English

54 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

Key Stage 1

• 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

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

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

GCSE

• 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

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