A quick worksheet for learning about colons and semi-colons, containing a definition box, sentence structure practice and finally a whole paragraph exercise. Designed with the idea of pupils copying out information - a useful handwriting practice exercise as well! Hopefully more punctuation sheets to follow - do let me know if you want me to move anything up my priority list! Let me know how you get on using this - I'm aware it's quite text-heavy so comments and suggestions welcomed.
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In my opinion one of Shakespeare's best tragedies, the story of 'Macbeth' is one that most pupils are taught at some point in their academic career. Find below a series of resources to aid with the teaching of 'Macbeth', from start to finish and everywhere in-between. Once again, let me know of any requests or comments - all are welcomed! Resources Available: Sequencing the Play - from start to finish, including blanks to fill in, and quotations to act as an aide memoire. Macbeth Character Analysis worksheets - follow the link for this premium resource, analysing Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, Banquo, Malcolm, Duncan and the Witches.
From working with primary schools, I know the intense emphasis placed on grammatical concepts and showing that pupils can use these accurately - ouch. I'm hoping in the future to come up with lessons and resources on actually teaching some of these concepts, but in the meantime I have a worksheet for you based on the active and passive voice. The gist is that pupils read the extract and play around with changing active to passive and vice versa to learn what it does in texts and why we should recognise it. The extract finishes in a convenient place to allow for an extension activity to continue the story and practice using the two concepts imaginatively in their own work. And hopefully, you might get a few Roald Dahl fans out of this as well! Enjoy - let me know how it goes and what other grammar worksheets you'd like to see on here!
As teachers, we all know that grammatical concepts have become a more rigorously tested concept in our classrooms, for better or for worse. Regardless of your standpoint on that, at least we can help each other out with simple ways of making sure our stars are understanding the grammatical jargon we're teaching them. So here's a quick quiz on abstract and collective nouns to kick-start the process. The idea of having two quizzes is that you give two pupils sat next to one another different quizzes but the answers to their partners quiz - et voila, your marking is cut down by quick peer assessment and a score to add to your records! Let me know what other grammatical quizzes you need and I'll be happy to oblige - and, as always, let me know how your lessons go in the comments below.
To round off the weekend and get you ready for Monday, a research and planning sheet to encourage thoughtful working patterns in your pupils. It's a basic walk through of how to consider a topic with a focus on having to present research in either a spoken or written format. Possibly a good one to blow up to A3 size to let pupils make changes, mistakes and additions as necessary. Let me know how you get on using this and whether alterations are needed - it is a very generic sheet so I'd be more than happy to tailor it specifically to reading (fiction or non-fiction), writing or speaking and listening. Happy researching!
There's nothing better than providing your stars with the tools for self-sufficiency, and that's the aim of this set of resources.
The first worksheet is a series of extracts with no punctuation whatsoever, so pupils must add in and vary the punctuation they use. Higher level pupils should be considering colons, semi-colons and hyphens where possible. The second is aimed at varying punctuation for effect, moving from the basics to the complex - this allows all pupils to reach the level of the higher level pupils on the previous activity whilst reinforcing those punctuation types to the higher level pupils. The third is to do with spicing up vocabulary/imagery choices - pupils are given two extracts with boring vocabulary and asked to make it exciting - perhaps a good choice for after teaching about types of imagery and how to use exaggeration and structure for effect. Finally, pupils are given a text that is majorly over the top in terms of imagery and hyperbole, so they must edit it to see where language choices are appropriately made, and where they need deleting or replacing. And step-by-step, you've created the beginnings of young editors! I've left the examples fairly generic to appeal to all and to allow for maximum editing opportunities - do let me know if you think of other ways to use these with your editors-in-training! As it's a bundle this premium resource is available for a nominal cost on my TES homepage. Enjoy - and please contact before modifying :) I will be updating this page regularly with new resources for the play 'Henry V' - and I shall take to the breach to try and make Shakespeare accessible for all learners and easier to teach for all teachers in doing so! Resources are also available on my TES homepage. Enjoy and let me know how they go down! Resources Available: Act One Card Sort - Checking core knowledge of the first Act with some handy quotes to learn along the way. Act Four - Exploring Henry as a man, rather than just as a leader/king.
A quick post to advertise our latest flyer (there's an irony in that somewhere...).
See what we're about, what we offer and what we will be offering in the future - I promise there's something for every literacy lover out there. Get in touch with queries, comments or requests - I'm always happy to hear from you! Have I got a Friday treat for you - tonight, I bring you not one, not two, but three posters to help with reading and essay writing in the classroom.
One is on the process of moving between 'Understand', 'Explain' and 'Analyse' when reading and analysing a text - it provides basic questions to explain what pupils should be looking for. A second is on what to think about when reading a book in lessons - from how they personally feel about it, to the author's messages and meanings, and everything in between. And finally, you have in the collection a reading comprehension pathway. It's an archaic name for a process we do everyday when writing based on a central text - it's a flow chart of how to tackle the simplest of reading tasks. The beauty of these PDF posters is that they could be used in classroom displays as general reminders, or as A5 sheets in pupils books to help them in their everyday work - or both! Regardless, they're a colourful way of remembering what the success criteria is in reading tasks, and suitable for KS2 and lower KS3. You can find these delights on my TES homepage, where there is a nominal charge for downloading. Please don't modify without permission - and, as always, let me know what you think and how you use these, I'm eager to know! A simpler offering tonight perhaps - a punctuation worksheet aimed at checking the basics before asking pupils to start messing with different types of punctuation and sentence structure to consider writing for effect. They're all just made up examples so there's no correct answer - it's up to them! Enjoy and - as per - let me know how you get on!
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