I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
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I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
Please subscribe and support. Feel free to message me directly with any video or resource requests!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ0s1bwC0V6qohf-YBtWyvw
An 11 slide PowerPoint detailing the origins of Gothic Fiction, its key features and support for writing your own text including ideas for setting, timing, characters, plot and supernatural elements.
Includes a Gothic Vocabulary help sheet for students to use in their own creation of a Gothic Fiction text.
Fun and engaging for all! Lots of beautiful images and whizzy animation!
An 18 slide PowerPoint on the context surrounding Geoffrey Chaucer, day to day life in the Middle Ages and The Canterbury Tales.
Engaging and suitable for all ages!
The 'Literacy Bundle' includes:
1)Crucial Connectives- A 7 slide PowerPoint defining what connectives are and their uses in writing.
Includes:
Definition of 'connective'.
Exploring where connectives are appropriately used.
Exploring where connectives are inappropriately used.
Activity for students to highlight where connectives are appropriate/inappropriate in relation to sentence endings.
Plenary consolidating learning.
2) Sorting Out Spelling- A 7 slide PowerPoint exploring the definition of homophones, homographs and heteronyms as well as the importance of accurate spelling.
Includes:
Definition of homophones, homographs and heteronyms.
Activity to identify the correctly spelt word in a sentence.
Activity to spot and correct spelling errors.
A quick spelling test to consolidate learning.
3) Pesky Pararaphs - A 9 slide PowerPoint exploring when it is and is not appropriate to begin a new paragraph in your writing.
Includes:
The definition of 'paragraph'.
An activity for students to discuss prior knowledge of paragraphing.
Examples according to BBC Bitesize of where use is appropriate including TiPToP memory method for the rules.
Activity for students to choose where or when paragraphing is used appropriately.
Exemplar text for analysis.
Plenary consolidating learning
4) Sentence Types - An 11 slide PowerPoint introducing different sentence types and features of imagery as aids for improving creative writing.
Includes:
Compound and complex sentence examples and exploration.
Features of imagery and its effectiveness.
Key vocabulary: olfactory, tactile, etc for imagery.
Activity for students to complete brief descriptive creative piece using both varied sentence types and features of imagery.
A 12 slide PowerPoint on the features for writing a newspaper article and explicitly, the 5 'W's.
Includes:
The key features of a newspaper article.
The 5 'W's.
An activity allowing students to write their own newspaper article surrounding being abandoned on a desert island with their classmates.
A peer assessment activity with suggested success criteria.
A plenary consolidating learning from the lesson.
A 10 slide PowerPoint analysing language, symbolism and key themes within Armitage’s ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’.
Includes questions to inspire independent analysis and thought. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Suitable for AS and A level Literature.
A 23 slide PowerPoint exploring the role of the witches within Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It includes excerpts from the script, contextual information about King James I and superstition in the 17th century, both comprehension and inference questions and is suitable for all ages!
Engaging and informative for all!
A 15-20 minute assembly on Goals: life goal setting and with inspiring stories (video and images) to kick start students setting goals of their own. No matter how small or large, ensuring they are both achievable and indeed, achieved.
Suitable for all ages!
Back to School Behavior Management - Classroom Display Posters. 25 beautiful black and white posters to save your voice and your sanity. Use for classroom management. Simply print out, laminate, trim (easy to attach to a paint stirrer or wooden craft stick with a staple or two or mount in appropriate places in your room/stand upright- also nice printed onto coloured paper/card).
Includes 25 printable behaviour signs - easily adaptable where required! Enjoy!
A 15-20 minute assembly or tutor-time presentation on positivity. Focus is on positive thinking and positive self-talking and the benefits of being an optimist.
Suitable for all ages! :)
Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students create a message in a bottle. Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader.
Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse.
Suitable for KS2-KS3!
Based on Katherine Braun Mankin’s ‘Gorilla Track’, this lesson advises students on how to approach a question on a non-fiction text requiring you to explain thoughts and feelings of the writer. This 12 slide PowerPoint analyses the text line by line and includes thought-provoking question to promote independent thought. Students then approach the question by themselves with a success criteria checklist.
A beautiful 10-15 minute (17 slide) assembly on Winter, its holidays and natural events. It is a fun and engaging Winter assembly with thought provoking questions and is easily adaptable for tutor-time.
Suitable for all ages!
A 14 slide PowerPoint lesson with corresponding resources on the poem ‘The Kiss’ by Siegfried Sassoon. Includes information on the poet himself, analysis of tone, structure and language within the poem and a stanza by stanza annotation. Also includes differentiated learning objectives and questions to promote students’ independent study.
-includes the poem itself and key poetic devices resources for students to improve their analytical skill.
A 21 slide detailed character analysis lesson for 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley. This lesson encourages students to closely analyse Priestley's characters, his intentions as a socialist playwright, the role of key characters within the play and their relationships with one another.
Also includes a key quotes sheet for key characters.
A PowerPoint on using deduction and inference. Based on visual YouTube clips for engagement before moving on to analysis of a written text.
Fun and engaging for all years! Helps to really define the key terms 'deduction' and 'inference' and establish the ability to read between the lines and search for deeper meaning.
This bundle includes the PowerPoint, lesson plan for a top ability year 10 group and the resources for an Ofsted graded 'Outstanding' lesson aimed at helping students understand the criteria for attaining a Grade A and B at GCSE in Of Mice and Men (Controlled assessment 3a).
It allows the teacher to act as a facilitator to the independent learning of students and is ideal for a KS4 class!
A 14 slide PowerPoint on sensory descriptive gore writing, selecting effective vocabulary and describing in detail while avoiding cliched horror writing.
Includes model gory paragraph and opportunity for peer assessment!
(nothing too horrific, don’t worry!)
A 14 slide lesson on Imagery with definitions, examples and tasks for students. Whole lesson with beautiful images and engaging writing samples.
Suitable for KS3-KS5!
An 18 slide fully differentiated PowerPoint lesson on Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Valentine with line by line analysis and exploration of key themes and ideas such as the moon metaphor.
Engaging lesson with activities for students and thought provoking questions to end.
Suitable for KS3!
