A Christmas Carol - AWARD NOMINATED: EVERY LESSON for Charles Dickens' text. 20x fully differentiated and resourced lessons to prepare KS3 and KS4 students for AQA GCSE English Literature questions on Charles Dickens' classic novella. All created by a Tes Bev Evans Award nominated author 2017.
Includes the following lessons:
1) Introduction to the text
2) Historical context
3) Stave one language analysis
4) Fred and Scrooge character analysis (Stave One)
5) Marley's Ghost - language analysis (Stave One)
6) Marley's message (Stave One)
7) The Ghost of Christmas Past (Stave Two)
8) Fezziwig (Stave Two)
9) Fan and Belle (Stave Two)
10) The Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave Three)
11) The Cratchits (Stave Three)
12) The Next Visits (Stave Three)
13) Stave Four - Part One
14) Tiny Tim and Scrooge - Stave Four
15) Stave Five - The End
16) SCHEME OF WORK - NEW!
17) Exam practice pack (10 questions)
18) Exam question review
19) Key quotes
20) Knowledge organiser for revision
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A festive and easy to teach poetry week on ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Includes 5 engaging PowerPoints leading you through 5 complete lessons, differentiated lesson resources and a detailed plan.
An excellent week of English lessons for the build up to Christmas whilst maintaining focus and high quality outcomes.
The original and useuful resources make teaching enjoyable and easy. The video links in the PowerPoint inspire poetry writing and performance.
Each lesson is differentiated for two ability groups.
Each lesson contains a success criteria.
Higher level thinking challenges are provided.
Grammar starters cover handwriting, a or an, word classes, rhyming words and spellings.
A lovely, tried and tested week of learning about narrative poetry, rhyming couplets, poetry format and syllables.
Includes a range of activities and differentiated tasks. Children will compare and evaluate poems, identify features and then write their own narrative poem using the structure of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ with ideas from ‘The Snowman’.
Detailed weekly plan and all resources included.
All reviews welcome.
Here is my most successful unit! Every year, children produce fantastic writing. I have used it in Year 5, but it could be easily adapted for use in any Key Stage 2 class.
Although Morpurgo’s version of the classic poem is fantastic, this unit is based on a very short, simplified version of Beowulf (written as a story), which can be read quickly and used as a model for children’s writing. There is still plenty of rich vocabulary and figurative language to explore. I have included two versions of the model: a 500 word version and a more detailed 900 word version.
This carefully planned unit is three weeks long. Firtsly, children learn the story through a series of drama activities. Later on in the unit, they change the story, and retell it from the monster’s perspective - great fun! Finally, they create a legend of their own, using the pattern of Beowulf - a ‘defeating the monster’ pattern.
Of course, there is plenty of grammar, comprehension and vocabulary work included throughout (all in the ZIP folder). Many sessions and writing tasks (including the final outcome) are differentiated, for mixed ability classes. I have also given suggested passages for whole class shared writing - an essential part of teaching writing.
This unit is ready to go. Creative teachers (and children!) will enjoy getting stuck-in to this one.
Please also check out my new unit ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’. It’s my most comprehensively resourced unit to date, with every lesson creatively planned in detail and many sessions resourced for SEN, EXP and GDS. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theseus-and-the-minotaur-3-weeks-of-detailed-planning-fully-resourced-and-differentiated-11914692
A collection of TWENTY English Language Paper 2 Question 5 lessons (17 x1 hour and 3x 2 hour) that cover writing to argue, writing to advise, writing to persuade, letter writing and essay writing. A great collection of differentiated activities, modelled examples, scaffolded sentences and guided peer and self reflection that enables students to learn from others and improve their non-fiction writing in preparation for AQA English Language Paper 2 Section B or Question 5.
The suggested order of lessons is as follows (although this is by no means obligatory):
AQA Paper 2 Section B Speech Writing
Speech Openers
Churchill Speech Writing
Lincoln Speech Writing
Speech Structure
Newspaper Writing
Magazine Article Writing
Writing to Persuade - Football
Greta Thunberg Speech Writing
Black History Month - Essay Writing
Writing to Advise
Letter Writing - Writing A Formal Letter
Writing to Persuade - Letters of Complaint
AQA English Language Exam Prep/Mock prep lesson
Pack also contains:
Assessment planning for writing to argue - could be used as a separate writing to argue lesson
Assessment planning for letter writing - could be used as a separate letter writing lesson
Paper 2 Question 5 revision pack
Knowledge organiser for revision
June 2018 AQA exam review lesson if you use this paper as a mock/prep
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This is an oracy staff meeting. The slides are in PowerPoint and are fully editable. I have added some notes on slides which may need further explanation.
