A unit of work exploring ‘Ghost Stories’ and tackling reading skills for individual classes/students. This booklet has room to develop ideas, challenge, and differentiate tasks (we do this based on Accelerated Reader data). Through these lessons, students develop: annotation skills, comprehension skills, decoding, tackling tier-2 language, and many other skills.
The final task is a competition where students create and perform their own ghost story based on the extracts and short stories they have read each week.
A HUGE collection of bespoke reading booklets linked to our scheme of learning. These booklets have been carefully crafted to ensure teachers can easily tweak lessons to suit the needs of their class.
A real passion project and have proved very successful with our KS3 cohort in particular. Examples of tasks, suggested homework, rationale, and templates have been provided to support the study further.
Main topics: Adventure Fiction
Dickens
Gothic
Ghost Stories
Literacy Across the Curriculum
Dystopian Fiction
Treasure Island
And more!
Hours and hours of work - hope it helps.
A comprehensive full term’s collection of weekly reading texts. Once a week, students read aloud a selected text/extract and then complete carefully selected active reading tasks based on their individual needs (predominantly identified by Accelerated Reader, but easily adapted to suit needs of your cohort).
A 7-week booklet of study for ‘Treasure Island’ with evidence-based strategies to develop comprehension, reading fluency, and other intervention strategies identified by Accelerated Reader STAR tests. Easily adapted to suit the needs of the class.
This is an adaptation to our current SOL and therefore, it is only from Page.60 onwards of the Wordsworth Edition of ‘Treasure Island’.
A single lesson exploring structure through multi-media (a clip of the water scene in Jaws) to track the events and focus of the audience. This is then developed into the text version and how to track structure in this.
A single lesson exploring AO1 and AO2 in ‘Not My Business’.
Slide 7 uses LitDrive’s ‘Differentiated Annotation Sheets’ - Not owned by me and therefore not attached. However, a great accompanying resource.
A CPD session exploring the concept of disciplinary literacy and how to support reading in English lessons and across the curriculum.
All research is in the notes section.
A recorded presentation for staff CPD exploring how to develop literacy and reading standards across the curriculum. The presentation includes researched resources for use in a variety of subjects.