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This KS4 persuasive writing lesson combines a variety of tasks that get students exploring difficult moral issues while also developing their understanding of how writers manipulate language and why it's essential to support opinions with evidence...
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This persuasive writing examples lesson plan gets students exploring difficult moral issues while learning how writers manipulate language
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Is 50% off a better deal than 50% extra free? This KS3 percentage change lesson helps students get to grips with the issues surrounding percentage change…
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Use this percentage change KS3 lesson to explore what happens to an amount of money when it undergoes a percentage increase or decrease
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This print-ready reading strategies PDF details six classroom strategies, and assorted associated activities, that Lodge Park Academy in Corby uses to improve standards of cross-curricular literacy…
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This reading strategies document contains six whole-school strategies for improving students' engagement with reading and literacy outcomes
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This KS3 creative writing lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing. The collaborative nature of the lesson means they learn from and inspire each other...
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This creative writing KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing
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Students will really enjoy the excitement of breaking out the black and yellow crime scene investigation tape and putting on disposable paper suits with this KS3 crime scene forensics lesson plan…
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Students will enjoy breaking out the black and yellow crime scene investigation tape for this KS3 crime scene lesson plan...
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Have fun during the festive season by getting children writing instructions based around how to look after a Christmas elf. This download contains two original model texts from @PieCorbett, with accompanying teacher notes…
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Have fun during the festive season by getting children writing instructions based around how to look after a Christmas elf...
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#RoadSafetyWeek takes place between 16th-22nd November this year. Find out everything you need to know, including key dates, engaging resources and activity ideas for your classroom…
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Educate children about staying safe on our roads during Road Safety Week – an annual event held in schools in November...
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Is it too early to start thinking about #Christmas? If you're an organised sort, get ready for the festive season with these creative and educational activities, lesson plans and downloads…
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Deck the halls ready for the festive season with these fun and creative Christmas activities, worksheets and ideas for schools...
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#DisabilityHistoryMonth (20th Nov - 20th Dec) is a great time to think about embedding people with disabilities into your history curriculum. Take up the challenge with these ideas…
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Embed people with disabilities into your history curriculum with these Disability History Month classroom ideas and resources...
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Get involved with #AntiBullyingWeek (10th-14th Nov) in your school with this collection of excellent resources for primary and secondary…
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Get involved with Anti-Bullying Week in your school with this collection of excellent resources for primary and secondary...
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This free KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing…
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This creative writing KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing
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Students need to ‘do’ to ‘understand’, regardless of the subject. This free 'components of fitness' GCSE PE lesson looks at how you can practically teach a ‘theory’ element of PE qualifications…
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This components of fitness GCSE PE lesson looks at how you can practically teach a ‘theory’ element of PE qualifications...
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This free download includes ten posters featuring key quotes from Macbeth, plus a worksheet…
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This download includes ten posters featuring Macbeth key quotes, plus a worksheet (in PDF and Word doc formats) with these quotes on
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Ask KS3 students to identify language and presentational features that support meaning in non-fiction text with this free newspaper layout lesson plan…
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The focus of this newspaper layout KS3 lesson is to infer/deduce from the text to show how the target audience is addressed
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These free Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you’re teaching or revising An Inspector Calls. Students have to ‘blow up’ words and phrases from key quotations into smaller pieces and analyse them…
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These Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you're teaching or revising An Inspector Calls in your KS3/4 English lesson
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I love working with @teachteach & @TeachPrimary to create resources which support educators in using for hours books in their settings. This one focuses on @BTeckentrup’s latest title. @Prestel_pub @antswilk
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Books can be a great way to help pupils manage difficult emotions such as feeling lonely. This download contains a PDF full of classroom activities from literacy expert @BookSuperhero2 based around the picturebook When I Feel Lonely by @Bteckentrup
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Books can be a great way to help pupils manage difficult emotions such as feeling lonely. This download contains a PDF full of classroom activities from literacy expert @BookSuperhero2 based around the picturebook When I Feel Lonely by @Bteckentrup
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Use Britta Teckentrup’s beautiful picturebook, When I Feel Lonely, to sensitively explore difficult emotions with your class...
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Of the 50 marks available in the Year 6 reading comprehension paper, 30–35 per cent involve inference. Use these free worksheets from @VocabularyNinja to hone your pupils’ inference skills across all the SATs question formats…
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Polish up your pupils' inference skills for the reading comprehension Year 6 paper with this text extract and sample questions
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These lesson ideas from @TheRSC demonstrate how you can teach Shakespeare to primary pupils using an active, rehearsal-based approach…
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Approach Shakespeare’s plays as living, breathing texts, and every child will be able to access and enjoy them...
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Plugging children into reading isn’t that hard – it’s keeping the power going that really matters… | via @kashleyenglish
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Kelly Ashley looks at different kinds of ‘reader power’ - extrinsic, social and intrinsic - and how we can fuel long-term reading motivation
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