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Strange pictures

A collection of strange, funny and grotesque pictures to be used at the teacher's discretion VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Novels, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary

Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, City and Guilds

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Gothic Lit Year 7 SOW

A short SOW for year 7.Lessons and extracts based on 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'Frankenstein', 'The Raven' and 'Dracula'. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Persuasive Writing: The Art of Persuasion Knowledge Organiser

A KO for our updated Art of Persuasion unit which explores the use of Pathos, Ethos and Logos in speech and writing taking students on a journey of famous rhetoric from Gandhi to Rashford. Includes de... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Writing through Time 7: Victorian

Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Novels, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

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Writing through Time 6: Romanticism (and Regency)

Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Novels, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

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Writing through Time 5: Restoration

Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Novels, Plays, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

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Writing through Time 4: Renaissance

Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Plays, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

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Writing through Time 3: Middle English

Four lessons extracted from a longer scheme. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

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Writing through Time: Old English

3-4 lessons - part of a full scheme.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

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Writing through Time 1: Mythology

This is the first four lessons in the full Writing through Time scheme posted a few weeks ago. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

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A Storm Emerges (Reading and Writing skills)

An original text (700+ words) with starter tasks, comprehension and analysis questions, extended writing prompts, and reading mark scheme.Ideal for stand-alone lessons, cover lessons, or as part of a... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

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Exit Tickets for Lessons

Exit Tickets allow pupils to reflect on their learning at the end of the lesson, thereby removing the need for a teacher-led plenary. Promotes independent and personal thinking skills, and provides fo... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Plays, Poetry, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary

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Hatchet

This is a whole unit of work based around the novel Hatchet.There are reading and writing activities, homework tasks and key vocab lessons are integrated.Instead of LOs I have used 'The Big Question'... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Novels, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

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Introduction to disciplinary literacy using UTV technique

As a school we had worked on DEAR but it simply wasn't working, teachers were scared of teaching reading or students were allowed to simply stare at a book for 20 minutes. This is not about readi... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy

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Vocabulary Lessons

Some examples of how Katie Ashford's book Building Brilliant Vocabulary can be turned into PowerPoints to teach alongside your SoLs. Just choose the words that suit the texts/tasks and embed them into... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Vocabulary

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Hero Rats - a variety of resources for Functional Skills classes

Some resources I put together on the Apopo rats, who sniff out landmines and disease. My students really enjoyed this topic. Lots of information can be found on the Apopo site. This topic covered 2-3... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

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Fake News - a selection of activities for Functional Skills L1 and L2

Many of these materials are for blended/interactive use on my Google Classroom, and I have attempted to convert them to paper based for easier sharing.This is the first FS topic I am uploading. I'm no... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

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Form Time Activities - Inference Images - Communication

This file contains a whole pack of Form Time Activities for years 7-10 which link to 'Communication' or Literacy. It is rather large. It holds a folder for each year group 7-10. Then, in eac... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy

Exam/Board: AQA

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5-a-day KS3 Start Activity 2

Another 5-a-day starter activity Power Point with numerous slides. This is for Autumn 1 for year 8. The template was taken from TES, but I can't remember who from apologies.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Sequencing doc for students for yr 7 to 10

An example of the sequencing doc for Yr 7 to 10 for students. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Course: GCSE Literature

Unit: Novels, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas

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Display - Famous first words

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Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

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Non-fiction tier 2 and 3 vocabulary worksheets

Three worksheets which contain lists of tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary for non-fiction writing. The worksheets are aimed at increasing students' vocabulary and can be used for home learning or homework. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

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Improving poetry vocabulary

Three vocabulary worksheets aimed at year 7 to improve their tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary for poetry. The sheets can be used for distance learning, or for a homework.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary

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Racism, Diversity & Inequality

A small collection of activities centered around poetry and an article that explore how writers express their experiences about growing up, facing racism, discrimination and prejudice. It includes an... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

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KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit

A KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit. A range of gothic extracts are explored from texts including 'Frankenstein', 'Dracula', The Tell-tale Heart', 'Porphyria's lover' etc. Enjoy! VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit

A KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit. A range of gothic extracts are explored from texts including 'Frankenstein', 'Dracula', The Tell-tale Heart', 'Porphyria's lover' etc. Enjoy! VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit

A KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit. A range of gothic extracts are explored from texts including 'Frankenstein', 'Dracula', The Tell-tale Heart', 'Porphyria's lover' etc. Enjoy! VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit

A KS3 Gothic reading and writing unit. A range of gothic extracts are explored from texts including 'Frankenstein', 'Dracula', The Tell-tale Heart', 'Porphyria's lover' etc. Enjoy! VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit

Fully resourced SoL aimed at mid-high ability Y7.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Plays, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Speaking & Listening Project

Aimed as a link unit for Y9 at the end of the summer term to prep for GCSE. Could form basis for Sp&L assessment for some groups or serve as a practice.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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The Tempest SoL

Aimed at Y9, fully resourced. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Plays, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Northern Lights SoL

Full scheme aimed at AQA P1 skills with resources.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Novels, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Butterfly Lion SoW

Full SoL for lower ability Y7 VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Novels, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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A Christmas Carol Full SoL

