Relax...
All of the resources have been created to ensure that students are engaged and inspired by their learning.
Each lesson has a clear learning journey to enable all students to make progress and to help them to understand the skills required for them to be their most successful.
The aim:
to create independent, perceptive and creative learners.
Relax...
All of the resources have been created to ensure that students are engaged and inspired by their learning.
Each lesson has a clear learning journey to enable all students to make progress and to help them to understand the skills required for them to be their most successful.
The aim:
to create independent, perceptive and creative learners.
A lesson that explores the themes, context and characters of the scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Students are provided with a clear learning journey that is linked to blooms skills and the assessment objectives from the new spec AQA. The lesson follows a clear structure where students are introduced to the main idea, the theme/character analysis is developed and students then have the opportunity to apply their own skills independently.
Learning objectives and activities are clearly differentiated using RAG and stretch and challenge opportunities are in the form of 'Shakespeare Challenge' questions to help encourage students to extend their ideas.
This lesson is aimed at KS4 but could be adapted for use with KS3 students.
Planned as a double (2 hour lesson) but could easily be split into two separate 1 hour lessons.
This scheme is intended to accompany a class reading of the novel and develop skills needed for the new specification AQA Literature examination.
Some lessons focus on a more detailed exploration of the chapter which encourages students to perform detailed analysis of character, plot and theme. Other lessons are tailored to giving students the time to read the novel either as a class or as individuals with accompanying activities for students to complete as they read.
The scheme has a focus on the presentation of conflict within the novel and contains two formative assessment points and a final summative assessment.
There are links in the notes section of the PPTs to an audiobook of the novel that is available on youtube and has specific times for each chapter listed in the comments section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY-X3PU1WFs.
A scheme of work focusing on chapters 1-11 of the novel Goodnight Mister Tom.
Aimed at 11-14 year olds but can be adapted to suit younger students. This scheme is aimed at middle ability students but does use challenge questions (sub-titled on the slides) to enable you to stretch and challenge your most able.
The scheme aims to build reading skills to prepare students for the new specification examinations. The skills that they develop during this module are linked to their ability to differentiate between explicit and implicit information and infer meaning and the writer's message. Students will also be able to develop their contextual knowledge and learn how to apply this to their reading to aid understanding.
Each powerpoint should complement the reading of each chapter.
Each lesson has a mini starter linked to the text. There is then a SPAG/Literacy starter to compliment the lesson. Most lessons are focused on the reading of a chapter, this is then followed by an activity based on the students' reading and then a developmental activity to consolidate their learning.
There is also a Scheme of Learning Document (see FJO shop) available that may be useful if the scheme is being used for a whole department. This clearly details the overall learning journey of the module and clearly shows the differentiation strategy.
A full scheme of work aimed at KS3 middle ability students.
The lessons focus on chapters from the novel as well as including a summative assessment. The scheme also includes articles that link to the context of the novel.
Each lesson has clear learning objectives using the must, should, could process.
The aim of the module is to build reading and analytical skills required for GCSE study.
Three lessons that explore the language and structure of Suicide in the Trenches.
Students learn to annotate a poem looking at:
-Language
-Structure
-Context
-Connotations and Meaning
-Writer's message
They then bring their ideas together to write an analytical PEEL paragraph and use a success criteria to peer assess their work.
A KS3 plan of how to teach, plan and track literacy across the key stage.
Each plan tracks the language and grammar skills that students will need for the new English Language and Literature specifications GCSE examinations from 2015.
Each document depicts a language, a punctuation and a sentence skill that students will focus on each half term.
It also has a clear rationale of how each skills links to the assessment objectives from the exam. It is intended to help staff to target specific skills each half term.
There is also a section that details suggested reading activities to be used with class novels. Each activity is linked to Bloom's taxonomy as well as the AO's and are different for each key stage.
The year 9 document also suggests how questions can be phrased to link to the new English Language (unseen literature) paper 1.
The scheme is intended to be used by a department to aid building literacy into existing schemes of work or to help structure stand alone library/literacy lessons.
These lessons are aimed at year 10 students who are studying for AQA Paper 1.
They can also be used/adapted to suit other year groups to develop creative writing skills.
This is a full module of lessons that lead up to the students completing a mock AQA paper.
The lessons explore and develop the skills students learned in Section A and begin to apply these techniques in their own descriptive/narrative writing piece.
The lessons are based on the skills required as detailed in the AQA mark scheme. The lessons have a mixture of individual, paired and group work tasks.
