Would you like ready-made lessons
to develop essential skills?
These skills-based resources are ideal.
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Ready-made
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Ready-to-run
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Low-to-no-prep
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Richly-resourced
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Student-centred
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Engaging, interactive, fast-paced
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Slideshow-led, with embedded script
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Contains starter, main, plenary and homework activities
Supports Speaking, Writing, Interacting, Reading and Listening Skills
HOW TO HOOK YOUR READER WRITING LESSON
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have created a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then used those frames to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They will also have competed with each other and voted on the most effective hooks written.
HOW TO HOOK YOUR READER
SWIRL LESSON
(Speaking, Writing, Interacting, Reading, LIstening)
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have used sentence unscrambling, dictogloss, running dictation, and group discussion tasks to develop their understanding of hook writing. They will use a range of hook examples to understand how hooks can be used for different text types and English B themes.
HOW TO WRITE A CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND PARAGRAPH
LISTENING LESSON
By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised listening skills to learn about a way to structure a contextual background paragraph. They will then create substitution tables based on mentor sentences to generate a range of general statements to begin their paragraphs. Their homework will be to write a contextual background paragraph based on IB-themed prompts.
DIRECT and INDIRECT SPEECH
SWIRL LESSON
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned the rules for writing both direct and indirect speech using speaking, writing, interacting, reading and listening (SWIRL) activities. From a loud starter, to paired information gap tasks, writing tasks and interactive quizzing, your students will explore ways to correctly punctuate direct speech and will write their own examples based on mentor sentences.
FORMAL and INFORMAL
VOCABULARY LESSON
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned 6 sets of 18 vocabulary words associated with formal and informal writing in these categories: contractions, FANBOYS and conjunctive adverbs, formal vocabulary, colloquial language, nominalised verbs and adjectives, and phrasal verbs. They will use the Pelmanism Game to try to remember the vocabulary and play another memory game to help retain the words encountered in the lesson. The ultimate goal of the lesson is to remember informal words and their formal counterparts.
FORMAL and INFORMAL
SWIRL LESSON
By the end of this lesson, your students will have discerned through speaking, writing, interacting, reading and listening (SWIRL) activities. the rules for writing both formal and informal registers using 4 formal and informal letters . From a loud starter, to paired tasks where students have to use their inference and observation skills, to a rules-generating activity, your students will rely on previous knowledge and newly-shared information to formulate rules for formal and informal writing.
SENTENCE VARIETY
SWIRL LESSON
By the end of this lesson, your students will have used a jigsaw activity to teach each other 18 different ways to vary their sentences, incorporating sentence starters, sentence expanders, sentence punctuation and sentence types. Students will have used what they have learned to improve weak paragraphs. Depending on the size of your class, these activities may take more than one lesson to complete.
SPEAK CIRCLES
SPEAKING LESSON
By the end of this lesson, your students will have provided the ground rules for respectful listening, learned the rules for Speak Circles, and used a variety of speaking cards to develop different ways to question, share opinions, agree, disagree and extend each other’s ideas through rounds based on each of the IB Learner Themes.
HARKNESS DISCUSSION
SPEAKING LESSONS X 3
By the end of these 3 lessons, your students will have learned the skills needed to conduct an effective and worthwhile Harkness Discussion. Using the topic of CHATGPT, students will learn a note-taking technique, explore research-options, decide on respectful listening rules, conduct research and have their first Harkness Discussion. Resourced with an array of speaking frames as scaffolds, these lessons are a must!
YEAR 12 INTRO TO ENG B SKILLS
SWIRL LESSONS X3
By the end of these highly engaging speaking, writing, interacting, reading and listening lessons, Year 12 students will have been introduced to some of the key skills needed for success in English B. Lesson 1 allows them to satisfy their curiosity about the course; Lesson 2 encourages them to find out more about the 5 themes, and in Lesson 3, they focus on the Learner Profile to gain an understanding of how everything fits together.
PAPER ONE PREPARATION
LISTENING LESSON
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned a handy acronym to help them unpack the prompts of the Paper One examination. In addition, they will learn how to use a simple planning diagram to ensure they map and extend their ideas for each aspect of the prompts.
