Enough starters to last you 18 months! I’m an English teacher of 20 years and I have created… 80 PowerPoint slides, one activity per slide. These are all writing activities: word classes, punctuation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, connectives, tenses, imagery, descriptive writing techniques, devices, language devices, similes, metaphors, personification, adverbs, adjectives, word classes, nouns, sentence structure, speech, paragraphs, verbs… Perfect for KS3 year 7, year 8 and year 9. Or KS4 low to mid ability/SEN/Special needs. Dyslexic students will find the instructions clear and the design non-stressful. ADHD students will like the variety of activities and the change of task on each slide as will non SEN students. You could always print the slide for a child with writing difficulties and they can work on the slide. I’ve used lots of pictures stimuli as per the GCSE exam and have included: Minecraft, Barbie movie, Fortnight / fortnite, Pokemon and modern student interests. All the skills included build towards KS3 English Launguage writing and towards the GCSE English Language exam. All examboards are covered. A nice idea would be to print off 4 or 5 activities; put one on a different table/stations and put the kids into groups of 5 and spend 10 minutes on each station; make a whole lesson out of it! Literacy groups could use them as a whole main activity, slides could be printed two to a page and given as hard copies to very low ability kids that struggle to write, this would help them keep up and understand the concept more, then you could stick them in their books. The rest of the class can copy from the board. The slides could be printed off and turned into a writing homework booklet as everything in the powerpoint is relevant to the UK GCSEs AQA, Pearson, the other boards and the functional skills exams level 1 and 2.

72 starters- one starter per slide. Or can be used for literacy intervention lessons. Easy to read, clear font and design. Suit KS2, KS3 and KS4. All starters are for English and Literacy. Starters focus mostly on: SPAG, VCOP, word classes and devices. Print slides for lower ability to work on or ask them to choose 3 questions only from the ones given.

12 PPts explaining all the structural devices such as flashback, enjambment, dual narrative, sonnet, rhythm and rhyme, foreshadowing, caesurae and more… colourful, neat and colour coordinated. One slide per device, can be used as one big display or individual posters, cue cards, revision slides, a game of snap, bingo prompts, revision booklets… starters All devices include an example, fun relevant pictures and images and definitions. Print 4 slides to a page for revision notes, or card games. print to A4 - one device per slide to create a 3 by 4 a4 display- easy to put up and easy to replace if kids pull down!

This is an English Language GCSE (new AQA spec) target board assessment tracker (can be used at KS3 too). All AOs have been ragged (red, amber, green) from high ability AOs -green, to low ability- red. Emoji's in the background support this and make it fun. (Check out my Bob Marley Rasta version if you would prefer). It really helps students know what they need to do to be a higher grade. Impress the "powers that be" by knowing all your students current attainment there and then, in the classroom- you just have to look at it! You can: * use it as a interactive poster in your classroom whereby you or the students, can stick/pin student initials (or symbols/logos works well) on the red, amber or green for EVERY assessment objective and for EVERY student - as the year goes on. The best bit is watching a student move their sticker up to green or amber after completing a good piece of work! - make sure SLT witness this! * print to A4, stick in front of their books. They can use it as a reference for AOs, they can self assess themselves, use it for peer assessment, staff can initial and tick the AOs they can do as the year goes on. It really helps students know what they need to do to work at a higher grade. * each AO cut be cut out (up the vertical lines) and used as bookmarks or what I do is, for example, if we are studying AO3, I cut out AO3 only and stick it in their margin to remind them, then initial and tick if they meet the objective. * it's also useful for marking! * can be used to measure progress too - with the individual a4 sheets in kids books- draw lines from previous attainment to show progress upwards. It honestly took me 11 hours to make!

60 fun writing starters (could also be used for whole lesson ideas) all with a visual stimulus. One starter per slide. Automatic date/day comes up at the top of slides. Great for English and literacy intervention. Types of writing: persuasive, argumentative, backstory’s for monsters, provoking sympathy, descriptive, creative, story beginning, instructions, letters, up leveling, speeches, short stories, rants, opinion, diary entries, story sequencing, shape poetry, scripts, specific genres, story ending, story climax, continue the story and haiku writing. Focus skills on SPAG, VCOP, all literary devices e.g simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, oxymoron, emotive language, rhetorical question etc etc etc… I tried to incorporate new AQA English language writing skills for Question 5 paper 1 & 2. Engaging subjects e.g Xbox, dance, music, PlayStation, football, animals, Differentiation included, can be used for speaking and listening prompts too

BOB MARLEY MAN, YEAH MAN! This is an English Language GCSE (new AQA spec) target board assessment tracker (can be used at KS3 too). All AOs have been ragged (red, amber, green) from high ability AOs -green, to low ability- red (Rasta colours man!) Bob Marley in the background to support this and engage students! (Check out my emoji's version if you would prefer). It really helps students know what they need to do to be a higher grade. Impress the "powers that be" by knowing all your students current attainment there and then, in the classroom- you just have to look at it! You can: * use it as a interactive poster in your classroom whereby you or the students, can stick/pin student initials (or symbols/logos works well) on the red, amber or green for EVERY assessment objective and for EVERY student - as the year goes on. The best bit is watching a student move their sticker up to green or amber after completing a good piece of work! - make sure SLT witness this! * print to A4, stick in front of their books. They can use it as a reference for AOs, they can self assess themselves, use it for peer assessment, staff can initial and tick the AOs they can do as the year goes on. It really helps students know what they need to do to work at a higher grade. * each AO cut be cut out (up the vertical lines) and used as bookmarks or what I do is, for example, if we are studying AO3, I cut out AO3 only and stick it in their margin to remind them, then initial and tick if they meet the objective. * it's also useful for marking! * can be used to measure progress too - with the individual a4 sheets in kids books- draw lines from previous attainment to show progress upwards. This took me over 11 hours to make!

FRANKENSTEIN double LESSON: EXPLORING HOW SHELLEY CREATES SYMPATHY and practicing PEE responses/ understanding what PEE is A02, NEW AQA- but can be used for other examboards Includes: * all answers * differentiation, writing frames for lower ability, * peer assessment opportunity with guidelines and GCSE assessment objectives to guide them * mix N' match activity with answers * fun starter writing a backstory for a scary/ugly monster (photo's of monsters provided) * fill out table with quotes and explanations ready to help support your response * print worksheets direct from Powerpoint

You know when you see good handwriting but what makes it so? cursive= speed and clear writing = marks in the exam 10 assessment objectives for good cursive handwriting. Measure progress with handwriting. Use for: peer assessment self assessment to show progress to measure progress