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English consultant. Former Head of Faculty, and author of five texts for Pearson Education. Current examiner and team leader for two examination boards.
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The Big Non-Fiction Reading Bundle
The 'Big Non-Fiction Reading Bundle' contains four full schemes of work for 20-23 hours of classroom activities! The four units of work contain everything you need: professionally produced PowerPoint presentations, student worksheets, materials for effective differentiation, peer assessment materials, and of course, detailed teachers' notes. Not only this, but each unit also contains a supportive homework presentation for you to place on your school's VLE, or to use as further extension activities in class.
The 'Titanic' package develops students' ability to integrate information presented in different media formats, cite evidence to support analysis, and distinguish claims supported by reason from those that are not.
They investigate the sinking of the Titanic by studying route charts, casualty figures, the lifeboat launch log, diagrams of the ship and testimonies of passengers, crew and expert witnesses.
The 'Deduction and Inference' unit provides material to develop students' ability to draw inferences from a text, to determine figurative and connotative meaning and analyze the impact of specific word choice. In the centrepiece of the unit , students investigate the death of a man by drawing inferences from what they find 'about his person'.
In the third unit of the bundle, students explore the world of travel writing, reflecting on and evaluating brochures, rough guides, newspaper reports and television clips. There is much group work and discussion, and an extended activity in which students form groups to make a presentation to either promote their home town, or to give a 'rough guide' presentation - warts and all!
The final resource in the bundle offers students the opportunity to study famous speeches to consider figurative and connotative meaning, and analyze the impact of imagery, repetition etc in the texts.
Students study a variety of speeches: (Braveheart's 'Freedom' speech; St Crispin's Day speech from Henry V; Churchill's 'Their Finest Hour' and 'Fight on the Beaches' speeches; Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, and Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I A Woman?')
Video clips of the speeches are accompanied by full texts. Materials for differentiation ensure that students of different abilities will be able to access the work.
Separately, the units of work would cost £20, so at £12, the bundle is great value for money as well. I hope it proves to be a really useful addition to your classroom resources.
Total Pages / Slides 231
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The Big 'Getting It Right' Bundle
Each unit in the 'Getting it Right' series comprises an interactive presentation that can be loaded onto your school network.
The 'Apostrophes for Possession and Omission' units (2) are supported by a workbook of activities, and a quiz package that reminds students of the key points of the lessons, before providing a homework quiz that can be easily marked to provide an accurate profile of your students' understanding.
All images are free for use commercially.
Contents:
Teacher presentations (8)
Workbooks (6)
Quiz presentations (8)
Getting it Right - Apostrophes for Possession and Omission
Each unit in the 'Getting it Right' series comprises an interactive presentation that can be loaded onto your school network.
The 'Apostrophes for Possession and Omission' units (2) are supported by a workbook of activities, and a quiz package that reminds students of the key points of the lessons, before providing a quiz that stimulates focused discussion, enabling students to articulate and embed their learning.
All images are free for use commercially.
Contents:
Teacher presentations (2)
Workbook
Quiz presentations (2)
Bundle
The Big Non-Fiction Writing Bundle
The 'Big Non-Fiction Writing Bundle' contains four full schemes of work for 20-25 hours of classroom activities! The four units of work contain everything you need: professionally produced PowerPoint presentations, student worksheets, materials for effective differentiation, peer assessment materials, and of course, detailed teachers' notes. Not only this, but each unit also contains a supportive homework presentation for you to place on your school's VLE, or to use as further extension activities in class.
'Letter Writing' (Audience and Purpose) is a fun unit that takes in 'Harry Potter' and 'The Three Little Pigs', while developing students' skills in producing clear, coherent, formal and informal letters.
'The Real Dickensians' and 'The Iceman' are both investigative units of work that contain a wealth of supportive frameworks to enable you to differentiate your lessons easily - writing frames, placemats, sentence starters, etc., and to enable your students to write cohesive, informative texts.
