Visually attractive Christmas descriptive writing lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Attractive title page.
* Lesson starter – key Christmas market key words word search
* 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 a vibrant Christmas market.
* A review page encouraging some students to read out their written descriptions.
* Fantastic “The Christmas Market Bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s caller's 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 enjoyed this resource, you will enjoy The Christmas Murder Mystery:
/teaching-resource/a-christmas-murder-mystery-full-lesson-11179016
(Royalty-free images from Wiki, bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
A Christmas journey on the Trans-Siberian Express turns to murder as one-by-one passengers are found dead. But who is doing it and why? And who will be next?
Visually attractive Christmas murder mystery story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson or series of lessons. (At least two lessons will be required to complete the story.)
Power point includes:
* Attractive 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.
* Interesting suspect list with hints about their characters.
* Lesson starter – character discussion.
* Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above).
* Planning sheet giving students a structured method in which to write an effective story.
* A review prompt to discuss writing so far.
* A review peer-assessment prompt which should set students up to continue the story next lesson.
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
If you liked this resource, you will also enjoy – A Spooky Christmas Story:
/teaching-resource/spooky-christmas-story-full-lesson-11177327
And also the first Christmas Murder Mystery, available here:
/teaching-resource/a-christmas-murder-mystery-full-lesson-11179016
(Train image from 56parallel.com and bookish.com. Characters from Jacketflap.com, the artofmurde.com.)
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 murdered…
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 – winter weather anagrams.
* Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above)
* Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt – 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 “murder mystery bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s 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 – A Spooky Christmas Story:
/teaching-resource/spooky-christmas-story-full-lesson-11177327
(Royalty free images included and bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
Spooky Christmas Story – Full Lesson
Visually attractive “spooky” Christmas story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* 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 – mini dot-to-dot and spooky adverb anagrams.
* Story scenario – dramatic scenario (also given as a handout resource) of an abandoned car journey in which the student has to travel to look for help along a deserted road at night.
* Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt – used in order help students start the story effectively (also given as a handout resource.)
* Mini-prompt paragraphs two and three – with visual images to help students visualise the development of the story (a gate leading to an old house).
* Fantastic “spooky” bingo plenary activity with teacher’s 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 – A Christmas Murder Mystery:
/teaching-resource/a-christmas-murder-mystery-full-lesson-11179016
(Royalty free images included and bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
Make more impact with your marking with these visual teacher feedback labels! Pack consists of three designs with two different sizes, so there is a choice of style or they can be used for different key stages or task type. Aligned so that they are easy to print off and cut out.
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Print these off and hand out to students and get them to record verbal feedback. These can then be stuck in books to help students remember as well as providing evidence for OFSTED. Pack consists of three designs with two different sizes, so there is a choice of style or they can be used for different key stages or task type. Aligned so that they are easy to cut out and can be used immediately.
**Now available as a great value assessment bundle:
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A great value pack of with a range of 8 different engaging colourful English/literacy starters! Included in the pack is starters to improve: sentence structure, writing improvement (essay and description), sentence precision, common error spotting, how to use speech marks, adjectives and a fun and creative make your own crossword and word search.
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