Tuesday 13 December 2011

PPT Teaching Resources: One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings)

One Flesh (Jennings)

(One Flesh (Jennings) - English teaching resource featuring 37 slides)

Key Stage : 4
KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: Relationships Poetry - One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings)

English Teaching Resources: Relationships PoetryOne Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings) is an English/English Literature teaching resource made up of a 37 slide PowerPoint and 7 pages of worksheets.  Resources cover a range of lessons and activities ideal for studying and teaching the poem at KS4/GCSE.  The resources can be used as stand alone lessons on One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings) or incorporated into a wider scheme of work on love and relationships poetry.  KS4 GCSE English Teaching Resources: One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings) includes a range of detailed and stimulating lessons and activities for students of all abilities:

-Introduction activities
-Consolidation of understanding and comprehension tasks
-Grace Nichols use of language and imagery in One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings)
-Structure and poetic techniques in the poem
-Modelling the use of PEE when writing an analysis of One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings)
-The theme and message of One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings)
-Links to additional study notes about One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings)
-37 slide PowerPoint analysis of One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings)
-7 pages of worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint lessons

To preview KS4/GCSE English Poetry Teaching Resources: One Flesh (Elizabeth Jennings) please click on the link below:

Tuesday 6 December 2011

English Teaching Resources: Comma splices and fused sentences

English Teaching Resources: Comma Splicing teaches pupils how and when to use commas when writing a sentence.  These 18 slide PowerPoint resources/lessons can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into an existing lesson or used in relation to wider punctuation rules.  The activities include:
  1. How to use commas.
  2. What makes a sentence?
  3. Comma splicing.
  4. Fused sentences.
  5. Consolidation and assessment activities

For a preview of English Teaching Resources: Comma Splicing click on the link: http://www.teacher-of-english.com/comma-splicing-teaching-resources-365.html
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Friday 11 November 2011

History Teaching Resources: The Fall of the Roman Empire

Fall of the Roman Empire

(Fall of the Roman Empire - History teaching resource featuring 12 slides)

Key Stage : 2,3
PowerPoint and worksheets
KS2/KS3 History Teaching Resources: The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 12 slide Powerpoint resource ideal for teaching pupils how and why the Empire collapsed.  KS2/KS3 History Teaching Resources: The Fall of the Roman Empire includes:
  • short film about the Empire in crisis 
  • An introduction to the main reasons for the Empire's decline
  • A map showing how barbarians tribes attacked the Roman Empire
  • Understanding and consolidation tasks
  • 'Diary of the last days of the Empire' task
  • 12  slide PowerPoint 
  • 3 accompanying worksheets
To preview KS2/KS3 History Teaching Resources: The Fall of the Roman Empire click on the link below:

Tuesday 8 November 2011

English Teaching Resources: Non fiction Narrative Writing

Non fiction Narrative Writing

(Non fiction Narrative Writing - English teaching resource featuring 150 slides)

Key Stage : 4
English Teaching Resources: Non fiction Narrative Writing (PowerPoint and worksheets)

This unit of work is desgined to cover Non fiction Narrative Writing at GCSE level. It is ideal preparation for the Section B, part one, AQA GCSE English Examination.  English Teaching Resources: Non fiction Narrative Writing is a complete lesson by lesson unit of work (includes detailed lessons and activities, a 150 slide PowerPoint and 14 accompanying worksheets). 

GCSE English Teaching Resources: Non fiction Narrative Writing includes a range of varied lessons and activities for pupils of all abilities. 
  1.     An introduction to non fiction narrative writing
  2.     Exemplar GCSE exam question
  3.     Planning and structuring writing
  4.     Establishing setting and creating effective imagery
  5.     How to use devices in writing
  6.     Using the MASSIVE mnemonic
  7.     How to write using metaphors, adjectives, similes, sentence variety, imagery, vocabulary, effective verbs and powerful adverbs
  8.     Using the 5 point plan to build a story - gripping opening, back-story, problem & complication, crisis and resolution
  9.     Checking, drafting and redrafting

To preview English Teaching Resources: Non fiction Narrative Writing please click on the link below.

Friday 14 October 2011

Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Pattern) - English Teaching Resources


Song for Last Year's Wife

(Song for Last Year's Wife - English teaching resource featuring 30 slides)

Key Stage : 4 or Access 3
KS4 GCSE English Teaching Resources: Relationships Poetry - Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten)

www.Teacher-of-English.com present English Teaching Resources: 
Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten)is an English/English Literature teaching resource made up of a 30 slidePowerPoint and 7 pages of worksheets.  Resources cover a range of lessons and activities ideal for studying and teaching the poem at KS4/GCSE.  The resources can be used as a stand alone lessons on Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten) or incorporated into a wider scheme of work on love and relationships poetry.  KS4 GCSE English Teaching Resources: Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten) includes a range of detailed and stimulating lessons and activities for students of all abilities:

-Introduction activities
-Consolidation of understanding and comprehension tasks
-Patten's use of language and imagery in Song for Last Year's Wife
-Structure and poetic techniques in the poem
-Modelling the use of PEE when writing an analysis of Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten)
-The theme and message of Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten)
-Links to Brian Patten's website and other helpful resources
-30 slide PowerPoint analysis of Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten)
-7 pages of worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint lessons

To preview KS4 GCSE English Poetry Teaching Resources: Song for Last Year's Wife (Brian Patten) please click on the link below.
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Wednesday 12 October 2011