In 'The School Play', students work on planning and delivering a magazine report of a school production, while the teacher (as the magazine's editor) gradually drops in various suggestions that cause writing teams to reconsider their plans and redraft their reports.
Separately, the units of work would cost £20, so at £12, the bundle is great value for money as well. I hope it proves to be a really useful addition to your classroom resources.
Total: 272 pages / slides
Letter Writing (Years 7 and 8)
A fun unit of work that takes in 'Harry Potter' and 'The Three Little Pigs' as students work on a series of activities, developing their skills in writing in appropriate registers.
Sentence starters are provided for support when appropriate, and the unit culminates in an assessment task accompanied by a peer assessment activity.
The homework unit extends the classroom unit, students being presented with activities in which they have to decide the purposes of various texts: to inform, to review, to persuade, to entertain or to instruct.
Contents: (5-7 lesson scheme of work, full resources and lesson plans)
Classroom presentations
7 page workbook
VLE homework presentation
Letter extract grid
Formal / Informal writing grid
Peer assessment resource
Full lesson plans
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Avoiding Common Errors - Starter Activities
A series of twelve starter activities covering some of the most common errors that we, as teachers, see in our students' writing.
Each starter begins with an 'error' slide, where students are asked to spot the error that the slide illustrates.
There follows an explanation of the error and how to correct it, the penultimate slide in each starter unit being designed so that it can be laminated for permanent classroom display.
Each presentation is supported by activities in the accompanying workbook, for individual, pair or group work.
Contents:
12 'Common Error' presentations
12 'Common Error' Activity Sheets
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Travel Writing
The focus of this unit is to develop students' ability to make inferences and determine an author's point of view in non fiction writing.
Students explore the world of travel writing, reflecting on and evaluating brochures, rough guides, newspaper reports and television clips. There is much group work and discussion, and an extended activity in which students form groups to make a presentation to either promote their home town, or to give a 'rough guide' presentation - warts and all!
The VLE homework unit offers three tasks that extend the map beyond travel writing, students reflecting on film, book, album and game reviews. In addition, they select a review to evaluate, and finally write their own reviews, using the techniques that they have studied in the unit.
Tailored peer assessment materials help students to evaluate their work and the work of others; the unit comes complete with full teachers' notes, and as always, are 'dyslexia friendly'.
Contents:
PowerPoint classroom presentation
Homework presentation (for your school's VLE)
Workbook
Homework resource material
Assessment resource material
Peer assessment material
Placemats
Full teachers' notes
Total Pages62
High Fives - Proper Nouns
A flexible resource that builds into a flexible series of resources. 'High Fives - Proper Nouns' is a series of five worksheets that can be used as daily lesson starters, or for literacy tutorials, or as homework activities.
They are suitable for primary and secondary schools.
Each page has an identical layout, the first box explaining the teaching point, the second and third boxes offering words, phrases and sentences for correction, and the final box giving an opportunity for independent writing.
Each week, further 'high fives' packages will be added.
High Fives Punctuation Series (in preparation):
Proper nouns
Using Commas
Sentences
Apostrophes for possession
Apostrophes for omission
Speech marks
Colons
Semi colons
Making a Poetry Anthology (Years 7 and 8)
This unit provides activities on imagery, word sounds, onomatopoeia and alliteration, extended imagery and personification. After each segment, students write a response in which they use the techniques that have been modelled and developed in the lesson. At the end of the unit, students assemble their poetry anthologies and choose two pieces for display and assessment.
Writing frames, sentence starters and students' own 'word bags' offer support to students at all stages.
Two homework units further reinforce all aspects of the work covered in the classroom unit.
Contents: (6-8 lesson scheme of work, full resources and lesson plans)
Classroom presentations
Two VLE homework presentations
11 page workbook
Peer assessment resource
Full lesson plans
Note: All images are free for use commercially.
Getting It Right - Sentences and Connectives
The 'Getting it Right' series is appropriate for both KS2 and KS3.
