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English language arts
English- Identifying persuasive devices in texts
In this lesson, students will look at examples of persuasive writing and identify the persuasive devices used using the acronym FREDEPTORS easily remembered by the fictional character- Mr Fredeptor:
F- facts and statistics
R- repetition
E- exaggeration
D- description
E- emotive language
P- personal pronouns
T- the rule of three
O- opinions
R- rhetorical questions
S- summary
They will look at analyse example texts discussing their target audience also.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Exploring Characters
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will explore the characters in more detail. They will begin by carrying out ‘roll on the wall’ with each character by going around the room adding to what they know about each character, linking to the text.
Following this, they will complete the character cards which identify quotes from the text. Students have to infer what is happening at that point in the poem and what the quotes tell us about the characters and how they are feeling.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Rewriting as prose
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will firstly watch two different versions of the poem and decide which was most effective and what similarities/ differences they show.
They will then complete a sequencing activity- arranging parts of the narrative poem. After this, they will then learn how to rewrite the poem as prose by looking at WAGOLL’s and being given success criteria to consider.
This lesson will help them to apply their writing skills in narrative writing as well as enhancing their comprehension of the poem.
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English KS2- Identifying poetic devices in free verse poetry
In this lesson, children look at poetic devices used- expanded noun phrases, onomatopoeia, alliteration and powerful verbs (examples are given). In pairs/ small groups, they then highlight the use of poetic devices in the poem on the printed sheet. As a class then discuss their use and the effect they have on the poem and the reader. The children then learn the poem off-by-heart considering rhythm, volume and expression.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Whole Class Guided Reading
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In these 2 lessons, students will read the poem and answer a range of comprehension questions on both Part 1 and Part 2. The first lesson will focus on Part 1 and the second lesson on Part 2.
Students will first complete a dictionary task looking at the vocabulary used so as to better understand the poem.
They will then complete a range of comprehension questions which can be cut and displayed around the classroom to encourage active learning. Support will be given on how to answer comprehension questions as well as a WAGOLL of a P.E.E.L answer. The questions are colour coded in order of difficulty and answers provided.
This lesson is suitable for KS2 and KS3 students.
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English- Persuasive Writing KS2 BUNDLE!
In this BUNDLE, you will receive lessons on the following:
Lesson 1- Persuasive advertising
Lesson 2- Creating own persuasive advert
Lesson 3- Persuasive leaflets
Lesson 4- Identifying devices used in persuasive writing
Lesson 5- Writing own persuasive text
(The content of these lessons can easily spread over two weeks if taught as a whole unit).
These lessons provide lots of examples of persuasion in action and students will learn the acronym FREDEPTORS to help them remember persuasive devices. They will critique different forms of persuasive texts and will use the planning frames to produce their own persuasive advert, leaflet and text.
These lessons are ideal for upper KS2 and can easily be modified to suit KS3 also.
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English- Writing Persuasively KS2
In this lesson students will learn and review the acronym FREDEPTORS to help them remember the key persuasive devices used:
• F- facts and statistics
• R- repetition
• E- exaggeration
• D- description
• E- emotive language
• P- personal pronouns
• T- the rule of three
• O- opinions
• R- rhetorical questions
• S- summary
They will then look at formality in persuasive writing and organise sentences accordingly. They will decide what to write persuasively about and be taught how we might brainstorm our ideas before writing using the planning frame provided.
These lessons are ideal for any KS2 class and can be modified to suit KS3 also.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Balanced Argument
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will consider more than one point of view. They will first learn what a balanced argument looks like and the features of the text type. They will then put forward points for and against the statement ‘The Highwayman was to blame for Bess’ death’.
They will then look at an example text and consider why it is effective before planning out the structure of their own balanced arguments using the support frame. Finally, they will write their own balanced argument on the statement using the writing frame given.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Figurative Language
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will learn how figurative language creates imagery and will be shown examples of a simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia.
They will then look at figurative language examples used in the poem through the online activity link and will be tasked to identify examples and write what these examples do for the reader,
Finally, they will write their own versions of part of the poem using their own figurative language examples.
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English- The Hobbit- Setting Description
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit.
This lesson looks at describing settings. It teaches how to write an effective description using the senses, expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language. Students are shown these in context of an extract and then have to identify them themselves within chapter 2 of The Hobbit.
Students then read more of the chapter before planning and writing their own setting description on the woods the characters have entered.
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English- Whole Class Guided Reading teaching ideas and activities
This support sheet takes you through a lesson, detailing questions you might ask and follow-up activities you may carry out on the text studied. It also gives a comprehensive list of technical terms and how authors use language for effect.
Should be helpful to any teacher wanting to lead Whole-Class Guided Reading effectively.
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Whole Class Guided Reading KS2 BUNDLE!
This wide range of Whole-Class Guided Reading lessons allow pupils to explore texts in an engaging way. PowerPoint presentations and related activities are all included and link to the National Curriculum objectives for Reading.
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