The English Zone Online Learning Activities

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The English Zone has been designed to help young people succeed in English.  This brand new website is packed with online English tutorials and skills exercises for children aged 4 to 11.  All tutorials contain video presentations with interactive activities and worksheets which guide children through a range of essential English skills.

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Teacher-of-Literacy.com is a must for KS1 and KS2 teachers.  This colouful website site contains thousands of pages of PowerPoints, worksheets and teaching plans for delivering engaging English and literacy lessons at primary school level.  

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Writing Effective Story Openings (KS3 English)

Writing Effective Story Openings Key Stage KS3 English resources Powerpoint English Teaching Resource

Writing Effective Story Openings

(Writing Effective Story Openings - English teaching resource featuring 15 slides)

Key Stage : KS3 English resources

15 slide PowerPoint & worksheets

English Teaching Resources: Writing Effective Story Openings is a 15 slide PowerPoint presentation with accompanying worksheets.  As with all our PowerPoints the presentation can be tweaked, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.  English Teaching Resources: Writing Effective Story Openings includes a range of tasks and activities designed to help pupils create effective story settings.

The PowerPoint contains:

- A guide to selecting an effective setting

- An analysis of how writers convey mood, tension and atmosphere through the use of setting 

- A guide to using the senses to create descriptive imagery - with an example text

- A guide to transforming sensual images and notes into a piece of descriptive prose which establishes setting and engages the reader

- A model text to help students through the creative process

To view this resource go to http://www.teacher-of-english.com/writing-effective-story-openings-teaching-resources-579.html#.UdVBjfnU9s4

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Skimming and scanning skills teaching resources

Skimming and Scanning

(Skimming and Scanning - English teaching resource featuring 6 slides)

Key Stage : 3

English Teaching Resources: Skimming and Scanning skills

(PowerPoint teaching resource)

English Resources: Skimming and Scanning skills is a 6 slide PowerPoint presentation designed to teach pupils how to develop the key reading skills of skimming and scanning.  The resource includes:

1. An introduction explaining the difference between skimming and scanning
2. An interactive activity which allows pupils to apply their skimming and scanning skills and enables teachers to assess their understanding.
3. The use of bold clear fonts, simple language, bright colours and 'lower school friendly' imagery.

  

To preview the PowerPoint presentation English Teaching Resources: Skimming and Scanning please click on the link below.

http://www.teacher-of-english.com/skimming-and-scanning-teaching-resources-569.html#.UdLwE_nU9s4

  

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