English
104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.
Early Years
- First sounds: s, a, t, p
- Mark-making and my name
- Listening and story time
- Rhyme, rhythm and syllables
- Talking in full sentences
- Blending sounds into first words
- Retelling a story in order
- Words in the world
- More first sounds: i, n, m, d
- Traditional tales and story language
- New words every day
- Listening games and following instructions
- Reading longer words
- Writing a simple label or caption
- Curious questions: who, what, why
- A love of books: how books work
Key Stage 1
- Speaking so people understand
- The phonics screening check
- Adding -s, -ing and -ed
- Sounds make words
- Capital letters and full stops
- Nouns, verbs and adjectives
- Question marks, exclamations and commas
- Writing a recount in order
- Tricky words and spelling patterns
- Handwriting that lasts
- Understanding a longer story
- The words you have to learn by sight
- Vowel teams: when two letters make a long sound
- Split digraphs: the e that changes the vowel
- One sound, several spellings
- Spelling backwards: breaking words into sounds
Key Stage 2
- Apostrophes that do two jobs
- Skimming, scanning and reading closely
- Inference — what the text hints
- Paragraphs that persuade
- Retrieval and summarising
- Clauses, commas and fronted adverbials
- Writing to inform and explain
- Poetry: imagery and performance
- Prefixes, suffixes and root words
- Punctuating direct speech
- Spelling patterns that help
- Writing a narrative
- Planning, drafting and editing
- Discussion and presentation
- Grammar terms you need to name
- The Year 3 to 6 spelling lists
- Expanded noun phrases
- Paragraphs to organise ideas
- Conjunctions for time and cause
- Using a dictionary
- Proofreading and editing
- Standard English verb forms
- Organising a non-fiction text
- Similes and metaphors in writing
- Relative clauses
- Commas for clarity
- Linking ideas across paragraphs
- Justifying an answer with evidence
- Parenthesis: brackets, dashes and commas
- Semicolons, colons and dashes
- The subjunctive mood
- Comparing two texts
Key Stage 3
- Sentences that do a job
- Rhetoric: how persuasion works
- How writers build tension
- Voice and perspective
- Shakespeare without the fear
- Creative writing that scores
- Comparing non-fiction viewpoints
- Spoken language: the presentation grade
- Reading a whole book
- Summarising and note-making
- The formal essay
- A Shakespeare scene, in full
- Writing a monologue: getting inside a character's head
- Fact, opinion and bias in news reporting
- Writing a balanced discursive article
- Analysing a front page: headlines, images and layout
- Active and passive voice
- Modal verbs and degrees of certainty
- Punctuation for effect: colon, semicolon and dash
- Verb tense and aspect: getting time right
- Debating: forming and rebutting an argument
- Group discussion: building on and challenging ideas
- Reading aloud: fluency, pace and emphasis
- Role play and hot-seating a character
GCSE
- Shakespeare at GCSE
- The spoken language endorsement
- Writing to argue and persuade
- Writing to describe: the big-mark question
- The nineteenth-century text
- Language analysis that scores
- Planning the comparative essay
- Unseen poetry: a method that works cold
- Technical accuracy: the marks nobody revises
- Revising a set text so it stays revised
- The language paper: reading questions in order
- The modern text: context and social message
- From extract to whole text in a literature essay
- Narrative writing: tension and structure
- Using context to illuminate meaning
- Inferring unfamiliar vocabulary from word roots
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