I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
This bundle combines resources for:
Improving handwriting
Assessing the gaps in a student’s literacy skills so the teacher knows what needs to be improve upon
Practical strategies for teachers to differentiate reading material to make it accessible for all pupils - regardless of their ability range
A grid outlining explicitly the active literacy skills that are embedded in the content of all subjects in secondary schools
A resource for engaging reluctant readers
A resource for Parents’ Evening to show concerned parents simple techniques that will help them to build their child’s spelling skills at home
This bundle supports all subjects across the curriculum - including SEN and EAL groups too
In this bundle you will purchase everything you need to teach the genre to KS4 or an advanced KS3.
The bundle includes:
evaluations
criteria sheets
HW tasks
10 lessons (including the completion of writing all tasks)
Models answers (low grade and higher grade models) for comparison
activities to analyse language and style, explore writing for an audience etc.
What is this resource?
A creative writing resource for KS3 or low ability English Language groups (KS4) , SEN or EAL classes, Literacy Suport Sessions. The resources uses sounds, visual images and writing models to support the teacher and the students
**Who is it for? **
KS3
Low ability English Language groups
EAL classes
Literacy Suport Sessions
SEN groups
What’s included?
Starter
Activities
Model Answer with glossary
Basic extension and differentiation
Plenary
Follow-on lesson ideas
Curriculum links?
Literacy Support Sessions
EAL lessons
SEN lessons
What is this resource?
It is a bundle of three “Creative Writing” powerpoints that shows students how to achieve higher marks in creative writing tasks in a variety of ways
By using more advanced stylistic features such as:
using a connective to start your paragraph, using dialogue/ speech to initiate a paragraph, starting a paragraph with an adverbial clause , beginning your paragraph with an adverb, starting your paragraph with a statement etc; Using a question at the start of a paragraph
A set a resources for KS3 that are equally benficial for low ability English Language groups at KS4 and that can also be used with SEN or EAL classes and Literacy Suport Sessions. The resources uses sounds, visual images and writing models to support the teacher and the students
Who is it for?
KS3
KS4 (lower ability groups)
Literacy Lessons
EAL
SEN
What’s included?
Starters
A variety of activities with teaching models and guidance notes on each slide
Opportunities to write independently and work in groups and self assess to improve
Plenaries
Curriculum links?
English Language
Whole School Literacy Programmes
Literacy Support Sessions
EAL units
Practical Tips?
Notes are provided on each slide
Really useful when extending students’ thoughts about a subject and equally good during observations when you need to show you’re extending students’ thinking by analysing more deeply.
For the mobile: print it off in colour, cut up, attach the image of the brain at the top of the mobile, hole punch the question tags and attach them to their specific red banner.
Or just use it for a display that is near your board so you can refer to it repeatedly in lessons.
Suitable for all year groups and all curriculum areas.
You can use this former AQA poem ‘Brothers’ as an unseen poem. The ppt includes all the resources and tasks needed for the whole lesson.
This lesson can be used with KS3 or KS4 as its premise requires students to dig deeper into a poem, identify and analyse the impact of poetic devices etc.
The resource includes:
starter
plenary
all lesson activities (i.e. poetry analysis and writing tasks that could lead to essay writing)
Please note: you will need to download a copy of the poem off the internet for the lesson
This resource is for an advanced KS3 class or a KS4 class.
This ppt includes:
A starter
A plenary
All lesson tasks - including a writing task
Please note, you’ll need to Google a copy of the poem.
This is a powerpoint is a one off lesson that revisits some key poetic devices and demonstrates how to use a venn diagram to compare two poems before writing about them.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
It includes a starter and plenary, guided reading/analysis questions and basic ’ introduction’ skills.
This is a good poem to teach to a GCSE group or an advanced KS3 class.
The resource includes:
A starter and a plenary
Lesson activities
2 HW tasks
Please note, you will need to google a copy of the poem
This resource is for KS4 or an advanced KS3 class as this ppt contains some challenging ideas.
