Answers Booklet 5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. This is the teacher copy, with correct answers already highlighted. A separate file is available to purchase, without correct answers highlighted, designed for pupil use. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Wilfred Owen - Exposure 2 - Seamus Heaney - Storm on the Island 3 - Ted Hughes - Bayonet Charge 4 - Simon Armitage - Remains 5 - Jane Weir - Poppies

A Powerpoint slide with sentence openers to use when analysing writers’ methods. The next few slides offer an example text, suggested selection of evidence, and an example of analytical paragraph. This structure encourages pupils to ‘write a lot about a little’ and highlights the importance of selecting appropriate evidence which can provide material for a developed analytical paragraph. The slides can be projected and the first slide can be printed out as a classroom display.

18 Powerpoint slides with the most important quotations from A Christmas Carol, with pictograms to aid memory. Each slide includes the pictogram, the full quotation, the character who says the quotation and the stave. Slides can be projected to revise quotations, or can be printed and displayed in the classroom. According to dual coding theory, imagery accompanied by words, enhances recall as two separate but linked memory traces are laid down, one in each of the memory stores.

A Powerpoint with 15 Verb Tenses Starter activities for pupils to work on independently on their whiteboards as soon as they come into the lesson, while teacher is meeting and greeting, or taking the register. Great as a settler as each starter slide is really clear, with an explanation, an example and 3 exercises to complete. The activities could be written in exercise books too, but this series was designed as a manageable activity which pupils can write up easily on their whiteboards and hold up to show teacher once the register is taken. Each Starter slide is followed by an Answer slide, so even non-specialists/cover teachers can confidently feedback correct answers. Verb Tenses covered: simple present tense simple past tense simple future tense

A Powerpoint with 15 Verb Tenses Starter activities for pupils to work on independently on their whiteboards as soon as they come into the lesson, while teacher is meeting and greeting, or taking the register. Great as a settler as each starter slide is really clear, with an explanation, an example and 3 exercises to complete. The activities could be written in exercise books too, but this series was designed as a manageable activity which pupils can write up easily on their whiteboards and hold up to show teacher once the register is taken. Each Starter slide is followed by an Answer slide, so even non-specialists/cover teachers can confidently feedback correct answers. Verb Tenses covered: present continuous tense past continuous tense future continuous tense

A Powerpoint with 15 Homophone Starter activities for pupils to work on independently on their whiteboards as soon as they come into the lesson, while teacher is meeting and greeting, or taking the register. Great as a settler as each starter slide is really clear, with an explanation, an example and 3 exercises to complete. The activities could be written in exercise books too, but this series was designed as a manageable activity which pupils can write up easily on their whiteboards and hold up to show teacher once the register is taken. Each Starter slide is followed by an Answer slide, so even non-specialists/cover teachers can confidently feedback correct answers. Some examples of homophones covered: to/too/two there/their/they’re no/know buy/by/bye