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)

KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: Relationships Poetry 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

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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

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

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

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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

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KS2 Literacy Teaching Resources: Treasure Island (Narrative Unit)

Treasure Island (KS2 Narrative Unit)

(Treasure Island (KS2 Narrative Unit) - Literacy teaching resource featuring 79 slides)

Key Stage : 2

Literacy Teaching Resources: Treasure Island (KS2/Year 5 Narrative Unit  4 – Older literature)

www.Teacher-of-Literacy.com presents a unit of work which focuses on the story of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and offers opportunities for children to access an example of classic fiction. It also looks at comparing the interpretation of a text in film. Objectives covered in this unit :
 
o    deduce differences in patterns of relationships, customs and attitudes with particular reference to the way characters act and interact.
o    look at an author's use of language, for example literal and figurative language for descriptions; to create a comic or dramatic effect.
o    identify point of view from which a story is told. Select a character and use improvisation and role-play to explore the story from their point of view. 
o    write in role, for example a letter from one character to another.
o    plan and write a new story in the same genre, using devices and techniques borrowed from the original
o    compare and contrast film versions with the original text version
o    explore the technique of parody

KS2 Literacy Teaching Resources: KS2/Year 5 Narrative Unit  4 – Older literature is a complete unit of work (includes suggestions for activities, sentence warm up activities, links to appropriate online resources, 79 slide PowerPoint and 31 accompanying worksheets).  Lessons follow the Phase 1,2 and 3 teaching sequence and cover the related core learning objectives (see preview below).
1.    Personal responses to reading
2.    Graphic interpretation of a description
3.    Empathising with characters
4.    Sentence warm up activities
5.    Deduce differences in patterns of relationships, customs and attitudes with particular reference to the way characters act and interact.
6.    Look at an author's use of language, for example literal and figurative language for descriptions; to create a comic or dramatic effect.
7.    Individual, pair and group work.
8.    Role on the wall activities
9.    Descriptive, report and discussion writing
10.    Biography
11.    Lyrics telling a story
12.    Identify point of view from which a story is told. Select a character and use improvisation and role-play to explore the story from their point of view. 
13.    Hotseating, conscience alley
14.    Extending vocabulary
15.    Text structure and planning; creating a plan using a structure.
16.    Write in role, for example a letter from one character to another.
17.    Writing in the third person.
18.    Writing a short story.

Cross curricular links: History (Exploration, pirates, sailing ships); Music (pirate songs); Geography (Caribbean)

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Kensuke's Kingdom teaching resources

Kensuke's Kingdom

(Kensuke's Kingdom - English teaching resource featuring 51 slides)

Key Stage : 3

Year 7 Narrative Unit  – Kensuke’s Kingdom – English teaching resources featuring 51 slides.
Key Stage: 3 (Year 7)
The range of activities in this unit of work are intended to suggest opportunities for reading and writing using the novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo which can be used both in English and across the curriculum. There are weblinks to extend and enrich children’s learning and teachers will identify many opportunities arising from these activities such as art and craft work (origami, the art of Hokusai); links to RE (Zen and Shinto religions); the study of Japan; astronomy; habitats; World War ll; mountains and many more. It is usually used as a transition unit of work but can easily be adapted to be used to fit in with other requirements.
KS3 English Teaching Resources: Kensuke's Kingdom is a unit of work where all activities covered are structured chronologically. Teachers can use the resource as it is or select from and adapt the activities to meet the needs of the children they teach. There are plenty of reading and writing opportunities with suggested assessment focuses identified.
KS3 English Teaching Resources: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Year 7 Narrative Unit) is a complete unit of work which includes suggestions for activities, sentence warm ups, a 51 slide PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets.  Lessons cover the related core learning objectives (see preview below).

1.    Talk for writing – reading as a writer. How does this text make you feel and how has the writer achieved this?
2.    Exploring character – why characters act as they do.
3.    Identifying the main points in a story.
4.    Sentence warm up activities
5.    Text structure and planning
6.    Diary writing
7.    Drama and role play
8.    Vocabulary extension
9.    Poetry
10.    Non chronological report reading and writing
11.    Recount reading and writing
12.    Discussion writing
13.    Considering viewpoints in a story
14.    Sentence warm up activities

Cross curricular links:
Art and craft work (origami, the art of Hokusai); links to RE (Zen and Shinto religions); the study of Japan; astronomy; habitats; World War ll; mountains.


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