TEXT TYPE SKILLS SUPPORT WRITING LESSON: How to Write Effective Hooks (60 minutes) This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements. Resources: No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW Student Workbook Lesson Outcome: By the end of this lesson, your students will have created a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then used those frames to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They will also have competed with each other and voted on the most effective hooks written. Activities: Activity 1 WORD UNSCRAMBLER STARTER: to reveal two quotations about hooking readers by famous authors. Activity 2 SENTENCE FRAMES TASK: to create 15 sentence frames using mentor hook sentences. Activity 3 WRITING TASK: to practise writing a variety of hooks for different text types using sentence frames. Activity 4: PLENARY: to evaluate the effectiveness of some of the hooks written by the students. HOMEWORK: To complete any unfinished work. Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE. (You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.) You can use this resource as a standalone lesson, or combine it with the other two HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE HOOKS lessons: • SWIRL LESSON: (Speaking, Writing, Interaction, Reading, Listening) This lesson uses sentence unscrambling, dictogloss, running dictation, and group discussion tasks to further student understanding of hook writing. They use a range of hook examples to understand how hooks can be used for different text types and themes. A highly interactive and fun lesson for both SL and HL classes. • LISTENING LESSON: In this lesson, students use a listening lesson audio and listening comprehension (with exam-style questions) to learn about the purpose of effective hooks, 5 different types of hooks, and examples of how they can be used. They then create a mind map collating everything they have learned for use when writing and revising. Ideal for both SL and HL classes.

Looking for lessons to introduce your Year 12 students to the IB English B course? Designed to develop independent learning skills, these 3 low-to-no prep introductory lessons are ideal! In Lesson 1, students will generate 20 questions about the course, brainstorm research options, and locate specific information. In Lesson 2, students will explore essential questions about each of the 5 themes and generate topics related to each theme by encapsulating them in images. In Lesson 3, students will delve deep into the IB Learner Profile, summarizing each attribute graphically and explaining how the 3 introduction lessons have supported various attributes. With engaging activities that promote critical thinking, analysis, and collaboration, these ready-to-use lessons are the perfect way to introduce students to some of the vital skills needed for the English B journey. These lessons are slideshow-led, so once you have printed or collated recommended resources, you’re set to go! Check out the video preview for the lesson plans overview.

Looking for a fun and engaging way to improve your students’ speaking skills? Look no further than Speak Circles! My ready-made lesson includes everything you need to get started, including 6 speaking card sets (with 18 speaking frames each) and a complete just-click lesson slideshow. By the end of the lesson, your students will have learned the ground rules for respectful listening, the rules for Speak Circles, and practised using a variety of sentence starters and frames through rounds based on each of the IB Learner Themes. Your students will have the opportunity to question, to share opinions, to agree, to disagree, and to extend each other’s ideas. Plus, the plenary and homework activities ensure that the learning continues even after the lesson is over. Don’t miss out on this valuable speaking lesson! SPEAK CIRCLES: SPEAKING LESSON (60 minutes) RESOURCES: Speaking Cards Sets 1-6 Speak Circles Lesson Slideshow LESSON OUTCOME: To practise speaking skills using a range of sentence starters and sentence frames. By the end of this lesson, your students will have provided the ground rules for respectful listening, learned the rules for Speak Circles, and used a variety of speaking cards to develop different ways to question, share opinions, agree, disagree and extend each other’s ideas through rounds based on each of the IB Learner Themes. Activities: STARTER: To appreciate the concept of respectful listening • Students establish the meaning of respectful listening and discuss how it looks, sounds and feels. (5 mins) Activity 2: To become familiar with Speak Circle Activities • Students learn the rules for Speak Circles • Round One: The Question Round: Students generate a series of questions based on a picture of a littered beach. • Round Two: The Opinion Round: Students share their opinions of AI after watching a brief video. • Round Three: The Ask to Clarify: Students listen to a song, share their opinions, and are asked to clarify their opinions about social media. • Round Four: The Politely Disagree Round: Students watch a video about culture and identity and practise learning to politely disagree with each other’s views and opinions. • Round Five: The Agree and Develop Round: Students watch a video poem, share their ideas about the impact of devices on experiences and are challenged to develop each other’s points. (5 x 10 mins = 50 mins) PLENARY: To share responses to Speak Circles as a learning tool • Students discuss how they feel about the Speak Circle process (5 mins) HOMEWORK: To think of 3 different ways that Speak Circles can be used • Students must think of other ways that rounds can be used in Speak Circles

