I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
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I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
Please subscribe and support. Feel free to message me directly with any video or resource requests!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ0s1bwC0V6qohf-YBtWyvw
A 20 slide lesson supporting students in writing creatively using personification with sample writing and interesting tasks . Fun and engaging for KS2/KS3!
Includes exciting adjectives list and success criteria!
This is an 18 slide PowerPoint lesson on W.H. Auden’s poem ‘Refugee Blues’ including contextual information, full annotations, information regarding structure, and differentiated tasks for students to complete in response to the poem in preparation for GCSE.
Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3/KS4!
A lesson based on Roald Dahl’s descriptive passage on Mrs Pratchett from his autobiography ‘Boy’.
Activities on identifying descriptive techniques in the passage, writing about them and then also employing descriptive devices in your own writing.
KS3 Year 7/8
An 11 slide PowerPoint exploring deeper meaning and language/structural techniques for each line in the poem including questions to promote students’ independent learning.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For AS/A Level Post-2000 poetry
A 23 slide PowerPoint exploring the role of the witches within Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It includes excerpts from the script, contextual information about King James I and superstition in the 17th century, both comprehension and inference questions and is suitable for all ages!
Engaging and informative for all!
A 20 slide PowerPoint exploring Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Standing Female Nude’ - key themes, language and structure with thought-provoking questions for students to respond.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Suitable for GCSE, AS level/A-level!
A PowerPoint on using deduction and inference. Based on visual YouTube clips for engagement before moving on to analysis of a written text.
Fun and engaging for all years! Helps to really define the key terms 'deduction' and 'inference' and establish the ability to read between the lines and search for deeper meaning.
A detailed 12 slide PowerPoint Context Lesson for J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ - includes challenging and differentiated questions for students on the political message behind the play as well as information on Priestley’s own life and moral/political perspectives.
This bundle includes the PowerPoint, lesson plan for a top ability year 10 group and the resources for an Ofsted graded 'Outstanding' lesson aimed at helping students understand the criteria for attaining a Grade A and B at GCSE in Of Mice and Men (Controlled assessment 3a).
It allows the teacher to act as a facilitator to the independent learning of students and is ideal for a KS4 class!
This is a PowerPoint to accompany the reading of The Black Cat with a ‘horror genre’ language focus.
It is suitable for ages 11-16 and allows students to zoom in on specific language employed by Poe.
It also includes a quiz on the plot and central characters within the story to concrete understanding of what has been read.
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A PowerPoint containing the definition of a connective and tasks for students to complete both as a class and independently on using them in sentences and English subject writing.
Suitable for primary and secondary ages as well as for a LD or SEN department Literacy tool.
A PowerPoint covering the definitions and use of:
Homophones
Homographs
Heteronyms
It also covers the importance of good spelling and includes tasks for students to complete.
Suitable for primary and secondary ages as well as as a whole school Literacy tool.
The 'Literacy Bundle' includes:
1)Crucial Connectives- A 7 slide PowerPoint defining what connectives are and their uses in writing.
Includes:
Definition of 'connective'.
Exploring where connectives are appropriately used.
Exploring where connectives are inappropriately used.
Activity for students to highlight where connectives are appropriate/inappropriate in relation to sentence endings.
Plenary consolidating learning.
2) Sorting Out Spelling- A 7 slide PowerPoint exploring the definition of homophones, homographs and heteronyms as well as the importance of accurate spelling.
Includes:
Definition of homophones, homographs and heteronyms.
Activity to identify the correctly spelt word in a sentence.
Activity to spot and correct spelling errors.
A quick spelling test to consolidate learning.
3) Pesky Pararaphs - A 9 slide PowerPoint exploring when it is and is not appropriate to begin a new paragraph in your writing.
Includes:
The definition of 'paragraph'.
An activity for students to discuss prior knowledge of paragraphing.
Examples according to BBC Bitesize of where use is appropriate including TiPToP memory method for the rules.
Activity for students to choose where or when paragraphing is used appropriately.
Exemplar text for analysis.
Plenary consolidating learning
4) Sentence Types - An 11 slide PowerPoint introducing different sentence types and features of imagery as aids for improving creative writing.
Includes:
Compound and complex sentence examples and exploration.
Features of imagery and its effectiveness.
Key vocabulary: olfactory, tactile, etc for imagery.
Activity for students to complete brief descriptive creative piece using both varied sentence types and features of imagery.
An 11 slide PowerPoint on atmospheric writing including key ingredients and tasks for students to complete. Includes opportunity and instruction for peer assessment as well as self reflection to ensure progress in creative writing.
Also includes a separate checklist to print for students to tick off and ensure they have ingredients for a successful atmospheric piece.
A 14 slide whole lesson on suspenseful descriptive writing using Show don’t tell techniques, imagery and short sentences for effect.
Includes:
images as springboard for creative writing (creepy rooms)
checklist for effective suspense writing
model suspense text for analysis
Engaging PowerPoint promoting learning - suitable for all ages!
Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students develop magical powers. Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader.
Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse.
Suitable for KS2-KS3!
A Word document detailing the ingredients of successful PEE language analysis and including a task for students to analyse language used by Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men. Focus is on character presentation of Lennie.
Suitable for all GCSE exam boards.
