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Differentiated resources with a special focus on English and SEN
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Differentiated resources with a special focus on English and SEN
English language arts
KS2 - English Worksheet and Lesson - Nouns
KS2 English Up To Speed 2 - Nouns
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
Part of a grammar essentials scheme of work. For three FREE example lessons in this scheme of work, be sure to check out
KS2 Synonym catchup
KS2 Adjective catchup
Adverb catchup
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 - English Worksheet and Lesson - Choosing Articles
KS2 English Up To Speed 2 - Choosing Articles
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 - English Worksheet and Lesson - Contractions
KS2 English Up To Speed 2 - Contractions
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
AQA - Macbeth Theme Map Display
A high resolution poster outlining Macbeth’s core themes, with reference to specific acts for revision purposes.
Prints at A3 (landscape) and is ideal for classroom display.
AQA English Literature, Paper 1 + Paper 2 Key Skills Display
A set of two high resolution posters outlining AQA’s English Literaure Paper 1 and Paper 2 demands.
The posters are colourful and cleanly organised, and include:
Recommended timings for each question
The marks available for each question
A summary of the skills required to tackle each question
Posters are designed at A4 size, but will print at larger sizes without a major loss of quality. Print on thick card for a quality classroom display.
AQA - Jane Eyre Theme Map Display
A high resolution poster outlining Jane Eyre’s core themes, with reference to specific chapters for revision purposes.
Prints at A3 (landscape) and is ideal for classroom display.
AQA - Lord of the Flies Theme Map Display
A high resolution poster outlining Lord of the Flies’ core themes, with reference to specific chapters for revision purposes.
Prints at A3 (landscape) and is ideal for classroom display.
English Language AO5 Skills Lesson Pack - AQA, GCSE Scheme of Work
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these three fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over three to six periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO5 criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO5 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect trio of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO5.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
English Language AO3 Skills Lesson Pack - AQA, GCSE Scheme of Work
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these two fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over two to four periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO3 criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO3 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect pair of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO3.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
English Language AO2 Skills Lesson Pack - AQA, GCSE Scheme of Work
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these two fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over two to four periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO2criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO2 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect pair of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO2.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
English Language AO4 Skills Lesson Pack - AQA, GCSE Scheme of Work
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these two fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over two to four periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO4 criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO4 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect pair of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO4.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
English Language AO1 Skills Lesson Pack - AQA, GCSE Scheme of Work
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these two fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over two to four periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO1 criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO1 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect pair of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO1.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
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Island Royale - Premium Bundle (Quiz/Boardgame)
Upgrade from the free edition with this premium bundle, which includes a set of pre-made “gem cards” (38 different outcomes) 72 English quiz cards (Jane Eyre, Macbeth, Lord of the Flies and general knowledge) and a blank question template that lets you easily tailor the game to your own specialist subject.
With this version, all you need to do is fill in the blank question templates and print the .ppt for an instant set of cards.
Set also includes player tokens, life-counters and place-cards.
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AQA Poetry Differentiated - 20th Century (Love and Relationships)
A collection of 8 of AQA’s 20th Century “Love and Relationships” poems, each differentiated for low-ability learners.
See also: AQA 19th Century poetry bundle
Each PowerPoint presentation is packed full of images, word clusters, vocabulary and poetic techniques, designed to help differentiate AQA’s 20th Century “Love and Relationship” poems.
Each presentation breaks the poem down by stanza, illustrating some of the key ideas, moods or themes of each stanza using relatable images.
Each presentation then follows with a vocabulary check-list, contextualising some of the more difficult words in each stanza.
There are then two slides designed to aid student understanding of the poem. One slide groups similar words into themed banks (ie, emotive words, sad words, happy words etc) whilst the other slide groups words by poetic technique (Pathetic fallacy etc)
The presentation can be used as a classroom aid to improve whole-group understanding of the poem and as a prompt to get students thinking about the poem in an analytical way.
The PowerPoints will slot in seamlessly in with any pre-planned lessons.
Poems included are
Before You Were Mine
Climbing My Grandfather
Eden Rock
Letters from Yorkshire
Follower
Mother, Any Distance
Walking Away
Winter Swans
AQA Poetry Differentiated - Sonnet 29, I Think of Thee (Love and Relationships Unit)(KS4)
A PowerPoint presentation packed full of images, word clusters, vocabulary and poetic techniques, designed to help differentiate the poem “Sonnet 29, I Think of Thee!” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850) for learners who are struggling with the poem.
The presentation breaks the poem down by stanza, illustrating some of the key ideas, moods or themes of each stanza using relatable images.
The presentation then follows with a vocabulary check-list, contextualising some of the more difficult words in each stanza.
There are then two slides designed to aid student understanding of the poem. One slide groups similar words into themed banks (ie, emotive words, sad words, happy words etc) whilst the other slide groups words by poetic technique (Pathetic fallacy etc)
The presentation can be used as a classroom aid to improve whole-group understanding of the poem and as a prompt to get students thinking about the poem in an analytical way.