The resource includes:
starter
plenary
all lesson activities (i.e. poetry analysis sheet and questions)
HW task
This is 2 lessons - one for learning and preparation and one for writing practice using the genre.
The lesson is for KS3 or KS4.
It’s differentiated and features annotated deconstructions of the genre and persuasive techniques.
The lesson includes:
a starter (bingo)
a plenary
2 models from travel agents
writing criteria
a HW task
This resource is to aide and reduce your marking and improve your communication with pupils about their progress. They’re pupil friendly sheets that also contain an area where students can respond to the teacher’s marking to develop clarity between teacher feedback and student progress.
The assessment/criteria sheets focus on the following topics:
Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four Criteria sheets for: Shakespeare, 19th Century novel (the criteria can be adapted for any novel), Modern Drama (any play)
Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four Criteria sheets for: Writing to Argue/Persuade Self Assessment Criteria and Writing to Describe Self Assessment Criteria
Key Stage Four Criteria sheets for: AQA GCSE English Language section A Q1-2, AQA GCSE English Language section A Q3-4, AQA GCSE English Literature: ‘The Merchant of Venice’, AQA GCSE English Literature: ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ and AQA Modern Drama( English Literature): ‘Blood Brothers’
I hope they help!
The stickers are for the front of students’ exercise books.
This resource is used for displaying a student’s success (good explicit displays for Ofsted and Dept reviews) recording each year group’s success.
You record the student’s GCSE target and record their achievement throughout each SOW to display their progress.
Each year group’s topics (featured on the stickers) are as follows:
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Gothic Literature / Detective Fiction
Creative Writing
Poetry – ‘Poems from Other Cultures’ or pre-2015 AQA anthology
Shakespeare – ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Non-fiction – Language paper 1 & 2 section A practice
Summer revision and exams
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Poetry – ‘Reflections’ anthology
19thCentury novel – ‘A Christmas Carol’
Modern Drama – teacher’s choice
Non-fiction Study – (autobiographies & travel writing & teachers choice of topic based on current affairs)
Shakespeare – ‘Hamlet’
Summer revision and exams
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Creative writing (exploring viewpoints) in Victorian short stories
Shakespeare – ‘Othello’
Contemporary poetry – AQA anthology (pre 2015)
19th Century novel – ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Language paper 1 & 2 section A – practice questions
Summer revision and exams
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Creative writing (creating a viewpoint)
Shakespeare – ‘Merchant of Venice’
Contemporary poetry (current AQA anthology)
19th Century novel – ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
Language paper 1 & 2 section A – practice questions
Summer revision and exams
I hope it helps!
Hi.
This SOW has everything you need to teach the novel Warhorse for 4-5 weeks.
The ppts includes:
all starters and plenaries
all writing and reading tasks
poetry analysis
discursive essay (PEE) practice
HW tasks
teaching objectives and planning grid
It’s been tried and tested.
Enjoy!
This is a bank of 26 lessons (or more depending on the time provided for the two writing tasks) that explore detective fiction using extracts from Agatha Christie and Arthur Conon Doyle. There is also one extract from Wilkie Collins’ “Woman in White” as this is a useful SOW to proceed the teaching of novel, “The Woman in White”.
Each lesson contains:
a thinking starter
a thinking plenary
a writing or reading task (including poetry)
group work, paired work or individual work
open ended tasks where more able students can be extended while those in need of differentiation can also be supported using the numerous resources provided
The writing tasks in the unit are based on writing a detective story and a film review of the Sherlock Holmes film.
The students are also given the chance to compare and contract TV detectives from the UK and America and extracts from Perry Mason and Murder She Wrote are hyperlinked for easy use.
There is a workbook to accompany the SOW.
Enjoy!
This sheet can be used as an in-class self assessment after a mock of AQA’s “Paper 2: Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives” or as a HW task after the Mocks.
What is this resource?
It layouts our explicitly the literacy skills that are acquired across the curriculum
Who is it for?
All teachers, TAs, SMT
Curriculum links?
Whole School Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions