This lesson is the first in a series of lessons for the Roald Dahl novel ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. It has a variety of tasks, leading towards the pupils writing about the farmers. There are visual writing help sheets for pupils who require more support and a challenging extension activity that is aimed at building the pupils vocabulary.

This is a Functional Skills Entry Level 1 English writing resource. There are two writing tasks. In the first task, the students become newspaper reporters writing about a firework display that they have seen on Guy Fawkes Night. In the second task, they have to write to a friend to invite them to see a bonfire together. These resources can be used as a stand-alone exam revision exercise or in a series of lessons involving Guy Fawkes Night or other celebrations.

This lesson is to be taught with Chapter 8 ‘Fourteen Minutes Past Two’ of Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. There is a series of worksheets and a powerpoint presentation to be used during the lesson. The presentation is used to help organise the lesson structure and to provide visuals to help check pupils’ understanding of the text and to generate ideas for their oracy and their writing. This resource is normally used for between two and three hours of teaching. The activities of the lesson are: • Listen to/read the 8th chapter of the novel. • Check your comprehension of the story by describing what happened using the images on the lesson powerpoint. • Group Discussion: What makes a character effective in a story? • Lesson Activity: Write A Character Report On Charlie Peaceful Complete a writing plan for your report on Charlie Peaceful. Write your report on Charlie Peaceful. • Extension Work: • Were Charlie’s Actions Right Or Wrong? Write down as many reasons as you can for why Charlie’s action were right and wrong. Plenary: Class Discussion Class debate on whether Charlie was right or wrong to act the way he did. Please look at our other Private Peaceful lessons.

This resource is to be taught with Chapter 3 of Michael Morpurgo’s novel ‘Private Peaceful’. It deals primarily with two topics. These are the character of Grandma Wolf and that of the kids in the story poaching. This resource actually contains enough activities to last for a series of lessons. The teacher can choose which activities they wish their pupils to do in class and can use other activities as homework if they wish. The activities included are used with the following lesson(s) plan: Lesson(s) Plan: • Listen to/read the 3rd Chapter of the novel. • Complete the comprehension challenge about Grandma Wolf. • Take part in a group discussion about whether the kids should poach or not. • Record the opinions of you and your group on this topic. • Take part in a class debate on this topic. • Work on a writing plan for a discursive essay. • Write a discursive essay about whether the kids should poach or not. There is also a sheet which gives pupil some useful language that they can use in discursive writing.

This resource is designed to be used with Chapter 7 of the novel Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. This chapter is titled ‘Twenty-Eight Minutes Past One’. The is the final chapter set in the home village as they Peaceful boys leave for war at the end of the chapter. It is also the final chapter in which Molly, Mother Peaceful and The Colonel play a central role so they are a focus of this lesson. This resource contains a powerpoint presentation that is used to complete a pre-reading discussion, to check the pupils’ comprehension of this chapter and to generate a discussion whether the pupils think Molly, Mother Peaceful and The Colonel are ‘good’ characters or not. As a teacher, you can decide if you want ‘good’ to mean good in terms of their morals or if you want it to mean effective as a character. This resource also includes some worksheets. These contain a lesson(s) plan, 3 activities and some extension work. The first activity asks pupils to work in a group/pair and to discuss who are their favourite 3 characters and why. They can record their ideas on the worksheet for this activity . The second activity asks the pupils to write whether they think Molly, Mother Peaceful and The Colonel are ‘good’ characters and give reasons for their answers. This activity follows on from the class discussion on the powerpoint presentation. This third activity is an extended writing task which asks the pupils to write a character description of Molly, Mother Peaceful or The Colonel. They are given some tips on what they could include before they write. In the extension activity, pupils are given 10 actions that characters in the novel have done so far. They are asked to use a thesaurus to find suitable adverbs to describe how the characters do these actions. This resource should take at least two lessons to complete, but it could be used for more depending on how much time you allow for the discussions. The extension work could also be used as a whole class activity or as homework. Please look at our other Private Peaceful lessons in this series.

