Descriptive writing WAGOLL with lots of ambitious vocabulary

The start of a modelled response to demonstrate to pupils how to write about mood and atmosphere. The model is aimed at B/C borderline students.

This lesson helped me to achieve and outstanding for a recent lesson observation. The PowerPoint looks at an empathetic style exam question and then there is a group work activity. The group work activity is set up so that you have a different character at each different work station, with different questions to get students to think and empathise with each character. Once downloaded, it is really simple to follow.

Following grades from a mock exam, students then wrote a message to themselves (a final promise before their actual exam) and then they 'bottled' it up. We then stuck the paper bottles up around the classroom.

This is an introduction to writing to advise All of the statements will be relevant to students They could work in groups and write their advice on large sheets of paper When sharing ideas, students could then look to see if they've used modal verbs etc

A simple resource

Exactly as the title says - I used this with my bottom sets.

Activities to look at the graphological features of leaflet writing and then the planning and writing of their own leaflets

A structured grid for students to begin to understand the relationships between characters in Romeo and Juliet.

This planning sheet can be used to plan any form of writing. There is a section on there for making inferences too, i.e. if students are responding to something that they have read. This really allows students to understand the importance of planning and really helped my lower ability learners in terms of giving them a really structured way of doing so.

The sheet contains a box outlining what needs to go in each paragraph of their essays Their is a PETAL drawing on the sheet, along with a question related to My Last Duchess This has been created in preparation for the Power and Conflict cluster for AQA

I'm currently trialing a poem a day with my KS4 groups. I'm using structured questions and a random poem, just to get them used to dealing with poetry unseen. Here is a poem called 'Baggage', along with questions on a PP slide.

A structured activity with a checklist for students to respond to feedback.

Teach the language question at the same time as revising literature! This resource has been created using an extract from Jekyll and Hyde, but is based on the 8 mark language question from the new English Language specification for 2017 onwards.

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

Key character revision sheet I printed this on A3 and then asked students to add their own key quotations

Students can use this colourful resource to look at the director's interpretation when watching a film version

This is a nice little resource to use that will get students using their inference skills. The students have to match the small section of the text to the relevant illustration. This works well for students cutting them out and sticking them onto A3.

A visual presentation to show students what they should be writing about for question 4 - comparing writers' viewpoints. This presentation briefly revisits inferences too.

A short presentation that structures discussion around spotting the differences in two images and then making inferences.