Introduction and assistance in picking the topic for original writing in A Level English

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As the title says

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A quick settler/starter image to get your students thinking about the main themes in the poem Valentine.

2 cards printed per A4 sheet Nice and colourful to engage students Can be used as a plenary Questions are generic and can be applied to any book

A4 Jigsaw pieces that each have a connective written on them. There are 29 pieces, in full colour, each with a connecting conjunction.

This presentation is a short presentation that I create to deliver on whole staff inset. it takes you through the definitions of literacy and why it is important to all subjects. It also reassures staff that they will already have an element of literacy in their lessons as well as offering practical strategies for all subjects to incorporate.

In addition to this resource you will need some lego style building bricks. Slide 1 - Gets the discussion started in your classroom. Students should use the building blocks so that you can identify who is taking part in the classroom discussion. Slide 2 - This teaching slide uses animations to teach the fundamentals of writing to argue Slide 3 - This has a thinking image. The image aims to make students consider whether or not they're contradicting themselves.

A handy document for outlining the objectives of your lesson for the teaching assistant There's a space to outline your lesson activities and space for feedback This is really handy if you don't get the time to meet with your TA very often

Modelled teacher response at a very basic level. Improvement it written below, showing pupils how ideas can be developed and how sentence variety can impact

A great resource for printing on A3 Includes a space for students to write their own quotations in.

A colour coded resource with a checklist on to help students with approaching poetry. There is also a colour coded essay framework, which helps students to construct a response to 2 poems read, at the same time as comparing them. This resource has worked great with my middle ability and lower ability classes. An excellent revision resource too.

4 worksheets on the 4 ghosts in A Christmas Carol This will work well in the classroom or as a revision source for your students to complete as homework

4 questions that gradually become more difficult to use as a stimulus for group work discussion Students should explore possibilities, which is a skill they need for the Literature syllabus Questions can be stuck on A3 paper, so that students are able to write their answers around the questions All questions are based on Stave 1

A series of lessons based around formal and informal letter writing You will need to model a response from your own stock The PowerPoint goes through the layout of each, with short and engaging activities mainly aimed at teenage boys Past exam tasks on there too

A series of PowerPoint slides that revise a range of sentence types A good print out for books or can be used as mini tasks in class Plain and simple

A nice resource for students with upcoming exams There is space for name, exam date, reading targets and writing targets

You will also need a past student response to aid this PowerPoint Students will 1st work identifying elements that are successful in the student response and filling out the grid Then, move onto thinking about the task title - in this PP it is to describe the scene at a park There are some images to get students thinking creatively and imaginatively Students should then aim to write at least one descriptive paragraph by the end of the lesson

Introduce your students to descriptive writing with this visual aid There are a range of images to be printed out I stuck the images on A3 paper - one image per sheet The students, in groups, then had to have a go at adding adjectives, verbs, similes etc to describe the image ****No book marking involved!!!