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AQA English Language: Speaking and Listening PLCs

Pass Merit Distinction These three main stages in the Speaking and Listening marking criteria are quite different. As a result, I'v...

Sunday, 21 January 2018

Multiple choice questions and revision

I read @missdcox's blog on providing students with an opportunity to create their own regular multiple choice questions as homework for RS. As a result, I've adapted this idea for English. 


First stage is modelling to students what a multiple choice English Literature/Language homework piece could look like. I will then set my students with the task of creating their own multiple choice questions as part of their revision of English Language/Literature skills.





I will be developing Language Question 4 multiple questions for my students in line with @missdcox's aim at getting our students to evaluate their arguments too.
Thank you @missdcox for this strategy! 

Click on the above image to download a copy of this resource. 

Sunday, 14 January 2018

Formative Feedback - comparative poetry essay

Redrafting 

It's an essential skill for our students to develop in order to consider whether they've actually met their feedback target. Using the Personal Learning Checklist, students identify what they've forgotten (or didn't know) to add to their original comparative poetry essay. Students then attempt to redraft it with this feedback in mind. However, their redraft is not the be all and end all. They have to identify how their redraft demonstrates that they have met (or have not met) their feedback target.


Findings?Several students were shocked at how they didn't manage to meet their feedback target despite attempting to do so:  a quick one to one conversation with a buddy (3b4me) gave them the courage to try again.
Some students identified that even though they had met their new target, they had forgotten to demonstrate other targets as well (AO2 for instance). As a result, they recognised that they were expected to redraft again! Cementing into their minds that mistakes (failure) is the way forward as long as we learn from them, I wanted to create a mistake friendly zone. I was very much inspired by their resilience. 


Changes? I will give far more space for the redrafting section (given the number of re-drafts they ended up writing). I will also add a teacher's comment section for an overall RAG rate with respect to student effort and student progress. 

Link to my Formative Feedback comparative poetry and unseen poem sheets can be found here: http://bit.ly/2mvfZHP