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Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Persuasive text
This lesson focuses on 2 NC objectives:
-Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
-Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
Pupils will look at the meaning of some key vocabulary in the text before reading the text as a class with the teacher posing questions throughout. They will then draw an object from the text using what they have read to support them. After this, they will look at persuasive techniques and apply them to the text read considering the effect on the reader.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Hugo School Letter
This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives:
-Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
-Participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously
-Read books that are structured in different ways and read for a range of purposes
Pupils will first discuss formal and informal vocabulary before reading two versions of a school letter to parents. As a class, both texts will be compared with pupils asked which is most appropriate. Their task is then to write their own letter as a headteacher explaining an incident in school using the formal letter as a WAGOLL.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Cinderella
This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives:
-Make comparisons within and across books
-Increase familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions
-Identify and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing
Pupils will revisit the fairytale they remember and will watch the film trailer considering how it has been adapted. They will then read the Brothers Grimm version considering how it differs to the modern version and what it can suggest about the time in which it was written.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Blood Brothers
This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives:
-Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence
-Prepare poems and plays to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume so that the meaning is clear to an audience
-Continue to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
In this lesson, pupils will learn what Blood Brothers is and will read the text as a class with questions posed by the teacher. They will then complete comprehension questions on the text and will continue the next part of the playscript. An example of how to do this is provided for them.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Holes
This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives for Reading:
-Continue to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
-Provide reasoned justifications for their views
-Recommend books that they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices
In this lesson, pupils will read the first chapter of Holes and predict what might happen in the rest of the story. They will then complete a range of comprehension questions on the first chapter. Following this, they will watch the trailer for the film version to get an idea of the rest of the story and will look at an example book review based on the book. They will use this example review to help them then complete a book review for their own chosen book.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives:
Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions
Check that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context
Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence
Pupils will learn the background and context of the tale and then read it as a class. A teacher’s version is attached which gives ideas of questions to pose throughout reading. Following this, pupils will answer a range of comprehension questions requiring them to infer, deduce, retrieve and evaluate.
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The Highwayman KS2 BUNDLE of lessons!
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
This BUNDLE of lessons covers the following (Most of these lessons provide 2- 3 hours of teaching material):
-2x lessons- Whole-Class Guided Reading (on both Parts of the poem. Differentiated comprehension questions given as well as answers)
-Exploring figurative language in the poem (identifying use of metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia and considering what impact they have before writing own versions).
-Rewriting the poem as prose (links to video clips of the poem to evaluate as well as WAGOLLS given to support writing the poem as a story).
-Exploring characters (Roll on the Wall activity and character cards supporting inference and deduction skills).
-Character diary entry (features of diaries explored as well as WAGOLLs and a writing frame to write own diary entry).
-Balanced argument (features of balanced argument explored as well as structure support, WAGOLLS and a writing frame).
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Balanced Argument
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will consider more than one point of view. They will first learn what a balanced argument looks like and the features of the text type. They will then put forward points for and against the statement ‘The Highwayman was to blame for Bess’ death’.
They will then look at an example text and consider why it is effective before planning out the structure of their own balanced arguments using the support frame. Finally, they will write their own balanced argument on the statement using the writing frame given.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Exploring Characters
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will explore the characters in more detail. They will begin by carrying out ‘roll on the wall’ with each character by going around the room adding to what they know about each character, linking to the text.
Following this, they will complete the character cards which identify quotes from the text. Students have to infer what is happening at that point in the poem and what the quotes tell us about the characters and how they are feeling.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Rewriting as prose
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will firstly watch two different versions of the poem and decide which was most effective and what similarities/ differences they show.
They will then complete a sequencing activity- arranging parts of the narrative poem. After this, they will then learn how to rewrite the poem as prose by looking at WAGOLL’s and being given success criteria to consider.
This lesson will help them to apply their writing skills in narrative writing as well as enhancing their comprehension of the poem.
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English- The Highwayman KS2 Whole Class Guided Reading
“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In these 2 lessons, students will read the poem and answer a range of comprehension questions on both Part 1 and Part 2. The first lesson will focus on Part 1 and the second lesson on Part 2.
