I am the Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy . I have worked within Harris Academies for quite a few years now. My key responsibility is KS3 curriculum and resources; planning and delivery. I am have years of experience designing and authoring KS3 SOW. I am also responsible for the quality of KS3 teaching and learning across the department. I am an outstanding practitioner myself and love promoting the sharing of best practice!
I am the Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy . I have worked within Harris Academies for quite a few years now. My key responsibility is KS3 curriculum and resources; planning and delivery. I am have years of experience designing and authoring KS3 SOW. I am also responsible for the quality of KS3 teaching and learning across the department. I am an outstanding practitioner myself and love promoting the sharing of best practice!
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging, whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one of the individual lessons
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*The cover image is an example of one of the individual lesson
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging. Most importantly, they promote a love of literacy and the subject.
12-14 hours depending on ability.
These lessons are ready to teach.
They target teaching KS3 English skills: Language through Literature. These lesson teach from the top down but consider SEND.
Features of lessons:
Standalone lessons using individual extracts (listed further down)
Consistently clear structure to lessons with a Do Now, active reading tasks, tasks that lead and scaffold towards a structures ALT (applied learning time - main task)
Stretch and challenge opportunities
Support in the form of vocab breakdown downs, definitions, modeling and examples, suggested sentence starters, visual aids and prompts
SEND friendly - cream and light blue background, dual coding (can be changed to standard black and white), 1.5 spacing and comic sans font
Range of tasks that develop a range of English skills including comprehension and inference, language and structure analysis, creative writing and transactional writing
Extracts have been colour coded to highlight sentence structures - acts as a clear visual guide for how writers use multiple sentence structures for purpose and effect. They can be changed to a standard black font.
These lessons are designed to be engaging and fun whilst developing core skills. My aim is to promote a love of literature whilst teaching language through literature, in-line with the KS3 curriculum. They are designed to be accessible in terms of virtual teaching and remote learning.
Extracts used:
The Hobbit
Heart of Darkness
An Ideal Family
Coraline
The Night Circus
Harry Potter
Northern Lights
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Poem: Tim Burton’s Vincent
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The Da Vinci Code
Good Omens
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging. Most importantly, they promote a love of literacy and the subject.
These lessons are ready to teach.
They target teaching KS3 English skills: Language through Literature. These lessons teach from the top down but consider SEND.
Features of lessons:
Standalone lessons using individual extracts (listed further down)
Consistently clear structure to lessons with a Do Now, active reading tasks, tasks that lead and scaffold towards a structured ALT (applied learning time - main task)
Stretch and challenge opportunities
Support in the form of vocab breakdown downs, definitions, modeling and examples, suggested sentence starters, visual aids and prompts
SEND friendly - cream and light blue background, dual coding (can be changed to standard black and white), 1.5 spacing and comic sans font
Range of tasks that develop a range of English skills including comprehension and inference, language and structure analysis, creative writing and transactional writing
Extracts have been colour coded to highlight sentence structures - acts as a clear visual guide for how writers use multiple sentence structures for purpose and effect. They can be changed to a standard black font.
These lessons are designed to be engaging and fun whilst developing core skills. My aim is to promote a love of literature whilst teaching language through literature, in-line with the KS3 curriculum. They are designed to be accessible in terms of virtual teaching and remote learning.
Extracts used:
The Hobbit
Heart of Darkness
An Ideal Family
Coraline
The Night Circus
Harry Potter
Northern Lights
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Poem: Tim Burton’s Vincent
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The Da Vinci Code
Good Omens