This is a very useful sheet for all GCSE students. It's a writing frame that should help you to structure the annotations you make in your sketchbooks. It's very important to explain each piece of artwork in your book with a small amount of writing, but it's easy to write the wrong things, and hard to use the right artistic language. Following the five headings and using the phrases on this sheet will make your annotations better, and help you gain marks. You can access the sheet online by clicking here. I hope you find it helpful!
As a resource for our GCSE Maths students I have produced a few Maths GCSE revision guides that I am claiming are the smallest in the world. Please let me know if this isn’t the case! All the…
Our Sonnet Structure Poster is a great educational resource that will help you create relevant and engaging English Literature classrooms.
These posts look at the purposes of work with literatures, ways to approach the overall task and some common writing problems in literatures work. it also ofers an example of conducting a literature review by scoping, mapping and focusing in.
STRONG / EXTREME OR NON-GRADABLE ADJECTIVES Extreme Adjectives in English. ADJECTIVES AND PREPOSITIONS
I've written about Teaching Channel before, and I'll be writing from time to time about a particular great idea I've found there. If you haven't already joined, remember that it's FREE, and signing up takes less than a minute! One of the many great Tch video clips shows middle school teacher Meagan Berkowitz teaching a poetry lesson using the SIFT Method - Symbol, Imagery, Figurative Language, and Tone or Theme. It's less than 5 minutes long, and well worth watching to see her interaction with her students, and the focus they have on the poems they are reading while using bookmark cue cards. Close analytic reading is an important feature of the Common Core; here's a tool for you to try out to see if it fits your needs! Besides the bookmark, you are given the lesson plan, a copy of the two poems used, and a transcript of the lesson. If you're a language arts teacher, you're all set to try this lesson yourself, or to adapt it to your grade level! And don't forget to "pin" the lesson by clicking "Save this in my Lesson Planner." (A note: there is a typo on the SIFT bookmark that you'll want to change before printing - "attitude and author" should be "attitude an author." I changed it in the image above. Since it's an open Word document, it's no problem!)
Happy Friday everyone! Here are a few intervention strategies which can be used in the run up to half term: If you have a sixth form, get them involved! I generally find that GCSE students listen well to their
What is equivalent of 1-9 GCSE grades? The new grading system now used instead of traditional A* to U letters explained
