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Idiom-match! |
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Match the card with the picture to work out what the idiom means. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 03/02/2012 | |||
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Summarise that! | ||
Using a descriptive extract from 'Out of Africa', students quickly brush up on the art of summarising. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 23/10/2009 | |||
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Dullard! | ||
A great game (perfect as a starter or plenary) in which students choose more zingy alternatives to dull words and test these out on a partner with a game of snap (substituting the word 'snap' for 'dullard' as required.) | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 01/05/2009 | |||
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Vocabulary choices | ||
A useful lesson starter. Students explore the effect of vocabulary choices using an extract from 'The Bad Spy's Guide'. (Click on the flippable Magnet tiles to reveal all of the vocabulary options.) | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 10/10/2008 | |||
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Scrambled literary terms and their definitions | ||
Twenty-five literary terms and their definitions... simply match up the two lists. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 03/10/2008 | |||
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Toasty treat | ||
A lovely sequencing activity to introduce instruction writing. Includes an interactive whizzy version. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 26/09/2008 | |||
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Starters for all: prepositions | ||
Remember what prepositions are? A word recognition task for the less able, a grammar lesson for the more... This starter includes extension work for the more able. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 04/04/2008 | |||
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Starters for all: plurals | ||
Important plural rules. The 's', 'ies', 'ves' and 'es' are infinitely cloned - simply drag them into place. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 15/02/2008 | |||
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Starters for all: misplaced connectives | ||
Rearrange the connectives so that each one fits the sentence. Includes extension task for more able students. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 21/12/2007 | |||
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Starters for all: -able, -ible endings | ||
These starters contain extension work. The -able and -ible are 'infinitely cloned': simply drop them into place. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 14/12/2007 | |||
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Starters for all: punctuation | ||
These starters are designed for all students and include extension work for the more able. Put in the punctuation and capital letters. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 23/11/2007 | |||
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Word games for spelling skills |
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Two games to use as starters. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 15/12/2006 | |||
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Kick-start discussion slides | ||
A selection of thought-provoking, fairly general, quotations which can be used to generate independent thinking and discussion. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 17/11/2006 | |||
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Sci-fi compound words | ||
How many sci-fi compound words can you form from the words given? | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 08/06/2006 | |||
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Compound words | ||
Make as many compounds as possible from the words given. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 08/06/2006 | |||
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To be - a most irregular verb |
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Quick starter to focus on the tense changes of the verb 'to be'. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 19/05/2006 | |||
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Literary terminology |
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Match up the literary terms with their definitions. Available as a whizzy matching activity. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 17/02/2006 | |||
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Instruction writing |
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A fill-in-the-blanks exercise on instructions - could be a useful lesson starter. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 11/11/2005 | |||
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An interactive matching exercise for 'Persuasive techniques bingo' | ||
Match the terms with their definitions. Perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 30/09/2005 | |||
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Poetic terms bingo | ||
To practise recognition of similes, metaphors, alliteration and onomatopoeia. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 27/09/2005 | |||
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What am I? | ||
A noisy starter to revise nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 27/09/2005 | |||
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Which poetic term am I? | ||
A noisy starter to revise poetic terms. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 27/09/2005 | |||
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Personal pronoun snap |
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A quick revision game. Interactive snap game also available. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 27/09/2005 | |||
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An interactive matching exercise for 'US & UK English starter' | ||
Match the US word to its UK counterpart. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 21/09/2005 | |||
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An interactive matching exercise for 'US & UK English starter' | ||
Match the US word to its UK counterpart. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 21/09/2005 | |||
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| An interactive matching exercise for 'US & UK English starter' | |||
Match the US word to its UK counterpart. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 21/09/2005 | |||
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An interactive matching exercise for 'Persuasive techniques bingo' | ||
Match the terms with their definitions. Perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard. Also available as a Promethean flipchart. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 20/09/2005 | |||
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First, second or third person? | ||