A full scheme, complete with resources for a half term unit to teach ACC to Yr9/low ability Y10 VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Homework, Novels, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Gothic SoW

Full Scheme - suitable for low ability KS3. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Homework, Novels, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Narrative Writing Unit

Complete unit for narrative writing based around producing a piece for a year wide and class wide competition. Fully resourced. Aimed at Y7. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Literacy Games

A variety of games to play in class with a literacy focus. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Tiered Starter/Settler blank slides

A series of tiered or differentiated blank slides for starter or settler tasks. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Homework, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Feedback Sheet

A sheet I use to help prompt meaningful feedback and peer-marking. I laminate and place on desks, 1 between 2.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Homework, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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PLC target grade sheets

Individually highlighted target grade PLC sheets for grades 3-7.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Homework, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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KS3 Dystopian Fiction Home-Learning Booklet

A resource I adapted from an existing resource (thank you to whoever uploaded it!) made more suitable for the next half-term of home learning for our Year 8s. Includes extracts from dystopian novels,... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

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Literacy/Comprehension Booklet

Themed booklet with extracts, comprehension tasks, writing tasks and peer assessment tasks.Originally aimed at KS3. Easily adaptable on Word. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

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The Landlady booklet

Booklet for Year 7 focusing on comprehension and vocabulary based on Roald Dahl's 'The Landlady'.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Reading, Vocabulary

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Opening Booklet

A booklet for home learning building vocabulary, reading and comprehension skills using the opening prologue and chapter 1 of Ramson Rigg's 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Reading, Vocabulary

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Animals in Literature - KS3 Unit

3 week SOW for Y8 students on Animals in Literature covering anthropomorphism and extracts from a range of 19th and 20th Century Literature.Slideshow, Resource Booklet and Planning Overview.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Reading, Vocabulary

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Year 7 Literacy Work books

5 Literacy booklets with a range of task, devised for each half term. Can't locate book 1 at the moment! Suitaable across range of abilities and good for starter tasks or homeworks.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy

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Vocabulary SOW updated

UPDATED 29/07/19- 20 weekly lessons, each with 3 additional Do Nows and a homework sheet for each lesson.Lessons are divided into 4 groups of 5, with a baseline/end of half-term assessment to determin... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Vocabulary

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Chaucer and English Language

Resources for year 7 to work on unit of Canterbury tales and evolution of English Language. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Poetry, Vocabulary, Writing

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Creative Writing: The Trench

These lessons are being taught alongside a reading of War Horse but may be of some use to others. Slides 1-6 have used some activities from Pobble 365 (The Trench) - one or two activities have been ad... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Novels, Poetry, Vocabulary, Writing

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Gender debate SOW

A full SOW and lessons based on gender inequality. Students over the last few years have been really engaged with this SOW, which teaches them speaking and listening skills and question 5 paper 2 skil... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR

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Darkside extracts

Extracts from the novel 'Darkside' VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Novels, Reading, Vocabulary

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Half termly planning sheet

A sheet I use at the start of a half term to organise my planning of a topic.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

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Literature through the Ages SOW

This SOW is meant to increase pupils' cultural capital. It starts with the general information about literature, introduces literary timeline, explains how literary canon is created. It then moves to... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Plays, Poetry, Reading, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

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Year 6 to 7 Summer Tasks Transition Booklet

The English section of a whole school summer tasks booklet.Students self or peer mark answers in lessons.Teachers have slides with answers to share. Not prescribed how teachers use it. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

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Restaurant Review

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Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

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Travel writing conventions

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Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

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Conventions of non-fiction writing/language and grammar

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Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

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Creative writing - Creating a superhero a short SOW

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Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Gothic fiction SOW complete

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Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Homework, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Harry Potter spelling

Ways into spelling using Harry Potter characters and ideas. Also includes root word tree. Very easy to adapt. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Vocabulary

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KS3 Macbeth SOW Resources

All of the resources to accompany the KS3 Macbeth SOW uploaded. They should be in numerical order for the lessons. VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Plays, Reading, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Narrative Writing Planning Sheet

The attached narrative writing planning template worked quite well with my college resit students and I managed to get 1 to 1.5 pages of writing out of most of them on the first attempt.  VIEW

Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing, Paper 1, SPAG, Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

Level: Key Stage 4

Course: GCSE Language

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'Lost and Found' Benchmark Writing Mini SOW

This file includes four fully-resourced lessons and a GCSE-style descriptive/narrative writing question. It has been designed as a start of year benchmark assessment for Year 8, however it would b... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Gothic Genre Word Bank

A selection of words (split into word classes and sub-sections) related to the Gothic genre. Supports pupils with extended their vocabulary, choosing precise language, and demonstrating correct sp... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: 19th Century Literature, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

Exam/Board: AQA

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Literacy and SPaG mini tasks booklet

I made this to be used in form time for Year 7. It was a cross-curricular Humanities' based intervention so has texts drawn from History, RE and Geography as well as English. There is a ppt with... VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy

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Starter - Using Unique Imagery - Fireworks

I used this as a starter in a descriptive writing lesson to encourage the pupils to try to create more unique and unusual imagery and to avoid cliche.  VIEW

Level: Key Stage 3

Unit: Vocabulary, Writing

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