Check out our latest resource - it's no frills but essential to any student of poetry. Key terms are on the left, definitions are on the right - the job is to get them matched! A handy revision sheet to have in books and/or to use as a quick test. Enjoy!
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Tonight, a revision activity based on learning the rules of different forms of poetry. The sheets contain one example each of haiku, limerick, ballad, free verse, blank verse and sonnet poems from a variety of authors.
Take the time to teach your stars about different types of text, seeing which they enjoy and want to learn more about, as well as allowing them to try different writing styles once they've got the rules cracked. Resource available on our TES page. Frustrated at explaining over and over how to write an essay? There are no more excuses for forgetting with this easy card sort! The premise is that the cards have been scrambled and pupils need to sort them into a 'do' and 'don't' pile for their rules for essay writing - then the 'do' pile gets stuck in books and everyone remembers what to do (theoretically of course...!). Aimed at KS3 and KS4 as it doesn't cover the extended needs for KS5! Enjoy :)
Stop! Cease and desist! Well, sort of. In stopping pupils and making them reflect, we offer them the opportunity to include more and discard any bad habits. Today, this focuses on punctuation - it's basic but a useful poster or mat to have laminated to remind pupils, at the end of extended writing, to prompt checking and proof-reading. It can be extended to get pupils to give examples of the pictured punctuation before starting writing - in essence, showing you they can before then proving they can (perhaps a stop towards lazy writing!). I should have another mat on capital letters coming soon, but until then...
A quick and handy card sort activity for features of explaining, describing and informing - just cut them up and off you go! Useful as a page in exercise books to remind pupils of what they should do/act as a checklist. More writing purposes to follow but for now - enjoy!
A simple one but still a good'un - get your pupils to understand how to lay out the classic letter. Yes, in the wake of emails and texts it seems archaic, but it's still vital in formal situations so worth the teaching time! Easy activity - cut the pieces on page two out and put them in the right place - an easy way to remember the basics! If you want a bigger challenge, forgo the page with the orange guides on and get them to do it freehand! More text types coming soon...!
I love the short film 'Father and Daughter' - it's beautiful and touching without saying a word. And the latter is why it lends itself so well to creative writing - use the music to create brilliant writers. The worksheet attached takes you through step-by-step to make thoughtful responses to the music and the video. It starts by you blocking the images and getting pupils just to listen, then using this as the basis for a story. There's also a handy peer/self assessment grid to guide ideas a little more closely to create considerate writers. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do - it's genuinely one of my favourite activities I do with a group.
'Private Peaceful' is a rich text offering a lot personally, emotionally but also as a teaching tool. In this resource, it focuses on how authors cater for purpose, audience and effect. It starts with a grid where you can look at different techniques around language, structure and imagery with pupils. Then the worksheet goes through pupils identifying and changing different writing methods to see what effect authors have within their texts, before finishing with creative writing tasks to test what pupils have learned about writing for purpose and impact. There will be more to come in terms of guided reading - enjoy!
A second punctuation worksheet, this time on the underestimate hyphens and dashes. A dying art form, but one our stars have to show they can use in sophisticated pieces of writing. It's very similar to the semi-colons and colons worksheet in principle; it has definitions, single sentence examples to try out before a paragraphing activity, all with pupils copying this out in mind - handwriting and punctuation rolled into one! Let me know if you have any other punctuation requests :)
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