Identify whether the phrase is in the first, second or third person. An interactive multiple choice exercise - perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 20/09/2005 | |||
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Bingo! |
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To practise recognition of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. A Teachit interactive version is available to Teachit.works members. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 16/09/2005 | |||
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Grammar dice |
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Grammar dice with parts of speech. Pupils play a game with the dice and a guide sheet to construct sentences. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/07/2005 | |||
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Quickfire adverbs (2) | ||
A nice kinaesthetic quiz activity using PowerPoint. An interactive version for pupils to categorise adverbs is also available. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/03/2005 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Lesson starters |
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Types of sentences and clauses | ||
Simple, compound and complex sentence worksheet. Originally designed as OHTs to support the NLS. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 21/12/2004 | |||
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Persuasive techniques | ||
Match the terms with the correct definitions and examples. Available as an interactive Matching activity. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 30/11/2004 | |||
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Quickfire adverbs PowerPoint | ||
Lovely. Introductory presentation which would work well as a lesson starter. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 23/11/2004 | |||
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Self-mark starters | ||
Some short, sharp and useful starter activities around spelling, punctuation and grammar. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 15/06/2004 | |||
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Self-mark starters (teacher copy) | ||
Some short, sharp and useful starter activities around spelling, punctuation and grammar - teacher's answers. Includes some further tasks and information. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 15/06/2004 | |||
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Nouns and verbs | ||
Sort words into nouns, verbs and words that could be either. Interactive resource also available. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 08/10/2003 | |||
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Pronouns starter activities | ||
Underline the pronouns in the sentence. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 07/10/2003 | |||
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Word scramble (Y7 W11 & Y8 W6) | ||
Spell useful English words. Includes teacher's notes. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 11/06/2003 | |||
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Connectives lesson starter | ||
Advice on how to use connectives to develop thought. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 23/05/2003 | |||
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Plural rules | ||
Exploring s/es/ies plurals; f-ves plurals, plurals with vowels other than e and irregular plurals. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/03/2003 | |||
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Alphabetical order and using a dictionary | ||
3 separate starter activities including all necessary resources. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/03/2003 | |||
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Word endings lesson starters | ||
Materials for looking at -ible / -able / -shun endings, plus comparatives and superlatives for words ending in -y and adding - ing to words ending in e. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/03/2003 | |||
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Apostrophe starters | ||
Includes 'apostrophe dominoes' to explore apostrophes for omission and an exercise looking at apostrophes for possession. [Amended 22/06/04] | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/03/2003 | |||
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Year 7 spelling bank lesson starters | ||
Starter activities for classroom teachers. Originally designed for the NLS spelling banks (all provided). | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 03/09/2002 | |||
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Punctuation practice: subordinate clauses (teacher copy) | ||
Includes suggested extension tasks. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 06/08/2002 | |||
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Punctuation practice: subordinate clauses | ||
Match the main and subordinate clauses. An interactive version is also available. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 06/08/2002 | |||
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Prepositions starter activity | ||
Includes a good list of examples. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 12/06/2002 | |||
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US and UK English starter activity |
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Match the US word to its UK counterpart. A number of interactive snap and matching activities are also available. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 12/06/2002 | |||
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Vowels and Y starter activity | ||
Lesson plan and resource. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 12/06/2002 | |||
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Parts of speech lesson starters | ||
Uses the 'Parts of Speech' poem as cloze exercise. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 12/06/2002 | |||
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Persuasive techniques bingo |
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Lovely bingo style game, including techniques card, definitions and instructions. Also available as Teachit Interactive matching exercises. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 12/06/2002 | |||
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Lesson starters - adjectives, synonyms and antonyms | ||
Lesson plan and resources. Use word cards to reinforce understanding of synonyms and antonyms. A Teachit Interactive exercise is also available - match words with their synonyms and antonyms. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/08/2001 | |||
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Lesson starters - spelling | ||
2 user friendly lesson plans exploring vowel choices and unfamiliar words. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/08/2001 | |||
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Lesson starters - apostrophes | ||
4 separate user friendly lesson plans. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/08/2001 | |||
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