A fully-resourced lesson building towards students completing a piece of descriptive writing on a Victorian setting. A task designed to develop understanding of A03 and to demonstrate clear links with ‘A Christmas Carol’.
A two-part lesson exploring Dickens’ short-story ‘The Signalman’. The extract is attached, supported by two easily adaptable resources for academic reading. A glossary and introduction to haunted tales is included in the booklet.
An extract from ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ with accompanying academic reading resource - focusing on pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading.
An extract to be used for AQA Language Paper 1, Q1/Q2.
A collection of reading booklets linked to our schemes of learning to develop the reading ages of KS3 students through targeted intervention and bespoke literacy strategies.
A unit of work exploring ‘Ghost Stories’ and tackling reading skills for individual classes/students. This booklet has room to develop ideas, challenge, and differentiate tasks (we do this based on Accelerated Reader data). Through these lessons, students develop: annotation skills, comprehension skills, decoding, tackling tier-2 language, and many other skills.
The final task is a competition where students create and perform their own ghost story based on the extracts and short stories they have read each week.
A HUGE collection of bespoke reading booklets linked to our scheme of learning. These booklets have been carefully crafted to ensure teachers can easily tweak lessons to suit the needs of their class.
A real passion project and have proved very successful with our KS3 cohort in particular. Examples of tasks, suggested homework, rationale, and templates have been provided to support the study further.
Main topics: Adventure Fiction
Dickens
Gothic
Ghost Stories
Literacy Across the Curriculum
Dystopian Fiction
Treasure Island
And more!
Hours and hours of work - hope it helps.