A workbook in which students handwrite the entire writing process leading to the submission of their final drafts of different IB English B text types. This is to verify that no AI was used to create their writing tasks. For students to make all stages of the writing process visible, each workbook has two parts: Part ONE contains worksheets to encourage students to do these activities: read the jumbled version of the mentor text and sequence the different elements correctly discuss and make decisions about the choice of text type to fulfil the requirements of the prompt read the actual mentor text answer comprehension questions to show understanding of the mentor text identify and label the different features of the mentor text explain the function of every punctuation mark answer questions about synonyms, antonyms and the meaning of words determine how the main ideas in paragraphs are developed and extended. Part TWO invites students to write that text type using a follow-on prompt and to show handwritten evidence (by writing everything into the workbook) that they have … conducted a mini-research project to provide them with the necessary background information for the content of the task extracted relevant vocabulary and created sentence frames to assist the writing process used a structured planning page to jot down notes for each element of the writing task followed a step-by-step guide to writing their first draft assessed their first drafts with an informative checklist that also contains relevant advice to help them improve their first draft. Each Pack contains: SL Version – with answer options for Part 1 worksheets HL Version – without answer options for Part 1 worksheets One-page Jumbled Mentor Text Starter – the elements of the mentor text are jumbled up and students need to sequence them correctly An answer key for Part 1 worksheets. The first 9 writing packs cover the following: · Article about learning to learn (Human Ingenuity) · Blog about the impact of social media (Identity) · Diary Entry about cultural gaffes (Social Organization) · Essay about the need to learn writing skills (Human Ingenuity) · Informal Email about pet euthanasia (Experiences) · Letter to the Editor about plastic pollution (Sharing the Planet) · Proposal about improving International Day (Social Organization) · Review of a fiction book (Experiences) · Speech about saving a zoo (Sharing the Planet) More packs and text types will be added soon.

A workbook in which students handwrite the entire writing process leading to the submission of their final drafts of different IB English B text types. This is to verify that no AI was used to create their writing tasks. For students to make all stages of the writing process visible, each workbook has two parts: Part ONE contains worksheets to encourage students to do these activities: read the jumbled version of the mentor text and sequence the different elements correctly discuss and make decisions about the choice of text type to fulfil the requirements of the prompt read the actual mentor text answer comprehension questions to show understanding of the mentor text identify and label the different features of the mentor text explain the function of every punctuation mark answer questions about synonyms, antonyms and the meaning of words determine how the main ideas in paragraphs are developed and extended. Part TWO invites students to write that text type using a follow-on prompt and to show handwritten evidence (by writing everything into the workbook) that they have … conducted a mini-research project to provide them with the necessary background information for the content of the task extracted relevant vocabulary and created sentence frames to assist the writing process used a structured planning page to jot down notes for each element of the writing task followed a step-by-step guide to writing their first draft assessed their first drafts with an informative checklist that also contains relevant advice to help them improve their first draft. Each Pack contains: SL Version – with answer options for Part 1 worksheets HL Version – without answer options for Part 1 worksheets One-page Jumbled Mentor Text Starter – the elements of the mentor text are jumbled up and students need to sequence them correctly An answer key for Part 1 worksheets. The first 9 writing packs cover the following: · Article about learning to learn (Human Ingenuity) · Blog about the impact of social media (Identity) · Diary Entry about cultural gaffes (Social Organization) · Essay about the need to learn writing skills (Human Ingenuity) · Informal Email about pet euthanasia (Experiences) · Letter to the Editor about plastic pollution (Sharing the Planet) · Proposal about improving International Day (Social Organization) · Review of a fiction book (Experiences) · Speech about saving a zoo (Sharing the Planet) More packs and text types will be added soon.