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I have been teaching English Language Arts for over 20 years now.
My first job was at an English Institute where I taugh kids of different ages. I learnt a lot about creating resources as I did not have a co-teacher to plan with!
Two years later, I started at a school teaching at elementary level. I had from Y1 to Y6 during 11 years. I loved working with other teachers, planning together and sharing ideas!
After having my second child, I decided I needed a change. I wanted to try with older kids. I started working at high school level. It’s been 9 years and I think I’ve found my niche! I love teaching adolescents and planning different and new activities for them. I’ve realized that I enjoy creating resources to use with my students!
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FREE One Pager Templates | 5 Blank Digital & Print for ANY Subject
Are you looking for graphic organizers or blank templates for your pupils to summarize ideas? These 5 free one-pagers can be used in any subject with many topics! They are perfect to make students work and develop their critical thinking skills. Your pupils can: - Analyze a novel/story/poem/podcast/film - Draw conclusions - Show understanding - Reflect One-pagers are a useful tool to attract your pupils as they can work creatively and independently! -------------------------------------
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English Language Arts, For All Subjects
50 Rebus Word Puzzles Brain Teasers for Middle and High School Students
Looking for a fun and engaging way to spark your students’ critical thinking? These 50 editable Rebus Word Puzzles are perfect for middle and high school students! They’ll love deciphering the visual clues and solving the brain teasers — all while developing problem-solving and reasoning skills. Perfect for: Morning work Bell ringers Brain breaks Early finishers Class competitions Sub plans Warm-ups or cool-downs What’s Included: 50 engaging Rebus puzzles in slideshow format A compl
8th - 11th
English Language Arts
Christmas Short Story Comprehension & Grammar Bundle for Middle and High School
Looking for Christmas or Holiday activities? This bundle contains critical thinking activities based on Bloom's taxonomy as students need to deduce, analyze, infer, evaluate, justify, explain choices. It includes links to the stories, deep thinking comprehension questions, activities on tenses and parts of speech and their corresponding answer keys. Stories: - Christmas Day in the Morining - The Gift of the Magi --------------------------------------------- Similar bundles you might like..
8th - 11th
English Language Arts
Figurative Language Worksheets & Activities | High School ELA
Looking for morning work, bell ringers or activities for early finishers? Here you'll find no prep exercises on literary devices. You will help your students work on: - Similes - Metaphors - Idioms - Puns - Hyperboles - Oxymoron - Personification BONUS:This or that? Game on figurative languageNote: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buying them together. But there is no need to purschase these items separately! Other resources yo
7th - 10th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Writing
FREE The Gift of the Magi Christmas Parts of Speech Activity
Looking for Christmas or holiday activities? For a story about love? This product contains an excercise on parts of speech based on an extract from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry . It is a simple excercise for students to find and identify nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and pronouns. The Pdf contains 1 page with the extract and chart to be completed and 1 more with the answer key. --------------------------------------------- Similar resources you might like...Matilda - Parts of
8th - 11th
Grammar
Also included in: ELA Bell Ringers and Morning Work for Middle and High School
ELA Bell Ringers and Morning Work for Middle and High School
Looking for morning work, bell ringers or activities for early finishers? Here you'll find no prep exercises to help your students work on: - 3 re-usable Vocabulary worksheets - 6 Parts of Speech worksheets- 20 Show don't Tell cards to practise the skills - Figurative Language: Different cards to work on (20 puns, 20 hyperboles, 30 idioms, 30 metaphors, 30 similes, 30 oxymorons) Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buy
7th - 10th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary
Click-Clack the Rattlebag Halloween Reading Comprehension and Grammar Activities
This bundle contains critical thinking activities based on Bloom's taxonomy as students need to deduce, analyze, infer, evaluate, justify, explain choices. It includes: - Parts of speech - Tenses - Reading Comprehension All activities suggested are based on the story: Click Clack the Rattlebag. Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buying them together. But there is no need to purschase these items separately! ----------------
6th - 9th
English Language Arts
The Tell-Tale Heart Halloween Bundle - Comprehension and Grammar Activities
Looking for Halloween activities for your middle or high school pupils? This bundle contains critical thinking tasks based on The Tell Tale Heart. Bloom's taxonomy approach has been used , students need to deduce, analyze, infer, evaluate, justify, explain choices. It includes: - Parts of speech - Tenses - Reading Comprehension Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buying them together. But there is no need to purschase these
8th - 11th
English Language Arts
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reading Comprehension and Grammar
This resource contains comprehension and grammatical activites based on an extract from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They aim at developing critical thinking skills as students need to deduce, analyse, infer, evaluate, justify, explain choices. Grammatical points tackled: - Tenses - Parts of speech Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buying them together. But there is no need to purschase these items separately! ----------
6th - 9th
English Language Arts, Grammar
The Tell-Tale Heart No-Prep Verb Tenses Activity
This product contains excercises on mixed tenses based on Bloom's taxonomy's critical thinking framework. Students need to analyse, deduce, remember, apply, justify, explain, compare among other skills. Tenses included in these activities: - Simple present - Present perfect - Simple past - Past perfect - Simple future It includes 6 pages (4 with activities, and 2 for the answer key) --------------------------------------------- Similar resources you might like...Matilda- Comprehension and g
7th - 10th
English Language Arts, Grammar
One Pager Blank Templates | 15 Digital & Printable Templates for ELA
Are you looking for graphic organizers or blank templates for your pupils to summarize ideas? These 15 different one-pagers can be used in any subject. They are editable as you can use the digital version to change them! They are perfect to make students work and develop their critical thinking skills. Your pupils can: - Analyze a book/novel/story/poem/podcast/movie - Draw conclusions - Show understanding - Reflect One-pagers are a useful tool to attract your pupils as they can work creativ
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English Language Arts, For All Subjects
Halloween Reading Comprehension Bundle I ELA Short Stories I High School
Bring spooky fun and higher-order thinking to your classroom this Halloween! 🎃 This Halloween Short Story Reading Comprehension Bundle helps students analyze, infer, evaluate, and justify their ideas using Bloom’s Taxonomy-inspired questions. Each resource includes: Links to the full short stories (no prep required!) Deep-thinking comprehension questions for discussion or written work Answer keys for easy grading and differentiation Stories included: 📘 The Monkey’s Paw – cause and effect,
8th - 11th
English Language Arts
English Verb Tenses Guide and Grammar Practice Activities No Prep
This guide contains the use, form and examples of verb tenses in English in their affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. There are clear time lines which help students understand when each tense is used. Tenses covered: - Present Simple - Present Continuous - Present Perfect - Present Perfect Continuous - Past Simple - Past Continuous - Past Perfect - Past Perfect Continuous - Simple Future - Future "Going to" - Future Continuous - Future Perfect - Future Perfect Continuous ------------
6th - 9th
Grammar
Also included in: Verb Tenses Guide and Grammar Activities Bundle
Metaphor Figurative Language Activity and Bell Ringer for Middle and High School
Looking for morning work, bell ringers or activities for early finishers? Here you'll find 30 no prep cards to help your students work on " metaphors". Just print them and have them at hand to give them to your pupils! They need to draw the metaphor and explain it. Then, they should write two new metaphors with the same meaning and use one of them in a situational example. Other resources you might like...Idioms: Morning WorkShow Don't Tell Writing PracticeHyperboles: Morning work ELA Ref
7th - 10th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Writing
Also included in: Figurative Language Worksheets & Activities | High School ELA
Crossword Puzzle Maker | Vocabulary Worksheet for ANY List | No Prep ELA
Looking for bell ringers or tasks for early finishers? This is a fun activity for pupils to work on (individually or in pairs). Stuents need to create their own crossword puzzle. The pdf contains clear instructions and the necessary space for them to be able to complete their task. Teachers can assign students a category on vocabulary items they have been working on or isolated words. They can also ask pupils to look for the words they want to include in a particular unit or topic. This prod
7th - 10th
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Vocabulary
Also included in: ELA Bell Ringers and Morning Work for Middle and High School
Christmas Day in the Morning I Reading Comprehension and Grammar Activities
Looking for a story about love? Something on Christmas to work before the holidays? This bundle contains critical thinking activities based on Bloom's taxonomy. It includes: - Parts of speech - Tenses - Reading Comprehension Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buying them together. But there is no need to purschase these items separately! --------------------------------------------- People who bought this bundle have also bo
8th - 11th
English Language Arts
The Monkey's Paw Reading Comprehension and Grammar Activities
This Halloween bundle contains critical thinking activities based on Bloom's taxonomy as students need to deduce, analyze, infer, evaluate, justify, explain choices. It includes: - Parts of speech - Tenses - Reading Comprehension All activities suggested are based on the story: The Monkey's Paw by W.W. JacobsYou will find both printable and digital versions of the products! Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buying them to
8th - 11th
English Language Arts
The Gift of the Magi Reading Comprehension and Grammar ELA Activities
Looking for an activity to work on for Christmas? This bundle contains comprehension and grammatical activites based on the story: The Gift of the Magi. They aim at developing critical thinking skills as students need to deduce, analyse, infer, evaluate, justify, explain choices. Grammatical points tackled: - Tenses - Parts of speech Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separately in my store. You'll get a discount by buying them together. But there is no need to purschase the
9th - 12th
The Landlady Reading Comprehension and Grammar Activities for Halloween
Looking for a short story to work on during the Halloween season? This bundle contains critical thinking activities based on Bloom's taxonomy as students need to deduce, analyze, infer, evaluate, justify, explain choices. It includes: - Parts of speech - Tenses - Reading Comprehension All activities suggested are based on the story: The Landlady by Roald DahlYou will find both printable and digital versions of the products! BONUS: HALLOWEEN TABOONote: All the items included in the bund
8th - 10th
English Language Arts
Vocabulary Worksheets and Games | ELA Bell Ringers | For ANY List | No Prep
Looking for bell ringers or tasks for early finishers? Here you will find fun vocabulary activities for pupils to work on their own or in pairs. Use these worksheets with any word list! This bundle contains: - graphic organizer - word search creator - Puzzle maker The worksheets have clear instructions and the necessary space for pupils to be able to complete their tasks. Activities can be re-used with different vocabulary lists! Note: All the items included in the bundle are sold separ
7th - 10th
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Vocabulary
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I have been teaching English Language Arts for over 20 years now.
My first job was at an English Institute where I taugh kids of different ages. I learnt a lot about creating resources as I did not have a co-teacher to plan with!
Two years later, I started at a school teaching at elementary level. I had from Y1 to Y6 during 11 years. I loved working with other teachers, planning together and sharing ideas!
After having my second child, I decided I needed a change. I wanted to try with older kids. I started working at high school level. It’s been 9 years and I think I’ve found my niche! I love teaching adolescents and planning different and new activities for them. I’ve realized that I enjoy creating resources to use with my students!
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