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Functional skills new specification 2019

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Persuasive Writing

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A collection of persuasive writing resources for Functional skills students. All resources are editable and can be adapted for different year groups.

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A collection of resources to be used for tutor time activities or icebreakers that can be done remotely. Bundle includes: Halloween - assembly or just a reading comprehension as it goes into the Halloween culture, has a reading task and a quiz and video to finish. Black History Month assembly - based on the theme of voting, activities included so it can be used for tutor time activities. Black lives matter - looking at the history of the civil rights movement of African American people and an introduction to some of History’s most significant contributers to the civil rights movement. Employability - an English focused lesson aimed at improving students employment skills. Growth Mindset - Looks at how to think in a way that helps success and happiness. Looks at case studies, differentiated questions with a video and a mindset quiz. Murder mystery - uses Maths and English clues to solve the murder. Socially distant icebreakers - Personality quiz and other tasks that can be completed online. Create your own superhero - A step by step guide to creating your own superhero. Zombie lesson - An English based lesson looking at a zombie survival. All resources are fully editable and a great way to start the year.

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AQA GCSE English bundle 2

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GCSE English lesson for AQA. Booklets for paper 1 and paper 2 that practices the skills required to pass the exams, self assessment included. Both books are over twenty pages and have extension activities , they were designed to help students identify language techniques and to know how to answer question 5 with multiple options to choose from to practice these skills.

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How to use commas

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A video lesson and worksheet on how to use commas. I’ve went into a little detail about how these relate to dependent and independent clauses.

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Christmas

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An English GCSE lesson to do before the Christmas break and a Christmas quiz, both include equality and diversity.

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Getting to know you

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A ‘getting to know you’ resource to be used at the start of a year to help you get to know the students, with cruical questions gathered from teachers on Edutwitter. It has a section on SMART targets and is fully adaptable so it can be changed to suit subject specific targets, Comes with a cut out activity where students order the things they find most important in effective learning.

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Employability

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A functional skills lesson on the theme on employability, looks at common work terminology for British employment, it has a reading and a writing task to suit writing a cover letter and understanding a person specification. Discussion opportunities throughout the text its a really good opportunity to talk to students about work. Tasks on connectives and complex and simple sentences included. Should last around 1 hour 40 mins depending on class ability.

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Safer Internet Day

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A functional skills English lesson looking at how to write all texts. Fact and opinion and writing an article. Comes with both a reading and a writing task, lasts about two hours, extension activities included. Letter writing, Email writing, Article writing, Speech Writing and Instructional Texts

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Zombie lesson

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A functional skills lesson based on using information to write a letter, its based on a zombie apocolypse to keep students interested, it was designed so that students go into an appropriate amount of detail when explaining their reasons. This is a lesson to prepeare students to take the level one functional skills writing exam. I had to remove video links and pictures but the resouces are adaptable for these to be included.

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Functional skills new spec writing

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Writing activites and lesson to support the new functional skills specification for September 2019.

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AQA English language paper 1 AO1

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A lesson on AO1 based on Coventry. The lesson looks at AO1 with skill building for question 5, it introduces the use of techniques, lesson should last around an hour and a half. Techniques: Metaphors, Similes, Personification, Group of 3, Powerful Adjectives and Sensory Language. A good introduction for Creative writing.

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GCSE AQA AO2 Exam question Practice

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A starter and main activity of about 30 minutes in time the activites get steadily harder beginning with identifying word classes and connotations and then analysing and then seeing if the students can also apply it to question 4 paper 1, peer assessment table is included to close the loop, helpful hints have been placed in there to give guidence to studetns and extention activities for the more able.

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GCSE English language paper 2

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A lesson based on the theme of alcohol addressing A01 and general paper 2 questions. The lesson has two sources one from 19th C and one from the 21st looks at attitudes and values. Comes complete with writing frames for students to choose from (questions 2,3 and 4) using PEACE paragraphs. Self/peer assessment included. Plenary consists of a revision sheet that goes over the skills and marks of all the questions across the GCSE English language papers. Lesson is scaffolded with extension activities with every task - everything is timed and should last two hours.

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Functional skills writing

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English functional skills writing based on politics using emotive language language, connectives, a spelling rule and grammatical rule, designed for a three hour lesson.

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AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2

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Question 4 paper 2 of GCSE English language for AQA. The theme is on money and life choices designed for a two hour lesson. The lesson objectives are scaffolded using Bloom’s taxonomy verbs. Starter - statements promoting critical thinking (with answers) Recap - Explode a quote (sample answer) Task 1 - perspective and attitude teaching and 15 minute task Task 2 - Inference about life choices and language analysis extension 15 Minute task but you can allow extra time for class discussion. Task 3 - Analysis of sample answer, students label the answer using terms from the mark scheme. Task 4 - reading of the two texts and analysis (video link as well) Task 5 - question 5 quick attempt Task 5 - Plenary students identify themes and ideas as of being 19th or 21st Century attitudes. Hope you enjoy teaching it - any feedback is appreciated.

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Speech writing

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Functional skills lesson on speech writing, looks at proofreading, planning and employability, should take around an hour and a half depending on class ability.

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Sessional resources October and November

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Sessional resources October and November

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A small collection of resources designed to be used in October based on Black History Month , Halloween and Remembrance Day There are a mix of assemblies and English lessons set for about GCSE range, all resources are editable and suitable for the month of October.

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How to write an article

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A presentation/ video with a step by step guide on how to write an article. It looks at writing headings, the 5 W’s witness statements and conclusions. There is a download available with a sample article I have written and labelled with each of the stages I wanted to include.

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Writing revision

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Functional skills lesson to prepare the students for sitting the writing exam. Looks at fact and opinion/ understanding the wording of the questions, the spelling rules and practice of Cial and Tial suffixes and the Sion and Tion rule. Also looks at using adjectives (for writing question 1) and using information from a text in the form of buying a car (writing question 2). Should last over two hours. With every task it took me over three hours. https://youtu.be/41ouOkG3sNM

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GCSE Exam practice Question 3 Paper 2

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A brief introduction into question 3 paper 2 showing the students how to answer the question and has a sample question for the students to answer, comes with a writing frame and some scaffolding. Made primarily for home learning but can be used by a teacher.