Why don't you make your classroom displays more productive with these colourful, easy to understand posters breaking down the English Language Assessment Objectives.
* Assessment Objectives are based on the Edexcel IGCSE, however it can be adapted easily to suit your exam board.
'The Sign of Four' booklet, including 7 exam style questions. The booklet also includes space for students to plan, write and self/peer assess work, as generic feedback sentences have been provided. There are also opportunities for students to rewrite their response using the feedback given.
Lesson focusing on Chapter Two of the novel. Students learn how to make comparisons between the setting (Justice Strauss and Count Olaf’s house). The lesson includes:a
literacy task looking at discourse markers.
comprehension questions for the chapter
differentiated questions to help students make comparisons between the two settings
comparison task
homework task
Full lesson that aims at students writing a leaflet, including an exam style question (Q5) . To engage students, the subject area focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Detailed PowerPoints focusing on question 1 and 2 of the English Language Paper 1 examination.
Lesson 1: Introduction into English Paper 1, using an extract from 'The Hunger Games'
Lesson 2: Understanding the differences between implicit and explicit information using 'The Hunger Games' and visual aids.
Lesson 3: Group based lesson/activities focusing on language techniques
Lesson 4: Breakdown of Question 2 using 'The Sign of Four'
Lesson 5/6: Understanding more ambitious language techniques, such as antithesis and Satire using 'Tale of Two Cities' and 'Animal Farm'.
Lessons provide scaffolding for lower ability students, including sentence starters and activities to suit needs of different abilities.
Activities looking at current issues around racial injustice. Using Banksy’s work, students discuss what the artist is trying to convey about systemic racism. This is then followed by a language analysis task and an opportunity for students to write letters to their local MP.
Also includes a PowerPoint focusing on language analysis.
A lesson that not only teaches students how to write using a variation of language techniques, but also to raise awareness of world issues. This lesson is accompanied by a series of lessons (reading and writing skills) for the IGCSE non-fiction text, 'Passage to Africa' which you will find on my TES shop.
This lesson includes:
- Quiz testing students understanding of techniques
- Stimulus for creative writing with step-by-step success criteria
- Example answer
A distance learning lesson teaching students how to compare poetry. I use songs from my favourite rappers, J Cole and Tupac, to show rap is poetry too!
Lesson includes:
-Youtube video looking at how to approach and compare unseen poems
-Extracts from both songs with key questions to help analyse methods used
-Comparison essay question (sentence starters provided and comparison flashcard)
A detailed lesson exploring how Conan Doyle presents ideas of race and the working class in Victorian Britain. The lesson includes:
- SPAG starter (semi colons and colons)
- Analysis of key extract from the novel
-Speaking and listening activity. Students prepare and deliver a formal presentation exploring their views on a statement
- Exam question also included
*Visit my shop for a full SOW for 'The Sign of Four'.
A lesson focusing on Sheila Birling's involvement in the death of Eva Smith. The lesson includes:
- starter activity using Michaela Coel's article, 'Adele’s tribute to Beyoncé was a frank admission of privilege. I salute it.' Students will identify the explicit information in the text
-activity looking at the differences between Eva and Sheila
-exam style questions (theme and character)
A lesson introducing the novel A Series of Unfortunate Events. Students will learn how to identify explicit and implicit information in a text, whilst also making predictions about the text.
Two lessons for English Language Paper 2: Question 2.
The lessons teaches students how to summarise, identify less obvious differences between the sources and how to synthesise between texts. Students are also given student examples and the opportunity to attempt practice questions and self assess.
There’s more!
A relatable online revision video I have made has also been included. This breaks down the exam paper itself, accompanied with a short quiz at the end :o)
The sources used come from an AQA specimen paper (Elizabeth Dray at Glastonbury/ Charles Dickens at Greenwich Fair)
Lesson focuses on AO3 to help students understand and incorporate AO3 effectively in their response.
The lesson explores the life and poetry of Tupac Shakur. Students look at aspects of his life and consider how this influenced his poems ‘The Rose That Grew From Concrete’ and ‘Jada’.
Students write a reponse as a class using ‘The Rose That Grew From Concrete’ and attempt their own answer using the poem ‘Jada’.
Persuasive writing lesson using the topic of the Syrian Refugee crisis. I hope the lesson will teach students how to write persuasively and help them gain an understanding of the current issues going on in Syria.
Students will act as 'Save the Children' and research into the current issues affecting the lives of those in Syria due to the war (research pack provided). They will then write a persuasive speech to the Foreign Secretary using the research that they have learnt. This can be taught over a series of lessons.
Activities led to really interesting and insightful discussions, and students developed a more insightful understanding of the issues that affect their world :o)
Nice idea to extend learning outside the classroom:
- letters could be sent to the MP
-speaking and listening activities
-assembly presentations
Please leave a review. I would love to know how the lesson went :o).
Big question: What are the key features of a play? What do we learn about the Birling family though the stage directions?
Lesson includes:
Retrieval practice (J.B. Priestley brain dump)
Students explore the conventions of a play
Questions to help students’ analysis of the staging and opening stage directions
Revisit the big question. Series of sentence starters to help students answer the question
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 3 Practice.
Lesson includes:
Explanation of literary structure and techniques
Exploration and analysis tasks of a scene from the film ‘Encanto’.
Model example paragraph
Success criteria and sentence starters to help students’ written analysis of the scene