adapted from resources on tes. lesson looking at how to approach an unseen poem. Worked really well at getting them to think about implicit meaning.

Who's for the game

getting students to practice AFOREST with room 101.

exploring the opening stage directions - very weak class.

A lesson that has been heavily adapted from TES - exploring the speech of Greta Thurnberg in preparation for end of unit assessment.

A lesson based on connecting and sequencing ideas in a logical order, using connectives and "useful phrases". the lesson is themed around mosquitoes.

for use with the final assessment

Lesson adapted from tes

A support writing frame for LAP.

exploring exposure

first lesson looking at Dulce

Observed (grade 1) lesson exploring language in Dulce. the class have been using the writing frame for a while, so we are starting to lessen the amount of frame they have.

model; scaffold etc

A lesson based on getting year 7 to practise their creative writing skills by recapping what they know to include and giving it a go using stimuli from well known clips (frozen; up) etc designed to engage.

The class had spent 2 lessons exploring Exposure. This lesson they worked on writing critical and analytical paragraphs.

A lesson where the students were improving their draft assessments. I had considered the 5 areas of persuasive writing that they were struggling on and created support cards with models. I asked the students to peer assess their work and set targets - from there, they chose which support card to focus on.

Students completed a mid term assessment based around animal cruelty; they then practiced how to use their bodies and voices to make their speeches effective.

A poem for low ability GCSE - annotated with questions

Here are a series of lessons and resources for the year 7 unit.

A scaffold to help analyse MLD