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I am David - Anne Holm - Chapter 3 - Double Lesson!
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapter 3 of Anne Holm’s ‘I Am David.’ In this section of the text, David develops his knowledge and his resourcefulness, as he learns a range of ways to survive.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Explaining key ideas about characters and plot events.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. The lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses.
There’s a lot here (17 slides filled with questions and activities) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are suitable for students in either upper KS2 or lower KS3, depending upon the individual context of the school and students. I originally used them with year 6 children.
I am David - Anne Holm - Chapter 4 - Double Lesson!
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapter 4 of Anne Holm’s ‘I Am David.’ In this section of the text, David is initially beaten by Carlo, before winning the respect of Carlo and his family after saving Maria from the shed fire.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Analysing characters.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. The lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses. A character profile template is provided (in both Word and PDF) for the main creative activity.
There’s a lot here (17 slides filled with questions and activities) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are suitable for students in either upper KS2 or lower KS3, depending upon the individual context of the school and students. I originally used them with year 6 children.
I am David - Anne Holm - Chapter 5 - Double Lesson!
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapter 5 of Anne Holm’s ‘I Am David.’ In this section of the text, David struggles to integrate himself into life in the Italian family’s home and he overhears the conversation between Giovanni and Elsa.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Empathising with characters.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. The lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses. A character profile template is provided (in both Word and PDF) for the main creative activity.
There’s a lot here (17 slides filled with questions and activities) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are suitable for students in either upper KS2 or lower KS3, depending upon the individual context of the school and students. I originally used them with year 6 children.
I am David - Anne Holm - Chapter 6 - Double Lesson!
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapter 6 of Anne Holm’s ‘I Am David.’ In this section of the text, David leaves Maria’s family’s home and finds his way through northern Italy into Switzerland.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Explaining key ideas and themes.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. The lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses.
There’s a lot here (18 slides filled with questions and activities) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are suitable for students in either upper KS2 or lower KS3, depending upon the individual context of the school and students. I originally used them with year 6 children.
Pigeon English - Lessons 9 and 10 - 'July'
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the fifth and final chapter (‘July’) of Stephen Kelman’s 'Pigeon English.’ This section of the text tracks the events leading up to Harri being stabbed on the final day of the school year.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving and inferring information;
-Analysing the writer’s use of language;
-Linking to context;
-Summarising key plot events.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. Also included is a storyboard template for the summarising activity.
There’s a lot of content in the resource (22 slides in total) and in the past I have utilised this material over two or even three lessons. The lessons are best suited to students in KS4, and develop students’ knowledge and skills in relation to a number of GCSE assessment objectives.
Pigeon English - Lessons 7 and 8 - 'June'
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the fourth and penultimate chapter (‘June’) of Stephen Kelman’s 'Pigeon English.’ In this section of the text, Harri and Dean are warned away from their detective work by the Dell Farm Crew, Miquita and Chanelle fight in the cafeteria, and Harri and his friends discover a wallet that appears to belong to the dead boy.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving and inferring information;
-Making apt predictions;
-Explaining key plot events and themes.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning.
There’s a lot of content in the resource (20 slides in total) and in the past I have utilised this material over two or even three lessons. The lessons are best suited to students in KS4, and develop students’ knowledge and skills in relation to a number of GCSE assessment objectives.
Pigeon English - Lessons 5 and 6 - 'May'
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the third chapter (‘May’) of Stephen Kelman’s 'Pigeon English.’ In this section of the text, the Dell Farm Crew begin to turn on Harri, Miquita assaults Lydia with an iron, and Harri’s relationship with Poppy flourishes.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving and inferring information;
-Explaining key plot events;
-Analysing characters and relationships.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning.
There’s a lot of content in the resource (19 slides in total) and in the past I have utilised this material over two or even three lessons. The lessons are best suited to students in KS4, and develop students’ knowledge and skills in relation to a number of GCSE assessment objectives.
Pigeon English - Lessons 3 and 4 - 'April'
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the second chapter (‘April’) of Stephen Kelman’s 'Pigeon English.’ In this section of the text, Harri sees Lydia washing blood-soaked clothes, and his relationship develops with Poppy.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Making predictions;
-Retrieving and inferring information;
-Analysing plot events;
-Evaluating characters.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning.
There’s a lot of content in the resource (20 slides in total) and in the past I have utilised this material over two or even three lessons. The lessons are best suited to students in KS4, and develop students’ knowledge and skills in relation to a number of GCSE assessment objectives.
Pigeon English - Lessons 1 and 2 - 'March'
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the opening chapter (‘March’) of Stephen Kelman’s 'Pigeon English.’ In this section of the text, Harri sees the blood of the dead boy outside Chicken Joe’s, has interactions with the ‘Dell Farm Crew’ and begins investigating the murder with his friends.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Making predictions;
-Retrieving and inferring information;
-Analysing characters;
-Linking the text to its context.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning.
There’s a lot of content in the resource (22 slides in total) and in the past I have utilised this material over two or even three lessons. The lessons are best suited to students in KS4, and develop students’ knowledge and skills in relation to a number of GCSE assessment objectives.
I am David - Anne Holm - Chapter 7 - Double Lesson!
This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapter 7 of Anne Holm’s ‘I Am David.’ In this section of the text, David is held hostage by the evil-hearted farmer and his family, and he forms a close bond with King the dog.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Making predictions about the final section of the story.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. The lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses.
