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I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
This resource is for KS4 or an advanced KS3 class as this ppt contains some challenging ideas.
The resource includes:
starter
plenary
all lesson activities (i.e. poetry analysis and parapgraph writing tasks including a model PEE answer)
HW task
This is a good poem to teach to a low set GCSE group or a KS3 class.
The resource includes:
A starter and a Plenary
Lesson activities
A HW task
Please note, you will need to google a copy of the poem
What is this resource?
It is a powerpoint which shows students how to achieve higher marks in creative writing tasks by using more advanced stylistic features such as: using a connective to start your paragraph, using dialogue/ speech to initiate a paragraph, starting a paragraph with an adverbial clause , beginning your paragraph with an adverb, starting your paragraph with a statement etc
Using a question at the start of a paragraph (e.g. Who is the least important person in your life?)
Who is it for?
KS3
KS4
Literacy Lessons
What’s included?
Starter
All activities (enough for 2- 4 lessons depending on the class’ ability) and guidance notes on each slide
Opportunities to write independently and work in groups and self assess to improve
Plenary
Curriculum links?
English Language
Whole School Literacy Programmes
Literacy Support Sessions
Practical Tips?
Notes are provided on each slide
What is this resource?
This is a ppt that includes 5 literacy competitions (with examples/models)
Who is it for?
KS2 - KS4
What’s included?
Competition details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed
Curriculum links?
English Department, Drama Department, Whole School Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions
Practical Tips?
The ppt contains 5 competitions with details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed
This powerpoint provide is a detailed lesson designed to teach paragraphing skills in Non-Fiction. It can be used in isolation or with the other powerpoints on my “Author Dashboard”.
It includes all of the resources such as:
Thinking task
Starter
Learning activities with all of the resources needed to make progress (including differentiation and challenge)
Plenary
Notes on the slides explaining how to use the resource
This powerpoint is ready to go!
This powerpoint provide is a detailed lesson desgined to teach paragraphing skills in Fiction. It can be used in conjunction with the other two powerpoints (with a similar name) on my dashboard or in isolation as an isolated lesson.
It includes all of the resources such as:
Thinking task
Starter
Learning activities with all of the resources needed to make progress (including differentiation and challenge)
Plenary
Notes on the slides explaining how to use the resource
This powerpoint provide is a detailed lesson desgined to teach paragraphing skills in Fiction.
It includes all of the resources such as:
Thinking task
Starter
Learning activities with all of the resources needed to make progress (including differentiation and challenge)
Plenary
Notes on the slides explaining how to use the resource
It is a bundle that is ready to go!
This essay compares ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘In Paris With You’. At the bottom there are 5 teacher comments and space for students to decide with their teacher what the overall grade should be. There is also a box for the ‘quality of written communication’ to be assessed.
These classroom posters are designed to improve the quality of student -teacher dialogue in a learning environment. They’re based on the RESPECT acronym which describes 7 behaviours of highly successful people:
R - resilience
E - expectations
S - scanning
P - pace
E - entrepreneurial
C - collaboration
T - three mistakes or you’re not trying
They can be printed of at any size (including A4 or A5 for diaries or exercise books).
This ppt contains 16 plenaries. Each slide develops the students’ ability to reflect and draw on different thinking skills. Inspired by HOM and the Learning to Learn paradigm.
This resource is KS4 or a KS3 class.
The ppt contains:
A starter
A plenary
All learning activities
A HW task
Please note you will need to google a copy of the poem.
This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of :
Gothic Fiction
Creative Writing
Poetry
Romeo & Juliet
Non-Fiction
Revision & End of Year Exam
It also includes:
activity suggestions
lesson content suggestions
Exam structures
a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year
lnks to AQA’s GCSE exam frames and criteria
It is ideal for new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study.
Enjoy!
This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of :
Poetry
Novel Study
Hamlet
Non-Fiction Study
Revision & End of Year Exam
It also includes:
activity suggestions
lesson content suggestions
exam structures
a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year
links to AQA’s GCSE exam frames and criteria
It is ideal for a new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study.
Enjoy!
This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of the new linear GCSE English Course. This long term plan reflects the new GCSE Linear Exam Assessment Objectives.
Students will be assessed on:
Responding to GCSE fiction and non-fiction text extracts exploring creative writing based upon GCSE literary non-fiction text extracts
Exploring Shakespearean tragedy: the study ofeither Macbeth or Merchant of Venice
Exploring contemporary poetry: contemporary poetry (AQA Anthology)
The study of the 19th century novel - the teacher’s choice
Exploring and developing a viewpoint
A mock GCSE summer exams
It also includes:
activity suggestions
lesson content suggestions
exam structures
a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year
links to AQA’s GCSE exam frame and criteria
It is ideal for new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study.
Enjoy!
This is 1-2 lessons (depending on the pace and the depth of learning required at each step) for KS3 or a low KS4 class. The lesson includes:
a starter
a plenary
several models for comparison
HW task
This sheet is useful for making the teaching of persuasive language more realistic for students.
Suitable for KS3 but it is also useful for bottom set KS4 groups
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.
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 ppt offering sentence starters of each thinking hat.
Teachers can select hats they want the class to work from, or ask the class to select a hat before they start working etc
It makes a good mini plenary task to break up a lesson into learning segments.