Included:
powerpoint 47 slides fully editable
oracy progression map fully editable
discussion roles poster NOT editable
discussion rules poster NOT editable
#No additional resources needed.
Click here to download lesson 1 for FREE.
This unit includes 10 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to teach Year 3 children all about Non-Chronological Reports. They will begin by reading, exploring and identifying the features of this type of text before using their knowledge to plan and write their own non-chronological reports. They will have the option of 4 interesting sports to research (using the internet, nonfiction books or both), and will use this information to create their own reports in a similar style. They will create, share, edit and improve their drafts before creating a polished report ready for display!
SPAG/GPS covered: Word Classes, Clauses, Conjunctions, Spellings and Suffix Rules.
Lesson 1: To identify features of non-chronological reports
Lesson 2: To recognise word classes and clauses
Lesson 3: To understand how to create a formal tone
Lesson 4: To apply spelling rules when adding suffixes
Lesson 5: To plan a non-chronological report
Lesson 6: To begin writing a non-chronological report
Lesson 7: To extend sentences using conjunctions
Lesson 8: To edit and improve my writing
Lesson 9: To prepare and deliver a persuasive argument
Lesson 10: To create a non-chronological report for display
This bundle comes with an End of Unit Child and Teacher Assessment Sheet to allow each pupil to assess and reflect on their own learning.
Total Number of Slides: 51
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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Full scheme of work covering all aspects of creative writing. Ideal in preparing students for GCSE English Language Paper 1, Section B.
Designed with the very latest developments in the 9-1 specification in mind, this is best suited to the AQA syllabus but would be equally useful for both KS3 prep and other exam boards.
Please see individual resources for more details. The lessons all work well as stand-alone, but if being used in sequence, the scheme runs as follows:
Lesson 1 - Vocabulary
Lesson 2 - Sensory Description
Lesson 3 - Devices and Techniques
Lesson 4 - Narrative and Descriptive Openings
Lesson 5 - Sentence Variation
Lesson 6 - Characterisation
Lesson 7 - Narrative Structure
Each lesson takes the form of a ‘masterclass’; each masterclass is packed with a range of activities that will enable your students to truly embed and master each aspect of creative writing. Each ‘lesson’ is probably going to take in excess of 2 hours to get through - you may wish to ‘pick and choose’ activities, or take your time with each skill area and cover them in depth.
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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ 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 play, understanding the writer’s ideas within the play, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices.
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.
This is a 4 week unit of work that is based on the books 'Cracking Contraptions' by Wallace & Gromit and 'Until I Met Dudley' by Roger McGough (illustrated by Chris Riddell). The end piece of writing is an explanatory text that is based on an invention that the pupils have to design. This has always been a fantastic unit where pupil's are inspired to create a great explanatory text rich with technical language. There are lots of chances to link it with Science or Design & Technology work for circuits.
The learning objectives for this unit of work are;
Stage 1- Stimulate and generate- Learning outcomes
• To understand the purpose of an explanation text
• To write an explanatory text
• To find evidence of an author’s style
• To explain how to do something in a clear and logical sequence
• To identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph
Stage 2 - Capture, Sift and Sort- Learning outcomes
• To find key features of an explanatory text
• To write consistently in the present tense
• To design a Cracking Contraption
• To label a diagram
• To write an opening statement
• To label a diagram
• To use causal conjunctions
• To sequence in logical steps
• To order an explanatory text correctly
• To improve a given explanation text using time connectives
• To write accurate titles for explanatory texts
• To write complex sentences
Stage 3 - Create refine evaluate- Learning outcomes
• To create and label a Cracking Contraption
• To write an explanatory text
• To prepare a public presentation
• To present clearly with good voice projection to an audience
This unit of work uses the 3 stage planning process of:
• Stimulate and generate
• Capture, sift and sort
• Create, refine and evaluate
Stimulate and generate = This usually starts with a hook to interest the class where the class realise who they are going to write for so they have a clear purpose and audience. Activities can include reading excellent model texts, drama or researching more about the author or the content of the book.
Capture, sift and sort = This is the part of the unit where pupils look at key features, practise skills they will need in order to complete the final piece or new learning for objectives they have not learnt yet.
Create, refine, evaluate = This is where you bring all you have learnt together and plan the final piece before you write it and then edit it to improve the piece. This can include self, peer or teacher led reviewing.
