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The teaching resource “Alliteration - Magic Potions” is an engaging resource designed to help students learn how to use alliteration and sensory language to create captivating descriptions. Through the exploration of magical potions, students will develop their understanding of the power of alliteration and how it can enhance their writing. The purpose of this resource is to engage students in a fun and imaginative way, while also teaching them important language techniques. By analysing the names of the potions, students will learn how alliteration can create a memorable and impactful description. They will discover how the repetition of consonant sounds, such as the ‘c’ in “Cackling Cursed Concoction” or the ‘w’ in “Whimsical Whisper Whirling Elixir,” can add depth and meaning to their descriptions. Furthermore, this resource encourages students to consider the sensory language used in the potion names. They will explore how words like “cackling,” “whisper,” “thunderous,” “torrent,” “venomous,” and “delicate” evoke specific emotions and imagery. By incorporating sensory language into their writing, students will be able to create vivid and engaging descriptions that captivate their readers. The resources includes a sensory word mat to help with vocabulary choices. Two worksheets: one analysing alliterated potion names, the second creating alliterated potion names. Teachers notes for a quick reference to analysis of worksheet 1, and a story exemplar using alliteration and sensory descriptions.

A word mat to help students create more expressive and figurative descriptions of winter and snow. The word mat contains lists of adjectives, verbs, adverbs, extended noun phrases, preposition sentence openers, similes and prompts for using the senses. The word mat comes in both black and white and colour versions. There is also an editable black and white word document should you need to edit or add anything. The word mat is also displayed on a single slide PowerPoint so it can be shared with the class and there is a six slide picture prompt PowerPoint that can be used as inspiration for creative writing. (These are images created by me and are free for you to use within your classroom as a visual resource - they are not to be adapted or reused within another resource.)

A word mat to help students create more sensory descriptions of an underwater setting. The word mat includes several picture prompts to help with description ideas. The word mat contains lists of adjectives, adverbs, verbs, ideas for similes, metaphors and personification, and a reminder to use ISPACE sentence openers to help with sentence variety. There are also prompts to help students think about how to use the senses for this kind of setting. There is also a power point with further picture prompts for the genre.

The power point is a great way to get students to think about how to describe emotions and create their own poetry using metaphors, similes, emotive language etc. Works really well for paired or group work as well as individual work.

Support your students with this word mat tailored specifically for describing haunted houses. The resource includes examples of figurative techniques, an extensive vocabulary list, and practical examples of sensory descriptions and extended noun phrases. The mat will support students in enhancing their descriptions by including rich, varied language to create immersive and atmospheric settings and experiment with figurative language and extended noun phrases to add depth and complexity to their writing. There is a short video to set the scene for describing a haunted house and highlighting what students can do to write more evocative descriptions.

A two page A4 (photocopy double sided) Knowledge Organiser and Word Mat to support KS3 students to create engaging, effective characters in their narratives. The word mat encourages students to think about creating detailed physical descriptions, using speech tags to describe a character’s mood and emotions, and to focus on showing character traits. The word mat includes lists of words to describe a character’s face, hair, body, voice, movement and clothes. The mat also includes lists of positive and negative character traits and speech tags to describe characters who are bored, frightened, sad, angry, excited, confident, evil/cruel, or untrustworthy. Suitable for KS3 and also weaker KS4 students.

A word mat to help students create more detailed descriptions in their adventure stories. The word mat includes several picture prompts to help with story ideas. The word mat contains lists of words to describe sights, sounds, smells, sensations and feelings to support making writing more sensory. There is also a powerpoint with further picture prompts for the genre. Tes paid licence

Support your students with this word mat tailored specifically for describing fireworks. The resource includes ideas of figurative techniques, an extensive vocabulary list, and ideas for creating sensory descriptions. The mat will support students in enhancing their descriptions by including rich, varied language to create immersive and atmospheric descriptions and experiment with figurative language to add depth and complexity to their writing. There is a short video to suggest ways students can use the different techniques and images of fireworks exploding highlighting what students can do to write more evocative descriptions. There is also an eight slide power point of AI generated images to use as picture prompts for students independent writing. The images cover traditional, futuristic and fantasy portrayals of fireworks.

This bundle includes resources to support students who are learning to write newspaper articles. The resources and lesson ideas will cover 4 to 6 lessons. Students are introduced to headlines, opening paragraphs, the inverted pyramid structure, who, what, where, when, why and how. The bundle includes knowledge organisers, worksheets (with exemplar answers), a newspaper article exemplar, article planning notes, teacher notes and a possible teaching sequence. The possible sequence of lessons: reading comprehension on newspapers, research lesson (library or computer suite), headlines, inverted pyramid structure, analysing an article, planning an article, writing an article. The resources are suitable for KS3, but could also be used with high ability Year 6 students.

Do your students struggle to start a story - or always begin a narrative in the same way? This organiser suggests 5 different ways to open a Gothic horror story and gives examples of each one. It also suggests pros and cons for each of the styles of openings which enables students to consider and explore which style of hook they want to create for their Gothic stories.

