This is a step by step monoprint guide to show students how to create a monoprint. This resource was made originally for Key Stage 5 students, however can also be used by Key Stage 4 students comfortably.
With this clear sheet your students will 100% understand what they need to do in their Foundation or Higher speaking test plus some advice. This sheet explains in PLAIN English how to tackle the role-play, photo card and conversation. With a role-play and photo card prototype we have added notes and advice to provide timings, procedure and instructions. PERFECT to give to your students as they prepare for the test and provide answers to the most common questions about the test. Easy to tweak into another language. UNPROTECTED word document.
Download our popular ten-lesson unit of work based on reading and writing instructional texts with a Romans theme. Pupils will make a chocolate Roman road and then create instructions based on becoming gladiator champions!
The ten lessons in this unit aim to give children the opportunity to understand the features of instructions as a genre. In the first week, children will engage with the text type by following instructions to make edible Roman roads out of biscuits, chocolates and custard! There is also a grammar focus on using prepositions and imperative verbs. In the second week, pupils will use drama to develop ideas and extend their vocabulary. They will then plan their own set of instructions about becoming Roman gladiator champions and they will then have the opportunity to draft, edit and present their final instructions.
The English objectives covered in this unit are:
- To give and follow verbal instructions
- To use prepositions
- To read and follow written instructions
- To identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
- To use a range of imperative verbs
- To prepare a group performance
- To make a plan for my writing
- To write my own instructions
- To edit my writing
- To make decisions about how to present my writing
The PDF file contains ten lesson plans and all accompanying pupil resources. Perfect to link literacy and history in your Romans topic!
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This resource includes:
1 lesson plan focusing on how to write instructions for making a potion.
1 sheet of possible ‘Potion Items’
3 sheets of time connective suggestions for laminating
1 sheet of imperative verb suggestions
Link to a BBC Video on Features of Instructional Writing, using a potion focus!
This lesson ties in well with Topics such as:
Harry Potter
A Kind of Spark
Witchcraft and Wizardry
This lesson is secondary to the introduction of instructional writing and relies on some previous knowledge of layout, features and structure!
A detailed lesson plan on writing instructions, with a powerpoint and a set of instructions.
I brought in the resources to make the potion in front of the class (with help from the students) and they absolutely loved it. It then lead on to the students having to write a set of instructions for their BIG write / HOT write at the end of the week.
Rather than differentiation, many schools are thinking more in terms of scaffolding in the current climate.
The attached documents include:
a ppt used for CPD
a guidance document containing a range of strategies that can be used to scaffold work for children.
Create your own firework!
Two lessons (1. reading activities and planning 2. Independent write)
**Children will write their own set of instructions on how to create a firework of their own design. They will take ideas and inspiration from the book but can let their imagination run wild! **
Ideal to be used after reading chapter 1 of The Firework Maker’s Daughter although could be used at any point when studying the book.
Includes:
WAGOLL example text with linked reading activities.
Planning ideas and examples with a planning sheet to complete.
Two Powerpoints to aid teaching.
Teacher’s Notes
Children really enjoyed this activity and produced high quality pieces of writing.
An engaging and detailed staff CPD session on explicit vocabulary instruction - this lasts between one hour and 90 minutes depending on whether departments are given time at the end to consider their tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary words.
I delivered this in my role as Literacy Coordinator and was told by the headteacher that it was the best internal CPD that he had seen delivered.
This session covers:
Why you need a whole-school approach to vocabulary
The Matthew Effect
Tier 1, 2 and 3 words and what this means.
Approaches to vocabulary instruction - morphology, etymology and the Frayer model.
Modelled examples of how to teach new vocabulary.
Advice for further reading.
Please note that I have provided some suggestions in the notes section of the slides about how to guide discussion.
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* Staff CPD on Whole-School Reading Strategies
* A bundle of whole-school literacy resources including this CPD, CPD on Reading Strategies and resources for implementing a Word Root of the Week in your school.
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Hookes Law instructions for a ks3 class including a table to enter data into and a graph with axis ready to plot data onto.
I would practise the experiment first to check what sort of extensions your springs get and then change the scale on the graph axis in the powerpoint version of the work sheet if you need.
Children will learn to sequence pictures of how to plant a seed by first sequencing pictures. They then will draw/write on a planning frame to show the pictures in order and any key words to help them write the following day using time connectives and imperative verbs.
What is included:
Teaching PP
Activity sheets day 1 cut and sequence, day 2 planting a seed frame HA/MA
Key words for display (imperative verbs/time connectives)
Key pictures for English working wall
** KS3 Embroidery Stitch Instructions**
I developed this when I was teaching KS3 Art so that students could get on with embroidering their batik independently. The instructions worked well. I printed and laminated them for use in class.
All the drawings are my own and the resource is saved in PDF format because I developed it in a drawing programme not accepted here. If you want anything changed then please let me know.
This sheet is suitable for children across the Primary age range.
Children are given a prompt to give instructions, to direct a Bee Bot around a treasure map.
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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A selection of worksheets to learn and practice classroom instructions in Spanish. Introduces vocabulary, then further worksheets to reinforce vocabulary. I have also included a test. Contains completed answer sheets also. Feedback is always welcome. RESOURCE CONTAINS 9 FILES. If you consider this worth buying, ‘muchas gracias.’
AS TES CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH PRINT PREVIEWS I HAVE INCLUDED SCREEN SHOTS TO SHOW HOU THE WORKSHEETS WILL LOOK WHEN DOWNLOADED.
This is a termly plan for instructional writing. It has been done with MLD children in year 7,8,9 but could be adapted to younger children. It is quite simple, but worked well to teach the basics.
I have created a pack of 15 trampoline instruction task cards which inlcude visual aids, teaching points and progressions.
Included is
Seat Drop
Seat Drop 1/2 Twist
Swivel Hips
Front Drop
Front Drop 1/2 Twist
Back Drop
Back Drop 1/2 Twist
1/2 Twist to Back Landing
1/2 Twist to Front Landing
Roller
Back Pullover to Feet
1/2 Turntable
Front Landing to Back Landing
3/4 Forward Turnover to Back (Progression for somersault)
Back Landing to Front Landing
These bilingual instruction maps can be provided for students new to the school and English as an additional language. The pack includes an empty tempalte and the following languages: template, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian, Uzbek.
This worksheet is designed to test wether children are paying attention, are they reading the instructions properly. This is a fun task but the message is serious; students not reading questions properly and not answering what was asked is a significant issue affecting test results. It is a fun starter or ending task suitable for any classroom based lesson.
Literacy
The lesson (KS3 SEN) focused on being able to write instructions using imperative verbs or bossy verbs! The starter quiz (uploaded on PDF) is NOT my own but I have uploaded it as that is what I used as a starter.
Feel free to jazz it up!