Lesson plan plus handout.
Students receive a cloze procedure letter as an example of a formal letter from Mike Teavee’s father to a solicitor. They have to read carefully in order to select the correct word for each gap. This letter can also be used as an example for them to produce their own version later.
Lesson plan, assessment worksheet and answer sheet.
Test students’ ability to proof read and correctly use speech marks, commas, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, capital letters, as well as their ability to paragraph dialogue.
The addition of an answer sheets means students can self and peer mark.
Lesson plan,
Student’s worksheet with cloze procedure exercise and comprehension questions,
Teacher’s answer sheet.
An original and humorous poem based on an idea garnered from a documentary about Elvis Presley buying Cadillacs for random strangers, as well as friends.
Cloze procedure is an excellent method for teaching poetry, as students have to consider the words they are choosing very carefully, and make sure they make complete sense. Students think about the vocabulary used much more thoughtfully after completing this type of activity.
Questions include topics of alliteration, interpretation and use of repetition and words conveying vehemence to add emphasis.
Students are also tasked with practising reading with intonation in order to creat a dramatic effect both individually and in pairs.
Lesson plan, teacher’s answer sheet and students’ worksheet. Powerpoint of the Poem.
A lyrical poem exploring the emotions of lost love.
The worksheet starts with a cloze procedure exercise, which helps the students to study the language of the poem and select the most meaningful words.
The questions that follow focus on imagery, including personification and metaphor, inference, the use of repetition and the progress of the poem.
Lesson plan, Teacher’s answer sheet, Power Point of poem & students’ worksheet.
Teaching points on author’s voice, colour symbolism, metaphors and the English sonnet form.
Students’ work includes: a cloze procedure to enable them to choose correct vocabulary and think about the choice of words; comprehension questions to answer and a creative writing task.
Students are given information about a basic sonnet form and encouraged to work in pairs to create their own sonnet.
A half term’s English work based on ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.’ This year 4 / 5 set of lessons includes different types of creative writing, letter writing, comprehension & punctuation exercises.
There is also an extension worksheet presenting an example of Hillaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales (Matilda) and one of Aesop’s fables (The Boy Who Cried Wolf).
This could be used as the basis for further research. The lesson plans suggest you record feedback of students’ work - which if annotated on the plan would be a great aide-memoire for report writing at the end of the year. There are also suggestions for displays.
The inclusion of lesson plans is very beneficial and a great time saver, although they can obviously be adapted to support your school’s preferences. This bundle could save you many hours of work!