The Chocolate Bar Design Lesson
Fun lesson where students get to design their own chocolate bar! Guaranteed to enthuse!
Fun name the bar starter activity, links to video clips, discussion points and the design sheet.
All resources included.
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Images of War - Descriptive Writing Lesson
A simple, but effective descriptive writing lesson based on images of war. Nothing fancy, just display and teach!
Lesson includes:
* Lesson objectives
* Five things to help with descriptive writing slide
* Whiteboard activity using image prompts
* Main writing task with a choice of three images to produce a piece of descriptive writing
* Lesson review and self-assessment slide
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Giggle Poetry Complete Lesson
This lesson is a very straightforward, easy-to-teach lesson that students will enjoy. The lesson is based around three funny school poems taken from the excellent website gigglepoetry.com.
The lesson consists of:
⢠Funny caption starter
⢠Lesson objectives
⢠Images from the poems (students must try and work out what the poem will be about)
⢠Poems
⢠Evaluation of the poems (did any student guess close to the poem from the image?)
⢠Prompt to write their own funny poem and share at the end
⢠Poetry words bingo ā callerās card and 30 unique cards ā excellent fun finish to the lesson
A very simple but effective lesson.
All resources included at the back of the power point.
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The Way up to Heaven by Roald Dahl
Complete lessons or lessons, on the excellent short story by Roald Dahl!
Complete and attractive lesson pack includes:
⢠Engaging starters
⢠Lesson objectives
⢠Full story and discussion prompts throughout (pdf of the complete story included)
⢠Key quote analysis discussion
⢠Main question
⢠The Way up to Heaven quiz
An engaging lesson to use time and time again.
For the Roald Dahl lesson, The Hitchhiker see here:
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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 ā 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 āThe Perfect Christmas Bingoā plenary activity with teacherās 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.)
Guess the country quiz!
Round 1 ā name the country from the flag ā 30 flags with answers.
Round 2 ā remember the country from round 1 and try to guess and order the population size. 3 sets of 5 puzzles with answers.
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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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Visually attractive, observation graded good and outstanding, full lesson on poetic terms using the short poem āThe Eagleā by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Ideal for weaker KS3 classes or later KS2.
Full Power Point and all resources included. Lesson features:
⢠Visually engaging lesson starter and extension.
⢠Graded lesson outcomes with the main objective being to learn poetic devices to further the understanding of a poem.
⢠A poetic terms match-up activity featuring seven poetic devices ā similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, vivid colour, the senses and imagery. This can be done on paper or made into a kinaesthetic task. (Resource included at the back of the Power Point.)
⢠Poetic terms answer page.
⢠Visual and simple explanation pages of similes, metaphors and alliteration with a short true or false task.
⢠Link to video clip of a reading of āThe Eagleā by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
⢠Colour coded identification of poetic devices task ā students are asked to stick the poem in their books (resource provided) and colour code the given devices.
⢠Colour coded answer page.
⢠Short plenary activity where students are prompted to write a brief comment about the poem or offer a more detailed response for more able students.
You may also be interested in this complete lesson: /teaching-resource/literacy-health-check-full-lesson-11188874
Now includes two preview screenshots.
* Thanks for the feedback. I have now included a higher range of differentiation for more able students.*
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The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl - Fiction
Complete lessons or lessons, on the excellent short story by Roald Dahl!
Complete and attractive lesson pack includes:
⢠Engaging starters
⢠Lesson objectives
��� Full story and discussion prompts throughout (pdf of the complete story included)
⢠Card sort and text search activity
⢠Agree or disagree discussion prompt activity
⢠Key quote analysis discussion
⢠Main question and WAGOLL
⢠The Hitchhiker quiz
Resources included at the back of the power point and as a separate resource for ease of use.
An engaging lesson to use time and time again.
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(Credits: outstanding images by Osian Grifford, https://osiangrifford.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/illustrations-for-the-hitchhiker/, font by cooltext.com, Roald Dahl PDF: http://ekladata.com/-DO9CNHfQY7PfrK84RVJXCJg6DM.pdf.)
