I have over ten year's of teaching experience and have worked at both mainstream schools and specialist provisions. I have held the position of 2ic, HOD & Lead Practice of English. Currently, I am the Deputy SENDCO working at a mainstream with a diverse cohort. Prior to this, I worked at several Harris Academies before moving into Special Education. Curriculum design is my passion. My job is to redesign school curriculums so they are engaging, taught from he top down but adapted and inclusive.
I have over ten year's of teaching experience and have worked at both mainstream schools and specialist provisions. I have held the position of 2ic, HOD & Lead Practice of English. Currently, I am the Deputy SENDCO working at a mainstream with a diverse cohort. Prior to this, I worked at several Harris Academies before moving into Special Education. Curriculum design is my passion. My job is to redesign school curriculums so they are engaging, taught from he top down but adapted and inclusive.
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging.
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging, whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*The cover image is an example of one of the individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one of the individual lessons
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging.
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging.
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging, whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging, whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging. Most importantly, they promote a love of literacy and the subject.
12-14 hours depending on ability.
These lessons are ready to teach.
They target teaching KS3 English skills: Language through Literature. These lesson teach from the top down but consider SEND.
Features of lessons:
Standalone lessons using individual extracts (listed further down)
Consistently clear structure to lessons with a Do Now, active reading tasks, tasks that lead and scaffold towards a structures ALT (applied learning time - main task)
Stretch and challenge opportunities
Support in the form of vocab breakdown downs, definitions, modeling and examples, suggested sentence starters, visual aids and prompts
SEND friendly - cream and light blue background, dual coding (can be changed to standard black and white), 1.5 spacing and comic sans font
Range of tasks that develop a range of English skills including comprehension and inference, language and structure analysis, creative writing and transactional writing
Extracts have been colour coded to highlight sentence structures - acts as a clear visual guide for how writers use multiple sentence structures for purpose and effect. They can be changed to a standard black font.
These lessons are designed to be engaging and fun whilst developing core skills. My aim is to promote a love of literature whilst teaching language through literature, in-line with the KS3 curriculum. They are designed to be accessible in terms of virtual teaching and remote learning.
Extracts used:
The Hobbit
Heart of Darkness
An Ideal Family
Coraline
The Night Circus
Harry Potter
Northern Lights
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Poem: Tim Burton’s Vincent
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The Da Vinci Code
Good Omens
Four clearly differentiated lessons that have been designed to teach from the top down. Slides are dual coded with visual stimuli. Every lesson offers several stretch and challenge opportunities as well as a clear applied learning time task.
Four clearly differentiated lessons that have been designed to teach from the top down. Slides are dual coded with visual stimuli. Every lesson offers several stretch and challenge opportunities as well as a clear applied learning time task.
Eight clearly differentiated lessons that have been designed to teach from the top down. Slides are dual coded with visual stimuli. Every lesson offers several stretch and challenge opportunities as well as a clear applied learning time task.
This collection of lessons offers a reading AFL opportunity.
Bundle of 34 differentiated lessons (with all required resources and ready for teaching) designed to be taught from the top down.
All slides are dual coded with vocabulary support and visual stimuli. Every lesson offers multiple stretch and challenge opportunities and a clear applied learning time task.
This bundle also offers AFL opportunities including a marking rubric with reflective tasks to allow for a quick and efficient marking process.
Included:
Dracula
Frankenstein
Hound of the Baskervilles
The Woman in Black
Great Expectations
The Haunting of Hill House
The Poison Tree
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging.
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging.
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image in an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I have purpose created a range of standalone lesson suitable for home learning, remote learning and virtual classrooms.
They can also be used for cover (printed) and in the classroom (remove cream boxes).
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are designed to be fun and engaging whilst reflecting the curriculum’s goal: teaching language through literature.
These new lessons can be purchased individually or in a bundle of twelve. Each lesson should be take around sixty minutes or longer - depending on ability. The bundle provides at least twelve to twenty four hours of teaching material, depending on ability.
Each lesson centers around one standalone extract and targets a range of English skills such as active reading, comprehension, inference, analysis (language and structure) creative writing and writing for multiple audiences and purposes (transactional writing). If you purchase the bundle, you’ll get all of these skills. Individual lessons target different skills.
