Embrace spooky season with your GCSE English Language students with this autumn! This A4 PDF worksheet is perfect for checking in on how your students are doing in preparation for the **Edexcel English Language Paper 1 imaginative writing task. Clear focus on the task, written like an imaginative writing exam task, Fun task for GCSE students, Simply print and it’s ready to go, making it a great option for a cover lesson! LIKE THIS RESOURCE? Please consider leaving a review, as it helps this free resource reach even more English teachers! Why not follow my TES store for more freebies!

Embrace spooky season with your GCSE English Language students with this autumn! This A4 PDF worksheet is perfect for checking in on how your students are doing in preparation for the **Edexcel English Language Paper 1 imaginative writing task. Clear focus on the task, written like an imaginative writing exam task, Fun task for GCSE students, Simply print and it’s ready to go, making it a great option for a cover lesson! LIKE THIS RESOURCE? Please consider leaving a review, as it helps this free resource reach even more English teachers! Why not follow my TES store for more fun freebies!

Pre-reading task for a low/mid ability Year 9 class before reading Stone Cold. Pupils carefully plan out the features of an article, whilst considering their views on homelessness.

**There, their, or they’re? ** This is one of my favourite KS3 homophone starter activities to encourage students to consider the differences between the three words and their uses. For the best impact, read the text to the class whilst students copy and consider which homophone goes where - appealing to their competitive side as they try to figure it out! What’s included? This is a PDF resource with instructions and student page included. The student page includes a challenge task, which is great for mixed ability Key Stage Three English classes. Liked this resource? Check out this printable homophone worksheet pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/homophone-starter-activities-10-printable-worksheets-12858497 Thanks for stopping by!

Engage your students’ minds and enhance their poetic prowess with this captivating Poetic Features Word Search worksheet. This resource is designed to make learning about poetic devices and literary elements an exciting and interactive experience. Unleash your students’ creativity as they embark on a word search adventure, discovering and identifying key poetic features hidden within a grid of letters. From alliteration to metaphor, personification to onomatopoeia, this word search covers a wide range of essential poetic techniques. Each term has been carefully selected to ensure students gain a deep understanding of these artistic tools! If you liked this resource, please consider leaving a quick review as it helps this free resource reach other teachers! Why choose this Poetic Features Word Search? Engaging and Educational: Say goodbye to mundane worksheets! This word search will captivate your students’ attention and make learning about poetic features an enjoyable journey. Reinforce Knowledge: Consolidate your students’ understanding of poetic devices and their definitions through active participation. They’ll strengthen their vocabulary and comprehension skills while having a blast. Easy to Use: This ready-to-print worksheet can be effortlessly integrated into your poetry unit, literature circle, or as an independent activity. No need for hours of preparation – simply download and distribute! Differentiation Made Simple: Suitable for various grade levels, this Poetic Features Word Search offers options for both novice and advanced learners. Tailor the activity to meet the specific needs of your students with ease. Collaborative Learning: Encourage collaboration and teamwork by dividing your class into pairs or small groups. Let them work together to solve the word search, fostering communication and cooperation among peers. Quick Assessment: Assess your students’ understanding of poetic devices in an enjoyable and stress-free way. Use the completed word search as an informal assessment tool to gauge their progress and identify areas for further exploration. Enhance your students’ poetic journey with this engaging Poetic Features Word Search worksheet. Prepare them for a world of expressive writing, where the beauty of language takes center stage. Download now and watch their love for poetry blossom! Note: This resource is also suitable for homeschooling environments, poetry clubs, and anyone!

Questions used for Year 9 whilst reading chapter one of Stone Cold. If you liked this resource, please consider leaving a quick review as it helps this free resource reach other teachers!

Ten sentences that feature commonly confused homophones. I am using this activity as a starter with mid-ability KS3 and a low-ability KS4 by reading the sentences to pupils as they copy. Nothing amazing but hopefully this could save someone some time. If you liked this resource, please consider leaving a quick review as it helps this free resource reach other teachers!

Prepare your GCSE English Language students for the Paper 1 exam and develop their imaginative writing skills whilst embracing spooky season! Structured like an imaginative writing exam task, this PDF includes one question and two images (pumpkin patch with ominous clouds and a deserted house), sure to spark students’ imaginations. This ready-to-print resource is designed to support revision for Section B of the Edexcel English Language Paper 1 GCSE examination, but this is not explicit and can be used for AQA and other exam boards. Perfect for: KS4 English cover lesson tasks Year 11 mock preparation Tutoring activities Developing imaginative and narrative writing skills Like this? Why not check out another spooky season imaginative writing freebie!

Bring a dash of winter to your GCSE revision displays with these eye-catching key quotations from A Christmas Carol. This purchase includes twenty quotations from A Christmas Carol, each on a square wintery blue background and the name of the stave at the bottom. The file is a PDF and easy to print. Please note: One quote is repeated twice, but in different lengths. Perfect for A Christmas Carol KS3 schemes of work, or for GCSE English Literature revision. Like this resource, but it doesn’t quite fit your colour theme? Check out the new Christmassy red version of this resources here: A Christmas Carol Revision Display Posters - Christmas Theme

Homophone Starter Activities - 10 Printable Worksheets Starter activities that engage students as soon as they enter the classroom, whilst challenging them with commonly confused homophones. Homophones included: Paws, pours, pause There, their, they’re No, Know You’re, your Buy, bye, by Here, hear Piece, peace It’s, its Where, wear Who’s, whose This PDF file consists of 10 print and trim worksheets; each worksheet includes three copies of the activity, keeping printing levels low. Each activity comes with an answer key sheet, as well as a set of suggested instructions at the start. Visit my store of other time-saving homophone activities to use with KS3 and KS4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Steshaboof

