. Short original paragraph that then explains how to go about exploring the connotations of individual words and then gives an exemplar. Students then look at a marked response and try to work out why a ‘tick’ has been awarded before completing their own P.E.E.
Writing to Describe HW  pack
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Writing to Describe HW pack

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A set of images with writing prompts. Each homework can be printed and then hand written or completed on a PC. Handy to upload on SMHW etc as it covers multiple weeks. Make great classroom displays - quick and easy to mark.
Creative Word Mat: Winter and Snow
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Creative Word Mat: Winter and Snow

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A word mat to help students create more expressive and figurative descriptions of winter and snow. The word mat has a picture of a snow covered wood that can be used as the prompt for a piece of descriptive writing. The word mat contains lists of adjectives, verbs, adverbs, extended noun phrases, preposition sentence openers, similes and prompts for using the senses.
Grammar Help Sheet  - Word Class
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Grammar Help Sheet - Word Class

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The resource includes a Help Sheet that helps students identify the different word classes and then 5 worksheets to support their writing of descriptive sentences and then descriptive paragraphs using heavily scaffolded word banks and images. This was made for my weak KS3 students and has also been used with developing E2L students. It is a great first teach for primary learning and also as a revision tool at KS3 for those students who need to revise their understanding of word classes and how to use them creatively.
Adventure Stories Word Mat
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Adventure Stories Word Mat

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A word mat to help students create more detailed descriptions in their adventure stories. The word mat includes several picture prompts to help with story ideas. The word mat contains lists of words to describe sights, sounds, smells, sensations and feelings to support making writing more sensory. There is also a powerpoint with further picture prompts for the genre. Tes paid licence
Under the Sea Word Mat
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Under the Sea Word Mat

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A word mat to help students create more sensory descriptions of an underwater setting. The word mat includes several picture prompts to help with description ideas. The word mat contains lists of adjectives, adverbs, verbs, ideas for similes, metaphors and personification, and a reminder to use ISPACE sentence openers to help with sentence variety. There are also prompts to help students think about how to use the senses for this kind of setting. There is also a power point with further picture prompts for the genre.
Emotion Poems - Creative Writing
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Emotion Poems - Creative Writing

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The power point is a great way to get students to think about how to describe emotions and create their own poetry using metaphors, similes, emotive language etc. Works really well for paired or group work as well as individual work.
Remains:  AQA Power and Conflict Anthology
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Remains: AQA Power and Conflict Anthology

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This power point is designed as a first teaching resource. Each slide has one stanza fully annotated along with differentiated questions. (Orange for lower ability, green for mid ability and blue for higher ability.) The first slide has a table for you to insert names of the students and what colour they ae working on. (Depending on your class you may not need three levels of questioning – or you may want to use a mix of all three – it depends on the nature and ability of your class. For my top set I asks them to only do green and blue – for my bottom set only orange and green. For my intervention group only orange.) The questions are based on analysing the poem as though it is an ‘unseen’ poem to best aid an initial detailed understanding of the techniques and tone of the poem. There is a starter which asks pairs to explore the connotation of the word ‘remains’ and a plenary that asks students to draw one image and think of one word that summarises the poem. At the end is an exemplar based on a first stanza question which uses P.E.E.D.Z.L. (Obviously adjust this slide if you use a different format for analytical writing.) The final slide asks a more holistic question based on the ‘power and conflict’ theme. This power point is designed to last two lessons and usually I get the class to peer assess – using the unseen marking criteria – their response.
Creative Writing Prompt Cards
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Creative Writing Prompt Cards

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A set of 27 creative writing prompt cards that have 3 levels of differentiation. Higher ability students write 100 words describing the image on the card and must include at least named literary techniques e.g. personification, metaphor, semantic field. Middle ability students have to select appropriate vocabulary to describe the image e.g. adjectives, verbs, paint colours. Lower ability students are given 3 words for each image which they have to look up in a dictionary and then use in a sentence. They are ideal as starters or extension tasks. There are 9 A8 cards on each A4 sheet which are designed to be laminated for repeated use. I store mine in a card index box and students select the card they wish to work on - the cards are numbered so the students simply write the number of the card in their book. Because they are differentiated they are suitable for all KS3 and KS4 classes. (Paint colours - I have a full range of paint palette cards in the classroom so students can select appropriate colours to describe - so instead of black they will have various shades to choose from - e.g. licorice black.)
Creative and Narrative challenge cards
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Creative and Narrative challenge cards

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These task cards are writing stimuli they do not include any teaching resources. They are designed to challenge your stronger writers. They can be used as starters, home works or challenge cards for when classroom tasks are completed. The file includes 4 writing to describe cards and 4 writing to narrate. There is a power point to display in class and word document task cards (4 per A4 sheet) that can be laminated for everyday classroom use. Each card, which has an unusual image, asks students to write using a specific set of linguistic devices: juxtaposition, olfactory imagery, pathetic fallacy etc. in order to challenge them to really think about crafting their writing - not just writing the first thing that comes into their heads.
Comma Splice Help Card and Task Cards
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Comma Splice Help Card and Task Cards

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A set of 8 task cards that focus on comma splices. Each card has a short extract and students have to identify and correct the comma splice. The task cards can be used as a starter or plenary or as an independent extension task.The cards can be laminated for repeated use. There is also a Help Card to encourage independent reflection. The Help Card allows you to ask students to reflect on their comma splice mistakes in their writing and correct them when doing red pen/ correction time.
Building the Skills. AQA ENGLISH Paper 2
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Building the Skills. AQA ENGLISH Paper 2

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This resource is designed to help build the comparative and summary skills for Paper 2. The source texts are short and packed with content in order to make devices easy to spot but also to make the texts relatively quick to analyse. One set are fictional descriptions of a storm the other non-fiction descriptions of Blackpool. (Neither contain a 19th century text as the resource is an introduction to the skills and not meant as a representation of the actual exam texts.) There is also a self assessment sheet with the marking criteria and a place to reflect on WWW and EBI and set targets. The resource is great for homework as it is easy to upload to homework sites but also great as a whole class resource as the sources and the questions are all on one A4 sheet. There is a full set of Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 questions for each set of sources and an extension Q5 question linked to the themes (there is no mark scheme for Q5 on this resource.)
Short story - reading resource. 'Smart Ice Cream by Paul Jennings
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Short story - reading resource. 'Smart Ice Cream by Paul Jennings

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Suitable for Year 7 or weak Year 8 students. A brilliantly, funny short story by Paul Jennings (not in the pack as still in copyright - available in the compilation of short stories ‘Unreal’) A great read for all students but especially for boys and reluctant readers - a great twist in the tale 7 page story. A 40 slide lesson by lesson power point (6 to 8 lessons depending on the speed and ability of the class) is accompanied by 3 graphic organizers and a marking criteria/rubric. The scheme focuses on building two specific reading skills - locating and selecting information and infer/deduce - reading between the lines. Students write P.E.E. (point, evidence, explanation) paragraphs and focus on improving their drafts. The word wall helps them build and develop vocabulary and the exemplars help them to recognize the standard they are aiming for. The graphic organizers help students to explore and formulate their ideas on characters and themes and the story structure organizer helps students recognize the structure of a story and identify exposition, climax, resolution etc. Also includes comma starters on the power point to help improve punctuation accuracy.