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Please have a look at all of my resources - at least 20% of which are free.
20 1-hour ready-to-teach and fully resourced lessons on every chapter of 'The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne. This scheme also includes two contextual lessons to introduce students to the important background knowledge for the book such as Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Auschwitz.
All lessons are easily adaptable and ready to teach with a lesson overview and printing instructions. Each lesson has a clear learning objective and differentiated learning outcomes. This resource also includes a detailed knowledge organiser and a homework menu to accompany the unit. Assessment ideas for the unit are also provided.
For a detailed breakdown of the knowledge and skills covered by this unit, have a look at the scheme of work, which is available for free if you click through the resources in this bundle. This covers a range of knowledge and skills on the key stage 3 curriculum and prepares students for both Language and Literature that they will study in key stage 4.
A number of the resources in this bundle are available for free - you can find them if you click through the resources in the bundle. Please leave a review as I value all the feedback I receive.
Freebies in this bundle (so that you can try before you buy):
1) Two pre-reading lessons to introduce students to the context of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
2) A lesson on chapter 1 of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
3) A scheme of work for teaching the entire novel.
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Detailed character profiles for five of the main characters in Macbeth: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, King Duncan and the three witches.
These profiles contain a description of each character and some of their important quotes.
They could be used for revision or for learning about the characters before reading the play.
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A detailed knowledge organiser/revision mat that outlines punctuation and grammar techniques and writing styles. This could be used in English lessons or printed for desk placemats to develop literacy across the curriculum.
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This bundle contains six essential revision resources for Of Mice and Men revision.
It includes:
An Of Mice and Men revision card game which includes key quotes
A 10 page Of Mice and Men revision guide on loneliness (focused on IGCSE Pearson English Literature but relevant to a range of syllabi)
A 100 question Of Mice and Men revision quiz
An Of Mice and Men knowledge organiser
A knowledge organiser about Curley’s Wife and an activity in which students use this as a model to create knowledge organisers for the other characters in the book.
A home-learning/online resource to help students to independently learn the social context of Of Mice and Men.
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This is a simple match up exercise containing key literary terms that students need to know to study Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. I use it as a starter revision exercise or I also set it as homework to have students use it to create flashcards for revision.
I have included one page of it in colour and one in black and white.
Many of these terms are included on the Romeo and Juliet Knowledge Organiser.
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An adapted workbook that covers all of CIE 0500 English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 for home learning or online learning. These 10 lessons are designed to either be taught as part of online lessons or completed independently at home.
All of these lessons have been adapted from my original CIE 0500 resources - you can see the positive reviews for them here and here.
This resource contains:
A Powerpoint workbook with 128 slides that covers ten lessons. Students complete their work directly into the Powerpoint (it also works well as Google Slides).
An answers Powerpoint - I have included original example questions for each part of the paper. The answers Powerpoint includes suggested answers for these.
A scheme of work overview document for these 10 lessons.
This is ideal to use in preparation for mock exams or the end of course IGCSE exams.
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Ready-to-teach and easily adaptable 1 hour lesson to teach simple/compound sentences and FANBOYS connectives. This lesson breaks down the difference between independent and dependent clauses and then prompts students to compose their own simple and compound sentences. This lesson includes a very engaging extension task whereby students correct the punctuation in ‘Human’ by Rag’n’Bone Man. This activity really pushes them to consider what is and isn’t an independent clause and the music means that students find it really engaging.
This lesson was designed for key stage 3, but could easily be adapted for key stage 2 or key stage 4 depending on the ability!
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A detailed and engaging one hour lesson to support students in their analysis of Judy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1. This lesson supports students in considering how Judy changes throughout the play and how this affects her relationship with Christopher.
This resource contains a ready-to-teach Powerpoint with all teacher and printing instructions included.
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A detailed and engaging one hour lesson to support students in their analysis of Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1. This lesson supports students to analyse the scene in the train station with many competing voices with the focus of considering how the writer creates a feeling of empathy for him.
This resources contains a slide which has the text from this scene moving and zooming around to create an immersive effect of how it would feel to be Christopher.
This resource contains a ready-to-teach Powerpoint with all teacher instructions included.
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A detailed and engaging one hour lesson to support students in their analysis of Judy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1… This lesson supports students to annotate and analyse the flashback scene to understand who Judy is.
This resource contains a ready-to-teach Powerpoint with all teacher and printing instructions included.
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This bundle contains resources to help students to develop their understanding of horror conventions and their close reading of texts.
These lessons are all fully differentiated, resourced and ready to teach. All teacher instructions and answers (if required) are included. 'Do it now' activities, differentiated learning outcomes and opportunities for peer assessment are all included.
