What is this resource A four week plan for teaching Skellig to Year 7 Who is it for? KS2 and KS3 What’s included? A 4 week study plan Practical Tips? The plan contains ideas and a teaching structure. However, the teacher who dowloads it would need to create the resources.

What is this resource? It is a differentiated worksheet that teaches reluctant readers and students with low literacy skills how to break into written and visual sources so they learn to decode independently Who is it for? KS3 - KS4 What’s included? A set of analytic questions that teach students how to decode texts and images Curriculum links? Whole School Literacy Programmes and any curriculum area that draws on sources in its content

This is a basic cartoon/cloze task which requires students to think about the purpose and meaning of the triplet: writing to inform, explain and describe. It’s suitable for KS3 and KS2 but might be a bit basic for KS4.

A comical starter that can be deconstructed. Suitable for KS3 (upper set) and KS4

Here’s a ppt I put together for teaching the “Connections” essay to Level 1 pupils. Feel free to use :)

This is a summary sheet that can be glued into the students’ exercise books after the Mocks. It’ll help them form targets.

This is a very basic model demonstrating what to include in a basic programme of study/plan. It still needs assessment objectives and a rationale, but it might be useful as a starting point for a new HOD if he/she is stuck for ideas.

A fun lesson that introduces writing to describe to KS3 or KS4. You will need to know who has allergies in your classroom. You will also need wet wipes, chocolate (e.g. box of Celebrations), salt and vinegar crisps. The kids love it. Good luck!

Use this as an introductory activity with your classes to your help students ascertain what they can and can’t do in relation to persuasive writing before the unit begins. It will help teacher to gauge what needs to be taught etc too. Suitable for KS3 and KS4

The Worksheet contains 2 banks of persuasive skills. Set 1: Basic Techniques for persuading your audience for hitting Grade 4-6 (new GCSE) and Set 2 includes more advanced Techniques for persuading your audience for hitting Grade 4-9 (new GCSE). Useful for independent work/HW tasks for KS3 and KS4.

Suitable for KS3 or KS4.

Suitable for KS3 and KS4. This resource is suitable as a criteria sheet that students can use to achieve their persuasive writing targets. They can keep re-visiting the sheet for HW tasks too throughout the year (if it’s glued into their exercise books). The key strategy governing the activity is that students are taking charge of their own progress and learning to be independent learners as the criteria sheet is an important tool in their learning toolbox. The activity also deploys FAR marking techniques.

This useful Writing to Inform & Explain A Self Assessment Checklist will help your students be independent writers and encourage them to develop their self editing skills. Suitable for KS3 and KS4.

Here are two posters - on is based on the features of tabloids and the other on broadsheets.

This is suitable for all KS3 and KS4 reading assessments for Language and Literature programmes or study. It is designed to enable students to work independently when they’re marking a peer’s work without the teacher’s assistance. It includes a SPaG grid of common SPaG errors.

This is a SPaG grid that’s a simple tick sheet that students can glue into their exercise books each term (or half term) to show their progress across the literacy skills. It is designed to be a student self-assessment resource.

A useful resource is you need to bring a class into line or just set up your expectations. This is an appropriate for KS3 and KS4. The students read through it and then sign it before it is glued into the front of their books (or the back) where it can be referred to when misbehaviour occurs. I hope it helps!

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

This evaluation is designed to be used during the creation process or after the task is completed. It can be used with any writing to inform task and can be adapted. Suitable for KS3 or KS4.

This worksheet includes 2 HW tasks. One is a reseacrh task and one in an editing SPaG task that requires students to also add more informative detail. Good for either KS3 and KS4.