These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
OfSted Outstanding Literacy All lessons Starter: With a new shift in focus for the 2012 framework that means that teaching and learning can only be judged outstanding if literacy and numeracy are encorporated across the curriculum, I am making a daily starter / settler activity that can be incorporated into all lessons. These mini activities are examples of a literacy activity & there is a tutorial before each. These are going to be made daily, so I'll upload them é I hope they will help other schools to boost literacy teaching. This one is about extending vocabulary.
This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed for the above named poem to teach at KS3
This Using PEE activity for Lower ability pupils is 3 worksheets that gets pupils to cut up the points, evidence and explanation and match them to the appropriate answer,
Titanic SOW for Level 2/3 pupils(in KS3) lesson
This is one full lesson plan with the pp and resources (if I made them) that is part of a full scheme of work that I have uploaded. There are 18 lessons altoghter and they have all been uploaded separately. In some cases, there is only a lesson plan as I've planned it but not made all the PPs. I will add PPs as I create them. Aimed at year 7 who are below level 4 and utilises lots of Kagan practice.
Titanic SOW for Level 2/3 pupils(in KS3) lesson
This is one full lesson plan with the pp and resources (if I made them) that is part of a full scheme of work that I have uploaded. There are 18 lessons altoghter and they have all been uploaded separately. In some cases, there is only a lesson plan as I've planned it but not made all the PPs. I will add PPs as I create them. Aimed at year 7 who are below level 4 and utilises lots of Kagan practice.
Titanic SOW for Level 2/3 pupils(in KS3) lesson
This is one full lesson plan with the pp and resources (if I made them) that is part of a full scheme of work that I have uploaded. There are 18 lessons altoghter and they have all been uploaded separately. In some cases, there is only a lesson plan as I've planned it but not made all the PPs. I will add PPs as I create them. Aimed at year 7 who are below level 4 and utilises lots of Kagan practice.
This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. This lesson is one of serveral that create a scheme of lessons about Victorian Crime but all can operate as standalone lessons and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem for ease of finding. This lesson covers the genre of the criminal character.
This is one of several lessons that i have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction and More… More… this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. In this lesson, pupils analyse the make up of Newspaper stories, ready for their controlled assessment where they turn the poem of Charlotte Diamond into a broadsheet newspaper article.
Reality TV – Researching Reality TV
This is one of many resources that I have uploaded on the theme of Reality TV – This is a research sheet that gets pupils to independently research the topic.
For these lessons, I have created a mock up of a Paper 2 for Edexcel with its own mark scheme. The question stems and marking criteria follow those provided by the board in their SAMs. Therefore, this is a potential set of Sample Style Assessment Materials that have not been seen anywhere else. The lessons are then based on these SAMs - showing pupils, lesson by lesson how to tackle each style of question.
The lessons all include activities that allow pupils to revise the techniques and then to tackle a question. Lots of cooperative learning is included with clear reference to the exam criteria at all times.
These lessons target Level 3 and above (old bands) - you may need to differentiate according to the needs of your class but there are plenty of extension activities for pupils.
The Lesson Objectives are:
Lesson 1: To know how to begin to tackle the Edexcel Language paper.
Lesson 2: To learn how to tackle Question 3 on Paper 2
Lesson 3: To use prior learning to tackle 3 exam questions!
Lesson 4: To know how to evaluate a text and attempt an evaluation style question.
Lesson 5: To be able to effectively critically evaluate a text.
Lesson 6: To learn how to compare texts effectively.
This complete lesson powerpoint covers Act 1.iii and encourages empathy towards characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on Macbeth, ready to teach with it&'s resources. Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons.
With Ofsted's clear focus on literacy, this is a full worksheet that van be encorportaed into any lesson in order to build a language starter into your lesson.
Literacy Starter – All Types Of Punctuation
These few slides can be added to the start of any lesson to use as a settler for when the pupils come into the room and to incorporate literacy skills into your lesson. This particular exercise is a text that pupils need to correct by placing the correct punctuation in place.
This is one of a series of lessons that I have created on the character of Havisham. We use the character for an AQA Speaking and Listening Activity and create a Jeremy Kyle style adaptation. This one gets the p[upils to analyse the poem so that they can inform their character judgements - also uses PEA chain practise.
Inform Explain Describe Travel Writing Lesson PP.
This is a full lesson PP on travel writing that uses the Capelo acrynym to teach pupils how to write their own article - tied into KS3 APP framework with AFs but can easily be adapted to KS4 for exam.
