I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
Exciting and innovative resource. Starts with Board Game, pupils collect 'Gansta' card (which will decide whether they are in the Capulet or Montague gang) and quotation cards on the way around the board. They finish with a Prince question card. This will then lead to a matching activity, character with quotation. Differentiated cards allow for progression and allowing the more able students to be challenged.
Activity leads onto a class discussion and role play as to each characters' responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Learning Aims:
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Revenge, the ‘Butterfly effect’ and characterisation and motivation.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and responsibility towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, based on exploration of quotations. Prince holds court with questioning suspects.
Resource includes:
Game Board
Heart Counters
'Gangsta' cards.
Quotation cards
Differentiated quotation cards
Police question cards
Pupil chart to complete at end of task
A introduction to Newspaper Article writing.
Includes PPT focusing on elements of Newspapers; Tabloid v Broadsheet
Activity for students to their write own newspaper article.
Template for newspaper article.
Example of newspaper article.
Extension work
Lesson Plan
Information for the article
Resources brimming with fun filled activities to engage and aid the learner of 'An Inspector Calls'. This resource can be used to revise key themes, characterisation, quotations and context, as well as to introduce these topics. GCSE English Literature: AQA, WJEC, EDEXCEL, OCR.
Resource includes:
Differentiated Bingo game
Game Boards
Character cards
Quotation cards
Context game PPT
Role play PPT
Lessons to investigate and create monologues. The resource includes starter activity, looking at famous monologues: Mickey - Blood Brothers and Chocolate Cake - Michael Rosen, both resources have attached transcripts. It also includes writing monologue activity with visual stimuli.
Ticks the 'creative prose' box for GCSE English (WJEC)
Include:
Lesson plan
PPT starter and other activities
Handouts
Writing activity to create own monologue.
Extension activity: Cloze procedure for Blood Brothers
Includes video extracts.
A complete set of lessons based on the theme of bravery and cowardice in Macbeth. Fits both OCR and AQA Shakespeare component; cumulating in a GCSE modal question based on Fight or Flight, can be used as formal assessment or as a mock exam question. Resource also incorporates my popular Macbeth Cluedo game as an interactive resource, designed to get your students engaged in the motives behind the characters at the scene of the crime.
Resource includes embedded video trailer of the forthcoming Macbeth Film (2015)
Youtube Mabeth Trailer 2015
Resource can be easily differentiated according to ability:
Includes:
Full Lesson Plan (for 6 Learning Episodes)
Macbeth Snap (differentiated) as a starter activity
PPT Fight and Flight
PPT Macbeth Cluedo
Worksheet for Cluedo game (differentiated)
Worksheet - P.E.E Fight or Flight
Note making worksheet for the Essay
4 different ideas for assemblies. Includes PPTs on:
St Nicolas; the Truth about Saint Nicolas
The Solar System
Orangutans
Extreme Weather and Climate Change.
A fun Christmas SPAG resource, follows an entertaining Christmas story. Pupils have to decide whether the SPAG is accurate on each sentence and bid for the sentence with Christmas money.
Resource includes:
PPT activity.
Sentence worksheets.
Christmas money.
Use this fun, fully differentiated, interactive resource to introduce your pupils to the Real Meaning of Easter. Pupils play the Easter Egg Hunt Game, collecting eggs which can be traded for picture cards of Easter. They then discover the real meaning of these picture with reference to symbolic relevance to the Easter Story.
This is an ideal Easter Topic to cover lessons approaching Easter holidays.
Aspects of the curriculum covered:
Literacy: read and follow instructions, match pictures to words. Extension: understand the meaning of symbols and recognise their importance with reference to Easter.
To write the right word to the picture. Extension: to write an explanation for the symbol.
Numeracy: To count numbers on a spinner and count on numbers to reach target.
R.E: to understand the story of Easter and understand the relevance of the Symbols we see at Easter time, with reference to Jesus.
Art: to create own Easter pictures and or Symbols of Easter with an attached meaning.
Fully Differentiated Resource includes:
Lesson PPT
Game Board
Counter and Spinner
Matching cards and Pictures game (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Chart to describe picture, word, meaning and Symbol (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Art Gallery pictures and symbols (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Full Lesson Plan
Last updated Mar 3, 2016, created Mar 3, 2016
A fun innovative resource, including Macbeth Snap game to get students to recognise and learn useful Macbeth quotes, in preparation for GCSE exam. This then leads to further exploration of these quotes as a planning sheet to answer the exam question on culpability for Duncan's death.
Resource includes:
Lesson Plan
Snap game
Worksheet
Planning Sheet
A mixed bag of fun resources to enhance the teaching of KS 2. Resource includes: Easter Egg hunt, Descriptive Writing, Topical PPT's, Sentence Auctions, Phonic Activity.
Tuition resource for GCSE guitar players in need of sufficient technique for performance and composition elements. Guitar scales - tab, standard notation and video resource. Two octave major scales. Prepared by a graduate guitar player of Leeds College of Music and experienced secondary music teacher.
Lee Patrick Grad. Dip. Mus., PGCE
This fun, student centred resource is a complete set of lessons to enable students to be prepared for the Shakespeare aspect of GCSE English Literature for both AQA and OCR. It fulfils the Speaking and Listening component and can be used as an example of Real Life Context. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
The learning objectives are for
• Students to use prior knowledge of text to demonstrate understanding of characters to answer the questions posed in depth
• Students to be able to use Speaking and Listening skills in RLC
• Students to be able to demonstrate use of quotation to justify answers
• Students to demonstrate understanding of context to answer the question:
Romeo and Juliet: Romantic Tragedy or Tragedy of Circumstance?? Discuss.
