English Teaching Resources:Homophones (its and it's)

English Teaching Resources (Spelling) : Its and it's

Teaching Its and it's is an 8 slide PowerPoint presentation focusing on spelling skills.

www.Teacher-of-English.com are happy to present a great PowerPoint lesson that explains the difference between its and it's and teaches pupils how to use its and it's in the correct context.  English Teaching Resources (Spelling): Its and it's includes the following activities:

   1. Definition and examples of its and it's
   2. Consolidation of understanding activity
   3. Peer assessment task

English Teaching Resources (spelling): Its and it's can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into a lesson or developed into lesson on wider spelling rules and homophones.

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D Day and the Omaha and Utah beach landings

KS4 / GCSE History lesson plans: D Day and the Omaha and Utah beach landings

www.Teacher-of-History.com is pleased to present a brand new teaching History resource has been designed for the AQA Controlled Assessment Task D-Day question.  The Teaching History resources enable students to develop their source analysis skills.  This lesson focuses on the Omaha and Utah beach landings.  The resources include several sources any of which could be used as sources for the D-Day enquiry.  The lesson also enables students to develop their understanding of the problems encountered by the American landings, and allows them to analyse primary and secondary sources.  The resources include:

• 8 slide PowerPoint and 6 page booklet of worksheets
• Link to two video clips on YouTube
• Cloze exercise
• Utah and Omaha Sorting exercise
• 5 sources
• Writing frame for analysis of sources

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KS3 History Teaching Resources: Life after slavery (The African American experience after Emancipation)

KS3 History Teaching Resources: Life after slavery (The African American experience after Emancipation)

This Key Stage 3 Teaching History resource allows learners to structure an account of the life of a freed slave after Emancipation and Civil War in America.  These resources could cover a series of lessons and provide a homework opportunity for an extended writing task.  They ask learners to sort between ways that life improved after Emancipation and life stayed the same. This task can be developed by allowing learners to create a living graph to show how these changes affected the lives of ordinary African Americans during the period of Reconstruction. 

The resources include:

1. 13 slide PowerPoint.
2. 9 detailled worksheets
3. Assessment tasks/activities
4. Extension activities
5. Cross curricular 'Life Graph' lesson

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History Teaching Resources: Elizabeth I and Religious Settlement

History Teaching Resources: Elizabeth I and Religious Settlement

This Key Stage 3 Teaching History resource about the Tudors allows pupils to describe and explain the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.  The resources could provide a final lesson on the religious changes and Reformation during the Tudor period.  They offer a variety ofdifferentiated and levelled activities with opportunities for extended writing.  The resources include a 9 slide PowerPoint and a Word Document that includes a sort activity and a Cloze exercise to identify the changes made by Elizabeth to the Church of England. 


•    9 slide PowerPoint on Elizabeth I and Religious Settlement
•    Cloze exercise
•    Sort activities
•    Word Document containing accompanying worksheet

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History Teaching Resources: Types of Historical Evidence PowerPoint (KS3 resources)

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History Teaching Resources: Types of Historical Evidence PowerPoint (KS3 resources)

www.Teacher-of-History.com presents History Teaching Resources: Types of Historical Evidence is designed to develop historical skills.  The PowerPoint contains several short exercises exploring and identifying different types of evidence.  It enables learners to understand and use key terms such as physical evidence, spoken evidence and written evidence as well as primary and secondary evidence.  The 8 slide PowerPoint and accompanying, differentiated worksheets contain explanations and activities to describe the differences between primary and secondary sources. 

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New Resources: My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)

English Teaching Resources: My Last Duchess (Robert Browning) 2010 GCSE English: Character and Voice: Poems from the Literary Heritage. A Powerpoint analysis of the poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning and an accompanying worksheet booklet.

A 42 slide Powerpoint analysis of the poem My Last Duchess (Robert Browning) - GCSE English 2010: Character and Voice - Poems from the Literary Heritage and 14 worksheets . English 2010 Teaching Resources: My Last Duchess by Robert Browning includes:

1. A brief biography of Robert Browning.
2. Analysis of the poem My Last Duchess (Robert Browning), discussion of ideas and consolidation
3. Structure & language - Discuss how Browning uses structure and imagery in My Last Duchess.
4. Style and form - Analysis of style and form and the use of poetic techniques in My Last Duchess (Browning).
5. Language - Exploration of word choices, using P.E.E to write about language in Browning's poem.
6. Themes of My Last Duchess (Robert Browning) explored, consolidation of meaning and purpose.
7. Links - Where to find further information about Robert Browning the author of My Last Duchess.
8. 42 slide PowerPoint resource for teaching the poem My Last Duchess by Robert browning.
9. 14 pages of worksheets to accompany the 'My Last Duchess' PowerPoint.

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