This is a mini scheme of work for KS4 English students in which they prepare their own individual contribution about what they would put into room 101. The lessons go through the context of room 101 and then how to structure their speech.

These are two speaking and listening lessons that can be used for GCSE assessment. All resources are also included here.

This is a full and complete unit of work with PowerPoints for each lesson. Every lesson is fully differentiated. The unit starts at G grade and works up in stages from G to C, helping students to work through every stage until they reach C, so the progress is absolutely tangible and demonstrable in pupil's books and in the lessons. All resources and materials and enclosed within each lesson and the PowerPoints are ready to play, but you will need to adapt them for your classes depending on how much you get through in each lesson. Activities are set up to engage all students, as much of the time as possible, with progress for all in mind at all times during the planning. There are quizzes, differentiated goals, competitions, images to help pupils to understand fractions, whiteboard work for AFL, self marking, peer marking, cooperative learning activities for engagement. And, all of this is set against a progress tracker that helps pupils to see how that are moving up from G to C grade. The G to C can be mapped against 1-5, very easily, to adapt this unit for the future - you will see that when you download it. The unit includes: · Multiply and divide fractions including mixed numbers · Add and subtract fractions by finding and using a common denominator. · Find a percentage increase/decrease of an amount · Multiply and divide decimal numbers by integers and decimal numbers · calculate efficient percentage change using a single multiplier · Write one number as a percentage of another number Use percentages in real-life situations such as income tax calculations, simple interest, profit / loss, VAT · Calculate the percentage of a given amount · Compare the sizes of fractions using a common denominator · Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages without a calculator · Convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions · Multiply and divide fractions · Round decimals to the nearest integer a given number of decimal places or to one significant figure · Use percentages to solve problems · Write an improper fraction as a mixed number · Add and subtract decimals · Find fractions of amounts · Understand place value, identifying the values of the digits · Understand that a percentage is a fraction in hundredths · Write a fraction in its simplest form and find equivalent fractions · Write decimals in order of size · Recognise and write fractions in everyday situations · Understand a fraction as part of a whole · Visualise a fraction diagrammatically

This is a full and complete unit of work with PowerPoints for each lesson. Every lesson is fully differentiated with differentiated lesson outcomes that start at a lower end and travel up through the grades. The unit starts at F grade and works up in stages from F to A, helping students to work through every stage until they reach A, so the progress is absolutely tangible and demonstrable in pupil's books and in the lessons. All resources and materials and enclosed within each lesson and the PowerPoints are ready to play, but you will need to adapt them for your classes depending on how much you get through in each lesson. Activities are set up to engage all students, as much of the time as possible, with progress for all in mind at all times during the planning. There are quizzes, differentiated goals, competitions, whiteboard work for AFL, corners for AFL, red, green and amber card games, self marking, peer marking, cooperative learning activities for engagement. And, all of this is set against a progress tracker that helps pupils to see how that are moving up from F to A grade. The F to A can be mapped against 1-5, very easily, to adapt this unit for the future - you will see that when you download it. The unit covers all of the following so that students are able to: · Calculate with positive, negative and fractional indices and combinations of these. · Use index laws to write expressions for integer, negative, and fractional powers and powers of a power · Use index laws to simplify and calculate numerical expressions involving powers · Be able to write very large and very small numbers presented in a context in standard form · Calculate with standard form with and without a calculator. · Convert between ordinary and standard form representations · Understand ‘reciprocal’ as multiplicative inverse, knowing that any non-zero number multiplied by its reciprocal is 1 . Find the reciprocal of a number given as a fraction or decimal · Use index laws to calculate with squares and cubes · Use index laws to simplify and calculate the value of numerical expressions involving multiplication and division of integer powers, and powers of a power · Find the prime factor decomposition of positive integers and write in index form · Know the effects that a change of place value has on a calculation · Multiply and divide by any number between 0 and 1 · Multiply and divide decimal numbers by whole numbers and decimal numbers (up to 2 d.p.), eg 266.22 ¸ 0.34 · Use brackets and the hierarchy of operations (BIDMAS) · Use index notation for integer powers of 10 · Add, subtract any numbers including negative decimals · Check answers by inverse calculation · Find the common factors and common multiples of two small numbers

This is a tutorial with templates and resources on how to teach unseen poetry using a giant Jenga. The idea is that pupils come up and collect bricks and the bricks have numbers - each number relates to a quote from the poem, with a series of questions. This resource contains: The Tutorial - on how to engage all pupils with each quote; The Jenga template with hyperlinks to each brick number - each of these slides can be changed so it can be used again and again; A Writing Ladder with a model answer. The WL does not relate to any grades - it is about getting students to use the process of going up and down it. A Model answer; All of this tutorial is set up for Roald Dahl's poem 'Television', so this can be used to teach the poem to students. Students do get genuinely engaged with both the random use of Jenga and then trying to guess what the text is.

This training PowerPoint covers the research, and highlights the issues, with boys studying English. It looks at some of the issues and there are practical suggestions as to how to combat some of the barriers that boys may have when succeeding in English. There are 72 slides in total. The training aims are: To dispel some of the myths about why Boys underachieve in English. To consider the evidence from various Education “experts” about what does work. To be introduced to some strategies that have been proven to improve boy’s literacy, engagement and achievement in English.

These are 3 complete lessons that deconstruct the ingredients, tone and structure of book reviews and show pupils how to write one. This little unit of work cumulates in pupils writing their own review. There is a strong emphasis on redrafting and proofing work, too. Lesson 1: To analyse the style and format of a successful review, so that I am able to use this information to prepare my own. Lesson 2: To be able to decipher information that will inform, interest and explain to a reader. Lesson 3: To build on prior work by redrafting and improving it, so that it meets the conventions of a genre.

