Series: Managing Cover Lessons
Managing Cover Lessons - English
Christopher Green
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Feb 03Save time and ensure the productive use of KS3 lessons
Providing appropriate work for classes in the absence of colleagues remains a significant issue, particularly when supply teachers are difficult to find. Time is short and pressure on curriculum delivery is great. Failing to provide constructive activities that can be readily managed by non-specialists can cause major problems.
A real must for heads of department
Managing Cover Lessons – English offers heads of English essential ideas and resources that save time and are easily managed. The pack is divided into two main parts. The first provides guidance and materials on managing and administering cover lessons within the department. It includes a clear, simple, well-tried system that requires minimal preparation and completion of documentation, yet is thorough and supportive.
Ideal for meeting the Framework for Teaching English
The second part offers a carefully compiled set of 45 copiable activities spanning KS3. Each activity:
- has clear, precise instructions
- allows students to complete the tasks set in the time available
- requires minimal preparation and equipment
- is suitable for non-specialist staff to oversee.
Managing Cover Lessons – English is also ideal for use as extra classroom material or homework in any scheme of work.
Contents
Introduction
Year 7
- Desert island books
- Soap opera characters
- Writing for a Martian
- Thesaurus and adjectives
- Creating a story
- Re-ordering paragraphs
- Writing directions
- Anagrams and palindromes
- Illustrating poetry
- Letter about Year 7
- Plurals and abbreviations
- Proofreading
- My autobiography
- Crossword and wordsearch
- Planning a story
Year 8
- Modernising a traditional tale
- A school prospectus
- Creating new words
- Paragraphing
- Fact and opinion
- A survey of reading habits
- An advertising campaign
- Similes and metaphors
- Travel writing
- Dialect and slang
- A design for a useless object
- Exchanging emails
- First, second, third person
- Giving technical instructions
- Advice for a Year 7 student
Year 9
- Utopia
- Awards ceremony speech
- Nouns
- A dietary information project
- A film version of a novel
- Haiku and tanka
- Direct speech
- Designing a Web page
- A press release
- A radio play
- Song lyrics
- Writing a letter
- Completing a story
- Writing instructions
- Broadsheets and tabloids
- Wordsearch solution
About the author
Christopher Green is Head of English and Drama at The Perse School, Cambridge.
Other titles in the series
- Managing Cover Lessons - Art & Design
- Managing Cover Lessons - Geography
- Managing Cover Lessons - MFL
- Managing Cover Lessons - RE
- Managing Cover Lessons - Science
- Managing Cover Lessons - PE
- Managing Cover Lessons - Drama
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