I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some key questions on paper one: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson helps learners gain a good understanding of language, structure and how to approach the creative writing response.
The lesson includes model responses and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some of the key characters within the world of Roald Dahl. The lesson helps learners explore the connotations behind key words and character names within Dahl’s writing.
The lesson also helps learners to comment on language techniques and how to respond to an exam-style question.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and If you liked this lesson then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of Lady Capulet in the play Romeo and Juliet. The lesson looks at the contextual factors that influence her character and her relationship with her daughter Juliet.
The lesson includes annotated extracts of the play to help students to analyse the character in detail. In addition, there are many opportunities for AFL.
This lesson has been designed to be taught either remotely or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own learners.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at developing learners’ skills for the writing component for the functional skills qualification. The lesson helps learners understand the importance of tone and the impact it has on the audience.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught remotely or face-to-face. If you liked this lesson, then please check out our YouTube channel for free lessons and guidance on all things English.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at building and developing skills for reading and writing for all levels of the functional skills English qualification. The lesson helps learners understand key terms like superlatives and also includes a reading and writing mock paper.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at reading, writing, and speaking and listening. The lesson uses the theme of boxing to help learners understand how to carry out an educated discussion/debate. In addition, the lesson goes through a practise reading assessment and helps guide them to write their own writing response to an exam-style question.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at question four for the English language paper one explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson helps learners understand how to approach the question and how to answer it effectively. The other half of the lesson focuses on creative writing and includes a model response.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own students and has been designed for both online and face-to-face delivery. If you liked this resource, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at developing and improving creative writing for the English language paper one exam. The lesson looks at a key extract from the book, “Boy” by Roald Dahl and helps learners to analyse the extract in relation to question two.
The lesson also includes helpful advice on how to develop their creative writing and to embed key language techniques. There is a 200-word writing challenge that also has a model response to help learners get started.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at improving learners’ ability at creative writing using the theme of stealing as a stimulus. The lesson helps learners understand the importance of structure in creative writing and how to use this in their writing. The lesson uses a matching up activity and a model response to help learners understand how important structure is. Additionally, the lesson helps to consolidate their understanding of advanced punctuation. This lesson works well as a standalone lesson for creative writing or in teaching English language paper one.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson using the theme of weddings to help learners understand how to use basic forms of punctuation and also how and when to paragraph their writing. This lesson is ideal for functional or ESOL learners.
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This lesson looks at key quotations within the novel, Lord of the Flies. The lesson also covers key themes and supports students to build their knowledge to the point where they feel comfortable to write an exam response.
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The lesson introduces students to the different types of narrators. It then moves on to look at an exam-style question which has a written example of how to write an effective essay at an A-Level standard. In addition to this, there is a break-down of the mark scheme to help students to understand what they need to do to achieve their desired marks.
This is a full lesson that takes students through question one and two of paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson breaks down how to approach question two, how to break-down quotations and how to structure a an exam-style response.
This is a fourteen slide Power-Point lesson that introduces students to Animal Farm and the context around the text. The lesson builds towards helping students to gain a good understanding of language and how to attempt question two from paper one, Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.
This is a fully differentiated 18 slide lesson looking at the poem The Emigrée from the Power and Conflict cluster for AQA. The lesson gives learners a clear insight into the themes and ideas expressed in the poem as well as looking at the contextual information that effects the poem. The lesson has many opportunities of AFL and also has an extension activity where learners are guided through a piece of persuasive writing.
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