Sensory language and descriptive writing lesson with resources. Judged good to outstanding.

In the Scottish curriculum students will do a personal/reflective piece of writing. This scheme has been created for this unit. But can be adapted between year groups (S2-S4/Year 9-11). Resources are attached. It focuses on creative writing, narrative hooks, using sensory language, reflecting on past events. Can be followed up with desert island discs (search for on TES) or a speaking and listening task such as This is Your Life. Can also adapt and use for non fiction writing with a focus on biographies and autobiographies.

Writer's Corner. Magical tools for literary magic. Project based learning. Effective openings. Intriguing characters. Showing not telling. Setting the scene. Mood and atmosphere. SOAP AIMS. Description. Peer assessment. AF1, 3, 5, 6, 7. Creative narratives. Connotations. AFL. Pathetic fallacy. Mulitmodal. Art and music. Kineasthetic.

English Teaching Resources: Writing to Entertain includes a 134 slide PowerPoint and 35 worksheets. This unit of work contains a series of progressive lessons designed to help teach Writing to Entertain. Resources include 11 lessons, each created using the 4 part lesson structure (starter activity, introduction, development and plenary) and all of which can be fully differentiated to fit your teaching needs. Writing to Entertain is a thorough and detailed resource with lessons covering a number of activities: What makes a good opening, narrative hooks Improving vocabulary How to structure a story and set the scene The five stage narrative plan when writing to entertain Using similes, metaphors, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in your writing Drafting and redrafting writing

An extensive Powerpoint lesson(s) presentation with guidance and a range of tasks to develop creative writing skills and the notion of writing with the purpose to imagine, explore and entertain. Explored within the context of spelling, punctuation and grammar.

A Medium Term Plan for the Gruffalo covering all seven areas of learning in the EYFS. Also included: A Gruffalo Literacy Activity: Recalling character descriptions and story events A Gruffalo Mathematics Activity: Counting and number recognition A Gruffalo Continous Provision Plan

17 lessons that covers the whole play of 'Frankenstein'. Looks at plot, characters, themes and context.

EST PREP Common Core Vocabulary for Middle Grades PowerPoint. Test prep for middle grades Language Arts. Academic vocabulary. Vocabulary words that may be tested on the new common core assessments for middle school Language Arts. Each slide has a word, a definition, and an illustration or animated graphic to help students remember. Can also be printed out on index cards and used for a word wall or as flash cards. Now updated with even more words! Helpful for test preparation. Includes Sprenger's words - essential and critical vocabulary for common core- HappyEdugator

A set of 16 lessons I am using with my year 9 to prepare them for GCSE. All ideas are adapted from other peoples work, so thank you to the TES teachers and I hope it is of use in the format I have put it together in. No lesson plans, but the PPT's should be self explanatory. Our school is using Pit stops and Pits to show pupil progress and we have A,B,C,D and agree/disagree colour coded cards to use for those activities. Also, the green pen is to show pupil response to Teacher and Peer feedback.

A very useful document, full of wonderful ideas to implement with children.

Novel study as a springboard for learning narrative structure through investigation of plot, character development and language use. The horror/ thriller genre provides a stimulating text for exploration. There should be a balance of the tripartite strands Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening to enable development in each area. Activities include group discussion, role play, PEE paragraph writing, character studies, language analysis, debate, predicting, diary writing and creative description.

SMART resource and information pack all about Hanukkah. The pack has some very useful background information, we are going to make the dreidel using the template.

Here is a whole term (13 weeks' worth) of planning for a topic entitled 'Out of the Blue'. This topic as focused on life under the sea including texts such as Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins, Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae and The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch by Ronda and David Armitage. The 27 files in this download include: - A Topic Web outlining curriculum objectives - English weekly plans - Maths weekly plans - Medium-term plans Please note that the first 7 weeks of planning for Maths and English involve continuous provision. We established a set of 'busy learning jobs' in Maths and English for the first half term so that the children could settle into Year 1. This worked brilliantly! Enjoy!

This personal narrative unit is directly aligned to Common Core Writing and Language standards, and is designed for students in grades 6-8. This unit will lead you and your students through the process of writing personal narratives. There are more than 65 pages which include: Suggested Lesson and Resource Scope and Sequence Lesson Plan Template Graphic Organizers Narrative Definition Poster Narrative Subway Art Mentor Text Narrative topics Narrative Activities Student Revision Checklist Student Editing Checklist Common Core Aligned Rubric 32 Task Cards aligned to Language standards Publishing Paper Mini-lessons: Flashbacks Dialogue and Quotations Descriptive Language Voice Point of View Clauses and Phrases Sentence Fluency Writing Narrative Leads Using Transition Words

Full Lesson Plans for foundation subjects for minibeasts topic. Used for mixed year 1/2 class. May save someone time!

A booklet on the topic of cognitive memory for the students to work through and learn.

This spreadsheet contains all the comments/ criteria used to track pupils on the PIVATS system. The spreadsheet replaces the need for lots of printed paper and it's easy to see at a glance where each pupil is at. Can easily be adapted. Attached word document explains how to use the spreadsheet.

A full SOW for autobiography - we use this in Y7.

This is used for thematic teaching of Literacy and humanities. It could be adapted to suit a geography, history or English lesson based on the book "Vacation under the Volcano" a story about Ancient Romans and Pompeii.

This is a complete novel study using the book Number The Stars. This Novel unit has nonfiction embedded into the lesson and a class favorite! The entire unit focuses on the Common Core Standards and shift to getting students to use evidence from the text to defend their responses. More importantly it unites ELA with reading, writing, and vocabulary. Each lesson includes an annotated copy of student work with answer key, vocabulary word of the day, and homework option. Perfect for a whole class novel or with a guided reading group. Lessons are uploaded using Word so that they can be easily formatted for your classroom. Lessons are also available in PDFs for teachers who simply want to print and go! Updates include six activities/graphic organizers for students to use to help with comprehension, character taboo, vocabulary pictionary,writing mini-lessons, and a 10 page personal narrative (with model responses) lesson.

44 detailed lessons which covers plot, characters, themes and context. Learning objectives are linked to the new AQA spec assessment objectives.