Saturday 26 January 2013

English Literature Teaching Resources: Animal Farm by George Orwell


Animal Farm (George Orwell)

(Animal Farm (George Orwell) - English teaching resource featuring 139 slides)

Key Stage : 3,4
English teaching resources from www.Teacher-of-English.com 
Animal Farm is made up of a 139 slide PowerPoint presentation, a 47 page booklet of worksheets and a lesson by lesson, scheme of work overview.
English Literature Teaching Resources: Animal Farm by George Orwell contains 14 lessons designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the plot, characters, language, themes and historical context of the novel Animal Farm by George OrwellEnglish Literature Teaching Resources: Animal Farm by George Orwell includes a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities:
    -A brief biography of George Orwell
    -An explanation of the historical context of Europe in the 1930s and the rise of the USSR - notes and BBC documentary
    -Russian Revolution research task
    -Activities to explore narrative structure and develop knowledge of the plot of Animal Farm
    -In depth analysis of the characters of Snowball, Napoleon, Squealer, Boxer and Benjamin
    -Exploration of the key themes of Animal Farm  - power, idealism, corruption, class, Socialism, propaganda, social control
    -Developing awareness of the features of a novel – character, theme, plot, style and language
    -An exploration of satire and allegory
    -Orwell's use of structure 
    -Pick a number and Blockbusters consolidation games
    -Reading and discussion tasks and questions
    -Hot seating activities to explore characters, motives and themes
    -Diary writing (empathetic writing) to develop a deeper understanding of character 
    -Links to additional Animal Farm teaching and learning resources
    -Differentiation - lessons with extension tasks and questions for G&T pupils
    -Mind mapping the key themes and issues of George Orwell's Animal Farm
    -Exam style essay questions
    -A 14 lesson unit of work (following the four part lesson structure)
    -A 139 slide PowerPoint presentation (see preview below)
    -47 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint
English Literature Teaching Resources: Animal Farm by George Orwell follows the four part lesson structure.  Each lesson begins with a starter activity, moves through an introduction and development and ends with a plenary activity. All PowerPoint slides are fully editable so you can personalise and differentiate the resources as much or as little as you want.  Add extra slides, delete pages, change the text and imagery and update it as is necessary to suit your teaching needs.  In addition, the resource contains a scheme of work overview and a student booklet packed with worksheets created to be used in conjunction with the PowerPoint.
To view the English Literature Teaching Resources: Animal Farm by George Orwell powerpoint in more detail you can preview every slide by clicking on the images in the boxes beneath the resource’s description below.

Thursday 10 January 2013

Mr Stink teaching resources

Mr Stink (David Walliams)

(Mr Stink (David Walliams) - Literacy teaching resource featuring 61 slides)

Key Stage : 2
KS2 Literacy Teaching Resources: Mr Stink by David Walliams
(PowerPoint presentation lessons with worksheets)
Mr Stink is an excellent KS2 Literacy teaching resource featuring a series of fun lessons designed to enhance and develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel Mr Stink by David Walliams. KS2 Literacy Teaching Resources: Mr Stink by David Walliams includes a wide range of activities and lessons for children of all abilities.

- Making predictions about the text
- Background information, with film clips from Author's Live, about David Walliams
- Diary writing as Chloe Crumb
- Exploring characterisation - Chloe, Mr Stink, Mother, Dad, Annabelle, Raj and The Prime Minister
- David Walliams's use of vocabulary
- Writing an agony aunt letter as Chloe
- Exploring abstract nouns and key themes - bullying, homelessness, courage, depression, poverty, ethics
- Discussion of events, characters and themes - using zone of relevance technique
- Advertising Raj's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Stationery Set
- How to transform a chapter into a script
- Question Time style debate
- Narrative writing and character portraits
- Writing to instruct and writing to explain tasks
- 61 slide PowerPoint
- 24 worksheets
- And more!
The range of activities in this unit of work are intended to suggest opportunities around the novel Mr Stink by David Walliams which can be used in Literacy and across the curriculum. There are weblinks to extend and enrich children’s learning and teachers will identify PSHE opportunities arising from these activities (Homelessness; Bullying; Reasons for keeping a pet, etc).
There are specific activities to teach grammatical aspects of literacy but teachers will identify further opportunities which should be tailored to children’s needs. The whole unit of work could be completed in about 2 weeks, or extended to half a term’s work using the suggested links.
It is not intended to be a prescriptive unit of work where all activities are worked through slavishly, although it is structured chronologically. Teachers should select from, and adapt, these resources to meet the needs of the children they teach.
To download KS2 Literacy Teaching Resources: Mr Stink (David Walliams)  go to www.Teacher-of-Literacy.com or click on the link below:

Wednesday 9 January 2013

The Lion and Albert teaching resources


The Lion and Albert

(The Lion and Albert - English teaching resource featuring 52 slides)

Key Stage : 3
The Lion and Albert by Marriott Edgar
KS3 English: Choral and Performance Poetry

The Lion and Albert resource overview:
Pupils hear, read, and experience performance poetry, both on paper and in actual performance through a recorded monologue. They explore the contribution made by the performance element. They then write in various genres based on the poem.
Pupils respond to the experience and discuss and analyse what the performance element adds to the poetry and in what ways. They also consider dialect and accent in the poem The Lion and Albert.
Pupils identify features that might make a good performance, for example well-chosen words, powerful verbs, adjectives, adverbs and precise nouns; use of detail and sense impressions; surprising and illuminating combinations of words; repetition, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm and rhyme. They select, rehearse and present some of them, looking to develop effective use of such features as volume, pace, expression and movement, and possibly adding simple music or rhythm, body percussion, etc. They evaluate and self-evaluate their performances and improve them.
The teacher models and then supports the children in writing/creating a range of texts which are linked to the theme of the poem.
The teacher models and then supports the children in writing their own poems which are then rehearsed, performed, shared, evaluated and improved. A simple digital video camera, which itself can be operated by children, provides an excellent way of recording and reviewing children's own live performances, and ICT media, such as pod casting, can provide a wider audience for such performances.
Additional creative activities can be used to extend this unit, such as using stop motion animation to retell the poem, or a narrative version; using a cartoon strip to retell the story.
The resource provides opportunities for drama, writing in role, writing in different genres, and writing and performing poetry.  It also gives pupils the opportunity to explore colloquialisms, accent and dialect.
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