There’s a lot here (16 slides filled with questions and activities) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are suitable for students in either upper KS2 or lower KS3, depending upon the individual context of the school and students. I originally used them with year 6 children.
Creative Writing - Prompts and Activity Ideas for Effective Writing Sessions!
This 50-slide pack contains activity ideas and prompts for 12 creative writing sessions. I used these for weekly sessions over one full term with an upper KS2 class, although they could be used for lower KS2 or lower KS3 children with minimal adaptations.
The goal of the sessions is to give children a stimulus and the basic information that they need to write with as much freedom as possible. They begin each session with one slide, which outlines what they need to do in the first paragraph/ section, and ordinarily contains a picture stimulus, suggested techniques to use and example sentence openers/ lines. After 10-15 minutes (depending on the nature of the task and the class) the teacher introduces the next slide. There are four slides for each session. By the end of the 45-60 minutes, children should have a coherent first draft of a creative composition.
Prompts, support and guidance are provided for 12 individual creative writing sessions:
-Description: Haunted House
-Narrative: Journey Back to the Land of the Dinosaurs
-Newspaper Report: An Alien Landing
-Persuasive: Competition for a Dream Holiday
-Informative: A Police Statement
-Poem: My Favourite Place
-Diary: Climbing Mount Everest
-Persuasive: Letter to the Headteacher
-Narrative: Story of a Scar
-Explanation: How to Play (My Favourite Sport);
-Diary: Journey to Mars
-Narrative: Recreating a Fairy Tale
I hope that these prove as useful to you as they were to me!
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KS2 RE Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources are tailored to all KS2 units within the RE curriculum. They are a great basis for designing your RE curriculum offer, and offer children and teachers a complete reference point for all aspects of planning, teaching and assessing.
The organisers included are:
Christianity - The Bible
Christianity - Introduction to Jesus
Christianity - Churches
Christianity - The Teachings of Jesus
Christianity - The Last Week of Jesus’ Life
Islam - The Five Pillars
Islam - Holy Places
Judaism - Moses
Buddhism - The Buddha
Hinduism - Hindu Gods and Goddesses
Sikhism - The Gurus and the Khalsa
Humanism
The organisers are separated into logical compartments, based on the key curriculum expectations. They have been devised from the curriculum information given in the ‘ExploRE’ documentation.
Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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GCSE Revision Cards Big Bundle!
These colourful, comprehensive, and well-structured revision cards have been creatively designed for students securing their understanding of:
-Animal Farm;
-Macbeth;
-Romeo and Juliet;
-A View from the Bridge.
Each card is visually-appealing and highly-detailed, covering aspects of each feature including a full summary, cited quotations from the play, definitions/ examples, and a consideration of audience reactions. They are tried and tested, with teachers incorporating them in revision games, using them as essay writing aids, or utilising them as home revision aids. They are provided as both PDFs (to prevent formatting issues between computers) and as Word documents (for easy editing).
The packs contain revision cards on each of the main: Characters, Features of Context, Events, Themes, and Devices.
I have also included the revision cards templates so that you can create your own!
For any questions or comments, please contact TandLGuru@yahoo.co.uk - Many thanks!
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The Sign of Four Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE 'THE SIGN OF FOUR' LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Doyle's language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Huge Art and Design Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning about a wide range of different artists throughout their art and design study.
The bundle contains 12 knowledge organisers, focusing on the following artists:
-Andy Warhol
-Andy Goldsworthy
-Banksy
-Claude Monet
-Frank Gehry
-Frida Kahlo
-Georgia O’Keeffe
-JMW Turner
-Pablo Picasso
-Vincent van Gogh
-Wassily Kandinsky
-William Morris
Each organiser contains comprehensive sections on:
-Biography of the Artist;
-Styles and Techniques;
-Life Timeline;
-Significant Works;
-Key Vocabulary;
-How do I create art like this artist?
The resources can be adapted for all ages, are best suited for KS2 and KS3 children.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Formal Letters, Informal Letters and Emails - Big Bundle!
These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of formal letter, informal letter, and email writing easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate and imaginative content, language and structural choices depending upon the purpsoe and audience of different letters/ emails. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all the resources that you will need, and a lesson plan.
The pack also includes writing mats for each of the writing forms, to help students build their extended writing skills.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoints.
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OCR Conflict Poetry Knowledge Organisers Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF THE OCR CONFLICT POEMS!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the OCR ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology:
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen;
Lament - Gillian Clarke;
Honour Killing - Imtiaz Dharker;
Envy - Mary Lamb
Vergissmeinnicht - Keith Douglas
Partition - Sujata Bhatt
The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron
There’s A Certain Slant of Light - Emily Dickinson
The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
A Poison Tree -William Blake
What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
Phrase Book - Jo Shapcott
The Prelude (Extract) - William Wordsworth
Flag - John Agard
Punishment - Seamus Heaney
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Poetry from World Cultures Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities to aid the teaching of 9 different poems from other cultures. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout practicing for unseen poems, for teaching as part of a poetry unit, or to support guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
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OCR Youth and Age Poetry Knowledge Organisers Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF THE POEMS FROM THE OCR YOUTH AND AGE CLUSTER!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the ‘Youth and Age’ anthology.
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
Links to Wider Reading.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Power and Conflict Poetry Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the ‘Power and Conflict’ poems in the newest exam board anthologies. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’