A one-off skills lesson that focuses on Sentence Structures. Lesson plan provided. Lesson Objective - To have developed our ability to use varied sentence structure. Success Criteria - differentiated and tied to pathways. Easily changed to suit. The success criteria are aimed at fulfilling some of the requirements for the GCSE language paper 1 question. This lesson focuses on the use of sentence structures, whilst having students role play in groups. The students are tasked with selecting items from a 'survival kit', explaining their value using varied sentence types and then assessing the work of others. For higher ability groups this may represent a lesson's work, but for lower ability this can be stretched over two lessons. This lesson is easily tweaked to cover Speaking and Listening skills if required. The content is differentiated by outcome, the groups are also easily differentiated. The lesson plan is at the start of the SmartBoard.

This is a fully resourced lesson that gets secondary students to think about Inner Monologue in narrative writing. This lesson has the students each pretend to be a character, given to them by card. They work in groups of 6. Each takes a minute 'hot-seating' their character and, after everyone has had a go, they jumble up and lay out the cards and take turns guessing who was who. The students are pretending to be waiting in the hallway outside of a head teachers office - awaiting a meeting. Their personalities and character dictate what they think. Do they worry? Are they angry? Are they happy for the attention? Then the 'best of the best' from each group hot-seats a character in front of the entire class. Students then create their own character based on the same scenario - this sets them up for a period of extended writing doing an internal monologue based assessed on AQA criteria. A fun lesson that is ideal as a bit of a breather between heavier periods of writing - the lesson is aimed at getting students to think about Inner Monologue, a skill required to show control of writing. This lesson is used as part of a syllabus for Secondary English working towards the AQA language papers - though it is adaptable for other boards.

A lovely short lesson that focuses on the value of words. Differentiated through-out. The words should be printed on coloured paper matching the level of difficulty. Complete with lesson plan. Perfect for interviews and showcasing differentiation skills.