PLEASE NOTE: this lesson can be bought and used in isolation or as part of a bundle for sale on my TES Author’s Page. This is suitable for KS3 and KS4. The ppt includes 2 lessons (possibly 3 depending on the class’s ability) A starter A plenary (metacognitive task) A model (created by a student) Assessment criteria for students to use to develop the key skills A HW task A group task

PLEASE NOTE: this lesson can be bought and used in isolation or as part of a bundle for sale on my TES Author’s Page. This lesson contains: 2 HWs A lesson starter Worksheets (using written and visual stimulation) A Plenary The goal of the lesson is to get students thinking about the following persuasive skills: Repetition; Rhyme; Humour Punning (play-on-words); Hyperbole (exaggeration); Metaphors/similes; Commands (e.g. telling people what to do

PLEASE NOTE: this lesson can be bought and used in isolation or as part of a bundle for sale on my TES Author’s Page. This lesson uses ‘campaigns’ as the foundation for teaching persuasive writing techniques. The ppt includes: A starter A plenary Model answers Group tasks Planning tool Peer assessment template for assessment Notes for the teacher on the slides This could be stretched into two lessons.

PLEASE NOTE: this lesson can be bought and used in isolation or as part of a bundle for sale on my TES Author’s Page. This zip file contains 2 lessons and a criteria sheet for the assessment of persuasive skills. It’s suitable for KS3 and KS4. Lesson 1 contains a starter, establishes the criteria to demonstrate key persuasive skills, explains a generic purpose (scenario) of 3 blog topics to choose from, a group thinking task using the 6 thinking hats and planning tools with a teacher model too. Lesson 2 contains a starter, the assessment criteria sheet (to be used in conjunction with writing time in lesson) and a plenary. Please excuse my cover image, I couldn’t get a better one to upload.

This is a basic cartoon/cloze task which requires students to think about the purpose and meaning of the triplet: writing to inform, explain and describe. It’s suitable for KS3 and KS2 but might be a bit basic for KS4.

A stand alone lesson that can be used as part of my Writing to Inform lesson (which are all available from my shop!). This lesson explores combining Writing to Inform with Writing to Explain to show the differences. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 The lesson includes everything you need: models starter and plenary suitable writing task which can be completed for HW ( if required). Enjoy!

This useful Writing to Inform & Explain A Self Assessment Checklist will help your students be independent writers and encourage them to develop their self editing skills. Suitable for KS3 and KS4.

Make it impersonal! This worksheet is a writing to Inform task where students have to adapt the style of writing from personal to impersonal. Suitable for KS3 and KS4

This is a writing to inform model with assessment criteria and space to grade it and respond.

2-4 lessons (depending on the class’s ability) based on the topics of appealing to an audience and using stylistic features to get the highest marks. The ppt contains everything you need: criteria sheet for indpendent writing starters and plenary HW tasks Worksheets Models Fun, engaging tasks and activities Suitable for KS4 or an advance KS3 class

The models enable students to compare a Grade 4 model with a Grade 8/9 model using student friendly criteria Suitable for KS4 and advanced KS3 classes

This lesson contains: a starter a plenary a model criteria HW task an essay structure presented in stages

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

Suitable for KS3 or KS4.

Hi. This SOW has everything you need to teach the novel Warhorse for 4-5 weeks. The ppts includes: all starters and plenaries all writing and reading tasks poetry analysis discursive essay (PEE) practice HW tasks teaching objectives and planning grid It’s been tried and tested. Enjoy!

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.

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.

Suitable for Year 6, Year 7 (or possibly 8), this resource explores first person narrative and autobiographies from various perspectives: views of family members, memorable moments, first day at school, giant leaps in life, diary-style autobiographies and accounts from victims of civil war. There are extracts from Roald Dahl, Ishmael Bear, Pink, Anne Frank, Victoria Beckham, Michelle Obama and several others. Each lesson contains starters, plenaries, study tasks, group or paired work, reading or writing tasks, glossaries for all reading tasks. Homework is also included. Some classes might need longer periods for the writing tasks. No additional planning is required. There are 20 lessons (including additional writing lessons – if required)