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English GCSE and English KS3 resources by a lead practitioner. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance. Leave a review and choose any other single resource for free! Just get in touch at info@englishgcse.co.uk

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English GCSE and English KS3 resources by a lead practitioner. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance. Leave a review and choose any other single resource for free! Just get in touch at info@englishgcse.co.uk
Reading Comprehension
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Reading Comprehension

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8 x Reading Comprehension packs covering a variety of pertinent teenage issues. These packs are great for covering both PSHE topics and Whole School Literacy in Tutor Time. Pack includes 8 x detailed 4 page reading comprehension packs, each with a page of differentiated questions, so students can all access and get on with the tasks independently. The questions and focus both on comprehension of PSHE content and English skills. These can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in an English lesson for KS3/4 GCSE comprehension training. They are an interesting, useful, very easy to use and good way to combine PSHE and English.
Myths and Legends
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Myths and Legends

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Myths and Legends English KS3 complete lessons pack that includes 19+ resource packs, all with differentiated activities, worksheets, video clips, engaging approaches to language, structure, organisation, vocabulary, characters, genre, language analysis, settings and many more aspects of narrative writing and descriptive writing and language analysis. Includes: Myths and Legends introduction lesson that looks at characters Robin Hood extract language analysis lesson Monsters and descriptive writing Boudica lesson on legend key themes Minotaur lesson looking at improving vocabulary for descriptive writing Icarus and Daedalus lesson on language analysis Settings lesson that explores building description for atmosphere and tone Odysseus and Cyclops lesson on using evidence in analytical paragraphs Structure lesson exploring the 12 steps of the Hero���s Journey Aborigine stories and Dreamtime language analysis lesson Hindu story, empathy and sympathy lesson Commas and punctuation recap lesson Knowledge organiser Six weeks’ worth of homework activities Beginning and ending narratives Assessment planning Spoken Language lesson Assessment review lesson Escape room for recapping and revision Scheme of work document Includes differentiated activities, engaging activities, worksheets, scaffolds, models and examples, perfect for KS3 English and those students approaching English Language Paper 1.
Poetry KS3
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Poetry KS3

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Poetry lessons for KS3 English students that explore poems by writers from a range of backgrounds and contexts. A complete scheme of work exploring poetry. It includes: Poetry introduction lesson Grace Nichols Island Man language lesson Island Man lesson on structure Imtiaz Dharker language lesson Blessing lesson on structure Search For My Tongue Sujata Bhatt - metaphors and voice Tatamkhulu Afrika Nothing’s Changed - imagery, sounds and vocabulary Nothing’s Changed structure, caesuras and enjambment lesson Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan lesson on key themes Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan structure There Came A Wind Like A Bugle SMILE lesson Types of rhyme lesson on full rhyme, half, assonance, consonance Not My Business lesson exploring tyranny and its effects Limbo poem lesson, connotations and denotations Two Scavengers essay preparation lesson Poetry assessment and lesson Six week poetry homework plan Poetry escape room SIX week poetry scheme of work document Contains differentiated activities, engaging resources, models, scaffolds and extensive teacher and student notes.
English Cover Work
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English Cover Work

