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

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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: