This session covers Comparisons - it has two documents to work with and a number of formative tasks, some of which are macro-enabled slides which are interactive during the live presentation. With the intent of using them Online, they are great for remote teaching, with step-by-step animations to aid delivery and questioning. Also great for use with a touch screen in classes. It has a 2 page Word document hand out which has text boxes for Online use but which can also be printed. Session plan included. Part of my upcoming Neon Reading set - two of which are already available in my shop. **Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **

This is an inclusive booklet of 12 assessment tasks - 6 Reading and 6 Writing. They have been based on the new specification and there is an online version with text boxes blank and ready to type into. Covers all the major skills and exam question types and also has a separate Reading & Writing Initial Assessment Task. There is also a 19 slide ppt presentation which goes with it - to introduce and discuss each assessment with a visual display - it also has a full slide of answers for the final assessment, which is the most complex. It would be worth spending some time going over the Reading assessments to spot the answers for the basic ones.

This took a couple of days to plan and put together, so I’m really proud of it. It covers every major skill and links to my Online Course Multipack - with a task designed to follow each session I planned, in order to make sure that learning continues, outside the classroom. Tasks include: Letters Blogs Reports Leaflets - Independent Task Articles Speeches Skimming and Scanning Information Retrieval Purpose Audience Tone/Mood Comprehension Interpretation Comparisons I’ve also added a very basic Scheme of Work for my bundle - here…

Title says it all really - distribute On or Offline as a starter or extension task. These words can be very confusing, so the more you know - the better your accuracy will be! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)

A set of 3 macro-enabled slides to compliment the Neon Reading set and 1 Year Fully Planned Pack. This has a 24 question answer-reveal quiz with general L1-2 questions. A pair of macro, tile-moving, language features task. A pair of 24 question quiz slides with unique questions and a catchphrase image beneath. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-) If you like these - then check out my new 1 year pack which includes the Neon Reading pack and full scheme of work for each of the 17 individual sessions. It also has initial assessments, a full year assessment book, a homework book and a revision book. All based on the new specification and original. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12487021

This is a session for L 1/2 learners. The Instruction Writing question has appeared in new spec exams and is one that has puzzled a few teachers, including myself. Keeping it simple, it covers sentences, some punctuation and has a couple of tasks and examples. One task requires minimising the narrations screen, while the slide show is running, and moving them around to order them. It also has information from the local area - so you may want to update that with instructions of your own. There are brief details in the slide notes. Created with step-by-step animation, to aid delivery and questioning. I’ve made it as east to deliver as possible, so I hope people like it. Please leave a review! It would be much appreciated. =-)

We are all having to adapt our methods for the online world. This can be a difficult process and so I thought I’d share one or two things my colleagues and I have been working on. This links to any specification but has been created with C&G in mind. Hope it’s useful! =-)

This is my first E3 session and so I thought I’d give this one away as a sample. It is a fully animated, macro-enabled session, with slides that are interactive and can be used with a large touchscreen. Get students to take turns, leading the activities! It covers both skimming and scanning, alphabetising word lists, identifying explicit ideas and some basic interpretation. Each topic has a couple of formative tasks. Also includes a 2 page, A4 hand out. Enjoy!

This session has two documents which I’ve created myself - specifically for purpose and generically enough for use with a range of vocational students studying English. The topic: Becoming an Apprentice. Start with a simple pairs task. Practise determining purpose and tone, locate and summarise main points, compare and synthesise ideas… It isn’t incredibly detailed but it does work well for reading and writing practice and it has slides with comparative phrasing - which are also A3 posters for display in the classroom. Differences are there just for reference as similarities is where the focus lies. It also shows what level of effort I put into my resources. Please take a look at my shop - more resources are in which are now fully planned with session briefs and 50% off full year packs! A free Punctuation book is also available from our partner GCSE English Language shop - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-language-punctuation-workbook-and-answer-booklet-12225126 Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! This is quite popular but the reviews are limited! Thanks to those who have, already. It is much appreciated. =-)

If you print this it needs to be A3 so the text is large enough… =-) You could also print A4 if you crop instructions from it first. I plan to display it - zooming in on each section, one-by-one, practising Punctuation, Spelling, Grammar and organisation. There is an example answer - but allow for some variation with both end marks and semi-colons. Hope it helps! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated… particularly if I’ve missed any of the corrections from the answer sheet! =-)

Can be used with either GCSE or FS English, as a starter or extension. In itself, it is differentiated - begins quite easy and works students through 4 levelsstages. see where they get to for Entry/ESOL learners All the best!

Suitable mostly for Functional Skills English but would work for GCSE also. Use as a starter or Extension. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)

This contains all the government issued Subject Content Statements for L1 & 2 - Functional Skills English. It shows highlighted/colour-coded, side-by-side comparison/contrast of L1 & L2 and aims to briefly explain some key differences between the two levels in relation to all 3 elements. These feature in my 30 page revision book for L1/2. Hope it’s useful!

Here is a little free session on Hand-washing and Coronavirus (Covid-19). Contextually appropriate, this contains two nonfictional sources and is aimed at L1/2 students. It can be used as a revision session or an assessment one and has answers in a powerpoint slide set. The previews on here are a bit rubbish. Download and run the slideshow yourself, to see how it works. The writing also looks better than the preview shows! Again, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Just a card matcher game/activity - which uses the acronym A DEEP FOREST (with some doubling up of letters for certain features). It was created to go with this language session which covers much more…including sentences and lists. There is also, now, an online version which can be displayed or used on platforms, like Teams, and collaborated on. I’ve been using it with multiple students at a time and I’ve sent it to individual students as homework. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-language-language-feature-overview-l1-2-12254117

This is a good starter or extension task but it is only visually Christmassy. Starts off quite basic and works towards more complex words and I did get mistletoe in there. Would work well on the back of my punctuation practice sheet - with answer sheets both can be peer marked and this one even has a box for a peer marker to initial. Any feedback would be appreciated! Hope you find it useful…

This starts off easy and with a little bit of guidance - then advances through stages to increase the level and could be used for either Functional Skills or GCSE English. Stage 1 needs a couple of commas but I did this in hope students would work it out. mine have been doing great with it. There are 6 image files with answers. Stage 6 can have varied responses, so there is no number. Some sentences could be ended or continued with a semi-colon, for example Hope you find it useful - any issues, leave some feedback and I will update.

I thought I’d upload this as another free sample of my work. This is a session covering Article Writing. There is a marco-enabled slide, towards the end, which has brief instructions in the slide notes. It has been carefully animated with step-by-step animations which aid delivery and questioning. There is also detailed session plan - with a slide-by-slide set of comments. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Please leave a review! =-) **Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **

Another session for FS Reading which links to some of the other sessions in my shop. It covers the basic structures of: Articles Letters Speeches Emails Reports It has formative tasks and is intended as a quick overview/recap session Online. This would depend in which order you deliver Reading and Writing but it can be linked either way. Some tasks are on marco-enabled slides and can be moved on the slideshow - this is great online and would also be good on a touch screen in classrooms. Session plan included. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and, please, check out my other resources. =-) **Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **