A comical starter that can be deconstructed. Suitable for KS3 (upper set) and KS4

A fun quiz covering persuasive devices

Use this as an introductory activity with your classes to your help students ascertain what they can and can’t do in relation to persuasive writing before the unit begins. It will help teacher to gauge what needs to be taught etc too. Suitable for KS3 and KS4

Hi. Please be aware that this SOW contains all of the ideas needed to teach the unit, but does not include the resources bank. Howevever, the unit contains references to suitable resources that can be used; these are resources that can be accessed online. The plan also includes all of the starter and plenary ideas - many don’t need a resources bank. I hope it helps.

A quick and easy way to give VERY SPECIFIC feedback without copious amounts of writing. Simply glue the sheet in under the student’s work. Tick the relevant criteria, set targets quickly and ensure the student has read your marking by getting them respond to in the student response section. This assessment sheet is ideal for marking drafts and final copies of exam preparation essays. It can be used with KS3 and KS4. It corresponds with the FAR marking policy = Feedback - Action -Response. i.e. Stage 1: The teacher gives FEEDBACK using very specific criteria which should be shared with students before the assessment takes place. Stage 2: The teacher uses the criteria to specify which ACTIONS the student needs to take to get to the next grade. Stage 3: The student writes a written RESPONSE to the teacher’s comments about the ACTIONS required to reach the next stage. It’s very useful for showing progress, communicating attainment on HW or timed (in class) essays that form part of exam preparation revision.

The resource provides 7 fun strategies for a parent to help a child improve their spelling at home - in addition to Homework. The document contains four sections: The first section provides 7 easy and enjoyable learn-to-spell techniques. The second section provides synthesis tasks - to be used once the child has learnt to spell the target words. The third section provides a creative task to further concretise the newly acquired vocabulary Provides a list of commonly misspelt words for parents to use if they do not already have a list to start from How can the resource be used? The parent could try a new technique at home each week with any spelling list. If their child’s teacher hasn’t provided them with a spelling list, a solution is to go through their child’s exercise book and find words that have been misspelt. Alternatively, the parent could use the spelling lists of most commonly misspelt words at the back of the document.

This resource is for KS3 and KS4 . It can be used as a post reading task with unseen or seen poems. The notes can then be used for essay writing.

This is an interesting poem that seems to capture pupils’ attention because it is so different. It is also a springboard into eulogies and obituaries. It contains: a starter the lesson plan (i.e. the sequence of the slides) the poem AQA criteria scaffolding in the form of sentence tags for extended answers and also linking verbs for analysis a model answer to apply the AQA criteria to a plenary and a Bloom’s inspired activity at the end The students read, deconstruct the archaic language then write about the poem in 30 mins. They then assess the AQA criteria against a model answer. Tried and tested. Great with Year 10 or 11. It could also be used with Year 9

Great for HW once you have allocated a poem or two to study. The pupils can use the grid to generate ideas then convert their notes into paragraphs.

Great for HW or as an end of lesson task after studying two poems consecutively enabling students to gather their ideas while the poems are still in their working memory. They can then take the sheet home and use their notes to write an essay, or at least the first few paragraphs.

A fun lesson that introduces writing to describe to KS3 or KS4. You will need to know who has allergies in your classroom. You will also need wet wipes, chocolate (e.g. box of Celebrations), salt and vinegar crisps. The kids love it. Good luck!

This ppt contains 2 lessons and writing tasks extending the total lessons to 3 lessons. The ppt contains everything that is needed: starters plenaries models learning tasks etc Enjoy!

This ppt can be purchased with the other set of lessons on sale on my page (i.e. lessons 1-3) or can be bought and used in isolation. This ppt contains 3 lessons that include a range of skills but focus essentially on writing ; practicing what the students have learnt about the genre Writing to Inform. Every lesson has a … starter plenary writing task two lessons have models that can be analysed Suitable for KS4 or advanced KS3 classes.

I couldn't upload the whole SOW. But here are the ppts - not in order (they were but when they uploaded they were shuffled about by the uploader based on size I think) though I think they all have dates on them. I hope they help someone :)

I COULDN’T UPLOAD ALL OF THE RESOURCES BUT HERE IS 90% OF IT :) There are starters, lessons etc