This unit contains a series of lessons for an ‘All About Me’ topic. It includes reading, writing and speaking and listening. The writing lessons are differentiated with higher level planning sheets and writing support sheets. The lessons in the unit include: Read about other people and complete a profile about them. Have a group discussion with other pupils telling them about the person you have read about and taking notes on the people they tell you about. Complete a profile about yourself. Write all about yourself. Have a group discussion telling other pupils all about you and taking notes on what they tell you about themselves. Complete an ‘All About Me’ poster.

This resource is best taught after the pupils have read or listened to the first four chapters of Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Private Peaceful’. It contains comprehension exercises regarding the character development of some main characters in the first four chapters. It also deals with the theme in Chapter 4 of ‘An Amazing Event’. In Chapter 4 the kids see a yellow aeroplane and meet its pilot. Pupils are asked to list amazing events from their lifetime and ones they have lived witnessed, before they plan then write about witnessing an amazing event. also included, is a presentation that accompanies the lesson. It can be used with the activities in the lesson, as a starter, a plenary or it can lead to further speaking and listening activities. Here are the main activities in this unit: • Listen to/read the 4th chapter of the novel. • Complete the comprehension challenge regarding 4 characters in 4 chapters. • Make a list of any amazing events that have happened in your lifetime or that you have witnessed. • Take part in a class/group discussion about these events. • Work on a writing plan for describing witnessing an amazing event. • Write a text about witnessing an amazing event.

This is an Entry Level 1 Functional Skills reading activity. It consists of two texts and two comprehension exercises. The first text is about masked ball etiquette and the second is about the dance you will do at the ball. It is designed to be taught with Romeo and Juliet. It can also be introduced as a stand alone activity, a revision exercise or as a piece of homework. We at Engage Education create Functional Skills and Entry Level resources to be taught with GCSE recommended literature. We believe that functional can be fun.

This is a marking sheet to be used with OCR Entry Level English exams. It breaks down the skills OCR describes in their marking policy and puts them into a clear checklist so that you can accurately score the pupils' written work in the exam. There are 3 checklists. One for EL!, one for EL2 and one for EL3. There is also a section on the feeback sheet for telling the pupils 'what went well' and for giving them future points for development. It is a clear and easy to use system that both staff and pupils can understand. This resource makes marking OCR Entry Level English tests so much easier and more accurate. It can also be used to assess any piece of writing and can therefore be a good assessment model for pupils who are or may soon sit OCR Entry Level English.

This unit of work is an extension of the ‘All About Me’ topic. It is about ‘My Spare Time’. It consists of reading, writing and speaking + listening lessons. The reading and writing lessons are differentiated. The lessons in this unit include: Read about people in other people’s spare time and complete a profile about them. Have a group discussion with other pupils telling them about the person you have read about and taking notes on the people they tell you about. Complete a writing plan about your spare time. Write about your spare time. Have a group discussion telling other pupils all about your spare time and taking notes on what they tell you about their spare time. Complete a ‘My Spare Time’ poster.

These four resources are used to help students to use different types of punctuation. There a variety of activities for using question marks, commas in a list, exclamation marks and for punctuating speech. Pupils are also encouraged to use capital letters and full stops correctly. These resources can be used as class activities, as extension work or as homework.

In these three resources, pupils are move from being given a lot of support in using ‘and’ in written sentences to writing short texts independently including the word ‘and’. In the first resource, pupils are given visuals and some words and are asked to use them to create a simple sentence including the word ‘and’. They are expected to use capital letters and full stops correctly and to choose additional High Frequency words and spell them independently. They are asked to repeat this process with different visuals and words a variety of times. In the next two resources, the pupils are given two images and are asked to make a sentence about these images including the word ‘and’. This process is repeated a variety of times until the pupil is asked to complete a piece of writing (including the word ‘and’) without any visual aids. In the second resource, this extended piece of writing is to be about themselves. In the third it is about another person of their choice. When using the 3 resources, pupils move from being heavily supported to writing independently. These resources can be used as a class activity, as extension work or as homework.

There are six writing resources in the pack that are aimed at helping pupils to punctuate sentences correctly using capital letters and full stops. It ranges from them being giving simple sentences with no punctuation that they have to edit, to the pupils writing a short well punctuated paragraph independently. The resources include strong visual images that provide a stimulus for all pupils and are also especially beneficial for more visual learners. These resources can be used as class activities, as extension work or as homework.