This is a 4 week unit of work that is based around Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Wolves in the Walls’ book. This is a challenging text, as it covers the issue of nightmares but it really engages the boys in my class. Neil Gaiman has a fantastic story telling ability (he also wrote Coraline). The end piece is designed to be a descriptive nightmare where the child experienced it learns what to do in their life after they wake up. This unit of work is targeted best at Year 4 - 6 pupils. I have included all the resources you need to start teaching this tomorrow. Below are all the learning objectives and resources included for the unit:
Stage 1- Stimulate and generate- Learning outcomes
• To write a letter to a character in a book
• To create a fantasy world
• To select and retrieve key information
• To discuss philosophical ideas
• To find the meaning of words
Stage 2 - Capture, Sift and Sort- Learning outcomes
• To find the key features descriptive writing
• To write sentences using conjunctions
• To find near synonyms
• To write produce internally coherent paragraphs
• To write sentences with embedded clauses
• To write about all 5 senses
• To use a fronted adverbial to explain how, when or where something took place
• To write expanded noun phrases
Stage 3 - Create refine evaluate- Learning outcomes
• To plan my writing by discussing and recording ideas
• To plan and organise my ideas to effectively support my writing
• To revise, edit evaluate and improve my writing
• To revise, edit evaluate and improve my writing
• To create illustrations for a piece of writing
• To read my story to another pupil
Resources Include:
• 1 - Postcard from Lucy
• 3 - Animals in Dreams
• 3 - Animals in Dreams Reading Comprehension
• 4 - Philosophical Questions
• 5 – Reading
• 5 – Wolves Word Mat
• 6 - Key Features of Descriptive Writing
• 8 – Shades of meaning
• 10 - Embedded clauses
• 11 - 5 Senses
• 11 - Fantasy Pictures
• 12 - Fronted Adverbials WT
• 13 - Monk & Monkey Photos
• 14 – Storyboard
• 16 - Success Criteria
• WAGOLL
• PowerPoint LOs
This unit of work uses the 3 stage planning process of:
Stimulate and generate = This usually starts with a hook to interest the class where the class realise who they are going to write for so they have a clear purpose and audience. Acticitives can include reading excellent model texts, drama or researching more about the author or the content of the book.
Capture, sift and sort = This is the part of the unit where pupils look at key features, practise skills they will need in order to complete the final piece or new learning for objectives they have not learnt yet.
Create, refine, evaluate = This is where you bring all you have learnt together and plan the final piece before you write it and then edit it to improve the piece. This can include self, peer or teacher led reviewing.
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men.' It contains comprehensive sections on:
- Context;
- Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes);
- Main Characters;
- Themes;
- Literary Features;
- The Origins of the Book Title.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Reading comprehension and activities on ‘The Final Year’ by Matt Goodfellow.
A PowerPoint of questions and answers based on this text.
Takes you through the book, broken into sections to allow for whole class reading and discussion or a guided reading activity.
This stimulating and informative lesson develops students’ skill in creating non-chronological reports that precisely meet the content, language and structural features of the form. In particular, they gain an in-depth understanding of how non-chronological reports are ordinarily set out on the page, what information should be included within them, and what style they should be written in, in order to meet form and purpose. These resources contain 3 example non-chronological reports, differentiated by the accessibility of their language.
Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they:
-Define what non-chronological letters are and clarify their purpose;
Establish the structural features of non-chronological letters;
-Work collaboratively to identify and analyse the content and language features in further model examples of non-chronological reports;
-Create a success criteria for effective non-chronological reports;
-Write their own non-chronological reports, using a planning sheet (if needed) and the techniques that they have learnt;
-Peer/self-assess their writing attempts.
There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including:
-Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint;
-Non-chronological reports x 3 (based on tennis, great white sharks, and Dubai)
-Non-chronological reports structure worksheet;
-Non chronological reports planning sheet;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
The imaginative poem ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Weight provides a wonderful opportunity to appreciate, perform and compose a fantasy poem. These resources are presented beautifully to also evoke an individual written response from the learners.
THE LEARNING INTENTIONS INCLUDE:
to read, appreciate and perform a fantasy poem
to compose verses based on the model poem
to include descriptive and imaginative vocabulary within their verses
Within the pack:
Presentation A which provides an initial starting point to read, appreciate and perform the poem.
It leads the learners through each verse and encourages them to appreciate the rich language of the poet. A web link is provided for learners to see and hear the original poet perform the poem.
It also provides visuals to help the learners understand and analyse the composition.
The initial written task is to compose 3 verses based on the model - learners concentrate on feelings, creatures, the natural world - What would they put in their box?
Presentation B provides an opportunity to concentrate on the final 3 verses of the model poem - the ‘impossible things’ verse, what their box is made of and where they will travel in their box.
I have provided opportunities for children to work with their talking partners to support their composition.
The final result should be very individual poems structured on the original poem.
A word mat is also provided to aid composition , a separate copy of the poem for annotation as well as a planning sheet. Within this presentation, there are slides that the teacher can use with interactive pens for shared writing to further support differentiation and an assessment checklist.
