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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Types of Poem - Matching
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Types of Poem - Matching

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An activity requiring students to match up the names of different types of poems to their meaning. Could be used as a starter or homework. Could also be used as dictionary or research work.
Exam Practice Question AQA Lit (Planning Grid)
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Exam Practice Question AQA Lit (Planning Grid)

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A planning grid for students to use exploring a question from the AQA GCSE English Literature Unit 1 paper, focussing on An Inspector Calls. This question is taken from the specimen AQA Foundation Tier paper.
Imagery and Onomatopoeia
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Imagery and Onomatopoeia

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A PowerPoint explaining the poetic techniques of imagery and onomatopoeia, using the poem 'The Highwayman' as an example.
Giving Directions (Instructional Writing)
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Giving Directions (Instructional Writing)

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An activity designed as a homework task for students studying instructional writing. The task asks them to direct a visitor to their school from one room to another, in a different part of the building. The rooms can be changed/adapted to fit any school.
Advertising - What Is It?
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Advertising - What Is It?

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A PowerPoint exploring the question 'What Is Advertising?&' It includes a logo/brand quiz and questions to challenge the thoughts of students about advertising.
Alliteration Practice
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Alliteration Practice

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An activity to support the understanding of alliteration. Used by students during a poetry unit, this activity also gave students a chance to practice their reading and comprehension skills.
Unseen Poetry Revision (Island Man - Nichols)
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Unseen Poetry Revision (Island Man - Nichols)

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A practice exam question for any students undertaking an unseen poem. This particular activity focusses on the poem Island Man by Grace Nichols, and asks the students to complete a planning grid, helping them to focus and note down their ideas. ***The poem is the property of Grace Nichols***
Speech Train
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Speech Train

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This is one way of helping students understand how to plan and draft their work and ideas on presenting a speech. The speech train provides a visual representation of their speech - showing how each section should be linked and how important it is to have a direction and destination for your speech. I enlarged this to A3 before getting the students using it, then it's spacious enough for lots of ideas!
Debate Topics for Speaking & Listening
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Debate Topics for Speaking & Listening

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An activity sheet to help students prepare for their debate/discussion Speaking and Listening Task. The topics are phrased as questions and can be given one-by-one or all together, depending on the ability of the group.
Christmas Criss-Cross
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Christmas Criss-Cross

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A Crossword/Criss-Cross activity for students to test their recapping skills in terms of Christmas. A fun activity to use in a session near the holidays!
GCSE English Language - Descriptive Writing
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GCSE English Language - Descriptive Writing

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A set of resources to help students revise their descriptive writing skills. With a task, specimen answer and the FT grade descriptors included, the students can really grasp what an examiner will be looking for.
The Tempest - Quotation Matching
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The Tempest - Quotation Matching

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An activity designed to enable students to explore the language of Shakespeare and identify the modern-day equivalents of certain phrases from Act 1 Scene 2 of the play. Students are then required to answer a question exploring the relationship between the different characters. Easily adaptable for students of different abilities and ages. *** All quotes from the play are the intellectual property of William Shakespeare***
Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding
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Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding

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An activity to help students understand textual extracts by annotating them. It's really interesting to do this with groups that struggle to take the information within the text and develop it further. ***All extracts belong to the authors who wrote them***
The Unseen Poetry Question - How to Start
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The Unseen Poetry Question - How to Start

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A powerpoint explaining an appropriate method for approaching an unseen poetry question in an exam. This shows students a step-by-step simple approach that can be accessed by most students. ***You will need t select a poem for the students to use - possibly one from a previous paper***
Olympic News Report Creating
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Olympic News Report Creating

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A lesson plan for a morning session of a summer school. Students were asked to research a country; assign roles in the report; improvise language and questions for the report and finally, perform their report to an audience. Great for all ages and abilities. Can be easily adapted. ***All images courtesy of http://www.olympic.org/rio-2016-summer-olympics***
Aquila - Looking at Characters
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Aquila - Looking at Characters

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This resource is designed to support a lesson focusing on the characterisation within the story of 'Aquila' by Andrew Norriss. While the PowerPoint and Worksheet have been designed for Lower Ability students, both can be easily adapted for more able students.
Aquila - Understanding the Plot
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Aquila - Understanding the Plot

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This resource is designed to be used alongside the first couple of chapters of 'Aquila' by Andrew Norriss. The PowerPoint and Activity are designed with Lower Ability students in mind, but each can be adapted easily for more able students.