Hello folks! We hope you've had a jolly old Christmas time, filled with pies, presents and peope you love - we certainly had fun at LS headquarters! However, we've not stopped working this week - even if we have been weighed down by too much turkey! This week, our new arrivals for you include: - Our Unseen Comparative Poetry Lessons - Our Poetry Lesson Bundle - saving you 44% on the cost of buying our three Unseen Poetry Lessons separately! - The News Brief activity - get your stars writing up the disaster outlined in the brief and interviewing a survivor! Download below. - A media lesson on creating bias and perspectives in fiction media, using 'Lost', 'Forrest Gump', 'Dead Famous' and a football commentary to show how the media manipulate us. Resources within the lesson available below. - Teaching mise en scene using various film stills and 'The Truman Show'.
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Every time we teach and do either a formative or summative assessment, we peer or teacher assess.
However, sometimes it is understandbly difficult to create a new set of assessment criteria or success criteria per task - let's face it, there just aren't enough hours in the day or PPA time in the world! So, in an effore to combat this, our Peer Assessment Pack is now available on our TES page. It's a series of five different peer assessment grids: Reading (Comprehension), Reading (Analysis), Essay Writing, Creative Writing (Fiction), Creative Writing (Non-Fiction). It's a simple checklist allowing peers to say yes or no to success criteria as appropriate (just cross out what you don't need!) and then has a summative comment section for What Went Well and Even Better If... Hope they're helpful - every teacher loves a timesaver! Following on from writing comedy and horror, today we bring you how to write fantasy!
In the same manner as the other worksheet activities, this takes pupils through key writing methods, example texts, an opportunity to write themselve before a handy peer assessment grid for feedback. You can find our fantasy worksheet on our TES page - enjoy and let us know what your stars produce! A worksheet providing step-by-step help in creating the scariest horror story.
This includes a grid to begin thinking about key elements of horror, examples to analyse for their best and worst bits, a re-assessment grid for using particular techniques and ideas, then an opportunity to write the opening to a story and get it peer assessed to edit and improve. All this is available on our TES page - we'd love to see what your literacy stars come out with using our resources so do share!
And thus begins our journey with the ill-fated 'Romeo and Juliet' - one of Shakespeare's most heartbreaking and devastating tragedies.
Below you'll find a series of resources to help with teaching 'Romeo and Juliet', mainly aimed at secondary age and above. Resources: 'Romeo and Juliet' Act by Act Worksheet - available on the TES as a premium resource, this bumper 15 page workbook zooms in on key elements of the play, allowing exploration, analysis and consideration of key authorial methods. Check out our latest resource - it's no frills but essential to any student of poetry. Key terms are on the left, definitions are on the right - the job is to get them matched! A handy revision sheet to have in books and/or to use as a quick test. Enjoy!
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