This was an attempt at differentiating a KS4 close reading scheme of work so that it was suitable for Year 7. Year 7 enjoyed it but it could be used with KS3 - 4 or even elements for KS5.
The 111 slide PPT includes
-Jane Eyre
- Pride and Prejudice
- Emily Dickinson poetry
- De Bono
- Plus, Minus, Interesting
- Rally Robin
- Think Pair Shair
- Self/Peer assessment
- Hot Seating
- Word classes
- Irony
- Alan Peat sentences
A lesson to help students think about structuring their responses and creating more imaginative pieces.
Suitable for 11-16 with a focus on the AQA GCSE English Language mark scheme.
A useful booklet for class work but also for cover work or homework.
A series of tasks looking at rhetorical devices and writing to inform, advise, persuade and argue. Tasks could easily be stretched out to cover a term of work.
The initial theme is teenage runaway/issues facing teens but this can easily be adapted.
7 PowerPoints following the same format. All adaptable.
Can be used as whole lessons in school, homework tasks or for home learning.
Suitable for KS3 - 4 or as GCSE prep.
Slide one: Learning objective / overview of tasks
Slide two: Find definitions of new vocabulary
Slides three - six: Literacy challenges such as how to use a semi-colon
Slide seven: Produce a piece of writing using the new vocabulary and skills. Pupils are given an image to use as stimuli in the style of AQA GCSE English Language.
Slide eight: Review work / set targets
Example article and questions for current (old spec) AQA English Language Exam
The article is on Geordie Shore to help engage students but encourages them to question how appropriate the show is and how they could seek better role models
AQA English - New Spec
PEE paragraphs
Self Assessment Activity
Students award themselves money when they meet criteria but deduct money when they miss something - the richest person at the end becomes the class expert for the week
Write a story about the journey to a concentration camp - used from year 7 to 11
Includes planning sheet, pictures and scaffolding for imagery and pathetic fallacy
This is a writing skills worksheet to use for feedforward activities.
The sheet has instructions that students can follow independently to improve a piece of writing.
It could also be adapted to use when drafting their first piece.
Instructions encourage students to write slowly and carefully, using ambitious sentence structures, punctuation and vocabulary.
This resource is based on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and has pictures of concentration camps to inspire a narrative about the journey to a camp. The 34 slide PPT guides students as they plan this piece of work.
However, there are lots of slides about general writing skills including colour symbolism, pathetic fallacy, paragraphs and sentence structures. There is a planning sheet included for students to use.
A worksheet with paintings to inspire a piece of creative writing - suitable for classwork or homework.
Includes a checklist / success criteria.
Can be edited.
(Fiction - can be linked to AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5)