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Three English cover work packs for KS3 and KS4 with 41 cover lessons in total! KS3 English pack: 2x Analysing fiction texts (English Language Paper 1 Q1-3) 2x Analysing non-fiction texts (English Language Paper 2 Q1-3) 2x Descriptive/narrative writing (English Language Paper 1 Question 5) 2x Non-fiction writing (English Language Paper 2 Question 5) 3x Unseen poetry lessons (English Literature) 3x Shakespeare lessons (Extracts from The Tempest, Henry V and Richard III) 14 cover lessons with differentiated activities, scaffolds, easy-to-follow instructions and designed so non-subject specialists can teach them. Really useful for setting last minute cover and ensuring the lessons are challenging, meaningful and engaging. They are designed to help support students at KS3 as they move from Year 7, 8 and 9 into KS4 and Year 10 and Year 11. Adaptable for KS4 classes, too. All extracts are included. KS4 English pack: English cover for KS4 lessons that includes: 2x Analysing fiction texts (English Language Paper 1 Q1-4) 2x Analysing non-fiction texts (English Language Paper 2 Q1-4) 2x Descriptive/narrative writing (English Language Paper 1 Question 5) 3x Non-fiction writing (English Language Paper 2 Question 5 - speech, article, writing to advise) 3x Unseen poetry lessons (English Literature) 2x Macbeth lessons 2x Romeo and Juliet lessons 1x Power and Conflict 1x Love and Relationships 17 cover lessons with differentiated activities, scaffolds, easy-to-follow instructions and designed so non-subject specialists can teach them. Really useful for setting last minute cover and ensuring the lessons are challenging, meaningful and engaging. They are designed to help support students at KS4 so Year 10 and Year 11 and for their English Language and English Literature exams, but can be adapted for Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9. KS4 English Literature pack: English cover for KS4 lessons that includes: 2x An Inspector Calls 2x A Christmas Carol 2x Jekyll and Hyde 2x Animal Farm 2x The Sign of Four 10 cover lessons with differentiated activities, scaffolds, easy-to-follow instructions and designed so non-subject specialists can teach them. Really useful for setting last minute cover and ensuring the lessons are challenging, meaningful and engaging. They are designed to help support students at KS4 so Year 10 and Year 11 and for their English Literature exams, but can be adapted for Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9. Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources.
Christmas English
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Christmas English

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Creative writing bundle with a Christmas twist! Cover traditionally dry topics like sentences and punctuation with a fantastic festive theme that will engage students (even when they’ve got one eye on 25th December!) All useful for KS3 or KS4 classes approaching English Language Paper 1 Question 5. Includes: Christmas punctuation workshop Semi colons, colons, dashes lesson Narrative writing planning lesson Zooming in descriptive writing lesson Using colours in descriptive writing Creating Christmas fiction characters Christmas advent calendar (25 starters) Christmas cover pack Christmas English quiz And more to come! Merry Christmas! Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources. AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package AQA English Language Paper 1 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package AQA English Language and English Literature revision package An Inspector Calls whole scheme package An Inspector Calls revision package Macbeth whole scheme package Macbeth revision package A Christmas Carol whole scheme package A Christmas Carol revision package Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package Jekyll and Hyde revision package Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package Unseen Poetry whole scheme package Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
English KS3 3 Year Complete
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English KS3 3 Year Complete

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Over 360 English lessons and resources for Years 7, 8 and 9! The pack contains units of work for 18 terms (6 terms in Year 7, 6 in Year 8 and 6 in Year 9) for 4-5 lessons per week. The overview of the pack has been designed to ensure all elements of English Language and English Literature are covered over the three years. All 18 term lesson packs are complete with detailed, well-differentiated and easy to follow PowerPoints for every lesson, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and engaging activities. These resources include modelled examples, scaffolds, sentence starters, extensive student and teacher notes and more. You also have the option to pay through school invoice - just contact us at info@englishgcse.co.uk and let us know you’d like to, or if you’d like to discuss different combinations of resources, discounts or any other product. If you were to buy each resource separately at a cost of £3, it would cost you around £930! Includes the following packs: Year 7 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Literature Paper 1) Travel Writing (Language P2 Section A) Myths and Legends (Language P1 Section A) Cirque du Freak (Literature P1) Science Fiction (Language P1 and Q5) Poetry From Other Cultures (Literature Paper 2) Year 8 Richard III (Literature P1) Gothic Fiction (Language P1 Q5) War Poetry (Literature P2) Animal Farm (Language P1 Section A) Non-Fiction Reading (Lang P2 Section A) Non-Fiction Writing (Magazine Project - Language P2 Question 5) Year 9 Of Mice And Men (Language P1 Section A) Non-Fiction Writing (Language P2 Q5) Modern Drama (Literature P2): Our Day Out Language P2 - Non-Fiction Extracts Othello (Literature P1) Short Stories / Descriptive and Narrative Writing (Language P1 Q5)
English Year 7 Complete
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English Year 7 Complete

