Webinars

The first webinar includes a summary of useful websites and webpages with resources for English Language and English Literature.
Resources to download from the resources section:

• Reading task: Adaptation of a 4 corner activity using a review - correct
  it/respond to it/follow it/analyse it
• Reading task: Crunchit activity – summarise/narrow/find then
• Writing: Remote learning task – storyboard with pictures/creating a story
• Project tasks
• Literature task: Fill the white space template and a response to a Macbeth theme

This webinar includes online resources for English Language and English Literature. Resources to download from the resources section:

• Structure: Structure for writing stories and reading (analysing) the
  structure of a story using pictures to reveal the story and examine structure
• Comparison skills through picture
• Writing an article from prompts
• 4 corner task for writing non-fiction draw it/criticise it/transform it/crunch it
• Literature model paragraph exercise
• Character collages for literature

Week 3:  English language focus for this week’s webinar. Download the available resources from the resources section:

• Reading activity for inference skills
• Reading tasks for home schooling – chapter headings to engage with a text
• Cloze exercise to predict events in a story
• Reading and evaluating writing and structure
• Using images to create character profiles to help when writing

English Literature is the focus for this week and resources to download include:

• Poetry resources
• Analysing poems ‘speed dating’ poems
• Model paragraphs for poetry essays
• Poetry structure 

English Language focus this week includes resources on the following: 

• Analysing images to improve the evaluation skill
• Comparison
• Help for adult learners
• Using images to think about different perspectives of texts
• Examining a ‘letters page’ from a magazine text
• Comparison and synthesis skills through analysing images 

English Literature focus this week with resources on the following:

• Gathering ideas for essays
• Context through images
• 4 corner activity to analyse the tex
• Vocabulary choices to increase writing skills

• Character development and openings/endings
• How to teach Shakespeare remotely
• Story mining 
  

English Literature with special guest Kat Howard (founder of Litdrive):

• Poetry – blackout activity
• Discussion topics around workload, remote learning, whole class feedback and other current issues relating to teaching

English Language this week’s focus is on reading with resources: 

• Reading – take the fear away template
• Bullet point the story
• Active reading
• Reading notes template
• Listen and recall strategy 

English Literature with some strategies to help remember the events and revise the texts:

• Which statement would you like to discuss?  Strategy for engaging with a text
• Summary in 50 words
• Cornell note taking – for remote and in the classroom
• MCQ (multiple choice questions) and remote learning

English Language with special guest Chris Curtis, blogger and author of ‘How to Teach English’ Chris shares strategies on  the following:

• Developing better readers in the exam
• Articulating the concept of ‘subtext’
• The orienting phase of reading
• Over simplification of the non-fiction

English Literature – the best of:

• Creating a pie chart about the themes of a text
• How to engage students with a text
• Language form and structure Bringing in context
• How to build up comparison responses 

English Language – the best of and:

• Sentences and sentence stories
• Structure and story turning point