Help your students gain a thorough understanding of what adjectives are and how to identify and use them in their own writing. This Power Point contains 5 full lessons to introduce / review the use of adjectives, suitable for key stage 2, 3 and lower ability key stage 4 classes. These lessons are also great for EAL/ESL learners. These lessons are perfect for a quick review and a great way to assess students’ understanding and use of adjectives. Accompanied with the Powerpoint is a 5 page Home Learning document to give to students to complete after each lesson to further embed learning. If you’re looking for a very easy, no prep adjectives package then this is ideal!

Celebrate the world’s diverse beauty with this resource designed for teaching your students about International Week. Take your students on a trip through a different continent each day, ending on one special country on the last. This resource includes a detailed Powerpoint containing two lessons per day, combining taught content on social studies, the arts and global mindedness. Accompanied with the Powerpoint are a whole host of reosurces to use along side them. This is a minimal prep resource, all you have to do is print off the handouts to go with the lessons and you’re ready to go!

Teacher your students about what the term “growth-mindset” means and why developing one is so important. This resource is a full 55 minute lesson, including assigned learning tasks and optional home learning tasks to further learning outside of the classroom.

If you’re a teacher, it’s likely that you will have heard your students talking about the MoMo Challenge with their peers or even asking you questions about the challenge. As parents and teachers we want to ensure that our students know how to stay safe online, and a huge part of staying safe is understanding how to identify fake news (like the MoMo challenge) from real news and how to act responsibly when we encounter content that can encourage harmful behaviour. This Powerpoint aims to highlight where the MoMo challenge came from, how it spread throughout the internet and reasons behind the attention it has received. The lesson aims to highlight how negative news attracts more attention than positive news, how images such as the Japanese sculpture are used as “click bait” to attract more clicks on websites to earn more money, and so on. This lesson has been designed to be completed in an IT lab where students have access to the internet in order to complete research tasks and the poster task at the end.

Celebrate Women’s Rights Day (8th March) by teaching your students about Women’s Rights. Contained in this powerpoint are key facts surrounding the current climate of Women’s Rights and why they’re important. Enjoy!

With over 200 million women and young girls affected by FGM worldwide, learning about FGM is now more important than ever. This lesson has been especially designed for year 7+ students to learn all about what FGM is, reasons as to why it’s practiced and the effects left on girls after experiencing the traumatic event. dyslexic friendly resource with dyslexic friendly font and background whole PSHE lesson

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Novel Study This resource has been designed as the first in a series of novel study lessons for an iGCSE English class but can be easily adapted to GCSE. Simply replace the learning objectives to ones that apply! Ideal for Key Stage 4, ESL learners and struggling readers! This lesson includes the following resources: A Powerpoint presentation (full lesson activities) A student reading log (PDF and word doc) 4 Cover Analysis Handouts (PDFs and word docs) 1 KWLS worksheet (PDF and word doc) This lesson includes the following activities: Starter & Exit Tasks to evaluate learning (pre-assessment and post-assessment) KWLS to establish what students already know Inference and prediction tasks based on cover analysis - teaching students to identify FACTS! Thank you for purchasing this resource! Let me know how you got on in the feedback! For more resources like these, visit www.theponderbox.com

What is theme? iGCSE / GCSE English Stone Cold Novel Study Facilitate the understanding of the concept of theme in this ready to go lesson! Included in this resource: Google Slide (whole lesson) PDF / word documents for the relevant activities (colour and B&W) Let me know how you liked this resource by leaving feedback! Find more resources at www.theponderbox.com !

Stone Cold Novel Study Series This lesson has been designed to evaluate students current letter writing skills.

