Remote Virtual Home Learning KS3 English 6 Lesson Bundle (suitable for cover & adaptable for class)

I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy with years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging. Most importantly, they promote a love of literacy and the subject.

6-12 hours depending on ability.

These lessons are ready to teach. They have been purpose designed to accommodate home/virtual/remote learning. They have timers embedded to help with time management and would work very well as printed cover lessons.

The lesson can be very easily adapted to be used within a classroom environment. Dates etc. can be removed from the slides.

and The lessons target teaching KS3 English skills: Language Through Literature. These lesson teach from the top down but equally support SEND.

Features of lessons:

• Standalone lessons using individual extracts (listed further down)
• Consistently clear structure to lessons with a Do Now, active reading tasks, tasks that lead and scaffold towards a structures ALT (applied learning time - main task)
• Stretch and challenge opportunities
• Support in the form of vocab breakdown downs, definitions, modeling and examples, suggested sentence starters, visual aids and prompts
• SEND friendly - cream and light blue background and dual coding, 1.5 spacing and comic sans font
• Varied tasks that develop a range of English skills including comprehension and inference, language and structure analysis, creative writing and transactional writing

Extracts:
Some Thing in the Water
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Angela’s Ashes
The Maze Runner

These lessons are designed to be engaging and fun whilst developing core skills. My aim is to promote a love of literature whilst teaching language through literature, in-line with the KS3 curriculum. They are designed to be accessible in terms of virtual teaching and remote learning.