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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.
A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section.
This assessment sheet is ideal for marking drafts and final copies of exam preparation essays. It can be used with KS3 and KS4.
It corresponds with the FAR marking policy = Feedback - Action -Response.
i.e.
Stage 1: The teacher gives FEEDBACK using very specific criteria which should be shared with students before the assessment takes place.
Stage 2: The teacher uses the criteria to specify which ACTIONS the student needs to take to get to the next grade.
Stage 3: The student writes a written RESPONSE to the teacher’s comments about the ACTIONS required to reach the next stage.
It’s very useful for showing progress, communicating attainment on HW or timed (in class) essays that form part of exam preparation revision.
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.
For the post Mocks period.
This sheet can be used as an in-class self assessment after a mock of AQA’s “Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing” or as a HW task after a mock of AQA’s “Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing”.
A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section.
Useful for KS3 and KS4
The bundle includes 8 ‘ready to go’ assessment sheets for:
Blood Brothers
Poetry Comparison Essay
Persuasive Writing Essay
HW - PEE chains
Film Reviews
Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Creative Writing
Peer Assessment - Generic Reading and Writing Assessment Sheets
A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section.
This assessment sheet is ideal for marking drafts and final copies of exam preparation essays. It can be used with KS3 and KS4.
It corresponds with the FAR marking policy = Feedback - Action -Response.
i.e.
Stage 1: The teacher gives FEEDBACK using very specific criteria which should be shared with students before the assessment takes place.
Stage 2: The teacher uses the criteria to specify which ACTIONS the student needs to take to get to the next grade.
Stage 3: The student writes a written RESPONSE to the teacher’s comments about the ACTIONS required to reach the next stage.
It’s very useful for showing progress, communicating attainment on HW forms part of exam preparation revision.
A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section.
This assessment sheet is ideal for marking drafts and final copies of exam preparation essays. It can be used with KS3 and KS4.
It corresponds with the FAR marking policy = Feedback - Action -Response.
i.e.
Stage 1: The teacher gives FEEDBACK using very specific criteria which should be shared with students before the assessment takes place.
Stage 2: The teacher uses the criteria to specify which ACTIONS the student needs to take to get to the next grade.
Stage 3: The student writes a written RESPONSE to the teacher’s comments about the ACTIONS required to reach the next stage.
It’s very useful for showing progress, communicating attainment on HW or timed (in class) essays that form part of exam preparation revision.
A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section.
This assessment sheet is ideal for marking drafts and final copies of exam preparation essays. It can be used with KS3 and KS4.
It corresponds with the FAR marking policy = Feedback - Action -Response.
i.e.
Stage 1: The teacher gives FEEDBACK using very specific criteria which should be shared with students before the assessment takes place.
Stage 2: The teacher uses the criteria to specify which ACTIONS the student needs to take to get to the next grade.
Stage 3: The student writes a written RESPONSE to the teacher’s comments about the ACTIONS required to reach the next stage.
It’s very useful for showing progress, communicating attainment on HW or timed (in class) essays that form part of exam preparation revision.
A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section.
This assessment sheet is ideal for marking drafts and final copies of exam preparation essays. It can be used with KS3 and KS4.
It corresponds with the FAR marking policy = Feedback - Action -Response.
i.e.
Stage 1: The teacher gives FEEDBACK using very specific criteria which should be shared with students before the assessment takes place.
Stage 2: The teacher uses the criteria to specify which ACTIONS the student needs to take to get to the next grade.
Stage 3: The student writes a written RESPONSE to the teacher’s comments about the ACTIONS required to reach the next stage.
It’s very useful for showing progress, communicating attainment on HW or timed (in class) essays that form part of exam preparation revision.
A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section.
This assessment sheet is ideal for marking drafts and final copies of exam preparation essays.
It corresponds with the FAR marking policy - Feedback - Action -Response.
i.e.
Stage 1: The teacher gives FEEDBACK using very specific criteria which should be shared with students before the assessment takes place.
Stage 2: The teacher uses the criteria to specify which ACTIONS the student needs to take to get to the next grade.
Stage 3: The student writes a written RESPONSE to the teacher’s comments about the ACTIONS required to reach the next stage.
It’s very useful for showing progress, communicating attainment on HW or timed (in class) essays that form part of exam preparation revision.
This can be used across the school to encourage student to reflect on their literacy development and self-editing skills.
If you print two slides per 1 piece of A4 it can be easily glued in after a student has completed the work and before the teacher marks it.
It is useful for ensuring students are critically assessing their own work so they become independent learners.
Also, it’s good for showing progression if you’re planning on getting students to re-draft their work after you’ve marked it.
These colour sheets can be glued into the front of students’ exercise books at the start of the year and revisited each new term when new, updated versions, can be glued into the exercise books. This is a method for tracking a student’s progress.
They’re linked to the new 2 year linear GCSE English Language and Literature courses.
It has suggested topics (i.e. programmes of study) on each IEP too if you’re a new HOD and need some guidance.
This is suitable for all KS3 and KS4 reading assessments for Language and Literature programmes or study. It is designed to enable students to work independently when they’re marking a peer’s work without the teacher’s assistance. It includes a SPaG grid of common SPaG errors.
This resource is suitable for KS4 assessments as part of timed essay writing skills and exam preparation in lessons.
It can also be used with KS3 classes if you want to prepare them for the GCSE exam process too.
It is adapted to AQA’s Literature and Language programmes of study connected to the new 2 year linear course of study.
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 essay compares ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘In Paris With You’. At the bottom there are 5 teacher comments and space for students to decide with their teacher what the overall grade should be. There is also a box for the ‘quality of written communication’ to be assessed.
These classroom posters are designed to improve the quality of student -teacher dialogue in a learning environment. They’re based on the RESPECT acronym which describes 7 behaviours of highly successful people:
R - resilience
E - expectations
S - scanning
P - pace
E - entrepreneurial
C - collaboration
T - three mistakes or you’re not trying
They can be printed of at any size (including A4 or A5 for diaries or exercise books).
Here are 20 tried and tested starters, plenaries and mini-plenaries that are ready to go.
Please note they are suitable for any curriculum area at Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four and even Primary School lessons .
All you have to do is transfer them to your own Powerpoint or IWB presentations. Some need you to add a statement to one or two, or add the heading of your lesson or the date.
This ppt contains 16 plenaries. Each slide develops the students’ ability to reflect and draw on different thinking skills. Inspired by HOM and the Learning to Learn paradigm.
This is a ppt offering sentence starters of each thinking hat.
Teachers can select hats they want the class to work from, or ask the class to select a hat before they start working etc
It makes a good mini plenary task to break up a lesson into learning segments.