The High Ability Grade 7-9 Bundle

I get asked a lot which resources I would recommend to push high ability students to grades 7-9.... so here are my recommendations that will help HA (Higher Prior Ability) Students stretch to a grade 7-9! Tried and tested on my own students of course.

The skills in the resources generally demonstrate higher-level-thinking and encourages depth, layers and critical thinking. They are not a silver bullet and will need to be embedded through repetition and deliberate practice, checking understanding and a lot of testing. *

In this HIGH ABILITY 7-9 Secondary English Teacher Resource bundle, you will receive 25 resources:

Language

• Daily Drills Language Skills
• Allusions, Semantic Fields and Extended Metaphors in Creative Writing
• Show don't tell
• Creative writing level ladders
• Language Analysis level ladders

Literature (but the skills interleave with Language too)

• Symbols and Symbolism
• The Diamond SO analysis
• Constructs
• Dramatic Vehicles
• Embedding Quotations
• Ameliorates and Exacerbates
• Inside/Outside the text
• One quote, three inferences
• Literature analysis ladders
• Pairing/Tracking Quotations
• SMILE unseen poetry scaffolding
• Thesis Statement Openers
• Anthology Essay Structure Strip
• Academic phrasing stems
• Academic phrasing - Lit edition 

Retrieval

• Reduce, represent, review
• The question matrix
• Elaborate and extend
• 36 box grids + thinking/linking

Explicit info

• The AOs of ALL lit and lang

Enjoy!

*Downloading and using this bundle will NOT guarantee you/your students a grade 7-9