Lesson Plan Thomas Reddall

Topic area: Stage of Learner: Year 7 Syllabus Pages:

Date: Location Booked: Lesson Number: 8/

Time: 60 minutes Total Number of students Printing/preparation

Outcomes Assessment Students learn about Students learn to

Syllabus outcomes Lesson assessment
EN4-1A: responds to and composes
texts for understanding,
interpretation, critical
analysis, imaginative
expression and pleasure

Quality Teaching Elements (lesson focus) Highlight the appropriate areas

Intellectual Quality 1.1 Deep knowledge 1.4 Higher-order thinking
This refers to pedagogy focused on producing deep understanding of important, 1.2 Deep understanding 1.5 Metalanguage
substantive concepts, skills and ideas. Such pedagogy treats knowledge as something 1.3 Problematic 1.6 Substantive
that requires active construction and requires students to engage in higher-order knowledge communication
thinking and to communicate substantively about what they are learning.
Quality Learning Environment 2.1 Explicit quality criteria 2.4 Social Support
This refers to pedagogy that creates classrooms where students and teachers work 2.2 Engagement 2.5 Students self regulation
productively in an environment clearly focused on learning. Such pedagogy sets high and 2.3 High Expectations 2.6 Student direction
explicit expectations and develops positive relationships between teacher and students
and among students.
Significance 3.1 Background 3.4 Inclusivity
This refers to pedagogy that helps make learning more meaningful and important to knowledge 3.5 Connectedness
students. Such pedagogy draws clear connections with students prior knowledge and 3.2 Cultural knowledge 3.6 Narrative
identities, with contexts outside of the classroom, and with multiple ways of knowing all 3.3 Knowledge
cultural perspective. integration
Time Teaching and learning actions Organisation Centred
T/S
5 Do Now: What does Non fiction mean? Teacher:

This may take closer to 10 minutes Student:

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10 Brain Storm/Class Mind map Teacher:

What is News? Created on board from student Student:

suggestions
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15 Teacher:

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20 Teacher:

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Resurces:

25 Next activity will be identifying types of forms that media Teacher:

can come in, this will be done with the worksheet attached
below. Student:

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45 With 10 minutes remaining, halt the activity and begin to go Teacher:
through the answers with the class. Make sure all students
have completed the sheet and glued it into their book. Student:

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50 Teacher:

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