Each unit comprises an interactive presentation that can be loaded onto your school network.
The 'Sentences and Connectives' unit is supported by a workbook of activities, an assessment activity to check students' understanding, and a quiz package that remind students of the key points of the lessons and stimulates focused discussion, enabling students to articulate and embed their learning.
All images are free for use commercially.
Contents:
Teacher presentations (2)
Workbook (including assessment activity)
Quiz presentations (2)
Sentence Power - Starter Activities
‘Sentence Power’ is a series of fifteen starter activities designed to give students opportunities in experimenting with a variety of sentence forms in a variety of contexts.
For instance, students may be asked to begin sentences with adverbs, participles, imperative verbs or abstract nouns; they may be asked to use rhetorical questions, repetition or rule of three within their sentences; they may be required to write a sentence in 15-20 words, or only five words, or end the sentence with an exclamation.
Crucially though, students are asked to experiment with their sentence types in the context of different pieces of writing, such as an extract from a thriller, from a romantic novel, or a horror story; other contexts offered are advertisements, letters of complaint, diaries, reviews, instructions, etc.
Contents:
15 PowerPoint Starters
15 page workbook.
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Never a Crossed Word (Nouns)
‘Never a Crossed Word’ is a fun package for all ages. It is said that if students can’t say it, they can’t write it, and this resource focuses on developing students’ speaking and listening skills, giving them opportunities to describe and explain in a highly structured, fast paced game format.
The pictures are not mere decoration. They give students clues and ‘entrances’ to the word that they are trying to describe, and as such, are integral to the game. The resource can be used as a lesson starter, as an end of term activity, or as a literacy activity for tutor groups etc., allowing those students who may be reluctant to express themselves the opportunity to do so in a fun way.
This resource provides sixty games (sixty slides – two levels of difficulty), all focused on nouns, and contains a built in timer to enhance the excitement of the game!
Contents: PowerPoint games
Rules of the game
All images are free to use commercially.
Never a Crossed Word (Verbs)
‘Never a Crossed Word’ is a fun package for all ages. It is said that if students can’t say it, they can’t write it, and this resource focuses on developing students’ speaking and listening skills, giving them opportunities to describe and explain in a highly structured, fast paced game format.
The pictures are not mere decoration. They give students clues and ‘entrances’ to the word that they are trying to describe, and as such, are integral to the game. The resource can be used as a lesson starter, as an end of term activity, or as a literacy activity for tutor groups etc., allowing those students who may be reluctant to express themselves the opportunity to do so in a fun way.
This resource provides sixty games (sixty slides – two levels of difficulty), all focused on verbs, and contains a built in timer to enhance the excitement of the game!
Contents: PowerPoint games
Rules of the game
All images are free to use commercially.
The Real Dickensians- Working Children of the Potteries (Years 7 and 8)
A unit of work that contains an abundance of pictures, anecdotes and reports based on the 'Scriven Report', which investigated the working conditions in the factories of 'The Potteries' in the mid 1800s.
Students use grids, writing frames and summarising placemats to investigate and report on the working lives of young children, and to develop their ability to organise non-fiction writing.
The VLE homework unit develops and embeds students' understanding of 'main idea' and 'supporting details' by using further extracts from the report.
Contents: (4-6 lesson scheme of work, full resources and lesson plans)
Classroom presentations
6 page workbook
VLE homework presentation
Grid for note-taking
Writing frame
Summarising placemat
Peer assessment resource
Full lesson plans
Note: All images are free for use commercially.
Never a Crossed Word (Nouns)
‘Never a Crossed Word’ is a fun package for all ages. It is said that if students can’t say it, they can’t write it, and this resource focuses on developing students’ speaking and listening skills, giving them opportunities to describe and explain in a highly structured, fast paced game format.
