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Literacy Coordinator and Second in department
English language arts
Animal Farm - Lesson 5 - Investigating Empathy between the characters.
A full lesson investigating pupils attitudes towards characters and the characters' attitudes towards each other.
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Imaginative writing: 1-9 GCSE fiction paper
A series of lessons and activities designed to improve students' imaginative writing.
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1-9 GCSE English language. Language analysis.
3 lessons focusing on identifying language and structural features which then outlines to students how to analyse these features for their specific effect.
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KS3 Media Bundle.
A series of lessons investigating the basic media principals.
3 lessons focus on moving image and build up to an assessment comparing two moving image adverts.
Brief into to the 1-9 framework given in an accessible format.
All lessons are fast-paced and engaging, with a mixture of group, paired and individual activities. The lessons are mainly pupil-led encouraging independent learning and ownership of learning.
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An introduction to A-Level English Language
Introducing the basic frameworks for language analysis in 6 engaging, pupil-led lessons.
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Non-Fiction: style, structure and format. Covers leaflets, articles, adverts, speeches and reviews.
A series of lessons identifying and analysing the style structure and format of non-fiction texts.
All lessons contain 1-9 assessment focuses and opportunities for self and peer assessment.
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Literacy Activities. A massive collection of literacy activities
A huge collection of literacy activities. These are designed to be used as form time activities, but can be used as lesson starters. Fun and engaging games and activities, designed to get pupils interested in literacy and actively improving their literacy.
Get organised in form-time with the whole bundle. Bundle includes 2 full terms worth of literacy form time activities!
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GCSE 1-9 Non-Fiction Writing Skills
A huge selection of lessons detailing how to identify and recreate the style, structure and format of a huge range of non-fiction texts.
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Persuasive Techniques. Analysis and imaginative writing.
A series of lessons designed to identify, analyse and re-imagine persuasive writing techniques.
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Comprehension activities
3 lessons designed to improve student ability to identify writing techniques, discuss a writer's intentions and discuss the effect of the writer's choice of words.
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Semantics and Pragmatics
2 lessons to cover introducing and investigating semantic and pragmatics in depth.
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Travel Writing: 8 lessons focusing on non-fiction text analysis and improving persuasive and descriptive writing skills.
A series of 8 lessons. 5 Lessons focusing on improving pupils descriptive writing.
Lesson 1 focuses on increasing pupils use of adjectives.
Lesson 2-3 focus on increasing pupils use of sensory imagery.
Lesson 4 focuses on figurative language.
Lesson 5 focuses on using effective punctuation and sentence structures.
3 lessons focusing on the format of Non-Fiction texts.
1 / 2- Letters and reviews
3 -Adverts.
All lessons vary tasks and activities to create fun, engaging and well-paced lessons.
All lessons use the 1-9 criteria and focus on A05 and A06.
Travel Brochure: Writing an advert. Persuasive Writing. 1-9 GCSE Language.
A lesson detailing to pupils how to identify the features of an advert (linguistic and format) and recreate these in a writing task, based on the Edexcel English Language exam. Suitable for KS3 classes and KS4.
A recently observed Ofsted 'Outstanding' lesson, with a clear presentation and attached worksheets.
Suitable for all exam boards but designed for Edexcel English Language Specification (also attached) and grade boundaries from 3-6, which can be altered easily to accommodate HA or LA pupils.
The lesson contains a think, pair, share starter. The main activity consists of a pupil led analysis of a series of adverts (designed to cover a range of language and structural features), an original writing task and finally the plenary consists of a peer assessment task (worksheet for this is attached). The entire lesson is pupil-led, containing fast-paced, engaging tasks.
Learning objective.
A05 :To use persuasive writing to create an advert in a travel brochure
Negative Reviews. Investigating a range of devices and Non-Fiction formats. 1-9 GCSE Language.
Two lessons detailing to pupils how to identify the features of a letter and a review (linguistic and format) and recreate these in a writing task, based on the Edexcel English Language exam. Suitable for KS3 classes and KS4.
A recently observed Ofsted 'Outstanding' lesson, with a clear presentation and attached worksheet.
Suitable for all exam boards but designed for Edexcel English Language Specification (also attached) and grade boundaries from 3-6, which can be altered easily to accommodate HA or LA pupils.
The lesson contains a think, pair, share starter. The main activity consists of a pupil led analysis of a leter (designed to cover a range of language and structural features), an original writing task and finally the plenary consists of a peer assessment task (worksheet for this is attached). The entire lesson is pupil-led, containing fast-paced, engaging tasks.
Learning objectives.
A05:
LO1: Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences.
LO2: Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts.
KS3 and KS4 Baseline test to determine 1-9 levels. Based on extracts from Edexcel GCSE Lang papers.
A clear and easy to follow baseline for pupils in KS3 and KS4. Features a short extract from 'The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas' and 3 comprehension activities designed to text student ability to retrieve information, identify language features and discuss the effect of individual words and phrases on the reader. There is then the choice of two imaginative writing tasks.
The paper is essentially a miniature and more widely accessible version of the GCSE English Language paper pupils will sit at the end of KS4.
Romeo and and Juliet Quiz. Rounds on Characters, Plot/Context, The Prologue and Act 1.
A fun and fast paced quiz designed to question pupils knowledge after studying the Prologue and Act 1. There is also a quiz sheet designed to accompany the Baz Luhrman film version.