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
A 15 minute assembly on Internet Safety exploring facts and statistics behind child internet safety and ways to prevent cyber bullying. Includes how to report cyber bullying on key social media sites and general internet safety tips for children!
Suitable for all ages!
A 12 slide PowerPoint exploring the ingredients of a solid speech and tips for writing and presenting your own speech with model speech examples for analysis.
Attached: sample mark scheme
Suitable for all ages.
An analysis lesson for Imtiaz Dharker’s famous poem ‘Tissue’. Includes differentiated tasks and full annotations. Also includes a poetry analysis checklist and revision material for how to analyse a poem.
Easily adaptable, challenging and engaging for pupils of KS3 and KS4!
An introductory lesson to Andy Mulligan’s book ‘Trash’ -
Includes a vocabulary list to help students describe both the setting of the text and the central character of Raphael.
Lesson opens with a ‘Thunk’ activity but includes an alternative starter activity.
Easily accessible for KS3 and both engaging and challenging - easily editable and can be adapted for different levels of challenge.
The 'Newspaper Article Bundle' includes:
1)Writing a successful newspaper article - A Word document detailing the key ingredients of a successful article and includes a sample article for students to identify the WHAT WHY WHEN WHO WHERE and HOW.
2)Newspapers & Target Audiences - A 17 slide PowerPoint exploring how broadsheet and tabloid newspapers use language devices to engage their specific target audiences.
Includes:
Exemplar newspaper articles for analysis.
Brainstorming to consolidate prior knowledge.
Activities for students to work in groups analysing sample articles.
Activity for students to create their own newspaper article that appeals to a specific target audience.
Homework: To bring in their own broadsheet/tabloid newspaper article for next lesson (editable).
3) Newspaper Article Writing - 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.
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.
9 slide Room 101 Persuasive writing activity encouraging students to complete a persuasive piece using DAFOREST techniques. Including plenary self-reflective activity.
Includes hand-out list of techniques for revision and reference during the lesson.
Includes worksheet for peer assessment - tick sheet exercise recognising DAFOREST techniques in use for Room 101 presentations.
Back to School Behavior Management - Classroom Display Posters. 25 beautiful black and white posters to save your voice and your sanity. Use for classroom management. Simply print out, laminate, trim (easy to attach to a paint stirrer or wooden craft stick with a staple or two or mount in appropriate places in your room/stand upright- also nice printed onto coloured paper/card).
Includes 25 printable behaviour signs - easily adaptable where required! Enjoy!
A 10-15 minute whole school assembly focused on ordinary people who made a difference.
Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks as well as comment on the story behind Hairspray.
This is a thought-provoking assembly with questions to encourage students to consider who an ordinary person can stand up, speak out and challenge prejudice and injustice and make a real difference.
A PowerPoint detailing the importance of punctuation and how it can change the entire meaning of a written piece.
Includes activities for students to correct punctuation mistakes in sentences.
Includes activities for students to change the entire meaning of a short paragraph through punctuation alteration.
Fun and engaging for all!
A 15 slide analysis lesson for Auden’s ‘Funeral Blues’, better known as ‘Stop all the Clocks’.
Suitable for KS3/KS4/KS5 and easily amended for different abilities.
A lesson introducing analytical writing with questions on Andy Mulligan’s ‘Trash’, model paragraphs and success criteria.
Also includes ingredients sheet for PEE style analysis and a vocab sheet for the text.
A free resource allowing students to both design their own book cover and blurb or also help to create a poster on a favourite book of their choice - Perfect for World Book Day or a Reading Week display!
A 9 slide PowerPoint on 'Eat Me' by Patience Agbabi exploring language, structure and key themes.
Includes annotation of the poem too.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
A wonderful poem.
A 14 slide lesson on Imagery with definitions, examples and tasks for students. Whole lesson with beautiful images and engaging writing samples.
Suitable for KS3-KS5!
A lesson based on Roald Dahl’s descriptive passage on Mrs Pratchett from his autobiography ‘Boy’.
Activities on identifying descriptive techniques in the passage, writing about them and then also employing descriptive devices in your own writing.
KS3 Year 7/8
Three lesson on Poe's 'The Black Cat' with focus on characters setting and themes within the horror genre.
Included: a focus on linguistic and structural devices used within the story.
Thunk and Do Now activity for each lesson included.
A standalone Literacy mini scheme of work (10 lessons) with topics of:
1) Introduction to using a word bank 2) Adjectives & Adverbs 3) 5 senses 4) Sentence types 5) Story Openings 6) Narrative Perspective 7)Punctuating for effect 8) Writing from a springboard text 9)Showing not telling 10)Writing to grade criteria
This SOW does not provide powerpoints or external resources but all extracts are within the Word document itself for students to use. Easily adaptable and accessible for students of differing ability.
