English Activities
We are aiming to have a "quicklook" for every activity, but if the quicklook link is not currently live, it is not yet available.
We have temporarily retained the artificial distinction between literature and language activities but several of the resources here fit in the other category and vice verse. Go to the online literacy/language arts list for adverbial Shakespeare etc. but you'll find simile bingo here in the poetry section.
Fiction
Our Food and Babies information gap is a prequel to studying Swift's Modest Proposal or any satirical writing: quicklook and full activity.
Looking at the characteristics of classic stories including the Three Bears: quicklook and full activity.
'Transformations' or through the looking glass: encouraging storytelling through props involving changing persons and places: quicklook and full activity.
'Superpeople' a look at comic book heroes and deciding which of them are most useful in emergencies: quicklook and full activity.
'The Holiday' work on George Layton's seaside bed and breakfast short story to inspire holiday writing: quicklook and full activity.
'Holes' by Louis Sachar book which many schools have adopted for years 6, 7 or 8 now with an illustrated connect four revision activity. Quicklook and full activityI If you have an A3 printer you can get the single page version of the gameboard here.
Of Mice and Men. This is a Snakes and Ladders Game This Heinemann text is currently being republished by Longman and we intend to work with them to link with their new version.
We now have a selection of work on Thomas Hardy (Withered Arm and Tony Kytes) developed in Loughborough and Leicester: quicklook and full activity
Two activities to support understanding of character and plot in Great Expectations quicklook and full activity and a character/plot mini information gap activity Oliver Twist quicklook and full activity
Media
Glossary game on radio terms: quicklook and full activity
Plays.
Revision activity on 'Inspector Calls': quicklook and full activity.
Shakespeare
Hamlet: detailed study of the closet scene: quicklook and full activity.
Macbeth:
Connect four introducing characters: quicklook and full activity.
Two minute autobiography to introduce characters:quicklook and full activity.
A close look at Act One: quicklook and full activity.
Hot seating and connect four combined: quicklook and full activity.
Drama tasks related to Macbeth: quicklook and full activity.
Charting Macbeth's changing feelings: quicklook and full activity.
Activity on imagery: quicklook and full activity.
Macbeth on trial: quicklook and full activity.
Work on witches' predictions: quicklook and full activity.
Midsummer Nights Dream
Blockbuster activity: quicklook and full activity.
Hot seating activity: quicklook and full activity
Much Ado about Nothing
Prediction activity on plot: quicklook and full activity.
Two connect four activities: quicklook and full activity
Character cards activity: quicklook and full activity
A who's who activity: quicklook and full activity
Correcting Dogberry activity: quicklook and full activity
Words that have changed meaning activity: quicklook and full activity
Blockbuster activity: quicklook and full activity
Romeo and Juliet
Invent your own plot activity: quicklook and full activity
Character cards and two connect four activities: quicklook and full activity
Richard III or any history play
Activity on qualities of leadership: quicklook and full activity
Activities on Tempest will soon appear!
An activity on presenting a Greek myth (Arachne) in the style of a Greek play, where the whole class becomes the chorus: quicklook full activity
Poetry:
A new Simile Bingo activity to encourage uncliched similes in children's own poetry writing: Quicklook and Full Activity
Activities from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: work on the Prologue: Quicklook and Full Activity plus pictorial introduction to medieval thriller: a chance to write your own Pardoner's Tale.
Two activities on Ballads: a sorting activity to examine the range of ballads and encourage further browsing in anthologies: quicklook and full activity. Two related activities: an activity on the Factory Girl's Last Day: quicklook and the full activity. A detective activity on narrative poetry based on Three Crows: quicklook and full activity.
Macavity the Mystery Cat back online with all the original drawings: quicklook and full activity.
Quicklook and full version of "Poetry Sort" and a Poetry connect four game. Both activities are designed to encourage students to read and reflect on poetry as well as browse through anthologies. We also have a similar activity to encourage collaborative browsing through John Agard's Half Caste.
Introducing Haiku: quicklook and full activity.
Are you teaching love poetry? A look at the romantic and the cynical and in between: quicklook and full activity.
Seamus Heaney Early Purges and an activity on Wordsworth's Daffodils. from Brighton and Hove.
Activity on Craig Raine's Martian sends a postcard home: quicklook and full activity.
This page was last partially updated on 14th December 2007.
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