Each lesson is a full lesson with a starter task, a range of scaffolded activities that lead to a structured main task.
The lesson are designed to teach from the top down - high ability - but also consider SEND. Each lesson offers support such as vocabulary and technique break downs, suggested sentence starters and visual prompts. The lessons have been designed to be inclusive, accessible and SEND friendly.
*Cover image is an example of one individual lesson
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging. Most importantly, they promote a love of literacy and the subject.
5-10 hours depending on ability.
These lessons are ready to teach. They can also be printed and used for cover work.
They target teaching unseen poetry and Language Paper 2 skills.
Features of lessons:
Full classroom lessons and adapted remote/virtual teaching versions (5 of each)
Features three lessons analysing a poem and two lessons analysing a non-fiction text thematically link to the poem.
Consistently clear structure to lessons with a Do Now, active reading tasks, tasks that lead and scaffold towards a structures ALT (applied learning time - main task)
Stretch and challenge opportunities
Support in the form of vocab breakdown downs, definitions, modeling and examples, suggested sentence starters, visual aids and prompts
SEND friendly - cream and light blue background, dual coding and comic sans font
Range of tasks that develop a range of English skills including comprehension and inference, language and structure analysis and transactional writing
These lessons are designed to be engaging and fun whilst developing core skills.
I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy with years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging. Most importantly, they promote a love of literacy and the subject.
6-12 hours depending on ability.
These lessons are ready to teach. They have been purpose designed to accommodate home/virtual/remote learning. They have timers embedded to help with time management and would work very well as printed cover lessons.
The lesson can be very easily adapted to be used within a classroom environment. Dates etc. can be removed from the slides.
and The lessons target teaching KS3 English skills: Language Through Literature. These lesson teach from the top down but equally support SEND.
Features of lessons:
Standalone lessons using individual extracts (listed further down)
Consistently clear structure to lessons with a Do Now, active reading tasks, tasks that lead and scaffold towards a structures ALT (applied learning time - main task)
Stretch and challenge opportunities
Support in the form of vocab breakdown downs, definitions, modeling and examples, suggested sentence starters, visual aids and prompts
SEND friendly - cream and light blue background and dual coding, 1.5 spacing and comic sans font
Varied tasks that develop a range of English skills including comprehension and inference, language and structure analysis, creative writing and transactional writing
Extracts:
Some Thing in the Water
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Angela’s Ashes
The Maze Runner
These lessons are designed to be engaging and fun whilst developing core skills. My aim is to promote a love of literature whilst teaching language through literature, in-line with the KS3 curriculum. They are designed to be accessible in terms of virtual teaching and remote learning.
This unit is a fast-paced introduction to ‘An Inspectors Calls’ aimed at all ability groups, with adapted resources ready to support lower ability students. This unit is perfect for delivery at the end of year 9 or in year 10. It introduces them to the text, key themes and some higher level terminology, techniques and concepts. Your students will then be well placed to delve deeper into the complexities when they revisit the text in year 11.
This is a SOW completely ready to go. You will only need to remove any school branding.
What you are buying:
19 individual, fully resourced and adapted lessons with any accompanying resources
Every lesson is clearly structured, culminating in a meaningful ‘You Do’ task
Every lesson is taught from the top down with regular ASPIRE opportunities
Every lesson is fully adapted to support LAP and SEN with adapted resources ready to print
Formative and summative assessment opportunities
(please note these were made in Google docs and downloaded to PP so some slide reformatting may have occurred - that’s an easy fix).
Adaptations to support LAP and SEN:
-’Helping hand’ support sheets for all ALT tasks
Sentence starters and writing frameworks
Learning checks
Adapted worksheets
Teacher modelling and I do / You do / We Do
Key word definitions and glossary boxes
Visual aids and prompts
Colour decoding and chunking
Dyslexia friendly font
Oral discussion opportunities / target and extending questioning
Oracy starters
At least two ASPIRE opportunities per lesson including Do Now and ALT task
Buddy support system (Turn and Talk - Think - Pair - Share)
Timers
Cognitive loading
Symbolic language
All printouts are at the bottom of slides for convenience
My role is to redesign curriculums so they are engaging, challenging and all inclusive. I am always happy to consider commissions. I can be contacted at cgarton82@gmail.com.