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Revision

Lots of ideas for whole class and independent revision activities for students at all Key Stages. Includes sections on revising for questions on poetry, a novel, unseen non-fiction, drama, original writing, and literary extracts.

 

Information leaflets

Glossary Teaching Strategies
Preferred styles of learning and English
Providing Support for KS3 English

Spelling Activities

Double Consonant Rule
English Subject Specific Spellings
Homophones
Keep the 'e' 1
  • Acrobat PDF, 153kb/1 page, 03/08/2004,
    Keepthee1
Keep the 'e' 2
  • Acrobat PDF, 158kb/1 page, 03/08/2004,
    Keepthee 2
Reading Paper Spellings
Shakespeare Spellings
'Shun' Endings
Spelling Strategies

Year 7 Spelling Bank Words

Transition

Transition Situation in Herts

Transition Year 6 to 7 Factfinding

Transition Year 6 to 7 Factfinding Teacher Notes

Speaking and Listening

A fun card game to help students to structure their discussion

Black and White

Colour

Teacher Notes


Starters and Plenaries

Zip, Zap, Zoom. A fun new starter for teaching punctuation.
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Ideas for sentence starters
50 Ideas for Starters
50 Ideas for Plenaries
Shakespeare Starters Text. Can be adapted for any play and scenes.
Word starters
Sentence Starter Task Sheets

Word work

Connectives for Display
Jokes
Word Puzzles
Word Definitions
Display Cards - Year 7
Year 7

Work Scrutinies

Work Scrutiny Top Tips