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I'm an outstanding English teacher who has been the bright spark in hundreds of student's eyes for over 10 years! Ready, Steady, Go! provides ready to teach teaching resources for English teachers who are in need of a little extra umph in their lessons.
Teaching a 20 minute descriptive writing lesson? This resource will be very useful for you.
Outline:
Students have the challenge of using features of descriptive writing to improve a piece of writing they have produced within the first five minutes of the lesson. There's even an opportunity for peer assessment.
This resource has been set up for use with a year 7 class but can be adapted to suit alternative year groups.
A lesson exploring the presentation of Mrs Birling throughout the play which concludes with students being prepared to write a exam style response.
This resource includes:
1x PPT
1x Quote bank sheet
Full lesson PPT allowing students to focus on AO1, AO2 and AO3 in relation to English Literature Paper 2 Section B: Studied Poetry from the Power and Conflict selection. By the end of the lesson students will have completed a comparative written response.
SEN/Low Ability
A worksheet to accompany the study of the poem and prepare students to write an exam style response.
Resource includes:
- exploding quotations resource
- sentence starters using PETAL paragraph structure
Lesson graded as outstanding during a recent interview.
Outline:
Students are responding to the poem 'Funeral Blues' in an imaginative way.
Please see footnotes for instructions as to how to use each PPT slide.
A lesson pitched to low ability students exploring the thoughts and feelings presented in Armitage’s poem ‘Remains’.
This resource includes:
1x PPT full lesson
A lesson exploring the meaning of Garland’s poem ‘Kamikaze’ resulting in an extended creative writing response from students.
This lesson includes:
1x PPT
This resource acts as a group or independent activity to prepare students to compare two poems Give by Simon Armitage and The Hunchback in the Park by Dylan Thomas .
This resource includes
- ready to print and use Word documents
- venn diagram
- statements which students can cut and sort to match the correct sides of the venn diagram
Please note: This resource is best used when the venn diagram is photocopied on A3 and the statements photocopied to A4.
A lesson exploring the themes of the text and the questions which may arise in relation to themes in the GCSE exam.
This resource includes:
1x PPT
1x Themes Sheet
During this lesson your class will explore how Roddy Doyle is able to realistically convey the impression of a child’s voice through language and structure.
This resource includes
- PPT presentation
Please note: the extract for 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha' is taken from the AQA English Language Reading Support Booklet Paper 1
Copy and paste this link into your browser to gain access to this free booklet: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-87001-RSB.PDF
In this lesson students read a selection of story openings taken from high quality, challenging literature. Students are challenged to express their own opinions, interpret information and form evaluative responses which they need to support with detailed reference and analysis of the text.
This resource includes
- PPT presentation
Please note: the extract for ‘I’m the King of the Castle’ is taken from the AQA English Language Reading Support Booklet Paper 1
Copy and paste this link into your browser to gain access to this free booklet: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-87001-RSB.PDF
This resource allows for students to familiarise themselves with the terms analepsis and prolepsis and provides stimuli for students to use these skills in their own writing.
This resource includes:
1xPPT
Resource links:
You will need to share the movie trailers detailed below or a movie trailer of your own choice which reflects examples of analepsis and prolepsis.
Ratatouille 2007
Oceans 11 2001
Extract:
Please look at my free resources to find a copy of the extract worksheet required. ‘Spies’ by Michael Frayn
A selection of whole lessons, worksheets and assessment tasks to accompany your teaching of the novel Trash.
This resource includes:
- 4x PPT whole lessons
- 2x Differentiated Assessment Tasks
- 2x Activity Tasks
These engaging and interesting lessons aim to improve students’ understanding of one of Lady Macbeth at the start of the play. In particular, they are enabled to draw links between Lady Macbeth and their knowledge of women in Shakespearean times.
Resource includes:
- 1x whole lesson PPT presentation exploring LM in act 1 scene 5 as a whole
- 1x whole lesson PPT presentation with focus on LM soliloquy in act 1 scene 5
-2x worksheets to support the delivery of each lesson
Students develop their understanding of the use of courage within the novel.
* Inference and deduction
* Word level analysis
* Point-Evidence-Analysis-Link parargrahs
* Peer assessment
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