By using the AQA and Edexcel criteria, I’ve created reading and writing grids for assessment in KS3 based on 1-9. These grids are what’s being used to help drive progress in this unit of work. The grids for the Literature style question are included with these lessons. This unit is designed for KS3 pupils to get them used to how to tackle the exam style questions, so the outcome is an AQA Literature style question. These lessons are not about the teaching of the text. They are specifically about how to analyse language and structure; how to critically evaluate; how to write about social historical context and how to put all of these elements in an essay style answer under timed conditions. Each lesson is full of models that address all components of the mark scheme. There are a variety of activities within lessons, lots of cooperative learning etc. Each lesson is designed to last 1 hour - but many took longer to deliver so you can easily make these span 15 lessons… at least 3 weeks of planning covered for you!

This is a full unit of reading lessons that are based on the KS2/3 Glossary for the new national curriculum. The premise of each lesson is that a child's independent reading time is structured around revision of key grammar terminology from the glossary. The unit starts with a taught lesson about engaging with reading and why reading is like a journey. Lesson 2 then introduces the idea of engaging with reading and reading for pleasure. Lesson 3 introduces the term 'connotations', explaining what it means and, as children read independently through the lesson, with a book of their choice, they record three key words that have strong connotations and explain the effect of these in their reading journal. Lesson 4 introduces / revises nouns and follows the same pattern. Lesson 5 does the same with adjectives Lesson 6 with word families. Lesson 7 is a lesson that allows pupils to take one of the topics and teach the other members of the class all about that topic. Each lesson has literacy, numeracy, cooperative learning and a large focus on independent reading time in it. There is a teacher record sheet for every pupil for each teacher to record what pupils are reading in every lesson and for teachers to make notes of reading conversations that they have been holding with pupils. There is also a full scheme of work overview that ties into the new national curriculum. Every lesson has specific steps and could be delivered as a cover lesson very easily!

This is one lesson that I have taken from a whole scheme of lessons. Each poem can be used as an individual lesson, or, if you would like to teach all of the lessons, search for ' Poetry Scheme - 3 Poems - Lesson Miss R' and they should all come up for you to work with. At the end of the unit, there is a reading and writing assessment that involves analysis and creativity too. This lesson introduces Education for Leisure but does not reveal all of the details of the poem.

This is one powerpoint that covers all 4 questions on the reading section for GCSE Language (AQA). There is also a tiny section on descriptive writing. It is created in the walking / talking mock style so that the teacher can guide students through each question and how to answer it. There are model answers, model annotations on custom animation (so that they can be revealed and they are set up to answer questions), and sections that are set up for students to complete their own answers. Techniques are suggested for students to use for each question; including models of evaluative statements for question 4. Perfect for a ful last minute revision session that you wont need to plan but, equally, the ppt. can be broken down into separate lessons that show students how to tackle each question. The mark schemes used only cover level 3 and 4 skills as the ppt. is designed to help students hit at least grade 4. All resources are at the end of the ppt.

This resource is a huge ppt. consisting of 51 slides with activities and resources designed to enable a teacher to adapt the learning based on where you get to, in each lesson, by entering a new slide with a LO at the start. Alternatively, it could be taught in a whole chunk - which would probably take a full day. The materials break down which part of the exam students are focussing on, how it fits in, what the question will look like and then how to tackle it effectively. The material shows the different stages from analysis to evaluation and draw in links from English teaching to help students to write evaluatively effectively. Aiming for top band on each of the two questions, this resource will help teachers to really deconstruct how students can get the best answers in this section and offers WAGOLLs for both questions to start students off. The WAGOLLs are based on a performance of Our Town - but you can obviously adapt .

These are two lessons that are tied to the AQA specification for English Lit and the Relationship cluster - quite basic but a starting point for how to attempt questions. They don't have to be taught together.

This was a whole staff Inset that I put together for the staff to get them totally focussed i on different ways to promote and demonstrate progress. Linked to quotes from the new framework, can easily be adapted for any school.

This is a scheme of work that I have revisited and updated for 2012, to include all APP frameworks, persuasive techniques and analysis of the Death Penalty. The scheme looks at murderers and results in a question about whether or not we should bring back the death penalty. Pupils end by writing a discursive essay, as if they are under controlled assessment conditions, as I am trying to prepare year 9 for their GCSE years. If you want every lesson, type in '2012 Death Penalty Lesson Miss R' and they should come up in a list. This one covers PEA chains and writing emotively.

This is a full 2 hour training session that I designed for a local college when the framework changed for English and post 16 education. It was designed to help those delivering English get some ideas on how to make their lessons outstanding. Lots of ideas are included and this can easily be cut apart to be used for other subjects or across the school. I have also uploaded a very similar powerpoint for 11-16 schools. This one refers to the ofsted criteria for post 16 education

This is a scheme of work that I have revisited and updated for 2012, to include all APP frameworks, persuasive techniques and analysis of the Death Penalty. The scheme looks at murderers and results in a question about whether or not we should bring back the death penalty. Pupils end by writing a di More…scursive essay, as if they are under controlled assessment conditions, as I am trying to prepare year 9 for their GCSE years. If you want every lesson, type in '2012 Death Penalty Lesson Miss R' and they should come up in a list. This one covers analysis of bias.

This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. I've uploaded lots of lessons and some that follow on from each other if you would like to use them all. Each has the same start to the title for ease of finding. This lesson covers the skill of inference and using it in relation to the novel.

These lessons help pupils to identify a potential exam question and plan how to answer it. Also added is a list of targets that can be given to pupils after they have attempted the task.

Used to help PGCE students and NQTs focus on these essential ingredients in lessons.