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
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 planning sheet was designed to help students build the skills they need to appropriately attempt the writing section of the functional skills exam. There are tasks to build skills with spelling, grammar and punctuation and helps them to plan a successful written response.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson on helping students to understand colloquial phrases and the different dialects of the British language. The lesson has been planned with the new functional skills reform in mind and is a short sample of the kind of activities I use in my other lessons. Each of my lessons have been tried and tested, with more resources added on a weekly basis.
This is a resource created for learners studying the English functional skills qualification. The resource looks at some of the issues facing people during lock-down and allows learners to assess their reading and writing skills.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some key questions on paper one: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson helps learners gain a good understanding of language, structure and how to approach the creative writing response.
The lesson includes model responses and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the theme of punishment in the novella, A Christmas Carol. The lesson looks at a key extract within the text and helps learners analyse if effectively to respond to an exam-style question. This lesson has many opportunities for AFL and also comes with a sample student response.
This lesson can be taught both remotely or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own learners.
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This lesson has been designed for learners studying all aspects of Functional Skill English. The lesson has specifically been designed to support learners with narrative writing for the writing assessment and includes an example response.
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This bundle contains a collection of lessons to help teach Level One and Level Two Functional Skills English. The bundle contains lessons to focus on all components and also embeds the use of key Maths skills.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at The Class Game by Marey Casey. The lesson looks at understanding how language, structure and form has been used to present the theme of conflict. The lesson has a model response and helps learners to plan a response to an exam-style question. The lesson also looks at drawing comparisons to the other poems in the anthology.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and has been designed to require no additional printing. If you liked this recourse, then please check out my poetry bundle and my shop which is updated each week.
These are a collection of differentiated lessons looking at key extracts from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
the lessons have been designed to help level up learners current understanding of the text in preparation for their GCSE exams.
they cover key themes and contextual factors that impact our interpretation of the text and have many opportunities for AFL
These lessons may be taught both online or face to face and have been tried and tested with ny own groups. If you liked this bundle then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each
This is a fully differentiated lessons looking at the character of Sherlock Holmes in the story The Speckled Band. The lesson introduces learners to the key concept of making inferences and how this can be applied to studying English.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and helps to develop skills when responding to language questions. The PowerPoint includes a student example that works well to help learners to make a response to an exam-style question.
All of my lessons are tried and tested with my own groups, if you like this lesson then please check out my shop which is updated weekly with more resources and lessons.
This is a fully differentiated lesson for learners studying Functional Skills English. The lesson has been designed to help build learners confidence on the writing element of the course. The lesson is scaffolded to support learners to plan and write their own exam-style response. The theme of the lesson is gaming but offers alternative topics should the learners want to write about something else. This lesson requires no printing and is ideal for distance learning.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at question five for paper one: Explorations in Creative Reading and writing. The lesson uses sensory language to help learners understand how important it is in establishing a setting for the reader.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson designed for learners studying any level of Functional Skills or ESOL English. The lesson uses the topic of vaping to help learners understand how to construct a leaflet and also practise key reading and writing skills.
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A collection of fully differentiated lessons looking a key key charscyers and themes from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Each lesson has been designed to be taught regardless if the lesson is remote or face-to-face and all have been tried and tested with my own students.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the theme of fear within the novella of A Christmas Carol. The lesson helps learners understand how to approach an exam-style question and also includes a student response.
This lesson has been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught either remotely or face-to-face.
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These are a collection of fully differentiated lessons created around the new specification for functional skills level one and two. Each lesson has tasks that will stretch and challenge learners and help them build the skills to enable them to feel confidant about English and pass each exam.
Each lesson covers issues that are designed to engage and inspire learners and help them to build skills from spelling and grammar, to sentence structures and language techniques used for persuasive writing.
Each of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own students and has helped me to improve their skills, confidence and competency within English.
See also Functional Skills New Reform 2 for even more lessons
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at science vs religion in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson helps learners to gain a strong understanding of the context surrounding the novella. The lesson also helps improve students understanding of language techniques and how to apply these to exam-style questions.
The lesson works well both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This lesson has been created to be used as an initial assessment for learners studying English Language. The lesson takes learners through implicit and explicit information, language and structure. The lesson works well to ascertain the learners current understanding and was designed with lower-mid abillity learners in mind.
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The lesson explores the purpose of travel writing and the conventions that are expected in this type of writing.
There are tasks to get students to start thinking about the AFOREST techniques and how to identify them within a text.
