A useful pack of general purpose starters/games including:
* 5 Boggle cards (spell words in any direction)
* Countdown card and website link, to play online
* Punctuation match-up starter and word search
* 2 question category cards (award 2 points for an original answer, 1 for a shared answer, the winner is the one with the most points)
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The Great Outdoors Collection 3 - Lessons Inspired by Nature
A collection of creative and descriptive writing lessons, inspired by nature. Amazing value!
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Campervan Travels – Creative Diary Writing
Excellent creative writing diary lesson, giving students a taste for adventure and the opening road!
Lesson outline:
Schools out and you and a group of friends head out on an adventure of a lifetime. All you have is an old campervan, plenty of food and the open road. Where will you go, what will you do?
Complete lesson includes starter, lesson objectives, writing tips, video clip link and full lesson prompts with fantastic, engaging images throughout. Planning sheet included.
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Summer Holiday Creative Writing - Double Pack
A double pack of two great creative writing murder lessons. Available to download individually following the links, or as a value double pack here.
The Lake District Murder
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Fantastic creative writing murder mystery story, with a clear scenario and structure to help students write an amazing story, diary version.
Lesson scenario:
A family weekend getaway to the Lake District turns to horror as one guest in the lodge is poisoning the guests. But who? And why? And will you make it out alive?
Lesson includes attract imagery, full lesson prompts, lesson objectives, starters and interesting plenary activity! Planning sheet included.
The Summer Holiday Murders/teaching-resource/the-summer-holiday-murders-creative-writing-11307853
Fantastic creative writing murder mystery story, with a clear scenario and structure to help students write an amazing story.
Lesson scenario:
The summer is finally here. School’s over and you are on the perfect holiday, away and relaxing by the pool in a private and secluded hotel. Until you realise, one by one, someone is killing the guests…
Lesson includes attract imagery, full lesson prompts, lesson objectives, starters and interesting plenary activity! Planning sheet included.
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Paris – Descriptive Writing
A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from Paris, a video clip of Paris and quotes from Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece, A Moveable Feast.
Great engaging lesson!
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Visually attractive Christmas descriptive writing lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Active snow scene gif title page.
* Lesson starter – post-it note activity.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and figurative language techniques.
* A quick warm-up exercise where students finish off Christmas sentence in descriptive language (see image on the Power Point to support ideas.)
* A recap of five language technique prompt.
* Short writing activity prompt asking students to describe their perfect Christmas scene.
* A review page encouraging some students to read out their written descriptions.
* Fantastic “The Perfect Christmas Bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s caller's card and 30
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
If you enjoyed this resource, you will enjoy the Christmas Murder Mystery:
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(Snow image by Frank Norman, Flickr, Tree by Minden ami Karacsony, outdoors scene desttopnexus.com/wallpaper/676017/ bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
Excellent and engaging bingo style literacy game. Students simply write True or False on their 5x5 true or false cards and mark them off if the displayed literacy clue is true or false. Subject areas include: capital letters, punctuation, their, there and they're; was and were; and spellings. Power Point game suitable for key stages 2 and 3, printable true or false cards included and further instructions on how to play inside. Great for spelling and SPAG.
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A bumper 68 page quiz pack, featuring riddles, logo quiz, catchphrases and more. Hours of fun for just ÂŁ2.00!
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A Collection of Easy One-Off English Lessons
A value bundle download of easy to teach, one-off English lessons.
Particularly suitable for key stages 2 and 3.
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The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson.
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
Also included are a 5 lesson pack of find the word starters!
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
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A complete lesson on the film Jaws! Students watch a 10 minute clip of Jaws (choose a dramatic section at the start of the film) and do an extract analysis using the planning and prompt sheets provided.
Power Point includes additional prompts, starter and plenary ideas and lesson objectives.
Resources included are:
* Planning Sheet
* Prompt Sheet
* Additional Images (if required, these can be printed off and placed around the room for immediate impact to go with the starter.)
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Massive English Starter Bundle
This is a huge collection of English starters, suitable for various audiences and occasions, including literacy starters, general English starters, word starters, fun starters and much more.
Suitable for KS2-KS4. Something for everyone!
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Romeo and Juliet Prologue and Act 1 Revision Lesson
An introduction, revision or recap lesson on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Prologue and Act 1. Lesson includes:
* Starter cloze activity
* Lesson objectives
* DIRT/purple pen slide
* Who’s who, character activity
* One page brief summary
* Guess the quotation quiz
* Extract analysis and discussion prompt review
Particularly suitable to lower ability students or those new to Shakespeare.
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The Magic Lamp – Creative Writing
A fun creative writing lesson based around a magic lamp situation.
Students are given an exciting scenario with a magic lamp and can continue the story based upon their own ideas.
Lesson objectives, writing tips, video clip writing tip resource, planning sheet and descriptive bingo lesson plenary all included!!
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30 individual murder mystery cards and a callers card, great for a fun plenary activity.
See also the murder mystery generator: /teaching-resource/murder-mystery-generator-11219707
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The Ultimate Christmas Bundle!
Everything you need for a fun Christmas in the classroom in this premuim bundle collection!
Bundle includes:
* The Spooky Christmas Story - students get to write their own spooky story.
* A Christmas Murder Mystery - creative writing lesson based around a murder mystery scenario.
* A Perfect Christmas - rich descriptive writing lesson based around beautiful Christmas scenes.
* Christmas Fun Pack - fun activities the kids will enjoy.
A must download!
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A complete lesson on the film Jaws! Students watch a 10 minute clip of Jaws (choose a dramatic section at the start of the film) and do an extract analysis using the planning and prompt sheets provided.
Power Point includes additional prompts, starter and plenary ideas and lesson objectives.
Resources included are:
* Planning Sheet
* Prompt Sheet
* Additional Images (if required, these can be printed off and placed around the room for immediate impact to go with the starter.)
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Fantastic value bundle, featuring two complete lessons and a quiz bundle pack.
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Paris – Descriptive Writing
A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from Paris, a video clip of Paris and quotes from Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece, A Moveable Feast.
Great engaging lesson!
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A 36 page attractive bumper presentation of the faces of the new banknotes – Sir Winston Churchill, JMW Turner and Jane Austen!
Presentation includes: facts, biography, quotes, images, links to video clips, questions and more!
Ideal for form time, assemblies or as a basis for many different types of lessons.
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