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Descriptive Devices Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons are designed to help students build their descriptive writing skills, through utilising a range of sophisticated and original language techniques.
Included in this bundle are lessons focusing on:
- Varied Verbs and Adverbs;
- Adventurous Adjectives;
- Personification and Oxymorons;
- Alliteration and Assonance;
- Similes and Metaphors.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided - there is everything included that you need to teach!
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Story Genres - Double Lesson!
This stimulating and informative double lesson aims to improve students’ ability to understand the features of various story genres, and analyse the conventional language features within them. In particular students focus upon the vocabulary, sentence, and descriptive device choices made by writers across each of the genres, and begin to comprehend the effect of these techniques upon the reader.
Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they:
-Define the different story genres and understand their key content features;
-Understand the key features of different genres through interesting movie clips ;
-Work collaboratively using the jigsaw method to ascertain the language features (vocabulary, sentences, descriptive devices) of different genres;
-Engage with a number of interesting story extracts (Louis Sachar - Holes, JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Darren Shan - The Vampire's Assistant, Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid.)
-Write an analytical piece on some of the language features used by the writer of their chosen genre;
-Peer/self-assess their analytical attempts.
There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including:
-Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint;
-Story extracts x 4 (Harry Potter, Holes, etc.)
-Learning Objective cut out;
-Analytical Paragraphs Template;
-Jigsaw method worksheet
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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VCOP Bundle - All of the Lessons, Resources, and Plans!
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, these lessons aim to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate vocabulary, connectives, sentence openings, and punctuation. Each lesson follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining;
- Identifying;
- Analysing;
- Creating;
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Descriptive Writing Lesson Bundle! (All PowerPoints, Resources, Activities and Lesson Plans!)
This big bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities. Each lesson is stimulating, informative, and offers a range of tasks for students of different needs and abilities.
Individually, these items amount to 20 pounds. Therefore the saving that you can make from purchasing the bundle is 70%!
Included are whole lesson resources (normally 2 pounds each) for:
-Amazing Verbs and Adverbs;
-Adventurous Adjectives;
-Astonishing Alliteration and Astounding Assonance;
-Capturing the Readers' Attention;
-Exceptional Expanded Noun Phrases;
-Perfect Personification and Awesome Oxymorons;
-Structuring and Organising Creative Writing;
-Stupendous Similes and Miraculous Metaphors;
-Wondrous Writing - Seven Wonders of the World.
-Writing about Emotions
All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.
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Macbeth: Lesson Bundle! (All Lessons, Plans, Resources, Everything!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy 'Macbeth.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided, in addition to a fun Pointless game!
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Descriptive Writing Big Bundle! (All PowerPoints, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Help-sheets, Games, and More!)
This big bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities.
It is a slightly streamlined version of the Descriptive Writing Huge Bundle (minus the VCOP lessons, as those teaching slightly older/more advanced students may not need these lessons.)
Individually, these items amount to 27 pounds. Therefore the saving that you can make from purchasing the bundle is 70%!
Included are whole lesson resources (normally 2 pounds each) for:
-Amazing verbs and adverbs
-Adventurous adjectives
-Astonishing alliteration
-Capturing the readers' attention
-Exceptional expanded noun phrases
-Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons
-Structuring and organising creative writing
-Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors
-Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world
-Writing about Emotions
There are also a number of games and help-sheets, including:
- All 8 writing purpose help-sheets (Analyse, Explain, Inform, Persuade, Describe, Instruct, Evaluate, Argue)
-Descriptive writing assessment and mark scheme
-Descriptive writing - knowing the words inside out posters.
- Literacy writing mat
-2 'Pointless' games
- Templates (Newspapers, Blogs, Postcards, etc.)
All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.
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Of Mice and Men Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Diary Writing!
This stimulating and informative lesson aims to improve students’ ability to adapt the style of their writing to suit their audience and purpose. In particular, they attempt to meet the purpose of writing diary entries.
Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they:
-Define diaries and their key content features;
-Read extracts of diaries, and explain which content features different writers employ;
-Work collaboratively to ascertain the language and structure features of diary entries;
-Create a success criteria for effective diary writing (although a ready-made success criteria is included)
-Write a diary entry for a famous character from their favourite movie, using the techniques that they have learnt;
-Peer/self-assess their diary writing attempts.
There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including:
-Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint;
-Diary extracts x 4 (Adian Mole, Anne Frank, etc.)
-What's in a Diary Entry worksheet;
-Success Criteria;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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Descriptive Writing Huge Bundle! (All PowerPoints, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Help-Sheets, Games, and More!)
This giant bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities.
Included are whole lesson resources (normally 2 pounds each) for:
-Amazing verbs and adverbs
-Adventurous adjectives
-Astonishing alliteration
-Capturing the readers' attention
-Exceptional expanded noun phrases
-Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons
-Structuring and organising creative writing
-Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors
-Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world
-Writing about Emotions
-VCOP - vocabulary
-VCOP - openers
-VCOP - connectives
-VCOP - punctuation
There are also a number of games and help-sheets, including:
- All 8 writing purpose help-sheets (Analyse, Explain, Inform, Persuade, Describe, Instruct, Evaluate, Argue)
- Literacy writing mat
-2 'Pointless' games
- Templates (Newspapers, Blogs, Postcards, etc.)
All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.
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George's Marvellous Medicine - Assorted Resources! (Worksheets, PowerPoints, Assessments etc.)
This pack contains a vast number (I think there's about 20 resources here) of activities, resources, and ideas for the teaching of Roald Dahl's 'George's Marvellous Medicine.' They should provide an excellent starting point for anybody who wants to teach the book and is looking for some inspiration for individual lesson content/ tasks. The vast majority of these tasks can be adapted for differing age groups/ ability ranges/ needs.
The pack contains resources that focus on the key themes in the book, such as family and emotions. There are also resources that enable to build individual reading skills, such as inferring and deducing, pulling out quotations, and analysing language. In writing, students learn to think imaginatively and create texts appropriate to audience and purpose.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.
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Stone Cold - Assorted Resources! (PowerPoints, Activities, Worksheets, Templates, etc.)
This pack contains a vast number (I think there's about 20 resources here) of activities, resources, and ideas for the teaching of Robert Swindell's 'Stone Cold.' They should provide an excellent starting point for anybody who wants to teach the book and is looking for some inspiration for individual lesson content/ tasks. The vast majority of these tasks can be adapted for differing age groups/ ability ranges/ needs.
The pack contains resources that focus on the key themes in the book, such as stereotyping, alienation, and homelessness. There are also resources that enable to build individual reading skills, such as inferring and deducing, pulling out quotations, and analysing language. In writing, students learn to think imaginatively and create texts appropriate to audience and purpose.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.
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Macbeth: The Witches
This engaging and informative lesson enhances students' skills in understanding the significant meanings in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and in particular the influence of the deceitful and mysterious weird sisters. Students gain an understanding of some of the attitudes towards witches in Shakespeare's times, and attempt to link this knowledge to the events of the text. They also engage with Shakespeare's intentions in utilising dramatic elements to reveal the witches use of the supernatural and deceit.
The lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey, involving progressively more challenging tasks in which students:
- Portray their understanding of witches and witchcraft;
- Learn more about witches in a historical context through a fun 'true or false' game;
- Define, identify, and understand dramatic irony;
- Read sections of Macbeth and complete tasks to demonstrate their understanding;
- Answer key questions about the witches that test their knowledge in relation to each of the English assessment outcomes;
- Evaluate a modelled example of an analytical paragraph in relation to the witches;
- Analyse the witches' characteristics in their own responses;
- Evaluate each others' analytical responses.
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Camera Shots and Angles!
This lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of camera shots and angles, and in particular those used in horror movies. This should enable them to design their own sequences of camera shots and angles when producing their own moving image media texts.
I used this lesson in the middle of the planning phase of a horror film trailer. However, as the main learning for the lesson is to be able to define, identify. analyse and use each of the camera shots and angles, it can be used for students at any stage of a media studies course. It includes a range of tasks, most of which are differentiated for different ability ranges, and includes lots of engaging subject matter. The lesson follows a clear learning journey, which is visually expressed to the students frequently throughout the PowerPoint presentation. The learning journey enables students to:
- Define each of the camera angles and shots through a group activity;
- Identify each of the shots and angles in movies stills;
- Analyse why different shots and angles are effective after watching a segment of a film;
- Create their own sequence of camera shots and angles for a short moving image piece;
- Evaluate their success in using effective camera shots and angles.
NOTE: The subject matter used for the final stages of the analysis task may be visually disturbing or inappropriate for some younger students - please check this section and alter it if you need to - you may wish just to pause the video before it gets too gory!
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Macbeth: The Context of Macbeth
This engaging and interesting lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of the context of the of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Some of the primary topics that are addressed are William Shakespeare himself, James I and superstition, witches and witchcraft, religion, mortality rates, and the theatre. This knowledge should enable students to make convincing links between the play and the events of the time. It is a vital lesson in any Macbeth theme that can be taught before, during, or after reading.
The lesson uses a range of tasks, that require students to be visual and interactive learners. It follows this learning journey:
- Understanding who William Shakespeare was, and remembering key details about his life;
- Identifying words and phrases that he coined that are still in use today;
- Taking part in a quiz about the some of the more basic key events and ideas of the time;
- Researching the key events of the time (e.g. witch-hunts and the ascension of James I as King) and understanding which ideas were prominent. (e.g. divine right and religion)
- Utilising speaking and listening skills in order to communicate gathered knowledge, and obtain knowledge from others.
- Evaluating the learning in the lesson.
All images in this resource are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the lesson presentation.
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Writing to Argue/Persuade: Gaining Authority
Perfect for use when teaching writing to persuade or argue, this lesson utilises a wide range of teaching strategies to enable students to gain authority over their target audiences. The students who I have taught this lesson before have found it enjoyable and engaging - particularly enjoying the use of videos to see some of the techniques in action!
Throughout the lesson, the learning journey that the students follow enables them to:
- Define the key terms 'Argue', 'Persuade' and 'Authority.'
- Consider famous individuals that are effective at gaining authority;
- Link key techniques to their definition and examples;
- Identify key techniques in videos (Dave Gorman, Dragon's Den, etc.) and analyse why they are effective;
- Write their own authority-filled persuasive piece using a success criteria;
- Peer assess their partner's writing attempts.
The resource is made up of:
- A visual and engaging Powerpoint presentation, which walks teachers and students through the lesson in a step-by-step fashion
- Hyperlinks to all of the online video resources that you will need
- A key techniques activity worksheet
- An analysis worksheet
- A full lesson plan/ teacher guidance.
All images are cited on the final slide and are licensed for commercial use.
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Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck's Message
This engaging and interesting lesson aims to improve students' knowledge of John Steinbeck's key messages in his novella Of Mice and Men. It also aims to build their skills in retrieving information from texts, considering the outcomes about the characters, and making precise and confident interpretations about Steinbeck's intentions.
The lesson uses a range of tasks, that require students to use their visual and interpersonal skills. It follows this learning journey:
- Investigating the life of John Steinbeck, including his influences, experiences, and beliefs;
- Finding relevant quotations to ascertain which characters fulfilled their dreams, and what this could tell us about Steinbeck's message;
- Completing analysis paragraphs on how Steinbeck reveals his message through the final chapters of the text, using a template and a success criteria;
- Evaluating each others' argumentative attempts.
