I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve 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.
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I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve 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 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 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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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 learners studying Functional Skills English level one and level two. The lesson has been designed to help learners practise skills for reading and writing and comes with a student example.
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This is a fully differentiated, thirteen-slide lesson building skills for functional skills level one and two. The lesson uses the topic of Halloween to develop a deeper understanding of the new exam format. There are many opportunities for AFL and there are both reading and writing tasks to practice and build confidence within English.
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 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 quiz takes learners through key skills for level one and level two functional skills. It works well as a formative assessment to identify gaps in learners’ knowledge. The PowerPoint goes through key skills needed for reading and writing to help learners as they approach assessments.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the theme of homelessness for paper 2 of the English GCSE exam. This is an ideal lesson to introduce students to some of the main questions in the paper and how to respond to them effectively.
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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This is a 19 slide PowerPoint quiz for the WJEC Eduqas poetry anthology. The quiz has three separate rounds which help assess learners ability to: Recall key contextual information about the poets, Identify the missing elements from key quotations and assess who has an in-depth understanding of the poems and what they may need to work on in the future.
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This is a full differentiated lesson looking at the poem, Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson. The lesson helps learners understand the context surrounding the poem and the techniques used by the poet to convey conflict within the poem.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and also has a cloze passage to help gauge learners’ comprehension of the poem. This lesson has been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught either online or face-to-face with ease.
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This bundle contains a collection of lessons to help teach Level One and Level Two Functional Skills English. The bundle contains lessons to focus on all components and also embeds the use of key Maths skills.
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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 is a fully differentiated lesson for learners studying Functional Skills English. The lesson has been designed to help build learners confidence on the writing element of the course. The lesson is scaffolded to support learners to plan and write their own exam-style response. The theme of the lesson is gaming but offers alternative topics should the learners want to write about something else. This lesson requires no printing and is ideal for distance learning.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the characters of Benvolio and Tybalt in Act One of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson helps learners to understand how Shakespeare has created a contrast between the different characters.
The lesson includes a key scene from the play and helps learners approach an exam-style question.
This Lesson can be taught either online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out our YouTube channel for more lessons.
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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This is a free resource to help people remember the key rules when having a debate or carrying out a speaking and listening assessment. The resource helps learners to plan a response linked to the theme in my lesson: Functional Skills Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening.