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St. Patrick's Day close reading resources in English (UK)
Kindergarten & First Grade Poetry Unit - Reading and Comprehension Worksheets
Poetry Reading and Comprehension Worksheets Perfect for a Poetry UnitIncluded are 10 poems each consisting of 4 pages. Reading Page Tracing Page 2 Reading Comprehension PagesIncluded Poems - I'm a Little Penguin- A Chubby Little Snowman- Odd and Even - Here's a Rabbit- Zoom, Zoom, Zoom- Bee- Sea Animals- Springtime- Ladybug- My Tooth★ If you like this resource be sure to check out the following poetry resources : Nursery Rhymes Poetry Unit PackHumpty Dumpty Lesson Pack - PowerPoint, Lesson Pl
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K - 2nd
Reading comprehension passages retrieve and infer
Being able to read and then retrieve or infer information is tricky but is made easier with this mixed seasonal set of reading comprehension passages. Students read text and show comprehension by answering a series of questions. Text is based around popular world celebrations so you can use these cards at any time of the year. Read about Easter, Saint Patrick’s Day, Halloween and Christmas.There are two sets (one for inferencing and one for retrieving) with identical text but the questions vary
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: English MEGA bundle
Julius Caesar: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Julius Caesar, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can instan
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Romeo and Juliet: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Romeo and Juliet, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can ins
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Short Story Unit Saki's The Open Window
Saki’s The Open Window is the perfect short story for any class. An excellent study of fear and horror by subtext and a peek into the era of Victorian social etiquette. If you are looking for a short story that is gripping, with a twist in its tale. Then this short story is for you.
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This download contains 5 hours of activities including: numerous pre-reading activities, 5 pages of historical context for the Victorian era, comprehension ques
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Short Story Bundle
Bill's New Frock Novel Study UK Teaching Resources
This Bill's New Frock Novel Study was created to support students in the development of their reading comprehension skills. The activities are engaging and challenging, making the perfect companion to deepen students' enjoyment and understanding of the text.The resource is formatted in three detailed sections:SECTION 1: is intended to be used before students begin reading the book. They have the opportunity to research the author and make predictions.SECTION 2: is a collection of book activi
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2nd - 4th
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The Knights Tale - Chaucer
An 18 slide PowerPoint exploring The Knight's Tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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A summary of the story
Character analysis including the knight himself
Key tasks exploring character and plot
Key questions to provoke thought and reflection on the story
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5th - 9th
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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Othello: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
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Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Othello, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and y
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Character Analysis bookmarks, foldables and worksheets (for any text)
Studying character and character analysis are central to the study of literature. Students need as much support as possible to help develop their independent character analysis skills.
These bookmarks, foldables and worksheets will help your students explore the characters they need to study in any literature text.
Ideal for middle or high school students.
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# 9 character foldables 10pgs
# 9 character bookmarks 12pgs
# 9 character analysis worksheets 9pgs
# 1 blank character folda
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7th - 12th
Paradise Lost Close Reading Frankenstein
This is a (very) brief study of Paradise Lost, designed as a lead-in to a larger unit on Frankenstein. I wanted my students to be familiar with Paradise Lost so they would better understand the allusions made in Frankenstein. This breaks down Milton's words into chunks, with questions added in to check comprehension and engage in literary analysis.
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9th - 12th
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Pride and Prejudice Volume I Test
A test covering Volume I (Chapters 1-23) of Pride and Prejudice. It includes:
*10 Matching
*7 character ID (focusing on the Bennet sisters)
*10 Quote ID
*Short answer
This test is a nice blend of plot-based questions and analysis. The plot-based focus allows students to get solid footing with the basic of the story while experimenting with analysis.
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8th - 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
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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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The Nightmare Before Christmas - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text narrates the story based on the animated movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including 10 comprehension questions, 12 True or False exercises, a gap filling exercise and a fan maze. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework during or near Ha
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Also included in: Christmas Reading Comprehension Super Bundle
Echo Mountain Novel Study
About the Novel: After losing almost everything in the Great Depression, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed wilderness of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy after a terrible accident leaves her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie.Ellie is a girl who takes matters into her own hands, and determined to help her father she
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4th - 6th
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
Hamlet: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Hamlet, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can instantly und
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Compare & Contrast two Texts based on "Renewable Energy" High School English
Useful PDF for those desiring to learn/teach the differences in two perspectives on the same topic! Perfect for those studying English in secondary schools, desiring to understand how authors can write with different perspectives, engaging their audiences’ in dissimilar ways. This document will be comparing the following texts as unseen pieces of literature for students to analyse and compare:Text 1: Perspective A - Optimistic View Title: "The Future of Renewable Energy: A World Powered by Clean
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6th - 9th
Power Essay : comparing The Handmaids Tale and Frankenstein
This is an A level essay for Edexcel but can be used for any exam board or curriculam. It is a comparison of the novels of Frankenstein and The Handmaids Tale with a sophistcated high level band answer with relevant context and structural analysis.IAL AL A2 A LEVELEDEXCEL OCR AQA OCR BRITISH CURRICULAM
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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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Common Tone and Mood Words Activity
This activity provides students with modeled instruction on determining an author’ tone and the mood that is created by an author’s specific word choice. Activity provides a review of the definitions of tone and mood, a brief discussion on the difference between connotative and denotative meanings and an activity that requires students to determine words that carry positive, negative or neutral connotations. Students then analyze literature excerpts to identify positive, negative and neutral w
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8th - 11th
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