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Fully resourced and differentiated 1 hour lesson in which students learn how to independently close read a challenging text.
This lesson has been designed to be reused multiple times as it teaches students the skills that they need to independently close read any new text to them.
Easily adaptable to all abilities as you can differentiate the difficulty of the text given (example texts and teacher text selection advice included).
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Core English Skills for Key Stage 3 bundle
This bundle contains 20 resources that can be used and adapted for key stage 3 English lessons. It contains resources that cover reading, writing and speaking skills. All lessons are ready to download and teach immediately. This bundle contains the following: **Writing Skills** 1) Lesson on colons vs semi colons 2) Lesson on commas, dashes and brackets 3) Lesson on complex sentences 4) Lesson on compound sentences 5) Writing skills (SPAG) knowledge organiser 6) Writing skills for key stage 3 assessment with answer rubric included. 7) Figurative language - writing similes and metaphors 8) Lesson on punctuating dialogue 9) Lesson on assonance 10) Lesson on sibilance 11) Lesson on personification **Reading Skills/Poetry** 12) Booklet to help students create their own poetry anthology 13) Lesson on the features of poetry and prose 14) 2 lessons on successful annotation and analysis of poetry. 15) Lesson on how to write a slam poem 16) Reusable lesson to embed close reading skills 17) Introduction to poetry knowledge organiser 18) World Book Day reading quiz 19) Poetry analysis lesson on 'The Lesson' by Roger McGough **Speaking and listening skills** 20) Introduction to group discussion lesson Leave a review and choose any other resource for free from the [LikeAnExpert](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/LikeAnExpert ) shop.
Resources to get students reading!
A mini bundle containing my four most downloaded reading resources for secondary students! This bundle contains: 1) A resuable lesson that embeds close reading skills. Just choose a text (fiction or non-fiction) and students work through the steps to improve their comprehension and analysis of it (although sample texts are also provided to get you started). 2) TES recommended book club discussion questions, which also work very well in English lessons. 3) A quiz made for World Book Day which quizzes students on a range of secondary age books. 4) A support mat/knowledge organiser for developing students' independent textual analysis. Leave a review and choose any other resource for free from the [LikeAnExpert](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/LikeAnExpert ) shop.
Horror Bundle - features of gothic horror writing
This bundle contains resources to help students to develop their understanding of horror conventions and their close reading of texts. <br /> <br /> These lessons are all fully differentiated, resourced and ready to teach. All teacher instructions and answers (if required) are included. 'Do it now' activities, differentiated learning outcomes and opportunities for peer assessment are all included. <br /> <br /> This bundle includes:<br /> * A lesson on the features of gothic horror description.<br /> * A lesson in which students learn how to write their own gothic horror description.<br /> *A lesson for lower ability learners to teach them how to write a point, evidence, explain answer about 'Dracula'.<br /> * A lesson in which students independently analyse the beginning of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe. <br /> * An independent close reading lesson which can be used multiple times with different texts (could be used with any challenging horror text). <br /> * A horror writing knowledge organiser<br /> * A horror writing homework menu<br /> <br /> Leave a review and choose any other resource for free from the <a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/LikeAnExpert ">LikeAnExpert</a> shop.
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Easy to understand. I love that it is reusable! I use articles so often. Thanks!
Great resource! I was really impressed with how clear it was to introduce students to close reading independently and used it with a BBC article I found online. I'll definitely end up using this again
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