An International Head of English planning lessons for Year 6, KS3 and KS4. Lessons are tailored to the British National Curriculum at KS3 and Edexcel iGCSEs at KS4. All lessons are planned for students with their own devices. Lessons are fully differentiated to suit mixed-ability classes, even at GCSE level.
An International Head of English planning lessons for Year 6, KS3 and KS4. Lessons are tailored to the British National Curriculum at KS3 and Edexcel iGCSEs at KS4. All lessons are planned for students with their own devices. Lessons are fully differentiated to suit mixed-ability classes, even at GCSE level.
‘Boy’ by Roald Dahl - Autobiographies - Year 6 or lower KS3 Scheme of Work - Remote Learning Lessons
This scheme has been designed for Year 7 mixed-ability classes who are all learning from home (Remote Learning). All students have their own devices. All lessons are fully differentiated.
The scheme of work is designed to teach students how to write their own autoiography. Over the course of they scheme, they will practise a range of skills in order to write an autobiography. They will end up with their own digital booklet of their autobiography.
Skills include:
Research skills
Comprehension skills
How to create a book cover
Descriptive writing skills - figurative language
Creating Humour
Simple, compound and complex sentences
Creating a villain - focus on adjectives, verbs and exaggeration
Improving vocabulary
Creating tension - parts of a story (exposition, complication, climax and resolution)
Sentence starters
Punctuation
Putting together our autobiography (proof-reading and drafting skills)
Final extract - assessment
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 24 - Chapters 23, 24 and 25 - Year 6 or lower KS3
Lessons have been designed for students with their own devices but can easily be adapted.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 18 - Chapters 13 and 14 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons were created for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 32 - William Blake - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 21 - Chapters 17 and 18 - Year 6 or lower KS3
Lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 27 - Chapters 30 and 31 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 29 - Chapters 35 and 36 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
The second half of a 40 lesson scheme on ‘Skellig’ by David Almond, created for a mixed-ability Year 6 class with their own devices.
The 40 lessons cover the full novel and include:
*comprehension skills
language analysis
characterisation
how tension is created
writing to describe - vocabulary, sensory descriptions, figurative language etc
Writing to advise
Comparison
Green mythology
William Blake Poetry
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 19 - Chapters 15 and 16 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 22 - Chapters 19, 20 and 21 - Year 6 or lower KS3
Lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 5 - Descriptive Writing (Vocabulary) - Year 6 or KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 25 - Chapters 26 and 27 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but these can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 28 - Chapters 32, 33 and 34 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 30 - Greek Mythology - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 31 - Greek Mythology - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 37 - Chapter 45 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 33 - Chapters 41 and 42 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 36 - Symbolism - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 38 - Chapter 46 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their devices, but can be adapted easily.
‘Skellig’ - David Almond -Lesson 26 - Chapters 28 and 29 - Year 6 or lower KS3
All lessons have been designed for students with their own devices, but these can be adapted easily.