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Ambitious vocabulary for students aiming for the highest levels. This resource provides students with a wide range of specific and high level vocabulary to meet the top of the assessment criteria. It challenges students to demonstrate their understanding of these terms by writing the meaning and using it in a an example answer. Students should then feel more confident and get used to using ambitious vocabulary and key terms in their written responses. Extension task encourages students to identify where these terms can apply to other Literature texts. Support is given in the form of examples and more challenging meanings completed for them.

Students solve the riddle to find a word in the dictionary and answer the question about it. The first section, students will find the answers in the dictionary, the second the thesaurus and the third in the classroom. You can edit questions or add. This took one lesson for my year 7s to solve. I had them working in pairs and gave the winning pair small easter eggs. Students found it challenging but competitive and fun!

This is a complete lesson/ two-part lesson teaching the essential and foundational skills of processing sounds and seeing how they are used in the poetic form: haiku. This lesson has support for learners such as writing frames, sentence starters, tips and prompts and challenge and extension tasks for more advanced learners. Information, answers and teacher notes are provided so it can be taught be anyone! Students can use any materials to complete these activities. The lesson included prior knowledge activities, addressing misconceptions, assessment for learning, reflection, redrafting and reviewing to easily demonstrate progress.