I have worked within secondary education for the last eight 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
I have worked within secondary education for the last eight 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 approach the stimulus creative writing question (Q5) for English Language: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.
The lesson looks at the key methods needed to be successful in writing their response and includes two examples with feedback from the mark scheme.
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This resource is a quiz that helps learners to test their understanding of some of the key quotes in the play, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. The quiz includes key quotes and gets learners to stretch themselves to recall where they occur within the play.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson that can be taught over two hours and helps learners to develop their ability at approaching exam-style questions. The lesson looks at the description of the Island as well as helping learners to consolidate their understanding of key themes and characters within the novel.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated, fifteen-page booklet for functional skills level one and two. This booklet has worked well on an individual basis and has also been successful in whole class teaching. The booklet covers both the reading and writing elements of the functional skills course and builds on some of the most important skills to help learners stretch and challenge themselves to achieve. The booklet also comes with an answer booklet in order to enable students to take control of their own learning and to check their understanding.
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This lesson has been created for learners studying Functional Skills English level one or level two. The lesson covers some key language techniques and helps learners understand how a bias is presented in non-fiction.
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A lesson looking at how to approach the writing element of the Functional Skills level two English assessment. The lesson helps learners understand the importance of Topic, Audience and Purpose in their writing and the importance of this when starting an assessment.
There is also a link to the follow-up lesson which includes model responses to help learners improve their writing.
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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 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 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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A collection of fully differentiated lessons looking a key key charscyers and themes from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Each lesson has been designed to be taught regardless if the lesson is remote or face-to-face and all have been tried and tested with my own students.
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This lesson has been designed for anyone studying level one or level two Functional Skills English. The lesson goes through how to write a blog and also includes an example as well as some reading questions to help practise the key skills.
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This is a free resource taken from our lesson: Functional Skills: Holiday. The resource is a practise reading assessment that helps learners get ready for being assessed on Functional Skills level one and two. In addition, the resource includes some stretch and challenge tasks to help learners get to grips with the GCSE English skills.
The resource also includes all answers to the questions. If you liked this resource then please check out our bundle or find us on YouTube for free resources and lessons by searching for Write-On-Resources.
A transcript from Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UN about climate change. This resources also comes with diferentuated tasks and is a sample from my bundle Functional Skills New Reform 2
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the theme of religion in the play Romeo and Juliet. The lesson explores the first interaction between the characters and the impact of religion in the play. The lesson includes many opportunities for AFL and includes a model response.
This lesson can be taught either face-to-face or remotely and has been tried and tested by my own groups.
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These are a collection of fully differentiated lessons created around the new specification for functional skills level one and two. Each lesson has tasks that will stretch and challenge learners and help them build the skills to enable them to feel confidant about English and pass each exam.
Each lesson covers issues that are designed to engage and inspire learners and help them to build skills from spelling and grammar, to sentence structures and language techniques used for persuasive writing.
Each of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own students and has helped me to improve their skills, confidence and competency within English.
See also Functional Skills New Reform 2 for even more lessons
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 is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem, “War Photographer” by Carole Satyamurti. The poem looks in-depth at the role and risks of being a War Photographer and how this could affect our interpretation of the poem.
The lesson takes learners through each stanza to help them gain a good understanding to then apply to an exam-style question. In addition, there is a model response to help learners to craft their own response.
This seventeen-slide lesson has been designed to be delivered both online and face-to-face. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups; if you liked this lesson then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a simple revision game I made to help learners recall the key techniques for language and structure, using the game of bingo to help add a slight competitive edge.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the theme of fear within the novella of A Christmas Carol. The lesson helps learners understand how to approach an exam-style question and also includes a student response.
This lesson has been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught either remotely or face-to-face.
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This lesson has been designed for learners studying KS4 or KS3 English. The lesson looks at improving creative writing skills while using the film Home Alone as a stimulus. The lesson uses a range of different scenarios to help learners craft their own creative response. An online dice or spinner would be helpful when helping learners pick each task.
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