This bundle includes:
* A lesson on the features of gothic horror description.
* A lesson in which students learn how to write their own gothic horror description.
*A lesson for lower ability learners to teach them how to write a point, evidence, explain answer about 'Dracula'.
* A lesson in which students independently analyse the beginning of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe.
* An independent close reading lesson which can be used multiple times with different texts (could be used with any challenging horror text).
* A horror writing knowledge organiser
* A horror writing homework menu
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Fully resourced and ready-to-teach 1 hour lesson which introduces students to assonance and encourages them to question why writers use it and what its effect is. Students then write a poem using assonance.
This lesson is aimed at KS3 and would be suitable for an introduction to poetry unit - but it could easily be adapted to younger or older students.
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Fully resourced and ready-to-teach 1 hour lesson which leads students towards writing a poem about an everyday object using personification.
This lesson is aimed at KS3 and would be suitable for an introduction to poetry unit - but it could easily be adapted to younger or older students. It is best suited to students who already know what personification is but need to practise using it effectively.
This lesson includes:
Explanation of personification
Differentiated learning outcomes
An extract from ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman with questions for students to consider the effect of the personification.
Structured peer assessment.
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This support mat/knowledge organiser is designed to help students in their independent literary textual analysis. It contains the following sections:
Annotation
Sentence starters for comparing/contrasting, introducing new information etc.
How to embed quotes within sentences
A checklist for outstanding analysis.
I use the checklist to help when giving students feedback (which is why they are coded by letters). I would then give students a specific letter to be their target for their next attempt.
I have included the file as a pdf for easy printing, and also as a ppt file so that you can edit it in line with your own teaching methods if you wish.
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A detailed knowledge organiser and homework menu to support students studying ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne
The knowledge organiser includes:
21 literary terms and their definitions of techniques analysed in the novel such as juxtaposition, foreboding, mondegreen etc…
10 contextual terms and their definitions such as Holocaust, Antisemitism, Aryan Race etc…
10 reading terms and their definitions such as scanning, skimming, synthesis etc…
The homework menu includes:
Four weeks worth of homework: for each week students are able to select the specifics of their task from a menu.
The options include research, informational writing, artistic and creative writing tasks.
This is suitable for any age group studying The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
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A scheme of work to introduce students to the entire syllabus of CIE 0500 IGCSE English Language. These lessons work well both to introduce the course or as revision before exams.
This scheme of work has 12 lessons and involves 2 assessments for papers 1 and 2. All of the resources required to teach this scheme of work are available in my shop and a number of them can be downloaded for free as I have listed below.
Freebies:
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper One here.
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper Two here.
Free marking templates for CIE 0500 here. #
If you find this scheme of work helpful, have a look at my CIE 0500 Language Paper 1 bundle here or the Language Paper 2 bundle here. If you’re interested in both, there is a combined bundle here which is cheaper than buying them separately.
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Ready-to-teach and easily adaptable 1 hour lesson on complex sentences. This lesson teaches students how to write complex sentences and how to move the dependent clause to different parts of the sentence accurately.
This lesson was designed for key stage 3, but could easily be adapted for key stage 2 or key stage 4 depending on the ability!
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Two fully resourced and ready-to-teach one-hour lessons which introduce students to the skills of annotating a poem and then writing an analytical PEE paragraph about it. These lessons are designed so that they can be downloaded and taught immediately and all printing instructions are included. The poem used is ‘I am Offering this Poem’ by Jimmy Santiago Baca.
This lesson is aimed at KS3 and would be suitable for an introduction to poetry unit - but it could easily be adapted to younger or older students. Students will need to know what personification, similes, alliteration and repetition are already.
These lessons include:
A 22-slide Powerpoint
Differentiated learning outcomes
Copies of the poem with a glossary (in both word and pdf formats - for editing or printing).
Explanation of annotation
A model PEE paragraph
Structured peer assessment
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Fully resourced and differentiated 1 hour lesson in which students compare and contrast the features of poetry and prose. They then move on to considering the effect of poetry by looking at three examples.
This lesson is aimed at KS3 and would be suitable for the beginning of an introduction to poetry unit - but it could easily be adapted to younger or older students.
This lesson includes:
Full explanantion of poetry and prose
Differentiated learning outcomes
Worksheet available as word (for easy editing) and as a pdf (for easy printing)
All teaching and printing instructions.
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A 12 lesson scheme of work overview to support students in their studies of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1.
All the resources are available on TES.
The first lesson can be found for free here.
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