1. Top Tips
Monday 18 March

2. Developing Questioning
Plan questions to cover your differentiated LOs
Have red, amber and green coloured cards
When students answer questions, give them the appropriate coloured
card for their answer
You could ask them to develop their answer for a higher coloured
card, or pass the next stage question to another student

3. L.O
To understand how the poet presents the
relationship between parent and child
All must be able to retell the events between parent and child
Most should be able to give examples from the poem
Some might be able to comment on the language and what it shows
about the relationship
Extension – make links to
other poems or Romeo and
Juliet

4. Laura - in the first stanza, she has the baby. The mother
likes her daughter a lot and feels a bond to her
Lucy – she talks about the “red rope” in the first stanza
Laura – the rope could symbolise the umbilical cord – a
metaphor. Or it could symbolise that there is a connection
between them, that they are tied together
Extension – Lucy. This poem is like Romeo and Juliet
because in Act 1 Scene 4 Capulet talks about how much he
loves his daughter and says she means the world to him, so
they are both about the strong bond between parents and
children

5. You can target particular questions to particular students as part of
differentiation
You can extend students through getting them to develop the answers
they give
You can stretch the more able G&T with extra questions
Tap into our students’ competitive nature by getting them to add up
points at the end
Good for demonstrating progress
http://www.facinghistory.org/resources/strategies/teaching-strategy-
question-fo

6. EBI and take up time in practical subjects
Anticipate areas where your students will need
improvement
Pre-prepare EBI cards you can hand out. This could be at a
fixed mini plenary time or whenever you feel intervention is
needed
Have a wall area where you can stick the EBI cards as they
are achieved during take up time or during the lesson
They can be colour coded to match your differentiated LOs
Tim