I have worked within secondary education for the last eight years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
I have worked within secondary education for the last eight years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
This lesson has been designed for anyone studying level one or level two Functional Skills English. The lesson helps learners understand how to approach a report writing question and includes a modelled response.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at how to write a review for level one and level two Functional Skills. The lesson uses the theme of TV shows to look at an example review, understand the conventions and also write an appropriate review for an exam-style assessment.
This lesson includes both reading and writing tasks and can be taught both remotely and face-to-face.
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This lesson has been designed for anyone studying any aspect of Functional Skills English. The lesson looks at how to plan a response for speaking and listening as well as some ideas for topics.
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These are a collection of lessons designed for learners studying Functional Skills English level one or level two. The bundle has lessons on reading, writing and speaking and listening as well as a full reading assessment with answers.
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This lesson has been designed for anyone studying GCSE English language for AQA. The lesson goes through how to write a letter, key techniques and how to respond to an exam question.
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This lesson has been designed for anyone studying Functional Skills English Level One and Level Two. The lesson goes through two different texts and helps learners to understand how to use quotations to make comparisons and respond to the higher value questions on the reading exam paper.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at key extracts of A Christmas Carol which helps learners to consolidate their understanding of the text and develop their ability at responding to exam-style questions.
This lesson works well for both online and face-to-face learning and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This lesson has been created for learners studying Functional Skills English level one or level two. The lesson covers some key language techniques and helps learners understand how a bias is presented in non-fiction.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at question three for paper one: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson has been broken down to help learners understand the key aspects of the question and understand how to approach the question successfully.
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These are a collection of fully differentiated lessons created around the new specification for functional skills level one and two. Each lesson has tasks that will stretch and challenge learners and help them build the skills to enable them to feel confidant about English and pass each exam.
Each lesson covers issues that are designed to engage and inspire learners and help them to build skills from spelling and grammar, to sentence structures and language techniques used for persuasive writing.
Each of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own students and has helped me to improve their skills, confidence and competency within English.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson that helps students to understand the key components of the Functional Skills level and level 2 qualification. The lesson helps to build the students’ knowledge of language and hoe to use this effetely to develop an exam-style response.
This lesson has been designed for anyone studying Functional Skills English level one or level two. The lesson goes through how to respond to a writing exam question based on writing emails.
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This lesson has been designed for learners studying all levels of Functional Skills English. The lesson looks at instructional writing and helps learners to plan and write their own response.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson planned for the new functional skills reform and focuses on the impact vaping is having on us as a society. The lesson looks at two articles to understand how writers use language techniques to get their ideas across. The lesson is fun and engaging with a matching up activity as well as lots of opportunities for AFL.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of Bob Cratchit from a Christmas Carol. The lesson helps learners to understand the key themes within the novella. The lesson also explores the importance of the key characters and helps learners to attempt an exam-style question.
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This lesson has been designed for anyone studying level one or level two for Functional Skills English. The lesson looks at how to write a speech for the writing assessment.
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This lesson has been designed for learners studying Functional Skills level one or level two. The lesson includes both reading and writing tasks on the topic of vaping. The lesson also goes through how to create an effective speech, key techniques and how to plan for the exam.
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This is a free resource created for learners of Functional Skill English. The mock reading test can be used with any level of the functional skills qualification as well as a comprehension activity for GCSE students.
The resources help learners to use skimming and scanning to identify key details in two texts and works well to assess their understanding of language techniques.
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