This resource consists of a powerpoint presentation and a collection of worksheets on the topic of who pupils would choose to treat to a special Christmas dinner. Pupils complete a series of speaking and reading activities that help to prepare them for their own written text regarding who they would treat to a special Christmas dinner. Using the lesson powerpoint, discuss which of the famous people the pupils would choose to treat to a special Christmas dinner and why. The pupils read a text about who a person has chosen to treat to a special Christmas dinner and complete the profile worksheet about them. (Choose which of the five texts to give each pupil depending on their ability) Using the lesson powerpoint, the pupils’ understanding of these texts is assessed as pupils tell the class what they have learned about the characters that they have studied using the images and words on the slide to help them. Using the powerpoint, the class discusses who they would treat to a special dinner if they could invite anybody in the world (in history). The pupils make the writing plan to describe the person that they would treat to a special Christmas dinner, what they would eat and do and why they would choose them. The pupils use their writing plan to write a text about who they would treat to a special Christmas dinner. This resource normally takes two full lessons to complete, but could last longer depending on the speaking and listening exercises. If there are pupils who do not celebrate Christmas in your class, the lesson can be adapted to be about treating people to a special dinner instead.

In these resources, pupils are given visuals and some words and are asked to use them to create a simple sentence using a conjunction/connective. They are expected to use capital letters and full stops correctly and to choose additional High Frequency words and spell them independently. They are asked to repeat this process with different visuals and words a variety of times. This is the first step in preparing pupils to write sentences while using conjunctions/connectives. The images help more visual learners and the given words provide ideas for what to write about and structure. These resources can be used as a class activity, as extension work or as homework. There are five resources to use when you choose this download. The conjunctions/connectives included are and, when, but, so, + because.

This presentation is used to introduce similes and metaphors to pupils while also giving them a series of activities to complete that help them to understand them. These activities are either completed verbally, on an interactive white board or on paper. It is normally used in a series of lessons, lasting between three and four hours. The first part of the presentation deals with similes and concludes with pupils making a similes poem that describes a beast. The second part introduces metaphors and concludes with the pupils describing themselves using metaphors.

In these resources, pupils are given visuals and some words and are asked to use them to create a simple sentence. They are expected to use capital letters and full stops correctly and to choose additional High Frequency words and spell them independently. They are asked to repeat this process with different visuals and words a variety of times. This is the first step in preparing pupils to write sentences. The images help more visual learners and the given words provide ideas for what to write about and structure. These resources can be used as a class activity, as extension work or as homework. There are two resources to use when you choose this download.

This is a resource that helps pupils to learn how to read and spell the months of the year using a collection of auditory, visual and kinaesthetic activities. The powerpoint introduces the words with a series of slides that include the word for each month of the year and a selection of images that represent that month. These images include special events that take place in that month. The pupils can therefore also learn about these events and they will associate these images with the month. The teacher can say these words as they flick through the slides and get the pupils to repeat them to induce a rote style of learning. They can also flick quickly through the slides and when they stop, ask certain pupils to read the word. This is good for differentiation as teachers can stop suited to the targets of the individual pupils who they question. After this there are some kinaesthetic activities/games that can be used to reinforce the pupils recall of these words. This includes a team game where pupils have to say the words quickly to win points and a ball game where pupils have to throw the ball to hit the correct word. the ball game can be a team game or a more individual challenge. The rules of these games are explained further in the powerpoint itself. The final part of this resource is the spelling challenge. There are two options for the teaching of this challenge. ,In the first option pupils complete a powerpoint which includes the images associated with the months by typing the correctly spelled word for the month into the slide. The second option is a worksheet which includes the images associated with the months. In this, the pupils simply write the correctly spelled words for the month in the box next to these images. This resource can be edited to fit any selection of words. When the pupils become familiar with this way of learning, they can make their own spelling challenges with images to learn to spell new words themselves and to test their classmates.

This presentation can be used as an assembly or as a class activity. It can be used to introduce the teaching of any of his novels. It is about his works and his life. Both of these elements are presented in the form of a quiz which can be used as a speaking and listening activity or with the pupils writing the answers. It contains a nice mixture of facts, fun and nonsense.