A Christmas Murder Mystery - Complete Lesson
On Christmas Eve a train gets stranded in a snowdrift in the middle of nowhere. A group of passengers decide to leave the carriage and take refuge in a nearby hotel, only to discover in the morning, trapped and cut off from the outside world, that one of them has been murderedā¦
Visually attractive Christmas murder mystery story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Title page.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story.
* Lesson starter ā winter weather anagrams.
* Story scenario ā dramatic scenario (as above)
* Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt ā used in order help students start the story effectively (also given as a handout resource.)
* Mini word bank.
* Mini-prompt paragraphs two and images to help students write.
* Fantastic āmurder mystery bingoā plenary activity with teacherās callers card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included.)
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
If you liked this resource, you will also enjoy ā A Spooky Christmas Story:
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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 £2.00!
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Hound of the Baskerville extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature.
Lesson includes:
* Title page
* Starter
* Lesson objectives (with surprise face in background, linking to close reading)
* Link to video clip
* Extract prompt (extract included)
* Highlight key words
* PEE grid (resource included)
* Review post-it-note plenary
This lesson is available in a double pack with Dracula for £4.50 here:
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All resources included at the back of the Power Point.
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(Credits, images copyright free and scenes from Youtube, copyright free text exact from Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles.)
Climbing Mount Everest Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson
Complete one-off descriptive writing lesson with all the resources included, easy to teach!
Attractive Power Point includes:
* Literacy starter
* Lesson objectives (with the focus on sentence structure, but this could be tweaked to suit)
* Map of Everest
* Video clip
* Discussion prompts
* Main task and review prompts
Descriptive word mat and lesson starter included.
A simple but effective lesson.
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(Royalty free images taken from You Tube.)
On Christmas Eve a train gets stranded in a snowdrift in the middle of nowhere. A group of passengers decide to leave the carriage and take refuge in a nearby hotel, only to discover in the morning, trapped and cut off from the outside world, that one of them has been murderedā¦
Visually attractive Christmas murder mystery story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Title page.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story.
* Lesson starter ā winter weather anagrams.
* Story scenario ā dramatic scenario (as above)
* Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt ā used in order help students start the story effectively (also given as a handout resource.)
* Mini word bank.
* Mini-prompt paragraphs two and images to help students write.
* Fantastic āmurder mystery bingoā plenary activity with teacherās callers card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included.)
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
If you liked this resource, you will also enjoy ā A Spooky Christmas Story:
/teaching-resource/spooky-christmas-story-full-lesson-11177327
(Royalty free images included and bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
A simple and effective way to make literacy and learning fun. Literacy bingo! Students have to spot the incorrect word as each sentence appears (common literacy errors such as there/their, was/were etc) and replace them with the correct word. This is the word they cross off on their bingo cards. Further instructions on how to play inside. Power Point resource, playing time with line and house 15 minute approx. Resource suitable for key stages 2/3, but easily adaptable format/template to create further bingo games. Larger text in this version.
Bingo cards included.
Also included is a 5 pack find the word starter collection.
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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 Halloween Murder Mystery ā Creative Writing Story
A fantastically engaging lesson with arresting imagery. Students write a Halloween murder mystery story following a set scenario.
The scenario:
On a stormy Halloween night, you and your friends set off to attend a āspookyā Halloween fancy dress party.
You make your way through the storm in good spirits and arrive at the house on the hill where the party is taking place.
Inside the house, the party is in full swing and you are happy to take shelter from the storm and join in the fun! Untilā¦
You realise someone has been murderedā¦
But who and why?
And will you make it out alive?
Highly attractive Power Point includes:
* Full lesson scenario
* Starter task
* Lesson objectives
* Planning sheet
* Writing and discussion prompts
* Interactive murder mystery bingo with callers card and 30 individual bingo cards (from myfreebingo.com)
Also included: things to include in descriptive writing, writing checklist and word banks!
All the material for an excellent, one-off lesson or lessons.
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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!
Download this pack and never worry about starters for the rest of the year!
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Descriptions of Paradise - Complete Lesson
A descriptive writing lesson using beautiful images to engage students!
Full lesson includes:
* Clear image starter
* Lesson objectives
* Five things to help with descriptive writing slide (resource included)
* Highlighter review
* Main task description and lesson review
Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, and a descriptive word mat resources included.
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