A four-part sequence exploring reading and writing skills in crime fiction:
Crafting a setting description
Exploring locked room mystery
Making inferences on Helen Stoner
Reflecting and re-drafting
A lesson exploring utopian and dystopian descriptive writing through evaluation of others examples. This lesson focuses on developing different AFL strategies.
Weekly reading lessons to complement an adventure non-fiction scheme of learning. 5 MA - HA non-fiction texts followed by space for comprehension activities selected by the teacher.
To develop SPaG, students will explore different sentence types, lengths, and openings to develop the quality of their written expression. To begin with, students will explore the effect sentences can have on the reader, focusing on pace, emphasis, and development of ideas.
This lesson explores the crafting of writing through the use of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’. Students will explore how to use this skill, followed by the crafting of a single paragraph. Students will then peer-assess their work with a focus on the use of ‘Show Don’t Tell’.
A lesson exploring narrative structure and the role of characterisation during exposition. The text linked to this extract is A Pinch of Magic - the website has a fantastic resource bundle which I use with the lesson.