I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
A enjoyable introduction to these three techniques, with accompanying activities to consolidate learning.
Please find Part 2: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia and Rhyme in My Shop
An easily accessible booklet designed to introduce junior KS3 classes to the idea of the Media and how it persuades and manipulates the target audience.
The resource looks at how we ‘manipulate’ each other, takes account of the first six persuasive techniques and teaches pupils to identify these devices in example articles. Activities throughout include: facts and opinions, font, colour, slogans and language tricks. The booklet ends with a fun persuasive activity to complete.
A visually appealing and easily accessible booklet, this pupil resource covers all areas of MIA, creating a perfect introduction and foundation for progress into GCSE Moving Image Arts.
Instruction is given, and complimented with film extracts and activities to complete.
A PowerPoint to aid teaching is also provided.
Areas covered:
Roles of responsibility
Genre
Camera technique
Sound
Lighting
Mise-en-scène
Answer Book provided
A student booklet 25 pages offering an introduction and development of the techniques looked for in both Unit 1 and Unit 4 of the GCSE Language exams.
Accompanied by Teacher booklet 25 pages offering possible answers to assist the teaching of the topic.
Perfect for KS3 student, lower ability GCSE, or as an introduction to Reading Non-Fiction at either Key Stage.
A full range of persuasive language techniques are studied, and used in real contexts, developing the student’s ability to articulate impact in a structured paragraph.
This resource considers both the choice of persuasive technique and the impact it has on the reader, using written and visual examples.
You may also be interested in our similar KS3 introduction student and teacher booklets for Media Texts using CLIF - a useful introduction to Unit 1, Task 5.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12492445
Or our indepth GCSE student booklet, teacher notes and teaching PowerPoint for Unit 1, Tasks 4 + 5
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12393894
Included here:
Formal and Informal
Personal and impersonal
Direct appeal
Endorsements
Figurative language
Puns
Humour and Hyperbole
Facts and Statistics
Lists, clusters, rule of 3
Repetition
Alliteration
Enjoy my free newspaper samples:
Newspaper Frontpage
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-front-page-12366705
VERY POPULAR: Sample Article written with the 5 W
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-article-example-who-what-when-where-why-12366711
Tabloid + Broadsheet PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspapers-tabloid-broadsheet-frontpage-12366847
A complete and thorough resource, covering all aspects of Newspapers in a usable and student friendly format.
Includes two booklets: one user-friendly** student booklet**, and one **teacher booklet **with answers filled in
Teacher Booklet
Very user friendly and can be put on the board for pupils to copy from
Student Booklet
A single booklet covering everything from the origin of newspapers to tabloid and broadsheets.
Includes:
Background to Newspapers
Types of newspapers - research
Tabloid vs Broadsheet
Types of story- research
The Front Page -activity
Editing - activity
Parts of an article - research and activity
Headlines - techniques and activity
Facts and Opinion - activity
Bias vs Balance - activity
Choice of language - connotation
How to write an article - activities
A fun way to introduce poetic techniques, and a chance to form different types of poems.
Aimed at junior KS3, this is an upbeat introduction to poetic techniques and poetic form, covering simile to onomatopoeia, shape poems to noise poems.
Enjoy my free newspaper samples:
Newspaper Frontpage
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-front-page-12366705
VERY POPULAR: Sample Article written with the 5 W
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-article-example-who-what-when-where-why-12366711
Or purchase my KS2/KS3 Newspaper booklet
A complete and thorough resource, covering all aspects of Newspapers in a usable and student friendly format, with a booklet for the students, and a matching answered one for the Teacher.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-ks3-newspaper-booklet-unit-12366851
Included here:
A PowerPoint looking at the difference between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, and how the differences are evident in the front page, the headlines and the language used by each.
A variety of front pages are considered – all from the same day – each looking at the same story in their own particular way.
Real life context given to the differing writing styles of real newspapers.
An accessible PowerPoint which makes use of anti-smoking media images to investigate Presentation and Language.
Suitable for both KS3 and as an introduction to KS4 Reading Media Texts, this resource covers the basics of Presentation: Colour, Layout and Image (see My Shop for ‘Font’ activities) and Language: Facts, Opinions, Title and Persuasive words and phrases.
A thorough booklet resource which is easily accessible to students and covers a range of poetic techniques, explored through different poetic examples and accompanying activities.
Includes:
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
A booklet offering a thorough introduction to the poems of Seamus Heaney.
Includes:
Blackberry-Picking
Death of a Naturalist
Mid-Term Break
Digging
Follower
Clearances 5
Clearances 3
In the last minutes
Simple PowerPoint looking at Point, Evidence, Explanation and how to apply it to a question from ‘Holes’.
The burger reference is always very useful in the classroom!
Making use of the text ‘Ex-Poser’ by Paul Jennings, this resource carefully and accessibly works through how to answer ten comprehension questions using PEE - the method of Point, Evidence, Explanation.
This has proven to be a really useful way to introduce PEE into the classroom and to ensure it is applied correctly.
Enjoy this free sample, part of my fuller Newspaper Unit - which comes with student booklet and teacher answer booklet
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-booklet-unit-12366851
Enjoy my free newspaper samples:
Newspaper Frontpage
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-front-page-12366705
Tabloid + Broadsheet PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspapers-tabloid-broadsheet-frontpage-12366847
Included here:
A simple but useful layout of an article for KS2/KS3 students.
Complimenting the idea of the 5W layout for articles, each paragraph is labelled with its purpose and then an example of what might be said:
Introductory sentence
Who
What
When
Where
Why
Bring it up-to-date
Enjoy my free newspaper samples:
VERY POPULAR: Sample Article written with the 5 W
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-article-example-who-what-when-where-why-12366711
Tabloid + Broadsheet PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspapers-tabloid-broadsheet-frontpage-12366847
Or purchase my KS2/KS3 Newspaper booklet
A complete and thorough resource, covering all aspects of Newspapers in a usable and student friendly format, with a booklet for the students, and a matching answered one for the Teacher.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-ks3-newspaper-booklet-unit-12366851
Included here:
Two resources:
A labelled front page from ‘The Irish News’
A labelled, but deletable front page layout to aid IT work.
Five adverts which can be used at KS3 for the study of Media, Adverts and Non-Fiction, or as an introduction to Reading Media Texts, CCEA GCSE Language Paper 1, Questions 4 and 5.
Five simple adverts,asking the same questions to encourage the student to look at both the chosen language and presentation.
What is this advertising? What is the purpose of the advert? Where did this advert come from?
Who is the Target Audience of this advert? How are they being targeted?
Explain the layout: picture, slogan, words.
Explain the slogan. Explain any other language involved.
Discuss the colours. Why are these chosen?
Discuss the character – what is she doing and why?
What do you think of this advert?
A simple and interactive way of getting students to focus on FONT and a little bit of COLOUR as a developed choice by creators of media.
Perfect introduction to the CLIF aspect of Question 5 in Paper 1 of the GCSE Language exam.
Visit My Shop for more helpful aids to understanding the new Language papers and their questions
A quick visual and written summary of Macbeth’s plot.
The 20 boxes here are in chronological order - suggested use is to cut them up and get the student to reorder them themselves.