This can be used as a formal assessment for a mock examination for the literature Shakespeare paper, or a controlled assessment.
A in depth lesson plan demonstrates the best use of the resources, which included differentiated worksheets to accommodate a range of abilities within once class.
Resource includes:
* PPT presentation
* Character cards
* Prosecutor questions to be used for role play
* Guilty or not guilty Worksheets (differentiated)
* Full lesson plans
* Character Supportive Quotes Worksheet.
Includes youtube clip: Judge Judy Best Bits.
Is ideal to use with my other resource: Romeo and Juliet Game Board as a follow up activity.
This fun, student centred resource is a complete set of lessons to enable students to use prior knowledge and understanding of Romeo and Juliet to complete a role play and complete a worksheet and essay using supportive quotation.
The learning objectives are for
• Students to use prior knowledge of text to demonstrate understanding of characters to answer the questions posed in depth
• Students to be able to use Speaking and Listening skills in RLC
• Students to be able to demonstrate use of quotation to justify answers
• Students to demonstrate understanding of context to answer the question:
Romeo and Juliet: Romantic Tragedy or Tragedy of Circumstance?? Discuss.
This can be used as a formal assessment for a mock examination for the literature Shakespeare paper, or a controlled assessment.
A in depth lesson plan demonstrates the best use of the resources, which included differentiated worksheets to accommodate a range of abilities within once class.
Resource includes:
* PPT presentation
* Character cards
* Prosecutor questions to be used for role play
* Guilty or not guilty Worksheets (differentiated)
* Full lesson plans
* Character Supportive Quotes Worksheet.
Includes youtube clip: Judge Judy Best Bits
A fun, child centred resource to practise phoneme and rhyming sounds. This resource can also be used for EFL.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• To recognise and practise rhyming and phonemes sounds.
• To match similar sounds together.
Fully differentiated resource; play snap, matching sounds with pictures (the words can be stuck to the back of the card if necessary). Match words cards or match picture and word cards together.
A PPT, to practise sounding out the phoneme sounds, highlighted in red.
Resource includes:
Fully differentiated picture/word snap cards
Lesson plan
PPT.
Original and Innovative Macbeth Cluedo game. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
Resource includes Learning Objectives, Rules, Crime scene Investigation Report, Cluedo Board, Character cards, Quotation cards, Room cards, player chart and differentiation ideas.
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Murder, Suspicion,
Motive and Revenge in Macbeth.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and motivation, based on exploration of quotations.
Once this resource has been downloaded and laminated it can be used time and time again in a variety of ways.
Resource includes:
PPT with embedded Macbeth trailer and Cluedo Board/ Player's Counters and Room and Character Cards downloads.
Macbeth Snap
Full Lesson Plan
Worksheets (differentiated)
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A fun, interactive resource to fully engage and allow pupils to fully understand specific grammar points; present progressive, past progressive and past simple, present perfect tenses, the use of comparative and superlatives, adverbials.
Particularly aimed at Year 6 (SAT's) and EAL students, but can be used for all classes studying grammar points.
This package contains 5 class, grouped, paired or individual tasks which, when completed the racing car wins the race. The tasks should last for 5 lessons.
Resource includes:
Fun PPT, which when followed to the end finishes a racing car race ( with embedded video)
5 Task Sheets
Full lesson plan.
Bundle Including:
The Macbeth Cluedo game (updated):
Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
Resource includes Learning Objectives, Rules, Crime scene Investigation Report, Cluedo Board, Character cards, Quotation cards, Room cards, player chart and differentiation ideas.
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Murder, Suspicion,
Motive and Revenge in Macbeth.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and motivation, based on exploration of quotations.
Once this resource has been downloaded and laminated it can be used time and time again in a variety of ways
Also including Macbeth Snap game.
The Romeo and Juliet Board Game and Role Play.
Exciting and innovative resource. Starts with Board Game, pupils collect 'Gansta' card (which will decide whether they are in the Capulet or Montague gang) and quotation cards on the way around the board. They finish with a Prince question card. This will then lead to a matching activity, character with quotation. Differentiated cards allow for progression and allowing the more able students to be challenged.
Activity leads onto a class discussion and role play as to each characters' responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Learning Aims:
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Revenge, the ‘Butterfly effect’ and characterisation and motivation.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and responsibility towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, based on exploration of quotations. Prince holds court with questioning suspects.
Resource includes:
Game Board
Heart Counters
'Gangsta' cards.
Quotation cards
Differentiated quotation cards
Police question cards
Pupil chart to complete at end of task
Shakespeare Bundle:
Macbeth Cluedo (updated)
Macbeth Snap
Romeo and Juliet Board Game and Role Play
Aimed at GCSE or Year 6 SATs pupils learning to analyse extracts and to recognise Language and Structure devices. Particularly for the GCSE English Language Paper 1. A fun and interactive game resource for student centred learning, to learn and recognise the terminology needed for the exam. Can be used as a starter to develop into an analytical approach to reading a sample exam extract.
Included is a revision booklet for progression, which includes GCSE exam questions.
A fun, interactive resource to fully engage and allow pupils to fully understand specific grammar points; present progressive, past progressive and past simple, present perfect tenses, the use of comparative and superlatives, adverbials.
Particularly aimed at Year 6 (SAT's) and EAL students, but can be used for all classes studying grammar points.
This festive version contains 5 class, grouped, paired or individual Christmas related tasks which, when completed decorates a Christmas Tree in time for Christmas. The tasks should last for 5 lessons.
Resource includes:
Fun PPT, which when followed to the end decorates a Christmas Tree ( with embedded video)
5 Task Sheets
Full lesson plan.