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One year of English lessons for Year 7! Includes over 116 resource packs with differentiated activities, worksheets, modelled examples, student-friendly mark schemes, scaffolds, a plethora of strategies and approaches, engaging and interesting activities for a range of abilities and so much more. Includes the following schemes of work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English Literature Paper 1 focus) Travel Writing (English Language Paper 2 focus) Cirque du Freak (English Literature Paper 1 focus) Myths and Legends (English Language Paper 1 focus) Science Fiction (English Language Paper 1 focus) Poetry From Across The world (English Literature Paper 2 focus) Includes homework packs, escape rooms, knowledge organisers and more! Pack includes: 116x fully resourced, highly-rated English lesson packs and units. All 116 lesson packs are complete with at least a one hour-long Powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout. These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow. There is zero extra work required, and all lessons are skills-based and can be easily adapted for any GCSE exam board. I use all of these myself as a Head of English and I really hope you find them excellent value. I’ve put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team. I also have a 1 YEAR OF Year 8 pack (116 lessons) available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-year-8-complete-12341018 I also have a 1 YEAR of Year 9 pack (116 lessons) available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-year-9-complete-12413646 Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Lead_Practitioner Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)
Non-Fiction Writing
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Non-Fiction Writing

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Non-Fiction Writing English pack designed for Year 9 but easily adaptable for Year 7, Year 8 and GCSE English Language classes. This pack will grow into a full scheme of work over the next few weeks. Currently includes: Non-Fiction Writing Introduction - Purpose, audience, text types Vocabulary and Tone lesson - How combining registers and styles can impact a reader Paragraphing for Effect lesson Beginnings and endings for non-fiction texts lesson Article writing lesson including straplines and headlines Writing to persuade article lesson Writing to explain lesson on Feminism Fake news leaflet lesson with a writing to advise focus Spoken Language presentation skills lesson Spoken Language planning resource Spoken Language questions and answers lesson Letter writing with a focus on tone, structure and language Punctuation workshop on commas, full stops, capital letters, hyphens, dashes and apostrophes. Writing to argue article lesson on plastic surgery. Assessment and preparation lesson Assessment review lesson Homework pack - six weeks of differentiated activities including Spoken Language tasks Non-fiction writing escape room Six week FREE scheme of work document
Edexcel English Language Paper 2
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Edexcel English Language Paper 2

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Edexcel English Language Paper 2 pack that includes modelled examples, differentiated activities, worksheets, annotated notes for teachers and students and more. A complete scheme of work pack for Paper 2 Section A. Introduction to Paper 2 Q1, Q2, Q3 Introduction to Paper 2 Q4, Q5, Q6, Q7 Bias and Perspectives for Q1, Q2, Q3 Exploring Q1, Q2 and Q7 (a) - summary skills Exploring Q4, Q5, Q6 - critical evaluation skills Synthesising and summary skills for Q7a Summary skills - similarities. Q7a and some language analysis for Q3. Synthesising and similarities Q3 - language and structure analysis lesson Q7b lesson - comparing texts Section A walkthrough, including scaffolds, exam questions, texts and more Recapping language techniques Bias and perspectives in two non-fiction texts (Florence Nightingale theme) Upgrading language analysis Exam practice pack with ANSWERS Escape room revision lesson Paper 2 Section A knowledge organiser Differentiated homework pack (six weeks!) Please note that this pack covers 19th, 20th and 21st century texts.
Eduqas English Creative Prose Writing
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Eduqas English Creative Prose Writing