Comma Splicing Exercises (PowerPoint and Worksheets)


Comma Splicing KS2 - Teacher-of-Literacy.com

(Comma Splicing KS2 - Literacy teaching resource featuring 18 slides)

Key Stage : 2,3
18 slide PowerPoint presentation
Literacy Teaching Resources: Comma Splicing KS2 is an 18 slide PowerPoint presentation designed to help teach punctuation and grammar rules regarding comma splicing.  Literacy Teaching Resources: Comma Splicing KS2 provides step by step activities explaining how to use commas in the correct context and how to avoid the comma splice.  Literacy Teaching Resources: Comma Splicing KS2 includes the following lessons/activities:
   1. What makes a complete sentence?
   2. KS1 punctuation assessment objectives.
   3. Examples of correct and incorrect use of the comma.
   4. APP assessment guidelines for writing.
   5. 'Splice or fine' group activity.
   6. Comma splicing solutions.
Literacy Teaching Resources: Comma Splicing KS2 can be used as an extended starter activity, incorporated into an existing lesson or developed into a wider scheme of work on punctuation rules.

For a preview of Literacy Teaching Resources: Comma Splicing KS2 click on the link below:

Thursday 29 September 2011

English Poetry Teaching Resources/lessons: Our Love Now (Martyn Lowery)

Our Love Now (Lowery)

(Our Love Now (Lowery) - English teaching resource featuring 31 slides)

English Teaching Resources: Our Love Now  (Martyn Lowery)

www.Teacher-of-English.com presents new resources for the poem Our Love Now.  Our Love Now (Martyn Lowery) is an English/English Literature teaching resource consisting of a 31 slide PowerPoint and 10 pages of worksheets.  Resources cover a range of lessons and activities ideal for studying and teaching the poem at KS4/GCSE.  The resources can be used as stand alone lessons on Our Love Now or incorporated into a wider scheme of work on relationships poetry.  The resources are ideal for teaching the poem as part of the Edexcel GCSE English Poetry Anthology.  KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: Our Love Now (Martyn Lowery) consists of a range of detailed and stimulating lessons and activities for students of all abilities including:

-An introduction to the poem including consolidation / comprehension tasks
-Lowery's use of language and imagery in Our Love Now
-Structure and poetic techniques in the poem
-Modelling the use of P.E.E when writing an analysis of the poem
-The theme and message of Our Love Now
-Links to other relevant resources
-32 slide PowerPoint analysis of Our Love Now
-11 pages of worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint lessons

To preview KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: Our Love Now (Martyn Lowery) please click on the link below.
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Thursday 22 September 2011

Literacy Teaching Resources: KS2 Non fiction Unit – Reports and explanations


KS2 Non fiction Reports and Explanations

(KS2 Non fiction Reports and Explanations - Literacy teaching resource featuring 68 slides)

Key Stage : 2
This unit of work could form part of a class topic in which the children are learning about systems, procedures or processes. They could create an information or reference book in which they include reports and explanations. It is based on the 2006 Year 6 SAT short writing test Endangered Creature and will offer opportunities to explore features of impersonal style such as complex sentences, use of passive voice, hypothetical language (if...then, might, when the...) and technical vocabulary.  Literacy Teaching Resources: KS2 Non fiction Unit – Reports and explanations covers a number of key curriculum areas.  
KS2 Literacy Teaching Resources: Non fiction unit – Reports and explanations is a complete unit of work (including an overview, a 68 slide PowerPoint and 24 accompanying worksheets).  Lessons follow the Phase 1,2 and 3 teaching sequence and cover the related core learning objectives (see preview below).  Activities include:
1.    Personal responses to reading
2.    Sentence warm up activities
3.    Extending vocabulary
4.    Use of the passive voice in impersonal writing
5.    Text structure and planning
6.    Creating a plan using a structure.
7.    Writing in the third person.
Cross curricular links: History and Geography (Galápagos islands, weather); Science (Habitats, Interdependence and adaptation, Life cycles); Art/DT – using fabric collage to create pictures
To preview KS2 Non fiction Reports and Explanations in detail click on the link below.

Sunday 18 September 2011

At the border, 1979 (Choman Hardi)


At the border, 1979

(At the border, 1979 - English teaching resource featuring 41 slides)

Key Stage : 4
KS4/GCSE/SCE English Teaching Resources: At the border, 1979 (Choman Hardi)

www.Teacher-of-English.com presents At the border, 1979 (Choman Hardi) is an English/English Literature teaching resource consisting of a 41 slide PowerPoint and 15 pages of worksheets.  Resources cover a range of lessons and activities ideal for studying and teaching the poem at KS4/GCSE/SCE.  The resources can be used as a stand alone lessons on At the border, 1979 or incorporated into a wider scheme of work on war poetry/conflict/relationships.  English Teaching Resources: At the border, 1979 (Choman Hardi) consists of a range of detailed and stimulating lessons and activities for students of all abilities including:
-A brief biography of Choman Hardi
-An introduction to the poem 
-The historical and social context of At the border, 1979
-Consolidation of understanding and comprehension tasks
-Hardi's use of language and imagery in At the border, 1979
-Structure and poetic techniques in the poem
-Modelling the use of PEE when writing an analysis of the poem
-The theme and message of At the border, 1979
-41 slide PowerPoint analysis of At the border, 1979
-15 pages of worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint lessons

To preview English Teaching Resources: At the border, 1979 (Choman Hardi) please click on the link below.