The resource includes a comprehensive and visually engaging PowerPoint presentation, a worksheet to decipher which characters achieved their dreams, a template and success criteria for the main task, and a lesson plan/ teacher guidance sheet.
All images in this resource are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the lesson presentation.
You can choose to buy this resource alone, or as part of the 'Of Mice and Men - All Lessons and Scheme' bundle, which contains seven full lessons, resources, teachers notes, and PowerPoint presentations, plus a Pointless Of Mice and Men game, for just £5!
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Of Mice and Men: Characterisation of Crooks
This engaging and informative lesson aims to improve students' knowledge and understanding of the character of Crooks in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: His dreams, his loneliness, and how his plight is a product of living in 1930s America. The lesson also aims to improve students' analytical skills, so that they can demonstrate sustained and sophisticated interpretations of the character.
This pack includes the full lesson presentation, with tasks and key information, an extract from the text with close reading questions, a writing to analyse help-sheet, and full teacher guidance. The learning journey is clear and progressive, following a pathway of increasingly more difficult tasks, including:
- An opening task to ascertain what is known about Crooks, and racism in 1930s America
- An extract from the text that highlights some of his characteristics and his loneliness.
- Questions to encourage students to infer and deduce hidden meanings, and understand Steinbeck's message,
- Joint creation of an analysis success criteria;
- An opportunity to answer an exam style question based upon the character of Crooks;
- A chance to peer assess against the success criteria.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the presentation.
You can choose to buy this resource alone, or as part of the 'Of Mice and Men - All Lessons and Scheme' bundle, which contains seven full lessons, resources, teachers notes, and PowerPoint presentations, plus a Pointless Of Mice and Men game, for just £5!
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Persuasive Devices - Knowing the Words Inside Out! (Helpsheets, Poster, and Worksheet Templates)
These colourful, engaging and informative posters/ help-sheets are perfect to help your students gain a broad and deep understanding of each of the key persuasive devices, thus vastly improving their textual analysis and enhancing their persuasive/argumentative writing attempts.
Each sheet displays the key word in the middle, and then answers some of the key questions surrounding the words, including:
- What does it mean?
- How many syllables does it have?
- What are examples of it?
- How do I spell it?
- When would I use this?
- What type of word is it?
- Where does the word come from?
There are sheets for: Statistics, Personal Pronouns, Anecdotes, Rhetorical Questions, Repetition, Colloquial Language, Connectives, List of Three, Imperatives, Emotive Language. These can be used as help-sheets as students write (my students love this) or blown up to A3 to use as classroom posters.
I have also provided blank templates for each word, so that students can fill in the everything that they know about the words themselves, which makes for an excellent starter, plenary, or recap activity.
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Pointless - Persuasive Writing Edition
Based on the popular game show ‘Pointless’, this resource is perfect for use as a starter activity, plenary, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build learning of Persuasive Writing:
1. Emotive Language
2. Definitions of Persuasive Devices
3. Adding and Contrasting Connectives
4. Remembering Persuasive Devices
The nature of the game ensures that this resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template is now included, so that you can create your own Pointless games!
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Descriptive Devices - Knowing the Words Inside Out! (Helpsheets, Posters and Worksheet Templates)
These colourful, engaging and informative posters/ help-sheets are perfect to help your students gain a broad and deep understanding of each of the key descriptive devices, thus vastly improving their textual analysis and enhancing their creative writing attempts.
Each sheet displays the key word in the middle, and then answers some of the key questions surrounding the words, including:
- What does it mean?
- How many syllables does it have?
- What are examples of it?
- How do I spell it?
- When would I use this?
- What type of word is it?
- Where does the word come from?
There are sheets for: Similes, Metaphors, Hyperbole, Adjectives, Adverbs, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Verbs, Personification, and Verbs. These can be used as help-sheets as students write (my students love this) or blown up to A3 to use as classroom posters.
I have also provided blank templates for each word, so that students can fill in the everything that they know about the words themselves, which makes for an excellent starter, plenary, or recap activity.