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Hooray!
The resource booklet and DVD are now ready to be disseminated around Norfolk schools.
The DVDs and copies of the booklet will be given to English Subject Leaders on the 21st November 2007 at their meeting at the PDC.
Keywords: descriptive writing, English, global links, global school links, KS4, original writing, peer education, Weaving Words
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This scheme consists of 6 lessons to be used once the students have read, studied, annotated and discussed the two SATs extracts.
These lessons have been designed to help raise the standard of written answers in this section of the KS3 English exam. WALT and WILF appear as the first page for each lesson. The lessons have been created on Smartboard, but I have also saved them as Word documents for those of you who do not have Notebook 9.5.1a. Three starter activities are provided, with explanatory notes. These can be used as quick revision and settler activities at the beginning of the lesson. 1a Starters.doc
Fishbone skeleton is included as a Word document. Fishbone plan
Lesson 1:Objective: To encourage clear understanding of the extract one. Supporting and developing this understanding with examples and further details.
Task: Group work, mix and match game. Points, Quotes and Explanations. Detailed teachers' notes given in Word Doc:
Lesson 2: Objective: To teach the use of Point Evidence Explain in relation to the text.
Task: The students will produce complete paragraphs about Beatrice, in which they will support their points with quotation and explanation. Differentiation can be achieved in this lesson by selecting the appropriate statement for each child. The first is the easiest to write about and they increase in difficulty. 2. Using PEE
Lesson 3:
Objective: To teach the use of connectives in linking and separating ideas in an essay. Focus is on addition, contrast and conclusion. Reinforce use of quotation to support all points made.
Task: Interactive sorting activity to identify types of connectives. The students complete tables using the correct connectives to link or show the contrast between different statements and to practise PEE. They also look at conclusion connectives. 3 Using connectives
Lesson 4: Objective: To teach students how to analyse a question in an exam, and a variety of planning strategies they might use. Students work on a realistic question that they might be asked.
Task: The students will analyse a question and try out several different planning methods. The teacher may favour one over another and choose to only teach one method. The fishbone method is especially useful for revision, but may be too time consuming for some in exam conditions. They can be set the writing or completion of the actual essay for homework. There is also a focus on proofreading. 4 Analysing and Planning
Lesson 5,6,7: Objective: To give students a chance to practise what they have learned in the past three lessons.
Task: Plan and write an essay in timed conditions. I have included some guidelines and reminders for the students. Teachers might like to have another lesson proofreading and target setting, based on lesson 4’s work, before lesson 5. It will also be useful to examine Writing Level criteria with the students. I have included one of each type of possible question: character, language, theme, performance. Theme, Language, Text based questions
Jean Kiekopf
Keywords: Improving writing about Shakespeare, KS3 SATs English, Much Ado About Nothing
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