Mourad Mekki
Cycles 2 & 3 English Curriculum Hub
Teacher Guide
Mourad Mekki
Cycles 2 & 3 English Curriculum Hub
Teacher Guide
Part of Mourad Mekki Teacher Toolkit
A short guide to the four things the Hub does: explore the official Comprehensive Curriculum Guide, prepare planners and printouts, teach live in the classroom, and track what you have covered. You can read it end to end in about ten minutes, or jump to what you need.
No account is needed to read the curriculum or teach from it.
The Hub carries all sixteen datasets — Grades 5 to 12, General and Advanced, Term 1, across Cycles 2 and 3. The first thing to do is tell it which one you are teaching.
Click Account in the top right, create one with your email, then add your class under My Workspace — name, grade, stream and the CCG week you are currently on. Your name and school appear automatically in the header of every planner you print.
↑ Back to topEvery word here is reproduced exactly as the Ministry guide prints it.
Press Ctrl + K (or Cmd + K on a Mac) anywhere in the Hub and start typing. It searches lesson names, outcomes, vocabulary, grammar points, functional language, glossary terms and strategies at once.
| View | Use it when |
|---|---|
| This Week | You want today's lessons and nothing else. |
| Scope & Sequence | Reading a single week in full — goals, outcomes, resources, vocabulary. |
| Table View | Scanning the whole term as one wide table. |
| Curriculum Map | Seeing how the chapters or units span the ten weeks. |
| Curriculum Outcomes | Looking up an outcome code and every lesson that uses it. |
| Grammar · Functional Language · Vocabulary | Working from a language point back to the lessons that teach it. |
| Learner Profile · Glossary · Literacy Strategies · Charter | The appendices, in full. |
Anything reproduced from the Ministry guide carries a gold Official CCG · p. N ribbon. Click it to open that exact page of the official PDF and compare for yourself. If something looks like a typo, it is almost always a typo in the source document, kept deliberately rather than tidied up so that what you see matches what your students see. Those are all listed under Source & Attribution.
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Open Print Centre, or pick a planner from the Plan menu. Each one gives you a live A4 preview, a portrait/landscape switch, and a Print / Save as PDF button. Choosing "Save as PDF" in the print dialogue gives you a file you can email or upload.
| Planner | Contains |
|---|---|
| Weekly Planner | One week in full, with space for your own notes. |
| Chapter / Unit Planner | Every week of one chapter or unit, in official order. |
| Term Planner | The whole term as a compact overview table. |
| Lesson Planner | A single lesson pair on one sheet. |
| Vocabulary Sheet | The word list for a week, a chapter or the whole term. |
From Vocabulary in the Explore menu you get three buttons:
Student practice on every lesson. Toolkit Each lesson card, the Student Practice panel in Teaching Mode, and the Weekly and Lesson planners (as QR codes) carry links for that exact lesson: Revise, Play and, where the CCG sets a grammar target, Grammar on Play & Improve; and Read, which opens the lesson's reading comprehension text on Readanah (readanah.netlify.app). Read opens the Core text; students can switch to Support or Stretch on Readanah itself. These are separate Toolkit sites, not official CCG content.
Words are listed once, alphabetically, exactly as the guide prints them. Nothing is added — no definitions and no translations, because the CCG does not print any.
Built to stay open while you teach, not to be read at a desk.
Click Start Teaching on any lesson — from a lesson card, from your class, or from Continue Teaching on the home page. That opens Teaching Mode: your lesson on the left, classroom controls across the top.
Float Companion lifts the panel out into a small always-visible window, so it sits above PowerPoint or a PDF while you teach. In browsers that cannot do that it opens a compact separate window instead — either way you keep your lesson goal in view without switching tabs.
| Button | What the class sees |
|---|---|
| Project Goal | Today's learning goal, in the official wording, large enough to read from the back. |
| Timer | Countdown with quick presets, a stopwatch, or count down to a clock time such as 10:35. |
| Instructions | Text you type yourself — "Work with your partner. Questions 1–4. Eight minutes." |
| Attention | A clean full-screen prompt: Eyes This Way, Listen, Time's Up, or your own wording. |
| Hold | Pauses the display while you explain something. |
| Blank | Blacks out the projector entirely. Click again to restore. |
| Resources | Opens the official link, copies it, or shows a QR code students can scan. |
With your hands busy, these are quicker than clicking: G goal · T timer · A attention · H hold · B blank · V vocabulary · R resources · N next lesson · P previous · Esc back. They are ignored while you are typing.
Start Session begins timing the lesson; End Lesson asks whether it was Taught or needs a Revisit, takes an optional note, and updates your coverage record automatically. You never have to mark it twice.
This part needs an account, because it is your data.
Your workspace is private to your account. Nothing is shared with other teachers, and the Hub records no student data of any kind in your account — no names, no marks, no behaviour. (The optional Student Progress area in Inclusion & SEN keeps anonymous learner records on your own device only; see section 6.)