Stone Cold Novel Study iGCSE / GCSE English This lesson has been designed to enable students to develop reading strategies. This is an entire lesson with LOTS of extras that can be turned into even more lessons or homelearning tasks! Get your students reading ready with these simplified reading strategy activities in order to develop a thorough understanding of the book! This resource includes: A Powerpoint Presentation (full lesson) 7 documents for the 7 different reading strategies (PDFs and Word Docs) Let me know if you enjoyed this resource in the feedback section! For more English resources from key stages 1-5, visit www.theponderbox.com

Stone Cold iGCSE / GCSE Lesson 1 This lesson has been designed as a first lesson as an introduction to the iGCSE course and can be easily adapted to GCSE English. Activities include: Making inferences about the book cover and what it implies Self assessement - KWLS Predictions about the book Resources Include A full Powerpoint presentation KWLS handout (PDF and Word) Student Reading Log (PDF and Word) Making inferences doc (PDF and Word) Compare and Contrast doc (PDF and Word) This is an entire lesson that’s good to go! Let me know if you enjoyed this resource by leaving your feedback. For more resources visit my website www.theponderbox.com ! Thank you for purchasing this resources <3

Stone Cold iGCSE / GCSE English Lesson 2 In this lesson students will explore the context of homelessness and form their own understanding of what it means to be homeless in order to understanding ideas presented throughout the text. This is a whole lesson ready to go!

Online Learning Information for Parents This Powerpoint Presentation allows schools to share clear instructions and information regarding the move to online learning for both parents and students. If you are a school wondering how you can move to online learning, the presentation outlines what platforms you can use and how your school can move to online learning successfully.

Animal Alphabet Flashcards These animal alphabet flashcards are a super versatile resource! Use them to support young learners in: Letter recognition Phonics Animal > Letter > Sound association Use them for as a part of a physical / online learning classroom display, a memory game and more! Please let me know how you get along with this resource in the feedback below :-)

Literary Terms for iGCSE / GCSE / A-Level English Literature This PDF contains the most basic to advanced literary terms for students to use when responded to literary texts. Encourage students to use several new words / phrases from the list each time they write about / discuss a literary text. The PDF includes key literary terms, definitions and examples of their usage.

Black & white flashcards help stimulate the development of the optic nerves the eyes of babies. As baby’s attempt to focus on the contrasting black & white images, their eye muscles and brain will be working hard to get in sync, improving their vision and focus. Babies love these contrasting images! These are the perfect images for little ones.

Wanting to start your new academic year off on a good foot? Our all-in-one student planner is jam-packed with all of your student planning needs. This beautifully crafted academic planner not only helps you to plan out your academic goals, keep track of your monthly, weekly and daily to-do lists, but also gives space for tracking other essentials, like sleep, mood and budget! This planner contains: 12-month overviews from January - December (undated, so you can use them any time!) End of the year goal tracker: set your goals for the entire year and outline the steps you need to take to get there! Weekly to-do list Yearly overview template for annual note-taking Things to do list (for random musings, thoughts, notes, other bits & bobs) Weekly classes template - keep track of lectures, seminars, room numbers, subjects, etc… Note-taking template Assignment log Mood tracker Sleep tracker Monthly budget plan Personal goals tracker Steps to a successful study plan organizer Simply click, purchase, download and it’s yours. This is a digital product For more study essentials visit The Ponder Box Etsy Shop or visit www.theponderbox.com

In this lesson, students will start to form an understanding of what context is and how it can shape what the author writes. This lesson is a gentle introduction to the book and complete with fun starter and exit tasks to check for understanding. Students will learn interesting facts about Louis Sachar which will help them to form a personal and informed response about the text as they move throughout the unit. Come back to my author’s dashboard to find the rest of the lessons within this scheme of work. This resource is complete with: PPTX file PDF version

**What is COVID19? RESEARCH TASK ** Learning Objectives • To be able to read and understand texts for a wide range of purposes and audiences. • To be able to critically evaluate nonfiction sources of information for reliability. • To be able to write objective summaries effectively. Perfect for a Nonfiction Reading / Research UNIT Key skills in this lesson focus on summarizing and evaluating nonfiction sources of information for reliability. This is a great introduction to a research unit. Students will develop their independent research skills in this COVID19 focused lesson. Students will explore a range of questions to learn more about the virus and demonstrate their evaluation skills and ability to draw out central ideas in a text. Find more awesome resources at: www.theponderbox.com !