Add a sprinkle of festive joy to your displays with these eye-catching key quotations from A Christmas Carol. Take the time out of creating a display that encourages quotation recall with this ready-to-print resource! This purchase includes ten quotations from A Christmas Carol, each on a square Christmassy red and holly background. The file is a PDF and easy to print. Please note: One quote is repeated twice, but in different lengths. Perfect for A Christmas Carol KS3 schemes of work, or for GCSE English Literature revision. Like this resource, but it doesn’t fit your colour scheme? Check out the original icy blue winter themed posters here: A Christmas Carol Revision Display Posters

Starry, galaxy-themed positive mindset posters. This ready-to-print PDF of 10 posters can be displayed to boost confidence, self-esteem and kindness in your classroom in the time it takes for you to press ‘print’. Each one of these motivational classroom posters includes a famous quote, making them great for growth mindset inspiration. Like what you see? Why not visit my TES storefront for more resources like this and lots of helpful freebies!

Add a touch of the macabre to your classroom whilst encouraging recall of Lady Macbeth’s key quotations in ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare. This set of 15 eye-catching posters is great for inspiring quotation retrieval whilst revising for the AQA English Literature GCSE. It’s also great KS3 English classes reading the Scottish Play! Each square poster features a quote from the play cross referenced with the act and scene number and the character that speaks the line, all with a creepy background image. This PDF file is easy-to-print, taking the time out of creating engaging English Literature displays. Lady Macbeth not quite what you’re looking for? Why not check out these Macbeth Key Quotation Display Posters for The Witches Quotes included: “Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.” Act 1, Scene 5 “I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue” Act 1, Scene 5 “And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers” Act 1, Scene 5 “Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” Act 1 Scene 5 “Look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t” Act 1, Scene 5 “Screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.” Act 1, Scene 5 “What beast was’t then, That made you break this enterprise to me?” Act 1, Scene 7 “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold” Act 2, Scene 2 “Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done’t.” Act 2, Scene 2 “Tis the eye of childhood, That fears a painted devil.” Act 2, Scene 2 “Yet who would have the thought the old man to have so much blood in him?” Act 5, Scene 1 Lady Macbeth Posters for Display - Lady Macbeth Key Quote Revision

Rainforest-themed positive mindset posters, perfect for adding a bit of greenery wherever they’re displayed. This ready-to-print PDF of 10 posters can be displayed to boost confidence, self-esteem and kindness in your classroom in the time it takes for you to press ‘print’. Each one of these motivational classroom posters includes a famous quote, making them great for growth mindset inspiration. Like what you see? Why not visit my TES storefront for more resources like this and lots of helpful freebies!

Fun word search activity for GCSE and/or KS3 classes studying Macbeth by William Shakespeare. This ready-to-print PDF resource includes a colour version, a black & white printer-friendly version, as well as a teacher answer key. This word search activity reinforces students’ understanding of the Scottish Play by including a mix of characters’ names and key ideas and devices. An engaging resource that would be perfect as a starter activity before the GCSE English Literature exam, or just a fun activity at the end of studying the play. Looking for more things Macbeth? Have a look at this Macbeth key quotation poster bundle

Fun end of term activity for GCSE and/or KS3 classes studying Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This ready-to-print PDF resource includes a colour version, a black & white printer-friendly version, as well as a teacher answer key. This word search activity reinforces students’ understanding of the novella by including a mix of characters’ names, snippets of quotes and key ideas. An engaging resource that would be perfect before the Christmas holidays, or as a starter activity before the GCSE English Literature exam! Looking for more things A Christmas Carol? Have a look at these A Christmas Carol key quotation retrieval posters

Get ready for the end of the school year with this cute summer themed printable homework pass PDF file. File includes 8 passes per page with one colour page and one black & white page for all printer options. These end of term rewards just need printing and trimming, ready for you to write on them. Like this resource? Have a look at my other items: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Steshaboof Summer themed student homework pass reward - end of year incentive

Encourage quotation recall in your GCSE English Literature classroom with these spooky display posters for Mabeth’s three midnight hags. These easy-to-print posters for secondary school classrooms are great for quote retrieval, as well as adding a touch of the supernatural to your classroom! This PDF file includes 15 eye-catching square retrieval posters of key quotes by or about the witches in The Scottish Play on a mysterious backdrop. Each quotation poster includes the name of the character who said it and when it was said. Perfect for Macbeth KS3 schemes of work, or for GCSE English Literature revision. Teaching Resources and Displays

Create a visually appealing display while encouraging recall and quotation retention for the character of Macbeth! This set of 15 eye-catching key quote posters is great for inspiring quotation retrieval whilst revising for the AQA English Literature GCSE. It’s also great for KS3 English classes reading the Scottish Play! Each poster features a quote from the play cross referenced with the act and scene number and the character that says the line, all with a corresponding background image. This PDF file is easy-to-print, taking the time out of creating engaging English Literature displays. Macbeth key quotes not quite what you’re looking for? Why not check out these Macbeth Key Quotation Display Posters for Lady Macbeth Quotes included: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen” Act 1, Scene 3 “This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good.” Act 1, Scene 3 “Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.” Act 1, Scene 3 “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” Act 1, Scene 7 “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly.” Act 1, Scene 7 “To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other” Act 1, Scene 7 “Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand?” Act 1, Scene 7 “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?” Act 2, Scene 2 “I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done;” Act 2, Scene 2 “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’” Act 2 Scene 2 “Blood will have blood” Act 3, Scene 4 "Out, out, brief candle” Act 5, Scene 5 “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage” Act 5, Scene 5 “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day” Act 5, Scene 5 “I bear a charmed life” Act 5, Scene 8 Macbeth Posters for Display - Macbeth Key Quote Revision