↑ Back to topSame curriculum topic, different access pathway. You don't plan a second lesson: you open the lesson your class is doing and choose how the learner gets into it.
Normal lesson shows the official CCG record, word for word. The Accessible pathway is Toolkit content on the same topic: key words with symbols, a levelled reading, questions with answers, sentence frames, guided writing, an exit ticket, teacher notes and a differentiation note.
The aim is that the learner works on the same topic at the same time as the class, so they can join discussions rather than sit on a separate task. A routine that takes about five minutes a lesson:
| When | What you do | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Before the lesson | Open the lesson and choose the level. Read the Teacher explanation box: it tells you what to pre-teach, which pictures help and how the learner joins the class activity. Print the student pack, or just the One-Page Support Sheet. | 2–3 min |
| Lesson start | While the class does the warm-up, pre-teach the 4–6 Key vocabulary words with the picture cards (or the Listen buttons). They are words the class needs too. | 2–3 min |
| Main task | When the class reads or listens, the learner reads the text at their level and does the questions. When the class discusses or writes, the learner uses the sentence frames (for example “I think ___ because ___.”) so they can take part too. | — |
| Checking | Ask the Check understanding question from the teacher notes. Pointing to a picture or a one-word answer counts. The teacher pack has the answer key. | 1 min |
| End | The learner completes the exit ticket with the rest of the class. | 2 min |
| After the lesson | If you track the learner, open Student Progress and tap Not Yet / Emerging / Developing / Achieved on their target. | 30 sec |
No. There are no student accounts, and students do not need to sign in anywhere. Teacher Companion is a teacher tool that opens with your teacher sign-in. This is deliberate: it keeps learners' information off the internet and means nothing has to be set up for them.
Students use the materials in one of three ways: on paper, on a screen you have opened for them (see the next question), or as a PDF you share (see How do I share with them? below).
No. Print is the fastest option in most classrooms, but everything also works on screen.
| On screen | How to use it |
|---|---|
| Student View | In any lesson, press Student View. The menus, teacher notes and answers disappear. The learner sees their “I can…” target, the key words, the reading, and questions they can tap. Hand over your laptop or tablet, or use a class device you have signed in to. Press Exit student view to get back. |
| Instant, calm feedback | When the learner taps an answer they see “Good work” or “Try again — have another look”, never a red error screen or a buzzer. They can keep trying until they get it right. |
| Read-aloud | The Listen buttons read words, sentences and whole texts aloud using the device's own voice, with a speed setting. Nothing plays by itself. Headphones help in a busy room. |
| Skills Builder | Interactive practice that works well on a tablet: letter sounds, blending CVC words, sight-word flashcards, picture quizzes for every vocabulary topic, the Sentence Builder (tap or drag the blocks), and the Easy Reading Library with questions. |
| On the board | For a small group, show Student View or a Skills Builder activity on the classroom screen and work through it together. |
| Display settings | The Display button gives larger text, high contrast, extra spacing, a clearer reading font and less animation. The settings stay on that device. |
Students cannot open Teacher Companion links themselves, because the links need your sign-in. Share the material instead:
G10G-T1-L1-2-Pre-A1-student.pdf). Upload it to your school's
learning platform (for example Microsoft Teams) or assignment area, as you would any worksheet. Students can open
it on any device and read it, then write on it or copy their answers.Two layers, deliberately kept apart.
Official CCG · p. N Gold ribbons mark content reproduced from the UAE Ministry of Education Comprehensive Curriculum Guide — word for word, including its punctuation and its occasional slips. Every one carries the page number it came from.
Teacher Toolkit Dashed navy tags mark everything built by Mourad Mekki around it: the navigation, search, planners, Teaching Mode, your notes and your coverage.
The Hub never invents curriculum content. It writes no activities, no differentiation, no assessment tasks and no timings, because those are not in the source document — that professional judgement stays yours.
The curriculum is the intellectual property of the UAE Ministry of Education. The Hub is an independent teacher reference tool and is not an official Ministry product.
The Hub reports two things to the Mourad Learning OS measurement layer: that a print job happened, and that a lesson was delivered, with how many minutes it ran. That is the whole record — counts and minutes. No name, no email, no class, no grade, no lesson title, no note text and no student data of any kind is sent, and the schema has no field that could carry them. Nothing you read, search or type in the Hub is measured.
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Check the email and password first, then use the reset link on the Account page. If the whole workspace says it is unavailable, the curriculum, planners and Teaching Mode all still work — sign-in is only needed for classes, notes and coverage.
The Hub tells you so rather than guessing, and offers to switch to that class's own curriculum. Click that link, or change the VIEWING box at the top to match.
It is very likely a defect in the printed guide, preserved on purpose. Check Source & Attribution, where every one is logged with its page number, or open the source page and compare against the official PDF.
Yes — reading, planning and the timer all work. Teaching Mode's floating companion and the separate projector window are designed for a laptop or desktop with a classroom display.
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