The pictures are not mere decoration. They give students clues and ‘entrances’ to the word that they are trying to describe, and as such, are integral to the game. The resource can be used as a lesson starter, as an end of term activity, or as a literacy activity for tutor groups etc., allowing those students who may be reluctant to express themselves the opportunity to do so in a fun way.
This resource provides sixty games (sixty slides – two levels of difficulty), all focused on nouns, and contains a built in timer to enhance the excitement of the game!
Contents: PowerPoint games
Rules of the game
All images are free to use commercially.
'Spellpics 2' Spelling Starters
Spellpics 1 and 2 comprises 20 spelling activities that are great fun, while at the same time providing a learning structure to enable students to develop their understanding of spelling strategies.
Each activity provides 5 PowerPoint game slides - sixteen pictures linked to sixteen words focusing on different spelling rules, such as the 'i before e' rule, split digraph rule, 'tion' suffix rule, etc.
Students are shown the pictures, the spelling strategy is indicated, and they have to guess the word that is suggested in each case, before the teacher reveals the answers.
Each game is supported by an extension activity to underline and embed the learning strategy, and the final slide of each game displays the key learning points of the game, that can be laminated for classroom display.
Please browse the preview to discover 'Spellpics'.
All images are free to use commercially.
'Spellpics 1' Spelling Starters
Spellpics 1 and 2 comprises 20 spelling activities that are great fun, while at the same time providing a learning structure to enable students to develop their understanding of spelling strategies.
Each activity provides 5 PowerPoint game slides - sixteen pictures linked to sixteen words focusing on different spelling rules, such as the 'i before e' rule, split digraph rule, 'tion' suffix rule, etc.
Students are shown the pictures, the spelling strategy is indicated, and they have to guess the word that is suggested in each case, before the teacher reveals the answers.
Each game is supported by an extension activity to underline and embed the learning strategy, and the final slide of each game displays the key learning points of the game, that can be laminated for classroom display.
Please browse the preview to discover 'Spellpics'.
All images are free to use commercially.
'Spellpics 2' Spelling Starters
Spellpics 1 and 2 comprises 20 spelling activities that are great fun, while at the same time providing a learning structure to enable students to develop their understanding of spelling strategies.
Each activity provides 5 PowerPoint game slides - sixteen pictures linked to sixteen words focusing on different spelling rules, such as the 'i before e' rule, split digraph rule, 'tion' suffix rule, etc.
Students are shown the pictures, the spelling strategy is indicated, and they have to guess the word that is suggested in each case, before the teacher reveals the answers.
Each game is supported by an extension activity to underline and embed the learning strategy, and the final slide of each game displays the key learning points of the game, that can be laminated for classroom display.
Please browse the preview to discover 'Spellpics'.
All images are free to use commercially.
'Spellpics 1' Spelling Starters
Spellpics 1 and 2 comprises 20 spelling activities that are great fun, while at the same time providing a learning structure to enable students to develop their understanding of spelling strategies.
Each activity provides 5 PowerPoint game slides - sixteen pictures linked to sixteen words focusing on different spelling rules, such as the 'i before e' rule, split digraph rule, 'tion' suffix rule, etc.
Students are shown the pictures, the spelling strategy is indicated, and they have to guess the word that is suggested in each case, before the teacher reveals the answers.
Each game is supported by an extension activity to underline and embed the learning strategy, and the final slide of each game displays the key learning points of the game, that can be laminated for classroom display.
Please browse the preview to discover 'Spellpics'.
All images are free to use commercially.
Getting It Right - Punctuating Speech
The 'Getting it Right' series is appropriate for both KS2 and KS3.
Each unit comprises an interactive presentation that can be loaded onto your school network.
The 'Punctuating Speech' unit is supported by a workbook of activities, an assessment activity to check students' understanding, and a quiz package, that reminds students of the key points of the lessons, before providing a quiz that stimulates focused discussion, enabling students to articulateand embed their learning.
All images are free for use commercially.
Contents:
Teacher presentation
Workbook, including assessment activity
Quiz presentation