Filter by
Subjects
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (460)
- William Shakespeare (33)
- Post-1900 (31)
- William Shakespeare (28)
- Pre-1900 (23)
- Speaking (23)
- Tragedy (18)
- Fiction (14)
- Macbeth (14)
- Macbeth (14)
- Gothic (13)
- An Inspector Calls (12)
- J.B. Priestley (12)
- Fiction (9)
- Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta (9)
- UK (8)
- Frankenstein (7)
- Mary Shelley (7)
- Romeo and Juliet (7)
- Comedy (5)
- Reading (5)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (5)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (5)
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (5)
- Cause and consequence (4)
- Charlotte Bronte (4)
- Comprehension (4)
- Heritage (4)
- Jane Eyre (4)
- My Last Duchess (4)
- Robert Browning (4)
- Robert Browning (4)
- Similarity and difference (4)
- Africa (3)
- Asia (3)
- Charles Dickens (3)
- Hamlet (3)
- North America (3)
- Spoken language (3)
- About a Boy (2)
- Animal Farm (2)
- Continuity and change (2)
- Europe (2)
- Eva Smith (2)
- George Orwell (2)
- Heroes (2)
- Interpretations (2)
- Lady Macbeth (2)
- Lloyd Jones (2)
- Mister Pip (2)
- Nick Hornby (2)
- Oliver Twist (2)
- Othello (2)
- Othello (2)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 4 (2)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 7 (2)
- Reading (2)
- Robert Cormier (2)
- Using evidence (2)
- Willy Russell (2)
- 1 (1)
- 1 (1)
- 3 (1)
- 19th century (1)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1)
- Anita and Me (1)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1)
- Arthur Miller (1)
- Blood Brothers (1)
- Carol Ann Duffy (1)
- Charles Dickens (1)
- Chronology (1)
- Daljit Nagra (1)
- Emily Bronte (1)
- Foundation (1)
- Functional skills (1)
- Harper Lee (1)
- Henry V (1)
- John Donne (1)
- London (1)
- Lord of the Flies (1)
- Meera Syal (1)
- Metaphysical (1)
- Modern (1)
- Much Ado About Nothing (1)
- Oceania (1)
- Owen Sheers (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 1 (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 5 (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 6 (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 8 (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 9 (1)
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1)
- Reasoning (1)
- Richard III (1)
- Robert Swindells (1)
- Roddy Doyle (1)
- Roddy Doyle (1)
- Significance (1)
- Simon Armitage (1)
- Singh Song! (1)
- South America (1)
- Tennessee Williams (1)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1)
- The Crucible (1)
- The Great Gatsby (1)
- The Merchant of Venice (1)
- The Prelude (Extract from) (1)
- The Sign of Four (1)
- The Taming of the Shrew (1)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
- William Blake (1)
- William Golding (1)
- William Wordsworth (1)
- World War One (1)
- Wuthering Heights (1)
Resource type
- (-) Role play/debate/discussion (313)
- Student activity (174)
- Worksheet (73)
- Complete lesson (68)
- Starter/Plenary (32)
- Teaching ideas (30)
- Revision (20)
- Game/quiz (12)
- Exam preparation (5)
- Templates (4)
- Display/posters (3)
- Homework (3)
- Lesson plan (3)
- Assembly (2)
- Differentiated (2)
- Knowledge organisers (2)
- Presentation (2)
- Scheme of work (2)
- Self-assessment (2)
- Assessment (1)
- Form tutor (1)
Exam board
Developing vocabulary
Vocabulary development is a cornerstone of all English Language teaching and we know that closing the word gap is essential to help students to achieve their potential, both in school and in life.
Our targeted vocabulary resources, handouts and worksheets will help you to build learners' confidence with new words, and crucially develop their ability to use new vocabulary in their own speech and writing. Vocabulary development can also help with word decoding leading to improvements in learners’ reading comprehension.
By increasing the number of words students’ encounter and helping them to use words confidently, we can improve both their life chances and their progress and achievement throughout school with these new vocabulary skills.
Try our new vocabulary graphic organizers and fun vocab games, or teach students how to use a thesaurus!
With unfamiliar words, students need to not only understand the meaning of the word but also its synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes and word association. We can help them to develop the skill of learning vocabulary by increasing their word knowledge.
Search the resources below for inspiration, or see our Word gap resources, written in partnership with Oxford University Press, our Word gap posters for classroom displays or try our flexible Word gap templates for printable worksheets and display resources to build vocabulary skills.