Revision Letter
Resources:A syllabus sheet?A letter template hereWhat to do:This post is inspired after a brief chat with @Marcus_Leach about his idea of angry revision letters. I have adapted what he shared with me slightly!The idea is to get students to write themselves revision letters. In their letters they must include all specialist language/key dates/subject specific terminology and so […]
Text Graphs
Resources:None!What to do:I picked up this activity in a Year 8 English lesson. (Thank you to the my English Dept. again!) Whilst looking at Narrative, focusing on the genre of romance, students were asked to complete a ‘conflict graph’ after watching a short video clip. (See here.) They were then asked to fill in the highs and […]
What/Who Am I?
Resources:NothingWhat to do:Teacher can present a series of statements on the board or read them out loud. The idea is for students to associate the clues to a relevant topic/keyword from the lesson.e.g: I am Orange in colourYou need to peel my skin before you eat me I am round in shapeI am very juicy or I […]
Back to Back
Resources:A description/a piece of text.What to do:Students should sit back to back with each other.One by one they should read out their descriptions. Whilst one is reading the other is to draw what they hear.I have used this to get students to understand the characteristics of gothic characters or to analyse language features in text. Variations:Once the students […]
Wall of Wonderful Words
Resources:None!What to do:I have seen this in an English AST’s class here at my school.She has created a Wall Of Wonderful Words. The wall contains words that students have used in their writing across her classes.She has colour coded the words by year group.She also asks students to ensure they use these ‘wonderful’ words in […]
Walking Talking Mock
Resources: PowerPoints x4 (AQA Higher, AQA Foundation, Cambridge IGCSE Core, Cambridge IGCSE Extended) Past Papers x 4: (AQA Higher: Jan 2011; AQA Founation: Jan 2011; IGCSE Core: Specimen Paper [School in Botswana / Wild Dogs]; IGCSE Extended: Specimen Paper [Beast of Bodmin Moor / Unicorns and Yetis]) Click HERE for a folder with all of […]
Advent Time
Resources:Click HEREWhat to do:Discover a new book every day with this literacy/reading based advent calendar by the Book Trust!
Pic of the day-LMYL
Resources: A Smartboard/projector/screen and your choice of picture and writing challenge from http://lendmeyourliteracy.com/category/pic-of-the-day/ What to do: This free resource aims to encourage young people to engage in creative writing. Designed by current teachers, the LMYL Picture of the Day can simply be shown on a screen to give an instant writing stimulus. Each new daily […]
Thumb Prints
Resources:Some images of thumb prints. Image from http://artclassinspiration.blogspot.co.uk What to do:Students can use this activity in a variety of ways. The idea is to make a large scale thumb print either A5, A4 or even A3.The students are to replace the lines within a thumb print with… Quotes from a character(s) within a book Personality traits […]
Instant Punctuation
Resources: You will need a PC or Mac with a projector for this activity. An interactive board makes it easier, but is not essential. You can download the software for Mac or PC from here What to do: Find a well written text on any topic that suits the level of your students. You could […]