Literacy training ideal for whole school teacher training. The session goes through ten strategies teachers can implement instantly to help incorporate literacy more meaningfully into their lessons - whatever their subject specialism.
There are 65 slides.
Also includes a list of ways each department within a school can support literacy in a meaningful way within their curriculum area.
Also contains a list of 5 key priorities/achievements for a literacy coordinator.
Complete lesson covering Chapter 9 with notes to help annotate key quotations along with an engaging starter, chapter summary and extension questions and activities looking at 2 key extracts from the chapter.
Also includes a lesson looking at Language Paper 1 Question 4 with detailed annotations of the violent scene in the chapter to prepare students for responding to a student statement for the 20 mark question.
I worked alongside literacy representatives in each department of the school in order to identify ways each subject can support literacy in a meaningful way. Here is the document I produced which may be useful to any existing or aspiring literacy coordinator.
6 lessons building towards an assessment comparing two literary texts:
Touching the Void and Red Dust by Ma Jian.
Focus on the author’s perspectives on survival. Lots of differentiated embedded into the lessons.
Lessona 1 and 2. Analyse Red Dust
Lessons 3 and 4. Analyse Touching the Void
Lesson 5. Prepare for comparative assessment through the learning journey.
Lesson 6. Complete assessment
A huge bundle of Romeo and Juliet resources.
Knowledge organisers
Revision cards
Context sheet
Lessons on each scene
Quizzes on scenes
106 page collated revision booklet
Character revision sheets
Timelines
Model responses
Exam style questions
And lots more.
Using this marking code will speed up your marking without compromising the quality and specificity of your marking because it transfers the time-consuming job of writing the targets out for each student from you to the students.
Your marking will look something like this:
WWW
1.
3.
7.
EBI
4.
10.
15.
Read the work and select 3 ways they have met the generic success criteria (WWW) and 3 ways they can improve further (EBI). The students have to then write out the target before trying to meet it. The 20 criteria start with the basics of using full stops and capital letters before moving on to much harder targets such as using a full range of punctuation. This should work with any creative writing task. Students can also use it a self-assessment tool.
I have also included a differentiated and more visually stimulating version which just has 8 targets.
This lesson helps students write the introduction to a persuasive speech for a Year 8/9 assembly on which subject to take at GCSE.
Includes a differentiated starter, model examples and a review task within a 4 page student booklet.
A descriptive writing task inspired by an image of trench warfare. Links to the poem Exposure.
There is a high level model response to inspire students along with a planning sheet.
Planning sheet to give ideas for a creative writing exercise on the theme of trapped.
There is also a mid ability example response for students to annotate.
Narrative writing lesson for mid to low ability based on preparing students for English Language Paper 1 Question 5/Section B.
Using an image of a dark alley, students use the 6 paragraph planning sheet to structure their narrative.
This lesson works very effectively with mid/low ability students.
There are also 3 model paragraphs to annotate about a dark alley.
Also includes resources for self and peer assessment of the first draft.
Bank of ambitious vocabulary to describe a human face - creative writing - English Language 9-1
Comes with a detailed lesson that guides students on how to describe each aspect of the face to create a convincing character description.
This learning journey contains 10 tasks to prepare students for a descriptive writing task based on an image for AQA Paper 1 Question 5.
The 10 tasks gradually increase in difficulty.
Linking the completion of a set number of tasks to rewards works as a motivating factor for students.