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Strategies to deliver the new GCSE SoWs

Esmeralda Salgado

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Strategies to deliver the new GCSE SoWs

Princes Risborough School

Anchoring in Challenge

Motivation = Anchoring in the right challenge = I can do

What can I do to make my students feel clever today?

Designing your KS4 curriculum: SoWs

Design a rich & clever curriculum based on the Retrieval of High Frequency expressions, which will also develop communication from day 1: The Magic Powers

Structure your content

How are you going to incorporate your Magic Powers throughout the Learning Journey?

Sections like this help you create order

Don't become obssessed with the vocab syllabus but you can always check....

Oral skills are at the core: The Onion Model

ListeningReading EXAMS Skills

Roleplay

Writing Skills

Reading aloud &Photocard

22:05

Think Backwards

STRUCTUREDPRODUCTION

SPONTANEITYCREATIVITY

The Learning journey:Rosenshine

EXPANSION

MODELLING

Tackling ALL the skills in your SOW

RECEPTIVEVOCAB LEARNING

pRODUCTIVEVOCAB LEARNING

RETRIEVALPRACTICE 5 POWERS

GRammar

Fluency/PHOTO Qs WRITING

EXAMListening READING SKILLS

modellingFROM Sbs

Structuredpractice

The Y10 SoW

Y10 Topics: Festivals (covered in Y9-Summer Term) Technology- up to October half-term Free Time- up to Christmas Celebrities- up to February half-term Holidays/Tourism- up to Easter Family Relationships- Summer Term

The Y11 SoW

Y11 Topics: Education & Work- up to Christmas Where you live & Environment- up to February half-term Healthy living- up to Easter MOCKS IN NOVEMBER AND FEBRUARY

Teaching Vocabulary

Knowing Vocabulary

The link between the Oral and Writing exams

The thinking process behind the oral exam

The thinking process behind the writing exam

Oral skills: The Roleplay, Reading Aloud and Photocard

Tackling the Roleplay

Tackling the Photocard & Unprepared Conversation

Using AI

Tackling the Listening & Reading Exams

Creating a language lab in your classroom

A 7 step approach to teach listening

Tackling reading

@EsmeraldaSalgado

There is a new GCSE, YES, but the aim should be the same: communication and achieving fluency. How? Via Retrieval Practice of structures and the skills needed to succeed in the exam through strategic SoWs

My Blog: MFLCraft

Your Magical Powers: How do they relate to the syllabus vocabulary? Which expressions do you want your students to use over and over again from Y7?
  • Using more than one tense
  • Giving opinions
  • Giving reasons
  • Talking about someone/ reported speech
  • High impact expressions