I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
This resource is for GCSE students or an advanced KS3 group
The ppt contains:
A starter
All activities - including differentiated tasks
A plenary and a fun post lesson game
Please note, you will need to google a copy of the poem.
This resource is KS4 or a KS3 class.
The ppt contains:
A starter
A plenary
All learning activities
A HW task
Please note you will need to google a copy of the poem.
The stickers are for the front of students’ exercise books.
This resource is used for displaying a student’s success (good explicit displays for Ofsted and Dept reviews) recording each year group’s success.
You record the student’s GCSE target and record their achievement throughout each SOW to display their progress.
Each year group’s topics (featured on the stickers) are as follows:
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Gothic Literature / Detective Fiction
Creative Writing
Poetry – ‘Poems from Other Cultures’ or pre-2015 AQA anthology
Shakespeare – ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Non-fiction – Language paper 1 & 2 section A practice
Summer revision and exams
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Poetry – ‘Reflections’ anthology
19thCentury novel – ‘A Christmas Carol’
Modern Drama – teacher’s choice
Non-fiction Study – (autobiographies & travel writing & teachers choice of topic based on current affairs)
Shakespeare – ‘Hamlet’
Summer revision and exams
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Creative writing (exploring viewpoints) in Victorian short stories
Shakespeare – ‘Othello’
Contemporary poetry – AQA anthology (pre 2015)
19th Century novel – ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Language paper 1 & 2 section A – practice questions
Summer revision and exams
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Creative writing (creating a viewpoint)
Shakespeare – ‘Merchant of Venice’
Contemporary poetry (current AQA anthology)
19th Century novel – ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
Language paper 1 & 2 section A – practice questions
Summer revision and exams
I hope it helps!
What is this resource?
A creative writing resource for KS3 or low ability English Language groups (KS4) , SEN or EAL classes, Literacy Suport Sessions. The resources uses sounds, visual images and writing models to support the teacher and the students
**Who is it for? **
KS3
Low ability English Language groups
EAL classes
Literacy Suport Sessions
SEN groups
What’s included?
Starter
Activities
Model Answer with glossary
Basic extension and differentiation
Plenary
Follow-on lesson ideas
Curriculum links?
Literacy Support Sessions
EAL lessons
SEN lessons
What is this resource?
It is to be used to assess the gaps and fill in the student’s literacy skills in relation to basic grammar acquisition, vocabulary use and written and verbal communication. Ideally, it is to be used in one to one or small group settings such as Literacy Sessions.
Who is it for?
Literacy Support teachers
EAL lessons
Teaching Assistants
English Teachers
What’s included?
3 grids containing specific targets linked to grammar, vocabulary and verbal and written communication skills
Curriculum links?
Whole School Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions
Practical Tips?
The grid provides the list of topics that need to be covered. It would be the job of the Literacy Support teacher to provide the activities for those topics.
These assessment sheets are ideal for in-class assessements in Year 10 (in preparation for the GCSE exam in Year 11) and for Year 11 examination preparation.
The criteria sheets include:
Poetry (unseen and seen)
Writing to Inform
Shakespeare Study
19th Century Novel Study
Modern Drama: Blood Brothers
This resource is for an advanced KS3 group or a KS4 class.
The ppt includes:
a starter
all learning and writing tasks
a plenary
Please note, you’ll need to find a copy of the poem on Google.
This is a good poem to teach to a GCSE group or an advanced KS3 class.
The resource includes:
A starter and a plenary
Lesson activities
2 HW tasks
Please note, you will need to google a copy of the poem
This resource is for KS4 or an advanced KS3 class as this ppt contains some challenging ideas.
The resource includes:
starter
plenary
all lesson activities (i.e. poetry analysis sheet and questions)
HW task
This handy resource will enable you to set this Writing to Inform task for HW or as a timed writing task in class. It does require some preparation from the student and should be used as a Formative Assessment task after the genre has been taught.
Suitable for KS4 or for an advanced KS3 group
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.
What is this resource?
It is a powerpoint which shows students how to achieve higher marks in creative writing tasks by using more advanced stylistic features such as: using a connective to start your paragraph, using dialogue/ speech to initiate a paragraph, starting a paragraph with an adverbial clause , beginning your paragraph with an adverb, starting your paragraph with a statement etc
Using a question at the start of a paragraph (e.g. Who is the least important person in your life?)
Who is it for?
KS3
KS4
Literacy Lessons
What’s included?
Starter
All activities (enough for 2- 4 lessons depending on the class’ ability) and guidance notes on each slide
Opportunities to write independently and work in groups and self assess to improve
Plenary
Curriculum links?
English Language
Whole School Literacy Programmes
Literacy Support Sessions
Practical Tips?
Notes are provided on each slide
This ppt is 1 1/2 to 2 lessons. 2 full lesson if you’re teaching a lower set because it includes a writing in practice task.
It introduces the genre ‘writing to inform’ by engaging students in tasks that see them deconstruct and evaluate language, presentational layout and presentational features. This lesson leaves plenty of room to build upon this genre and is purely meant as an introduction only.
The lesson includes group work, paired work and individual tasks.
Also included is a:
starter
plenary
HW task
Model PEE
These criteria sheets can be given to students before a task so they know what they’re working towards and then glued in under their HW for the teacher to fill in and comment on.
It’s a strategic yet quick and simple way of marking HW
The bank includes criteris sheets for:
Creative Writing
Non Fiction Writing
Poetry Analysis
Novel Analysis
Vocabulary definitions followed by sentence creation
This resource is for KS4 or an advanced KS3 class as this ppt contains some challenging ideas.
The resource includes:
starter
plenary
all lesson activities (i.e. poetry analysis and parapgraph writing tasks including a model PEE answer)
HW task
This powerpoint provide is a detailed lesson desgined to teach paragraphing skills in Fiction.
It includes all of the resources such as:
Thinking task
Starter
Learning activities with all of the resources needed to make progress (including differentiation and challenge)
Plenary
Notes on the slides explaining how to use the resource
It is a bundle that is ready to go!
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 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!