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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 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.
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 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 resource can be used in many ways: plenary, starter, or as a competitive group game. You could also hide the clues around the room.
It’s a fun way to learn a lot a techniques in one lesson.
These are 8 topics (a mixture of argue, persuade and advise tasks) with slightly differentiated planning proformas for each question so students can work independently.
Suitable for KS4 classes or accelerated KS3 classes.
These criteria sheets can be given to students before a task so they know what they’re working towards and then glued in under their HW for the teacher to fill in and comment on.
It’s a strategic yet quick and simple way of marking HW
The bank includes criteris sheets for:
Creative Writing
Non Fiction Writing
Poetry Analysis
Novel Analysis
Vocabulary definitions followed by sentence creation
These assessment sheets are ideal for in-class assessements in Year 10 (in preparation for the GCSE exam in Year 11) and for Year 11 examination preparation.
The criteria sheets include:
Poetry (unseen and seen)
Writing to Inform
Shakespeare Study
19th Century Novel Study
Modern Drama: Blood Brothers
This 6 Hats task is designed to be a whole-school resource for analysing vusual stimulus but it can be adapted to become a kinaesthetic task too (jsut change the wording).
The resource uses sentence starters for differentiation too.
It can be used to analyse newspaper images, historical images, art etc and is especially good as an information gathering task before writing creatively, doing artwork or discussing/responding to historical sources.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
This is a simple, visual method of exploring the differences between the different grade boundaries of the new assessment schedule in English.
Benefits KS3 and KS4 progression.
This resource is for an advanced KS3 group or a KS4 class.
The ppt includes:
a starter
all learning and writing tasks
a plenary
Please note, you’ll need to find a copy of the poem on Google.
This resource is for KS3 and KS4 and is designed to generate independent work, group work skills and in the end, essay writing skills.
The shapes support the development of Numeracy Across the Curriculum
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
This can be used across the school to encourage student to reflect on their literacy development and self-editing skills.
If you print two slides per 1 piece of A4 it can be easily glued in after a student has completed the work and before the teacher marks it.
It is useful for ensuring students are critically assessing their own work so they become independent learners.
Also, it’s good for showing progression if you’re planning on getting students to re-draft their work after you’ve marked it.
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.