Resources created by an experienced English Teacher who is both Head of Department and Assistant Principal for English. I have been teaching for 18 years and have resources for KS3, KS4- both EDUQAS and AQA.
Resources created by an experienced English Teacher who is both Head of Department and Assistant Principal for English. I have been teaching for 18 years and have resources for KS3, KS4- both EDUQAS and AQA.
A lesson which employs the EDUQAS sample materials found in teacher handbook. Focuses on how writers persuade the reader. Includes self assessment, exemplar materials and other activities.
1 x ppt
1 x exam insert
1 x non-fiction article
1 x exemplar answers
1 x exam board advice/guide to analysing persuasive techniques
Used with lowest ability year 7 intervention class. Includes resources themes of Gillian Floyd's 'My sister is a monster', Kenn Nesbitt's 'Mr Brown the circus clown' and 'Digging for diamonds', 'Bee on my Nose' by R. Wayne Edwards,
Total resources= 14
Includes:
1 x PowerPoint on similes used with colours
1 x PowerPoint with level 2-4 descriptors
1 x copy of My Sister is a Monster
1 x exemplar story/teacher model of writing narrative from poetry prompt
1 x PowerPoint showing onomatopoeic words
1 x poems of Nesbitt/Edwards (rhyming poetry)
2 x PowerPoints with rhyming games
1 x PowerPoint with success criteria for writing acrostic poems
1 x similes PowerPoint
1 x link to speech marks game
1 x PowerPoint with success criteria for writing a narrative on My Sister is a monster
1 x PowerPoint to revise alphabet
1 x word cloud where students have to match up rhyming words before selecting pairs of words for writing their own poem
9 lesson mini scheme of learning with an assessment at the end focused on introducing AQA Paper 1 reading skills.
A total of 23 resources. Works out as 21p per resource.
Aims: This scheme of work in comprised of 14 lessons which intend to promote both a love or reading and a foundation of skills required to be a successful reader:
1. Dictionary skills
2. thesaurus skills
3. novel openings
4. genre
5. characters
6. themes
7. prediction
8. hot seating
9. marketing a book
10. novel to film
11. plot/sub plot
12. narrative hooks
13. favourite books
14. reading aloud
Lessons all follow the same structure:
• Learning objective/ outcome
• Starter activity
• Five minutes to change books etc
• 20 minutes silent independent reading
• Teacher questioning/review
• Task linked to LO (20 mins)
• Plenary
Use of literacy centre managers:
• General support and admin during the lesson
• Withdrawal of identified students for 1:1 reading
Each lesson has a student help sheet.
Each student has their own resource booklet.
Lesson 1 of a 28 lesson scheme of learning.
Includes PowerPoint and 1 resource sheet.
Incorporates differentiation and collaborative learning techniques.
LO: How do I analyse language and structure?
Includes:
-Active Listen activity on Bob Cratchit with link to study video on character
- Analysis activity on Bob and his relationship with Scrooge (4 part differentiated activity)
-Teacher modelling
-discussion from frequency graph
-The Founder of the Feast activity linked to context
-Extended response activity
-Self assessment
Lesson teaching CSR- Collaborative strategic reading using endangered animals reading resources (20 cards on different animals)- For use with year 7 or low ability readers or to introduce technique in general.
Includes detailed teacher's notes on CSR
Includes full PowerPoint lesson
Created for year 11 revision of EDUQAS English Literature GCSE practice of extract question on component 1 section a.
Includes question on PowerPoint and created exam insert- focuses on character at opening of play
PowerPoint includes learning question/objective, learning outcomes (differentiated) and self assessment
19 lessons to support reading of The History Keepers by Damian Dibben. Used with high ability year 8 students. Includes unit overview/Scheme of learning.
Lessons include PowerPoints.
Aims: This scheme of work in comprised of 12 lessons which intend to promote both a love of reading and a foundation of skills required to be a successful reader:
1. Setting a purpose for reading
2. Determining the meaning of words and phrases
3. Understanding the main idea
4. Skimming and scanning
5. Identifying the writer's purpose and point of view
6. Make links between ideas in a text
7. Critical reasoning
8. Inference and deduction
9. Visualisation
10. Summarising information
11. Cause and effect
12. Types of language
Lessons all follow the same structure:
• Learning objective/ outcome
• Starter activity
• Five minutes to change books etc
• 20 minutes silent independent reading
• Teacher questioning/review
• Task linked to LO (20 mins)
• Plenary
Use of literacy centre managers:
• General support and admin during the lesson
• Withdrawal of identified students for 1:1 reading
Each lesson has a student help sheet.
Each student has their own resource booklet.
A lesson of games/activities using Kagan/collaborative learning to teach students to start sentences in different ways, add punctuation and proof-read/edit errors.
LO: How do I analyse language and structure?
Includes:
-Active reading activity and note-taking on various subheadings linked to The Ghost of Christmas Past
-Link to revision video
-Analysis activity with students acting as coaches to shoulder partners
-Extended individual response task on the effect of the GOCP on Scrooge
-Self assessment
LO: Can I make contextual links in my analysis?
Includes:
-Active listening activity on the Poor Law
-A link to a clip on workhouses
-Information about Dickens' purpose in writing ACC
-Info on Dickens the socialist
-Gather and share activity on the charity men
-Analysis task on Scrooge representing Victorian opinion of the poor
Extended analysis task
-Peer assessment plenary
Created as introduction lesson for year 11s to essay question on EDUQAS GCSE Lit Component 1 section a question 1b. Makes use of EDUQAs sample materials.
PowerPoint includes:
Lesson objective
differentiated outcomes
starter activity with language and structure analysis
information slides
key quotations sheet
exempalr question (from sample materials)
Exemplar student responses
Advice on how to structure responses
writing task
self assessment activity