Two engaging and fully-resourced back to school English lessons with PowerPoints and worksheets which support students to write a slam poem about their identity. This allows the class to get to know each other, reminds students of poetic techniques and analysis and gives them the opportunity to do some creative writing through writing a slam poem. I have used it regularly with key stage 3 and key stage 4 classes as it can be easily adapted to the poetic knowledge and ability of each class. LESSON ONE Learning Objective: Analyse the effect of poetic techniques used in a slam poem. Learning Outcomes: Bronze: Identify poetic techniques in a slam poem. Silver: Explain the effect of vocabulary and poetic techniques in a slam poem. Gold: Explain how the poet uses rhythm and structure for effect in a slam poem. Lesson Overview: Do it now: Vocabulary stretcher: how would you describe yourself in three words? Talk to the person next to you and share examples on a post-it note. Starter: Think – pair- share: discuss images and techniques used in lines of poetry followed by teacher modelling. Activity one: Watch example slam poem and discuss meaning and techniques. Teacher leads discussion and models some answers. Activity two: Based on the slam poem you’ve watched, what would you say are some of the main features of slam poetry? Plenary: Class tries to match the post-it note from the ‘do it now’ exercise to the correct student. LESSON TWO Learning Objective: Write a Slam Poem about your Identity Learning Outcomes: Bronze: Use a range of vocabulary and poetic techniques in your slam poem. Silver: Use rhyme and rhythm to achieve a desired effect. Gold: Write powerful stand-out lines that get stuck in the listeners’ minds. Lesson Overview: Do it now: What features of slam poetry do you remember from the previous lesson? Starter: Think – pair- share: what language techniques can you identify in quotes from last lesson’s poem? Can you explain the effect? Activity one: Use the graphic organiser to start planning your slam poem and then begin to write it. Plenary: Share your most powerful line Homework: Complete your slam poem More Resources: Check out this lesson which explores writing slam poems in more detail. If you find this lesson useful, have a look at other resources available in my shop. . Leave a review and choose any other resource of up to the same value for free from my shop.

Two engaging and ready to teach one hour lessons to cover chapters 17 - 20 of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne. The first lesson (chapters 17 - 18) requires students to use a range of reading skills and techniques - they read independently and in pairs to practise their comprehension and inference skills. The second lesson (chapters 19 - 20) requires students to think about the effects of pathetic fallacy and dramatic irony in the penultimate chapter and then to reflect on how they feel about the ending. LESSON ONE Learning Objective: Practise a range of reading skills. Learning Outcomes: Bronze: Read in pairs and individually, and use skimming, scanning and inference skills. Silver: Support your partner by correcting them constructively in paired reading. Gold: Make a perceptive prediction about what will happen at the end of the book. Lesson Outline: Do It Now: Match the reading term to the definition. Starter: Paired reading of chapter 17 followed by comprehension and inference questions. Activity 1: Chapter 18 individual comprehension questions and marking. Activity 2: What do you predict will happen at the end of the book? Plenary: How has Bruno changed over the course of the book? LESSON TWO Learning Objective: Reflect upon the story. Learning Outcomes: Bronze: Understand the terms pathetic fallacy and dramatic irony. Silver: Explain how pathetic fallacy and dramatic irony are used to create tension. Gold: Reflect upon the end of the novel. Lesson Overview: Do It Now: What are your expectations for finishing the book? Starter: Explanation of pathetic fallacy and dramatic irony– how does that impact your expectations? Activity 1: Reading focus for chapter 19. Activity 2: Chapter 19 reflection followed by class questions for teacher. Activity 3: Chapter 20 reflection. Plenary: Questions on a post-it note. Freebies: Two pre-reading lessons to introduce students to the context of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available for free here. A lesson on chapter 1 of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available for free here. A scheme of work for teaching the entire novel is available for free here. If you find this lesson useful, please consider purchasing this ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ Bundle or have a look at other resources available in my shop. . Leave a review and choose any other resource of up to the same value for free from my shop.

An engaging and detailed staff CPD session on explicit vocabulary instruction - this lasts between one hour and 90 minutes depending on whether departments are given time at the end to consider their tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary words. I delivered this in my role as Literacy Coordinator and was told by the headteacher that it was the best internal CPD that he had seen delivered. This session covers: Why you need a whole-school approach to vocabulary The Matthew Effect Tier 1, 2 and 3 words and what this means. Approaches to vocabulary instruction - morphology, etymology and the Frayer model. Modelled examples of how to teach new vocabulary. Advice for further reading. Please note that I have provided some suggestions in the notes section of the slides about how to guide discussion. Similar Resources * Staff CPD on Whole-School Reading Strategies * A bundle of whole-school literacy resources including this CPD, CPD on Reading Strategies and resources for implementing a Word Root of the Week in your school. Leave a review and choose any other resource of up to the same value for free from the LikeAnExpert shop.

An engaging and detailed staff CPD session on whole-school reading strategies that lasts one hour. This session covers: Why you need a whole-school approach to reading. The Matthew Effect Tier 1, 2 and 3 words and what this means. Orthography and background of English spelling Five strategies for struggling readers that can be used across subjects. Time for staff to consolidate their learning and discuss how they will apply what they have learned to their subject and upcoming units. Please note that I have provided some suggestions in the notes section of the slides about how to guide discussion as well as the answers to some questions. Similar Resources * A Whole-School Approach to Explicit Vocabulary Staff CPD * A bundle of whole-school literacy resources including this CPD, CPD on Reading Strategies and resources for implementing a Word Root of the Week in your school. Leave a review and choose any other resource of up to the same value for free from the LikeAnExpert shop.

One academic year’s worth of Word Root of the Week lesson starters (36 weeks). Each starter prompts students to explore and practise using a root word in more detail to explicitly build in teaching vocabulary over the year. Each week has a starter that lasts between 5-15 minutes. There are 165 slides in total. If you wish to purchase further resources to support your Word Root of the Week programme, have a look at these word root slides for displaying in assembly. or a complete bundle of resources. These words correspond with this free Excel file which provides a yearly plan with 36 word roots and example words. Leave a review and choose any other resource for free, of up to the same value, from the LikeAnExpert shop.

This is a home learning workbook that contains 20 lessons that are a mixture of live and independent work from home. This is aimed at students studying The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1. This also works well as a revision guide for students to work through independently. This workbook has 12 live lessons for delivery in class or online (I have delivered them all online) and 8 for independent home learning. It would be easy to adapt lessons to make them live or independent. This resource is an adaptation of my original Curious Incident lesson bundle available here. This resource includes: A Powerpoint workbook with 175 slides which covers 20 lessons. Students complete all of their work directly into the Powerpoint (I have found that this saves a lot of stress and time when students have all of their work in one place). An overview of the scheme of work. A video that simulates the feeling of sensory overload Christopher experiences in the train station (this is embedded within the Powerpoint, but I have added it here in case there are problems). A more detailed knowledge organiser that can be used alongside the simplified knowledge organiser found in the workbook. If you find this resource helpful, please leave a review and have a look at other resources available in my shop.