I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
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I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of Bentley Drummle in the novel Great Expectations. The lesson looks at a key extract within the novel and helps learners to evaluate the perception of the character. The lesson includes many opportunities for AFL and also has a model response to an exam-style question. This lesson may be taught either remotely or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This bundle contains a series of fully differentiated lessons looking at GCSE English Language Paper 1 and 2. Each lesson has been designed to help learners to develop their skills with both fiction and non-fiction texts and apply their understanding to exam-style questions.
The lessons have been designed for both online and face-to-face teaching and draw upon a collection of key texts to build the skills needed to succeed within English language.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this bundle, then please check out my shop for more lessons and recourses uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at question four for the English language paper one explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson helps learners understand how to approach the question and how to answer it effectively. The other half of the lesson focuses on creative writing and includes a model response.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own students and has been designed for both online and face-to-face delivery. If you liked this resource, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at paper one explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson largely focuses on helping learners understand how to respond to Q2 and includes a model response. Additionally, the lesson has a creative writing challenge as well as a teacher example to help learners improve their response to question five.
The lesson has been designed to be taught either online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own learners. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at developing and improving creative writing for the English language paper one exam. The lesson looks at a key extract from the book, “Boy” by Roald Dahl and helps learners to analyse the extract in relation to question two.
The lesson also includes helpful advice on how to develop their creative writing and to embed key language techniques. There is a 200-word writing challenge that also has a model response to help learners get started.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at improving learners’ ability at creative writing using the theme of stealing as a stimulus. The lesson helps learners understand the importance of structure in creative writing and how to use this in their writing. The lesson uses a matching up activity and a model response to help learners understand how important structure is. Additionally, the lesson helps to consolidate their understanding of advanced punctuation. This lesson works well as a standalone lesson for creative writing or in teaching English language paper one.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of the Nurse in the play Romeo and Juliet. The lesson follows on from my previous lesson which focused on the character of Lady Capulet and helps learners to draw comparisons between the two characters.
The lesson includes a model response and many opportunities for AFL. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught either remotely or face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of Pumblechook in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The lesson looks at key character information as well as quotations to help learners plan and write an exam response.
This lesson can be taught both remotely or face-to-face. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own learners; if you liked this lesson then please check out our shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the theme of pride and Revenge in the novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The lesson looks at the characters like Magwitch and Compeyson and their relevance to the story. Additionally, the lesson progresses to focus on the development of the relationship between Pip and Magwitch.
The lesson includes many opportunities for AFL and may be taught both remotely or face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the AQA Paper Two paper: Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives. The lesson takes learners through how to structure, plan and write an article effectively. The lesson also includes a model example and many opportunities for AFL.
This lesson has been tried and tested with my own learners and can be taught either remotely or face-to-face without need for adaption.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at how to use structure effectively in creative writing. The lesson has been designed for anyone studying GCSE English and includes example responses to help learners craft their own response.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson helping learners understand key aspects of English Language Paper Two. The lesson uses the topic of transport (cars) to introduce viewpoints and perspectives and gives an insight into key questions.
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This lesson has been designed for learners who are studying paper one English Language. The lesson looks at key skills with language and structure and uses a differentiated text to help learners respond to question four.
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This lesson was designed for learners studying English language paper one and paper two. The lesson focuses on helping learners to revise key elements of writing and the important techniques needed to construct an effective description.
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This lesson is the second one in the series and follows on from our previous lesson Paper One Revision: Q4. The lesson helps learners to prepare for their English language exam by helping them to revise key features of language and structure and applying them to exam-style questions.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson planned for the new functional skills reform for level one and level two. The lesson helps students to recall the key language techniques needed in their writing and how to adapt tone to different audiences. Students will then be given an opportunity to consolidate their learning with an exam-style question.
A lesson that helps students to construct their own piece of travel writing. This is a good lesson to help students to get used to a difficult form of writing.
This lesson has been designed to help support learners and provide a step-by-step guide on how to pass the course. The lesson covers key language and structural techniques, how to approach each question and support in writing a successful creative writing response.
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A free reading assessment designed for learners studying Functional Skills English. This resource has came from my lesson Functional Skills: Vaping and covers many of the typical questions on the real exam papers.
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