A ready-to-use lesson plan that shines for National Poetry Day.
While it’s tailored for KS3 English students, the content is flexible enough to be easily adjusted for other classes.
This lesson guides students through writing a story called ‘Through the Forest’. The lesson’s goal is to teach students how to create a powerful atmosphere in their writing by using sensory details.
Step 1: Choose Your Atmosphere
The first step is to choose which of the two provided forest images best represents the student’s story idea. One image shows a sunlit forest, while the other shows a dark, misty one. Students are then asked to choose vocabulary words to describe the atmosphere they want to create, such as sinister, mystical, luminous, or tranquil.
Step 2: Write the Opening Paragraph
Next, students are instructed to write an opening paragraph that uses the five senses to create a powerful atmosphere for the reader. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to use vivid language to describe both a peaceful forest setting and a threatening, stormy one.
Step 3: Complete and Self-Assess
Finally, students are to complete their story and then use a checklist to self-assess their work. The checklist helps them evaluate several aspects of their writing.
This document is a guide for students on how to read between the lines and draw conclusions from a text.
It uses some single sentence examples, as well as a non-fiction extract.
Links are made to AQA, however an editable version is included in case you wish to change the exam board.
Great as worksheet for a lesson, homework, cover lesson and more!
Designed to help students explore key quotations while applying each of the assessment objectives.
Great as a starter, plenary, mini-task, revision task and cover work.
Created using the skills descriptors for GCSE creative writing but can be used with KS3 too.
It includes some additional ideas to prompt students further e.g. starting a sentence with an adverb.
A great quiz to help with exam preparation and subject knowledge.
Out of 20 marks
Answers are provided
Could be used as it is with the PDF document or tweaked using the provided Word document.
The aim of this resource is to help students access each of their school subjects.
Top 10 spellings for each subject.
English
Mathematics
Science
Religious Studies
History
Geography
Computer Science
PE
Drama
Spanish
French
D&T Graphics
Food Tech
Business
Health and Social Care
Art
Music
Sociology
This includes a PDF and word document in case you need to edit it/personalise it.