I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
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I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
Please subscribe and support. Feel free to message me directly with any video or resource requests!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ0s1bwC0V6qohf-YBtWyvw
An 18 slide PowerPoint on the context surrounding Geoffrey Chaucer, day to day life in the Middle Ages and The Canterbury Tales.
Engaging and suitable for all ages!
A PowerPoint on paragraphs, the rules of using them and including tasks for students to complete to aid their use of paragraphs in writing.
Suitable for both primary and secondary ages as well as as a whole school Literacy aid.
The 'Literacy Bundle' includes:
1)Crucial Connectives- A 7 slide PowerPoint defining what connectives are and their uses in writing.
Includes:
Definition of 'connective'.
Exploring where connectives are appropriately used.
Exploring where connectives are inappropriately used.
Activity for students to highlight where connectives are appropriate/inappropriate in relation to sentence endings.
Plenary consolidating learning.
2) Sorting Out Spelling- A 7 slide PowerPoint exploring the definition of homophones, homographs and heteronyms as well as the importance of accurate spelling.
Includes:
Definition of homophones, homographs and heteronyms.
Activity to identify the correctly spelt word in a sentence.
Activity to spot and correct spelling errors.
A quick spelling test to consolidate learning.
3) Pesky Pararaphs - A 9 slide PowerPoint exploring when it is and is not appropriate to begin a new paragraph in your writing.
Includes:
The definition of 'paragraph'.
An activity for students to discuss prior knowledge of paragraphing.
Examples according to BBC Bitesize of where use is appropriate including TiPToP memory method for the rules.
Activity for students to choose where or when paragraphing is used appropriately.
Exemplar text for analysis.
Plenary consolidating learning
4) Sentence Types - An 11 slide PowerPoint introducing different sentence types and features of imagery as aids for improving creative writing.
Includes:
Compound and complex sentence examples and exploration.
Features of imagery and its effectiveness.
Key vocabulary: olfactory, tactile, etc for imagery.
Activity for students to complete brief descriptive creative piece using both varied sentence types and features of imagery.
A PowerPoint containing the definition of a connective and tasks for students to complete both as a class and independently on using them in sentences and English subject writing.
Suitable for primary and secondary ages as well as for a LD or SEN department Literacy tool.
A PowerPoint covering the definitions and use of:
Homophones
Homographs
Heteronyms
It also covers the importance of good spelling and includes tasks for students to complete.
Suitable for primary and secondary ages as well as as a whole school Literacy tool.
A 21 slide PowerPoint surrounding Sensory descriptive writing.
Includes:
Definition of “sensory writing” “imagery” .
Exploration of sample sensory writing - focus on linguistic and structural devices employed by the writer.
Activity for students to create their own sensory descriptive piece using imagery.
Activity for students to peer assess using success criteria.
Activity for students to refine their initial description after peer assessment.
Reflection and consolidation of learning as plenary exercise.
A 12 slide PowerPoint on the features for writing a newspaper article and explicitly, the 5 'W's.
Includes:
The key features of a newspaper article.
The 5 'W's.
An activity allowing students to write their own newspaper article surrounding being abandoned on a desert island with their classmates.
A peer assessment activity with suggested success criteria.
A plenary consolidating learning from the lesson.
This bundle includes the PowerPoint, lesson plan for a top ability year 10 group and the resources for an Ofsted graded 'Outstanding' lesson aimed at helping students understand the criteria for attaining a Grade A and B at GCSE in Of Mice and Men (Controlled assessment 3a).
It allows the teacher to act as a facilitator to the independent learning of students and is ideal for a KS4 class!
An 11 slide PowerPoint exploring deeper meaning and language/structural techniques for each line in the poem including questions to promote students’ independent learning.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For AS/A Level Post-2000 poetry
A 14 slide PowerPoint on sensory descriptive gore writing, selecting effective vocabulary and describing in detail while avoiding cliched horror writing.
Includes model gory paragraph and opportunity for peer assessment!
(nothing too horrific, don’t worry!)
A 21 slide PowerPoint including detailed analysis of the poem as a whole and then with explicit focus on language, structure, tone and deeper meaning with a conclusion listing poems to be encouraged to use for comparison with Doshi’s ‘The Deliverer’. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For AS / A -level Edexcel Poetry
An Ofsted graded 'Outstanding' lesson on the opening chapter of TRASH by Andy Mulligan. This lesson encourages students to work independently, exploring language employed by the writer.
Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students develop magical powers. Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader.
Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse.
Suitable for KS2-KS3!
Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students describe the experience of going camping Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader.
Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse.
Suitable for KS2-KS3!
A 13 slide PowerPoint lesson aiding students in writing mystery stories. With key mystery writing vocabulary and success criteria as well as examples of famous ‘real-life’ mysteries for students to discuss, this is an engaging lesson for KS3 or can be easily amended for other abilities!
198 slide Unit of Work on John Boyne's novel 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'.
This pack includes 17 lessons and 1 bonus lesson analysing book covers!
Lessons are also colour coordinated with Hyperlink Contents Page for ease of access!
Includes:
Bonus Lesson – Analysing Book Covers
Lesson 1 – Context
Lesson 2 – John Boyne – Getting to know the Author
Lesson 3 – Key Characters
Lesson 4 – Setting
Lesson 5 – Through the Window
Lesson 6 – Clothing as a theme
Lesson 7 – The relationship between Bruno & Shmuel
Lesson 8 – Division and Distance (The Fence Imagery and Symbolism)
Lesson 9 – Storyboarding Lesson
Lesson 10 – Key Scenes Roleplay Lesson
Lesson 11 - Key Quotes Revision
Lesson 12 – PEA practice
Lesson 13 - Understanding an essay question and Planning Response
Lesson 14 – Writing an essay
Lesson 15 – Peer assessment & Understanding the Success Criteria
Lesson 16 – The Importance of Redrafting
Lesson 17 – Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Quiz
All lessons help students to deduce, infer and analyse language in depth. Also includes how to structure an essay and advice with redrafting.
Engaging, easily adaptable and educational for KS3 and KS4!
Based on Katherine Braun Mankin’s ‘Gorilla Track’, this lesson advises students on how to approach a question on a non-fiction text requiring you to explain thoughts and feelings of the writer. This 12 slide PowerPoint analyses the text line by line and includes thought-provoking question to promote independent thought. Students then approach the question by themselves with a success criteria checklist.