I have also provided a simple comprehension task which can be used to aid comprehension of the model poem if required. There are many opportunities for incidental learning e.g. grammar and word choice particularly adjectives, powerful verbs, similes and alliteration.
Additional tip : Print off nets of cubes and cuboids ( photocopiable card ) and ask children to decorate their magic boxes then assemble them.
I hope your learners enjoy the poem and activities and would be delighted if you left feedback.
N.B. Ideally these resources should be used over several days
TWENTY fully differentiated lessons for both KS3 and KS4 students on George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Ideal preparation for students working towards AQA English Literature Paper 2.
Lesson 1: FREE TO DOWNLOAD HERE
We analyze all the major characters introduced in Chapter One and some clues about context and deeper symbolic meaning. Students evaluate how each character is introduced, including Mr Jones, Boxer, Clover, Old Major and more.
Lesson 2: We look at Old Major’s speech to the animals in Chapter 1 and how he uses language to influence the animals into supporting his cause. Additionally, we explore the song Beasts of England and evaluate how it affects the animals on the farm.
Lesson 3: This focuses on the first half of Chapter 2. Students analyze key sections of the chapter to develop an understanding of characters, plot and also historical context. Recently revamped and expanded.
Lesson 4: We create summaries regarding the characters, and how plot and themes are developed in the rest of Chapter 2.
Lesson 5: This lesson focuses on Chapter 3 and supports students in analyzing the behaviour of the pigs around the other animals including Boxer, Squealer, Snowball and Napoleon.
Lesson 6: This lesson focuses on Chapter 4 and supports students in analyzing language and structure.
Lesson 7: We look at the importance of the Windmill in Chapter 5, at what happens between Snowball and Napoleon and how Napoleon uses the puppies to tighten his grip on power.
Lesson 8: Now we focus on Chapter 5 and the opening to Chapter 6. We look closely at the battle between Snowball and Napoleon as well as Squealer’s use of language to appease the animals and their initial anger.
Lesson 9: This lesson focuses on Chapter 6, historical context and creating analytical paragraphs.
Lesson 10: We explore the symbolic significance of the windmill in the text and students develop a more detailed understanding of context.
Lesson 11: We find out how tension is building in Chapter 7, the significance of Mr Whymper and why Snowball is portrayed as to blame for everything or a scapegoat. Additionally, students explode quotes and develop their language analysis skills.
Lesson 12: Recap Animal Farm by George Orwell through an engaging escape room lesson! It is filled with codes, puzzles and activities to get students to revise characters, themes and contexts as they work in groups or ‘escape crews’ to get out of the Windmill! Includes answers for every mystery and puzzle (see the notes attached in the PowerPoint) and is a brilliant way to help students in their learning.
Lesson 13: Animal Farm lesson that focuses on Boxer and how he is presented in Chapter 7 plus earlier parts of the texts. We explore how Napoleon’s trials and executions of many animals mimic those of the Stalin show trials of the 1930s, as well as how the animals react to the death and destruction they witness.
Lesson 14: We explore the cult of personality around Napoleon and how this links into historical context, as well as analysing the key events of the Battle of the Windmill and why the pigs’ discovery of alcohol might be the beginning of the end for the animals on Animal Farm.
Lesson 15: FREE TO DOWNLOAD HERE
Animal Farm lesson that explores how Boxer leaves and what happens to him, how the animals react to this and how they are manipulated by Squealer, and how and why Moses is allowed to stay at the farm despite spreading ideas about Sugarcandy Mountain.
Also includes an escape room revision lesson, knowledge organiser and full scheme of work document!
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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HUNGE GAMES LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO BOTH OF THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLETS, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Suzanne Collins’ ‘The Hunger Games.’ 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.
This is a complete Talk for Writing (T4W) unit pack to support the teaching of The Papaya that Spoke. This is aimed at Year 2/3 but could be edited for other year groups.
The pack includes:
Unit Overview
Unit Powerpoint
Model Text
Ready-made Story Maps
Working Wall Resources
Lesson Activities
A PowerPoint presentation of various English games suitable for KS2, KS3 and KS4.
Can be used as starters/plenaries or lengthened out to make a lesson out of.
Please leave a review to let me know whether you have found this resource useful :-)
ll the literacy progression documents, 12 strands from the New Primary Framework, VCOP, RUCSAC, reading, writing, speaking and listening assessment. Topcis also included are: assessment.
There are times when you're class is going wrong or a colleague is ill and you've been asked to cover, you have no plan, no materials and a textbook that is boring your students to tears... These fillers require no preparation and no equipment beyond a whiteboard, markers and some paper. These are my favourites and have got me out of more than one hole...
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