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Noun Phrases. An activity to improve pupils' descriptive writing.
A 10-15 minute activity designed to improve pupils' descriptive writing skills, by developing and expanding their noun phrases. Involves elements of speaking and listening and creative writing.
The Voice: Persuade a judge to take you on their team. Persuasive Speech Writing
A lesson designed to encourage pupils to write a persuasive speech. Pupils watch a small clip of the TV programme 'The Voice', before trying to persuade one of the judges to pick them as a member of their team. Pupils investigate persuasive techniques using a power-point slide and card-sort.
1-9 grading criteria is given and a peer assessment sheet provided.
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Literacy Activities. A massive collection of literacy activities
A huge collection of literacy activities. These are designed to be used as form time activities, but can be used as lesson starters. Fun and engaging games and activities, designed to get pupils interested in literacy and actively improving their literacy.
Get organised in form-time with the whole bundle. Bundle includes 2 full terms worth of literacy form time activities!
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Non-Fiction: style, structure and format. Covers leaflets, articles, adverts, speeches and reviews.
A series of lessons identifying and analysing the style structure and format of non-fiction texts.
All lessons contain 1-9 assessment focuses and opportunities for self and peer assessment.
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KS3 Media Bundle.
A series of lessons investigating the basic media principals.
3 lessons focus on moving image and build up to an assessment comparing two moving image adverts.
Brief into to the 1-9 framework given in an accessible format.
All lessons are fast-paced and engaging, with a mixture of group, paired and individual activities. The lessons are mainly pupil-led encouraging independent learning and ownership of learning.
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Comprehension activities
3 lessons designed to improve student ability to identify writing techniques, discuss a writer's intentions and discuss the effect of the writer's choice of words.
Animal Farm - Lesson 5 - Investigating Empathy between the characters.
A full lesson investigating pupils attitudes towards characters and the characters' attitudes towards each other.
Animal Farm - Lessons 6&7 - Chapter 3 - Context and Politics
Animal Farm - Lessons 6&7 - Chapter 3 - Context and Politics
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KS4 English Literature MEGA Bundle
A varied collection of resources which have received excellent reviews and been used to produce 'Outstanding Lessons'.
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English Language: Basic Frameworks
An introduction to English Language covering the basic frameworks of analysis. Many lessons reviewed as 5* included.
Make life easier with this set of full blown lessons. All include a varied range of activities and assessments to make your students effective independent learners, giving you an easier life teaching an intense course.
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KS3 English Language Bundle: preparing students for the GCSE framework
A massive collection of lessons and activities designed to help students transition from KS3 to KS4. Lessons and activities all refer to assessment objectives and contain a pupil friendly grid to be used alongside, which is ideal for formative and summative assessment.
Genuinely engaging and effective lessons.
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Moving from a 5 to 4: English Language Revision
Designed to give student a very clear picture how to move their grade from a 5 to a 4. lessons all use self and peer assessment (all lessons have an Ao focus and accompanying mark scheme) made very straightforward to highlight exactly how students can achieve a higher grade.
Numerous lessons in the bundle are reviewed as 5 star.
An Inspector Calls Lesson: Investigating the staging of Act 1. GCSE Edexcel English Literature 1-9.
A full lesson to encourage pupils to investigate how staging effects the audiences perception of events. Contains a starter to be completed after reading Act 1, Scene 1. Pupils then complete a Jigsaw activity in groups or individually to investigate 4 areas of staging. Followed by independent directed writing. Uses 1-9 criteria.
Lesson viewed by SLT and deemed 'Outstanding'.
Introductory lesson. Ideal cover lesson. Title: All About Me: Report Writing.
A lesson (via presentation) and scaffolded worksheet ( to support lower ability) which sets up a writing task where pupils introduce themselves and discuss their likes and dislike, hobbies and aspirations.
I have used this as both a back up cover lesson and also an introductory lesson to my new classes.
Bundle! Literacy starters or entire half-term's literacy form activities. Spelling & Vocabulary
A bundle of 7 literacy activities. All have a PPT which contains a literacy game or links to an interactive activity. I use this as a weekly literacy activity for my form. However, this could be used for KS2/3 as general literacy starters.
All activities focus on spelling and vocabulary. other bundles focus on reading skills, punctuation and writing techniques.
The Farmer's Bride Analysis lesson. GCSE English Literature. 1-9 framework.
A full lesson to analyse the poem The Farmer's Bride by Charotte Mew.
Moving Image Advert Analysis. Comparing moving image adverts.
A fast-paced lesson focused on group work, designed to get pupils working independently to analyse two separate adverts for connotation and denotation. The lesson encourages the development of P.E.E paragraphs, comparison skills and increased media terminology.
Exciting and punchy!