Students will first complete a dictionary task looking at the vocabulary used so as to better understand the poem.
They will then complete a range of comprehension questions which can be cut and displayed around the classroom to encourage active learning. Support will be given on how to answer comprehension questions as well as a WAGOLL of a P.E.E.L answer. The questions are colour coded in order of difficulty and answers provided.
This lesson is suitable for KS2 and KS3 students.
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English- Persuasive Writing KS2 BUNDLE!
In this BUNDLE, you will receive lessons on the following:
Lesson 1- Persuasive advertising
Lesson 2- Creating own persuasive advert
Lesson 3- Persuasive leaflets
Lesson 4- Identifying devices used in persuasive writing
Lesson 5- Writing own persuasive text
(The content of these lessons can easily spread over two weeks if taught as a whole unit).
These lessons provide lots of examples of persuasion in action and students will learn the acronym FREDEPTORS to help them remember persuasive devices. They will critique different forms of persuasive texts and will use the planning frames to produce their own persuasive advert, leaflet and text.
These lessons are ideal for upper KS2 and can easily be modified to suit KS3 also.
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English- Persuasive leaflets KS2
In this lesson, students will learn the FREDEPTORS acronym for persuasive advertising:
F- facts and font
R- repetition
E- exaggeration
D- description
E- emotive language
P- pictures
T- the rule of three
O- opinions
R- rhetorical questions
S- slogans
They will look at a range of persuasive leaflets and will be challenged to decide how they are made persuasive to the reader. They will then produce their own leaftlets using the planning frame provided.
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English- Identifying persuasive devices in texts
In this lesson, students will look at examples of persuasive writing and identify the persuasive devices used using the acronym FREDEPTORS easily remembered by the fictional character- Mr Fredeptor:
F- facts and statistics
R- repetition
E- exaggeration
D- description
E- emotive language
P- personal pronouns
T- the rule of three
O- opinions
R- rhetorical questions
S- summary
They will look at analyse example texts discussing their target audience also.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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English- Persuasive advertising KS2
Persuasive Advertising is a type of product promotion that aims to persuade a consumer for buying a particular product.
In this lesson, students will learn the FREDEPTORS acronym for:
F- facts and font
R- repetition
E- exaggeration
D- description
E- emotive language
P- pictures
T- the rule of three
O- opinions
R- rhetorical questions
S- slogans
Students will look at a range of adverts and identify what features make them persuasive. They will then be given a planning frame and will plan and produce their own persuasive adverts.
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English- Text types overview
Text types in literature form the basic styles of writing. Factual texts merely seek to inform, whereas literary texts seek to entertain or otherwise engage the reader by using creative language and imagery.
This is a comprehensive resource which details common features of the following text types:
-recounts
-non-chronological reports
-newspaper reports
-discussion
-persuasion
-instructions
-explanation
-poetry
-narrative
These are some of the common features of each text type. However, features can differ depending on the audience and purpose of a text and so these serve as a guideline only.
Useful for KS2 and KS3 as a supportive resource for both teachers and students.
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The importance of reading presentation
This presentation was given as a staff training on the importance of reading. It incorporates my own research on the importance of intrinsic motivation and the benefits reading can bring. This is a FREE resource- enjoy!
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English- Whole Class Guided Reading teaching ideas and activities
This support sheet takes you through a lesson, detailing questions you might ask and follow-up activities you may carry out on the text studied. It also gives a comprehensive list of technical terms and how authors use language for effect.
Should be helpful to any teacher wanting to lead Whole-Class Guided Reading effectively.
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English- Fiction & Non-fiction comprehension questions
The two resources give examples of possible questions that can be asked to help develop children’s comprehension skills. They link to the AF’s and are useful for any fiction or non-fiction material.
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English- Recommended Reading lists for Year 1-6
Each Recommended Reading List has 20 books which are appropriate for year group and will help to improve children’s word reading, vocabulary and understanding. These choices have been compiled by librarians and leading English teachers.
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