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Close reading resources in English (UK) $10 and up
Joyce Carol Oates "Where are you Going, Where have you Been?" Unit
Comprehensive and diverse “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Unit using Connections in Song, Poetry, Historical Events, Mythology and Fairytales. Provides supplemental texts to examine alongside Oates' short story to enhance the understanding and allow for more thought provoking discussions. Contains a connected lesson on Loss of Innocence and Examining the Devil Figure in Literature. This is hours upon hours worth of work that will give you days and days of class material.
What is I
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9th - 12th
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The London Eye Mystery Complete Novel Study PDF
This is an updated version of my previously posted novel study sets. This updated version includes questions ALL 41 chapters of the book. It also includes 4 quizzes to be used after each section of the novel. The quizzes only pertain to the chapters read since the last quiz. Each quiz is a collection of questions from the homework pages. If you are looking for a test to cover the whole book, see my other listing. This set does not include an answer key as most of the questions are "brain" questi
Grades:
4th - 6th
Visualizing Activities Reading Skills BUNDLE
This is a BUNDLE of reading activities to encourage students to visualize as they read, to increase their comprehension. The tasks involve students visualizing and verbalizing their ideas: connecting with the images, and higher order thinking, without the stress of de-coding.What's included? There are 320 task cards: 8 for each of these skills, in each set:1) Cause and Effect2) Prior Knowledge (Inference)3) Predicting4) Sequencing5) Comparing and Contrasting6) Fact and Opinion7) Making Generali
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3rd - 6th
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Romeo and Juliet Lessons Scheme
Full scheme lesson resources for studying Romeo and Juliet at GCSE level, featuring prompt questions to guide students to examine key details of each scene, recall and retrieval activities and analytical writing practice.29 powerpoint presentations clearly structuring 35 lessons for detailed study of all Romeo and Juliet and exam analytical writing, with accompanying resources. Includes: Recall, retrieval, recap activities. Model analysis. Peer/Self assessment and improvement. Regular analy
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This unit contains everything you need to teach Rime of the Ancient Mariner at IB Standard or Higher level, but it could easily be adapted for GCSE and A-level. It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual research, poetic devices revision, gothic extracts, Romantic research and vocabulary support. Lesson 1: Gothic and RomanticLesson 2: Poetic rhyme, rhythm and meterLesson 3: Poetic devices researchLesson 4: The PlotLesson 5: Part 1Lesson 6: Part 1 RevisionLe
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11th - 12th
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Comprehensive Novel study and guides
Over 2500 questions on The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesThe sets include for each of the 31 chapters, questions on:10 open ended questions10 multiple choice questionsSets of 5 questions on each theme of the chapterSets of 5 questions on each character of the chapterQuestions on keywords in the bookIn addition to this each chapter hasa summarya list of the keywords and their meanings Descriptions about the characters in each chapterDescription about the themes from each chapter All files in word
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4th - 12th
THE HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS - BUNDLE OF READING PASSAGES
This is a bundle of 10 'cloze' reading passages about the history of 10 Christmas Traditions. There are comprehension, vocabulary, and reflection questions + Key. There is a digital interactive Google Slides version of this product for distance learning purposes.In this zip file you will find:Printable PDFs of all the products separately with the passage readings and the questions The links of a copy to the interactive Google Slides versionsa bonus file with all of the separate files together al
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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GUIDE TO YUMIKO TOBITANI'S QUANTUM SPEED READING
A guide to the book
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Not Grade Specific
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Cellist of Sarajevo Novel Study Bundle Pack
This bundle pack contains a series of activities based on Steven Galloway's acclaimed novel, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'. The activities include writing prompts, vocabulary activities, cloze activities, character deconstructions and lessons to improve analytical and creative writing.This is an excellent resource helping students understand the context of the novel, and to give teachers a range of ideas for delving into the text and make it accessible for all learners. The activities within this bu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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11+ English Practice Papers (GL Style). Comprehension & SPAG. 4 Papers.
Four, full-length GL-style 11+ English practice papers, testing comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar. It includes:A reading comprehension about honeybeesA reading comprehension about snakesA reading comprehension about Theseus and the MinotaurA reading comprehension about Marie CurieA Reading comprehension about volcanoes A total of 100 comprehension questions (20 per passage)40 grammar questions40+ spelling questions30+ punctuation questionsAnswer sheets & answersThese tests ar
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4th - 6th
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes Book Study
Great Resource for Book Club/Book Study Groups. The resource involves:- Comprehension Questions for each Chapter (Correlation with Fountas and Pinnell type questioning)- Writing Short Summaries- Drawing Images of Main Idea of Chapters- Expanded Vocabulary using Context Clues- Book ReviewYOU CAN FIND THE BOOK ON THE PROGRAM ‘EPIC‘, GOOD READ!