Model answers are included in multiple lessons so that students can clearly see what they are expected to be able to write by the end of the module. Differentiated extracts are also used so you can adapt the activities to suit your group's ability.
Most lessons are planned for a double session (2 hours) so can be split to create separate lessons if required.
Lesson 1: Introduction to the module and a focus on developing ambitious vocabulary.
Lesson 2: Setting- Crafting figurative language devices to zoom in on detail.
Lesson 3: Sentence Structure- Reviewing the different types of sentences and applying them artfully to create effects.
Lesson 4: Structure- Exploring how to create a narrative journey in a text.
Lesson 5: Creating Tone/Atmosphere- Exploration of how subtly changing vocabulary choices can create specific tone/atmosphere in descriptive writing.
Lesson 6: Narrative Structure- Explore the structure of a narrative looking at 'story mountain' and how it can be applied to writing.
Lesson 7: Opening- Identify techniques in a range of extracts and consider what makes an effective opening to a narrative and how to hook the reader.
Lesson 8: Tense- Group work tasks where students look at model answers and then experiment with changing tenses in their own work.
Most lessons were planned as double lessons (2 hours) so can easily be split to form two 1 hour lessons.
Additional information for some tasks and challenge questions are written in the notes section of the PPTs.
Please note that some images and extracts have been removed due to copyright. Where possible I have tried to list what these items were either on the slide or in the notes section to enable you to try and locate if desired.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
A lesson designed for KS3 as an introduction to poetry.
The lesson explores the imagery and themes presented in the poem and aims to enhance their love of poetry.
A full lesson on the poem to encourage students' independent analysis and annotation of the poem.
AQA Literature Moon on The Tides Anthology- Conflict.
These lessons are intended to accompany a class reading of each chapter of the novel and develop skills needed for the new specification AQA Literature examination.
Some lessons focus on a more detailed exploration of the chapter which encourages students to perform detailed analysis of character, plot and theme. Other lessons are tailored to giving students the time to read the novel either as a class or as individuals with accompanying activities for students to complete as they read.
There is a full scheme that is available to buy in the shop section which has a focus on the presentation of conflict within the novel and contains two formative assessment points and a final summative assessment.
There are links in the notes section of the PPTs to an audiobook of the novel that is available on youtube and has specific times for each chapter listed in the comments section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY-X3PU1WFs.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
A full set of lessons covering all 15 poems from the AQA anthology- power and conflict.
The learning journey is linked to the AQA assessment objectives and develops students’ analytical skills.
The lessons comprise of activities such as:
Starter activity linked to the idea of viewpoints/types of war/representation
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
Linking grids
Sample essay questions with success criteria linked to AO’s
Modelled paragraphs
Comparison paragraphs
This lessons are planned for a year 10 middle/high ability group and can be easily differentiated to suit the personalised needs of your students.
Yellow lightbulbs on slides mark out stretch and challenge questions that have been included.
Each lesson is between 15-22 slides.
A lesson that explores the themes, context and characters of the scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Students are provided with a clear learning journey that is linked to blooms skills and the assessment objectives from the new spec AQA. The lesson follows a clear structure where students are introduced to the main idea, the theme/character analysis is developed and students then have the opportunity to apply their own skills independently.
Learning objectives and activities are clearly differentiated using RAG and stretch and challenge opportunities are in the form of 'Shakespeare Challenge' questions to help encourage students to extend their ideas.
This lesson is aimed at KS4 but could be adapted for use with KS3 students.
Planned as a double (2 hour lesson) but could easily be split into two separate 1 hour lessons.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
A full lesson on the poem to encourage students' independent analysis and annotation of the poem.
AQA Literature Moon on The Tides Anthology- Conflict.
An Introductory double lesson for the study of the A Level paper Paper 1 Language, The Individual and Society, Section A- Textual Variations and Representations. New Specification 2017
Aimed at Year 12 students but could be adapted for other year groups.
Using Jamie Oliver as a stimulus, students begin to consider how they investigate a text. This lesson is aimed to spark their interest and begin to develop their inquiry skills before the later lessons which begin to introduce more detailed terminology and the language levels for closer and more detailed analysis.
Brief overview of topics covered in this double (21 slides):
What the exam question looks like/number of marks
Jamie Oliver's school dinners transcript for students to analyse
Mini activities on synonyms, antonyms, euphemism, hyponymy, dysphemism
Jamie Oliver sugar tax Facebook post for students to analyse
Discussion on the role of media/social media in creating meaning and representation
Additional guidance for some of the activities has been written in the notes sections of the PPT slides.
More lessons on each of the language levels will be available.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
