This Boy in the Tower SoW was created for a mixed ability virtual classroom. It can be adapted very easily to suit a classroom setting, replacing ‘Breakout Rooms’ with ‘table groups’. The mini-scheme of work includes 6 lessons, an assessment, tasks and videos.
SoW works on KS3 English skills such as inference, analysis, analytical paragraphs and word and structural analysis.
Some keywords have been provided in Arabic - though they can be easily removed or replaced.
Reading assessment is included.
Support your students through a series of Do-Nows. Great for pre-teaching vocabulary before reading A Christmas Carol.
Uses eleven words from Stave 2 and a few words from Stave 1.
Words include:-
Irrepressible
Haggard
Despoil
Brigands
Dowerless
Support your students through a series of Do-Nows. Great for pre-teaching vocabulary before reading A Christmas Carol.
Uses sixteen words from Stave 1.
Words include:-
Hallowed
Emphatically
Caustic
Dirge
Shrewdly
A homework booklet with activities which looks to develop analytical and literacy skills. Extracts come from a range of dystopian novels. Ideal for students in KS3, especially Year 8 and Year 9. It can be used in and out of lessons.
It also includes a homework choice menu at the end of the booklet.
Easily adaptable lesson on selecting and retrieving evidence, using an extract from Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boys.
Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.
This is great for those teaching poetry at KS4 and KS5.
My students make an abundance of notes in their anthologies, and so this double-sided A3 sheet helps them transfer their notes for revision to be used before their exams, consolidate their learning and help ME see where the gaps are in their knowledge.
I’m sure it’ll help you too!
Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with Year 9s in mind. They would usually complete this during a unit on autobiographical writing.
This can be used throughout KS3 though and maybe up into KS4 depending on your group’s ability.
Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with our Year 8s in mind; they would be studying Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice whilst doing these.
These can be used across KS3 though and for any units.
Copied and pasted from SparkNotes and put onto a Word Doc. Full credit goes to the SparkNotes team.
I cut them out and laminated them and made a display for the English corridor with them. Both students and teachers have enjoyed them!