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3rd - 6th
Silas Marner by George Eliot: Whole Text Study
This resource includes a huge range of resources that investigate the narrative, characters, themes, structure and context using differentiated activities and engaging tasks to hook even the most reluctant learner. This is everything you would need to teach this text from start to finish, including assessments and peer assessments.
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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The Haunting of Aveline Jones Chapter VIPERS (questions), extension activities
The Haunting of Aveline Jones:Novel: Based in UKChapters great for lessons.Setting and character descriptionTheme: Thriller/horror (age appropriate)SummeryChapter VIPERS (questions)extension activities
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4th - 6th
The Paris Anthology for AQA A-level English Language and Literature
This Unit of Work has been designed as a pathway through the Paris Anthology for English A-level Language and Literature. It contains over 33 lessons and covers all of the extracts, as well as lessons to compare the extracts using past papers. It is fully resourced with a linguistic toolkit, features of spoken language mini-tests, word class worksheets, past papers, exemplar essays, opportunities for online research and homework tasks.Lesson 1a: Introduction to The AnthologyLesson 1b: Grammar an
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11th - 12th
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'Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets' Unit
A complete programme of work for use in English. The unit builds up towards a book report on 'Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets' by JK Rowling. Students will work on skills such as:summarisingunderstandinganalysing evaluation They will learn about:settingcharacterisationthemesThere is a complementary booklet available in my store.
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5th - 8th
Book Study of "Polar Boy" by Sandy Fussel
Great Resource for Book Club/Book Study Groups. The resource involves:- Comprehension Questions for each Chapter (Correlation with Fountas and Pinnell type questioning)- Writing Short Summaries- Drawing Images of Main Idea of Chapters- Expanded Vocabulary using Context Clues- Book Review
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4th - 7th
Beowulf Booklet with all activities and assessment task
This is a unit of work based on the translation of Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo. I prepared it for my advanced year 6 class, but it would also be good to use with year 7 or 8.
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6th - 8th
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler: The Complete Text
This resource comprises a study of characters, themes, literary devices, close analysis, essay writing, creative responses, hot seating and script writing to name but a few of the teaching methods used here. These lessons are fully differentiated and supported, terminology is clarified and these lessons nurture engaged and increasingly independent learners. Mark schemes are referred to, clarified and exemplified throughout every section and links are made between earlier lessons to latter less
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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Unseen Prose Extracts at A level
This unit of work has been designed to prepare A-level or High School students for their AQA Paper 2 Unseen Prose exam. The students have to incorporate context into their answers, so the unit contains 13 lessons ranging from Victorian Literature to more modern, multi-cultural texts like White Teeth. Each lesson will take you about an hour to prepare their answer and a further hour to write an essay if you wish to do so. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoint lessons, exemplar essays, guidance
Grades:
11th - 12th
Analysis of 'Mrs Mahmood' — Segun AFOLABI
This document is a detailed analysis of the short story 'Mrs Mahmood' by Segun Afolabi. It includes notes on the author, genre, characters, setting, themes, point of view, tone, mood, figures of speech, language [diction] imagery, stylistic devices, etc.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Book Study -The Elephant | Australian/Victorian Curriculum
Great Resource for Book Club/Book Study Groups. The resource involves:- Comprehension Questions for each Chapter (Correlation with Fountas and Pinnell type questioning)- Writing Short Summaries- Drawing Images of Main Idea of Chapters- Expanded Vocabulary using Context Clues- Book Review
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3rd - 6th
Reading Book Comprehension Bundle *Growing Bundle*
A bundle of different comprehension activities that are linked to various published books.Each pack includes a 20 question comprehension task per chapter, with a task for every single chapter of the book. The questions test a range of skills linked to comprehension with answer sheets included for each resource.This is a growing bundle that so far includes:Harry Potter and the Philosophers StoneHarry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsThe Night Bus HeroLetters from the LighthouseThe Boy at the Back
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3rd - 6th
The Boy at the Back of the Class Reading Comprehension Bundle (26 activities)
Twenty six reading comprehension activities linked to the book The Boy at the Back of the Class. Each chapter has a separate comprehension activity that includes 20 questions working on different skills as well as also having the answers included separately.
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Reading Book Comprehension Bundle *Growing Bundle*
Letters from the Lighthouse Reading Comprehension Bundle (25 activities)
Twenty five reading comprehension activities linked to the book Letters from the Lighthouse. Each chapter has a separate comprehension activity that includes 20 questions working on different skills as well as also having the answers included separately.
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Reading Book Comprehension Bundle *Growing Bundle*
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