It slots in seamlessly with any pre-planned lessons.
AQA Poetry Differentiated - The Farmer's Bride - Charlotte Mew (Love and Relationships Unit)(KS4)
A PowerPoint presentation packed full of images, word clusters, vocabulary and poetic techniques, designed to help differentiate the poem “The Farmer’s Bride” (Charlotte Mew, 1916) for learners who are struggling with the poem.
The presentation breaks the poem down by stanza, illustrating some of the key ideas, moods or themes of each stanza using relatable images.
The presentation then follows with a vocabulary check-list, contextualising some of the more difficult words in each stanza.
There are then two slides designed to aid student understanding of the poem. One slide groups similar words into themed banks (ie, emotive words, sad words, happy words etc) whilst the other slide groups words by poetic technique (Pathetic fallacy etc)
The presentation can be used as a classroom aid to improve whole-group understanding of the poem and as a prompt to get students thinking about the poem in an analytical way.
It slots in seamlessly with any pre-planned lessons.
AQA Poetry Differentiated - Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy (Love and Relationships Unit)(KS4)
A PowerPoint presentation packed full of images, word clusters, vocabulary and poetic techniques, designed to help differentiate the poem “Neutral Tones” (Thomas Hardy, 1898) for learners who are struggling with the poem.
The presentation breaks the poem down by stanza, illustrating some of the key ideas, moods or themes of each stanza using relatable images.
The presentation then follows with a vocabulary check-list, contextualising some of the more difficult words in each stanza.
There are then two slides designed to aid student understanding of the poem. One slide groups similar words into themed banks (ie, emotive words, sad words, happy words etc) whilst the other slide groups words by poetic technique (Pathetic fallacy etc)
The presentation can be used as a classroom aid to improve whole-group understanding of the poem and as a prompt to get students thinking about the poem in an analytical way.
It slots in seamlessly with any pre-planned lessons.
AQA Poetry Differentiated - Love's Philosophy - Percey Bysshe Shelley (Love and Relationships)
A PowerPoint presentation packed full of images, word clusters, vocabulary and poetic techniques, designed to help differentiate the poem “Love’s Philosophy” (Percey Bysshe Shelley, 1819) for learners who are struggling with the poem.
The presentation breaks the poem down by stanza, illustrating some of the key ideas, moods or themes of each stanza using relatable images.
The presentation then follows with a vocabulary check-list, contextualising some of the more difficult words in each stanza.
There are then two slides designed to aid student understanding of the poem. One slide groups similar words into themed banks (ie, emotive words, sad words, happy words etc) whilst the other slide groups words by poetic technique (Pathetic fallacy etc)
The presentation can be used as a classroom aid to improve whole-group understanding of the poem and as a prompt to get students thinking about the poem in an analytical way.
It slots in seamlessly with any pre-planned lessons.
AQA Poetry Differentiated - Porphyria's Lover - Robert Browning (Love and Relationships Unit)(KS4)
A PowerPoint presentation packed full of images, word clusters, vocabulary and poetic techniques, designed to help differentiate the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” (Robert Browning, 1836) for learners who are struggling with the poem.
The presentation breaks the poem down by stanza, illustrating some of the key ideas, moods or themes of each stanza using relatable images.
The presentation then follows with a vocabulary check-list, contextualising some of the more difficult words in each stanza.
There are then two slides designed to aid student understanding of the poem. One slide groups similar words into themed banks (ie, emotive words, sad words, happy words etc) whilst the other slide groups words by poetic technique (Pathetic fallacy etc)
The presentation can be used as a classroom aid to improve whole-group understanding of the poem and as a prompt to get students thinking about the poem in an analytical way.
It slots in seamlessly with any pre-planned lessons.
AQA Poetry Differentiated - Walking Away (Love and Relationships Unit)(KS4)
A PowerPoint presentation packed full of images, word clusters, vocabulary and poetic techniques, designed to help differentiate the poem “Walking Away” (Cecil Day Lewis, 1956) for learners who are struggling with the poem.
Part of the AQA Love and Relationships poetry bundle, you can find a fantastic FREE example of one of these resources “Eden Rock”.
If you enjoyed this resource, you can also find the AQA 19th century poetry bundle here. Included is a FREE sample “When We Two Parted”.
The presentation breaks the poem down by stanza, illustrating some of the key ideas, moods or themes of each stanza using relatable images.
The presentation then follows with a vocabulary check-list, contextualising some of the more difficult words in each stanza.
There are then two slides designed to aid student understanding of the poem. One slide groups similar words into themed banks (ie, emotive words, sad words, happy words etc) whilst the other slide groups words by poetic technique (Pathetic fallacy etc)
The presentation can be used as a classroom aid to improve whole-group understanding of the poem and as a prompt to get students thinking about the poem in an analytical way.
It slots in seamlessly with any pre-planned lessons.