8 ideas for literacy starters

Advanced literacy peer assessment mark scheme for extended writing

Literacy training ideal for whole school teacher training. The session goes through ten strategies teachers can implement instantly to help incorporate literacy more meaningfully into their lessons - whatever their subject specialism. There are 65 slides. Also includes a list of ways each department within a school can support literacy in a meaningful way within their curriculum area. Also contains a list of 5 key priorities/achievements for a literacy coordinator.

A worksheet containing a literacy board game to be used in an intervention session to revise key literacy terms.

Complete lesson covering Chapter 9 with notes to help annotate key quotations along with an engaging starter, chapter summary and extension questions and activities looking at 2 key extracts from the chapter. Also includes a lesson looking at Language Paper 1 Question 4 with detailed annotations of the violent scene in the chapter to prepare students for responding to a student statement for the 20 mark question.

I worked alongside literacy representatives in each department of the school in order to identify ways each subject can support literacy in a meaningful way. Here is the document I produced which may be useful to any existing or aspiring literacy coordinator.

Use this staff survey to identify how extended writing is promoted across different departments in your school.

6 lessons building towards an assessment comparing two literary texts: Touching the Void and Red Dust by Ma Jian. Focus on the author’s perspectives on survival. Lots of differentiated embedded into the lessons. Lessona 1 and 2. Analyse Red Dust Lessons 3 and 4. Analyse Touching the Void Lesson 5. Prepare for comparative assessment through the learning journey. Lesson 6. Complete assessment

A huge bundle of Romeo and Juliet resources. Knowledge organisers Revision cards Context sheet Lessons on each scene Quizzes on scenes 106 page collated revision booklet Character revision sheets Timelines Model responses Exam style questions And lots more.

Using this marking code will speed up your marking without compromising the quality and specificity of your marking because it transfers the time-consuming job of writing the targets out for each student from you to the students. Your marking will look something like this: WWW 1. 3. 7. EBI 4. 10. 15. Read the work and select 3 ways they have met the generic success criteria (WWW) and 3 ways they can improve further (EBI). The students have to then write out the target before trying to meet it. The 20 criteria start with the basics of using full stops and capital letters before moving on to much harder targets such as using a full range of punctuation. This should work with any creative writing task. Students can also use it a self-assessment tool. I have also included a differentiated and more visually stimulating version which just has 8 targets.

This lesson helps students write the introduction to a persuasive speech for a Year 8/9 assembly on which subject to take at GCSE. Includes a differentiated starter, model examples and a review task within a 4 page student booklet.

Write a diary entry for Jonathan Starling in Darkside by Tom Becker. Also includes independent homework tasks and a task examining word choices.

A descriptive writing task inspired by an image of trench warfare. Links to the poem Exposure. There is a high level model response to inspire students along with a planning sheet.

Planning sheet to give ideas for a creative writing exercise on the theme of trapped. There is also a mid ability example response for students to annotate.

Resources to help students write their own soap script. Includes a high level example and planning sheets to prompt ideas.

Narrative writing lesson for mid to low ability based on preparing students for English Language Paper 1 Question 5/Section B. Using an image of a dark alley, students use the 6 paragraph planning sheet to structure their narrative. This lesson works very effectively with mid/low ability students. There are also 3 model paragraphs to annotate about a dark alley. Also includes resources for self and peer assessment of the first draft.

Bank of ambitious vocabulary to describe a human face - creative writing - English Language 9-1 Comes with a detailed lesson that guides students on how to describe each aspect of the face to create a convincing character description.

This learning journey contains 10 tasks to prepare students for a descriptive writing task based on an image for AQA Paper 1 Question 5. The 10 tasks gradually increase in difficulty. Linking the completion of a set number of tasks to rewards works as a motivating factor for students.

A structured worksheet with 5 tasks for students to work through to help them improve their descriptive writing.

6 worksheets to support the teaching of descriptive writing about WW1 trench warfare. To prepare KS2 and 3 students for the AQA GCSE exam on creative writing, the writing is inspired by a specific image. The worksheets cover figurative language, sensuous descriptions, planning and model examples.