APP Focused Reading & Writing Activities for Year 9

6 stand-alone, structured lessons to improve students' reading and writing skills.

Tailored around the Reading and Writing AFs, these lessons are specially designed to boost students' reading and writing levels. The explicit APP focus, together with the variety of texts and differentiated activities, allows teachers to easily address the strengths and weaknesses of their students.

Inspiringexcellent choice of extracts, easy to flick through to find activities and a clear choice of differentiation options...

...Incorporates AFL and encourages self-improvement in pupils... Focuses teachers' aims and gives students clear targets

E Evans, English Teacher & Customer
  • Worksheets, paired/individual activities and peer assessment all included
  • Accompanied by 2 PowerPoints exploring uses of language and rhetorical devices

What do teachers say about this resource? (3173)

Inspiring – excellent choice of extracts, easy to flick through to find activities and a clear choice of differentiation options... It incorporates AFL and encourages self-improvement in pupils... Focuses teachers' aims and gives students clear targets... It fits in with our assessment strands and explains APP clearly through use

E Evans, English Teacher & Customer

Excellent, focused and helpful with targeted activities and resources accessible to all... It can be used by intervention teachers as a one off and supports all other learning. It helps improve AF progress step by step.

S Verables, HoD & Customer

An excellent resource, extremely detailed and well-planned... I really like the fact that it all links to the APP foci and the clear objectives ensure it is easy for teachers to plan

G Brown, English Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Deals thoroughly with the AFs... clearly picks out what students should focus on to get higher levels... The presentation and layout are clear and well set out...

P Ault, English Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Very interesting. It ticks all the criteria

V Kondou, English Teacher using APP & Peer Reviewer

I like the fact that it addresses APP which has become so important in English teaching... it is interesting and useful to have reading and writing activities... Covers a range of assessment focus points and National Curriculum for Year 9. Definitely good to have some clear APP resources available for use in a department... Using PEE successfully will be a good stepping stone for GCSE work.

N Stirk, English Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Reinforces learning with regard to reading and writing assessment foci... Good stand-alone lessons... could be used for cover work... Good presentation... clear to follow.

F Odell, English Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Links in well with the NC work in the English strategy and is also applicable to lower-ability GCSE work for Reading and Paper 1.

C Walles, English Teacher & Peer Reviewer