Are your students struggling with discursive writing? Do they find achieving an unbiased tone and style difficult? Do they struggle with presenting a considered and judicious personal opinion based on the pertinent arguments from both sides of a debate? This resources pack is designed to help you teach your students the discursive style. The resources - apart from the boxing fact sheet - will support any topic you wish to use with the class. The resources include: A short video to help students understand the style and purpose of discursive writing. An exemplar to use (tablets in the classroom) to help identify the style, tone and purpose of discursive writing. A Knowledge Organiser to support sentence openers and encourage the use of adverbials and conjunctions. A boxing fact sheet covering some of the arguments for and against boxing. Teachers notes suggesting possible structure for the lesson and a suggested task for a discursive article based on the boxing fact sheet. There is a power point that displays all the resources if you do not want to print whole class sets or that you can add slides to and adapt for your classroom.

This extensive resource was created to help pupils with their creative writing.Designed for KS4 students, but also suitable for high-achieving KS3 classes, the resources is to support students in creating vivid, developed descriptions of fog. The Word Mat includes figurative and sensory terminology: adjectives, verbs, alliteration, sibilance, personification, similes, metaphors, and sensory cues are all included in the mat. In addition to the Word Mat, there is a short video that helps students think of original ways to represent fog and concepts for using figurative language. Eight AI-generated images are included in a four-slide PowerPoint presentation that c serves as visual prompts for students creative writing.

An A4 Help Sheet to support weaker KS4 students when writing Paper 2 Question 5 texts. Works as a quick reference sheet and includes connective, discourse markers and emotive language examples. Plus a reminder of DAFOREST with examples.

This power point is designed as a first teaching resource. Each slide has one stanza fully annotated along with differentiated questions. (Orange for lower ability, green for mid ability and blue for higher ability.) The first slide has a table for you to insert names of the students and what colour they ae working on. (Depending on your class you may not need three levels of questioning – or you may want to use a mix of all three – it depends on the nature and ability of your class. For my top set I asks them to only do green and blue – for my bottom set only orange and green. For my intervention group only orange.) The questions are based on analysing the poem as though it is an ‘unseen’ poem to best aid an initial detailed understanding of the techniques and tone of the poem. There is a starter which asks pairs to explore the connotation of the word ‘remains’ and a plenary that asks students to draw one image and think of one word that summarises the poem. At the end is an exemplar based on a first stanza question which uses P.E.E.D.Z.L. (Obviously adjust this slide if you use a different format for analytical writing.) The final slide asks a more holistic question based on the ‘power and conflict’ theme. This power point is designed to last two lessons and usually I get the class to peer assess – using the unseen marking criteria – their response.

Suitable for Year 7 or weak Year 8 students. A brilliantly, funny short story by Paul Jennings (not in the pack as still in copyright - available in the compilation of short stories ‘Unreal’) A great read for all students but especially for boys and reluctant readers - a great twist in the tale 7 page story. A 40 slide lesson by lesson power point (6 to 8 lessons depending on the speed and ability of the class) is accompanied by 3 graphic organizers and a marking criteria/rubric. The scheme focuses on building two specific reading skills - locating and selecting information and infer/deduce - reading between the lines. Students write P.E.E. (point, evidence, explanation) paragraphs and focus on improving their drafts. The word wall helps them build and develop vocabulary and the exemplars help them to recognize the standard they are aiming for. The graphic organizers help students to explore and formulate their ideas on characters and themes and the story structure organizer helps students recognize the structure of a story and identify exposition, climax, resolution etc. Also includes comma starters on the power point to help improve punctuation accuracy.

This is a purpose written high interest reading comprehension about the history of the Christmas tree. It is suitable for advanced Year 5 or 6 students and Year 7 and 8 students and weaker Year 9 readers. The text has a comprehensive range of questions to cover a range of reading ages: identify, short and long answer comprehension, vocabulary and inference (3 of each). The questions are presented on a single sheet. However, the Teacher’s Question and Answer Key sheet is a Word Doc so teachers are able to differentiate the questions and select suitable questions for classes/students and create their own question sheets. The text is also presented in a power point enabling teachers to read as a whole class.

A word mat to help students create more expressive and figurative descriptions of a jungle. The word mat contains lists of adjectives, verbs, adverbs, sensory details (smell, touch, sound) and figurative techniques (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, allusion - with an example of each). The mat also focuses on sentence openers - ISPACE - with an example of each. There is also a ten slide powerpoint of AI created jungle scenes that are ideal for using as writing prompts or a discussion of what could be included in a piece of creative writing about a jungle.

A purpose written, challenging, high interest reading comprehension for KS4 about TikTok (52.6 on the Flesch Reading Ease scale). The text is designed to create discussion as well as be used for answering comprehension questions. The article is supported by a series of questions and exemplar answers that can be shared with the class as feedback for marking, or to be used as examples of how to approach different styles of questions, or as support for marking the student’s work. There are 5 short answers questions, 5 vocabulary questions, 5 retrieval questions, 1 discursive essay question based on the text (with a detailed exemplar plan) and 1 differentiated question. All the questions have exemplar questions.

Ideal for practicing world level analysis for KS3 or weaker KS4 classes. Short original paragraph that then explains how to go about exploring the connotations of individual words and then gives an exemplar. Students then look at a marked response and try to work out why a ‘tick’ has been awarded before completing their own P.E.E.

A set of images with writing prompts. Each homework can be printed and then hand written or completed on a PC. Handy to upload on SMHW etc as it covers multiple weeks. Make great classroom displays - quick and easy to mark.