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Eduqas English Language Component 1 Section B scheme of work with differentiated activities, modelled answers, knowledge organiser, exam practice pack and more. Includes: Creative Prose Writing Introduction Exploring Setting and Description Using Sentence Types Tone Using colours Dashes, semicolons and colons Tenses Language techniques for describing characters Sentence openers Writing description - lower ability Structure and narratives Creative prose writing examples Creative prose writing practice resource Improving creative prose writing Narrative perspectives Endings Knowledge organiser for Section B Exam practice pack with modelled answers
Macbeth Eduqas
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Macbeth Eduqas

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Everything you need to teach Macbeth for the Eduqas spec! TWENTY+ HOURS’ WORTH! Will soon include a 2 hour Macbeth overview (or revision /recap session), a complete GCSE revision guide, and NINETEEN lessons: Includes: Macbeth Introduction Introducing Macbeth and Banquo Analysing The Witches Introducing Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 Act 2 Scene 1 - The Dagger Scene Act 2 Scene 2 Act 3 Scene 1 Murdering Banquo The Banquet Scene Macduff Malcolm Lady Macbeth’s Sleepwalking The End Assessment Planning Lesson Knowledge Organiser Quotes / quotations revision Revision lessons x2 hours Mock and review lesson
Eduqas English Language Component 2 Section B
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Eduqas English Language Component 2 Section B

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Eduqas English Language Component 2 Section B complete scheme of work that covers writing to argue, writing to advise, writing to persuade, letter writing and essay writing and more. A great collection of differentiated activities, modelled examples, scaffolded sentences and guided peer and self reflection that enables students to learn from others and improve their non-fiction writing in preparation for Eduqas English Language Paper 2 Section B. Keep checking your downloads as we will keep adding more and more to this bundle. The suggested order of lessons is as follows (although this is by no means obligatory): Included so far: Eduqas Component 2 Section B Speech Writing Speech Openers Churchill Speech Writing (Language) Abraham Lincoln Speech Writing (Language, Structure) Speech Structure Newspaper Articles Article Writing (Space exploration theme) Writing to Persuade (Football theme) Greta Thunberg Climate Change lesson Black History Month (Writing to explain/essays) Writing to Advise lesson Writing formal letters Writing to Persuade (Letters of complaint) Writing to argue assessment planning Writing a letter assessment planning Review writing lesson Paper 2 Section B mock preparation lesson Exam practice pack Knowledge organiser
Eduqas Poetry
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Eduqas Poetry

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Eduqas Poetry Anthology collection of lessons that is a full scheme of work for all of the poems. Includes resource packs for: The Manhunt - Simon Armitage The Soldier - Rupert Brooke London - William Blake Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen Ozymandias - Percy Shelley Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron Living Space - Imtiaz Dharker As Imperceptbily As Grief - Emily Dickinson Cozy Apologia - Rita Dove Cozy Apologia / Comparing Poems A Wife in London - Thomas Hardy Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney To Autumn - John Keats Afternoons - Philip Larkin Excerpt from The Prelude - William Wordsworth
A Christmas Carol Eduqas
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A Christmas Carol Eduqas

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Eduqas A Christmas Carol designed for English Literature Component 2. Includes: Differentiated lesson packs on all five staves/chapters A knowledge organiser Exam practice pack with ANSWERS Mock exam and review with detailed notes Key quotes revision Analytical paragraphs lesson Context lesson
Edexcel Poetry Time and Place
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Edexcel Poetry Time and Place

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Edexcel collection of poetry resources for Time and Place that will grow into a complete scheme of work for all of the anthology poems over the next few months. Currently includes resources for: Poetry introduction lesson (focus on Adlestrop by Edward Thomas) Composed upon Westminster Bridge - William Wordsworth London - William Blake Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan - Moniza Alvi Nothing’s Changed - Tatamkhulu Afrika To Autumn - John Keats Will soon include resources for: I started Early - Took my Dog Where the Picnic was Adlestrop - Edward Thomas Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning First Flight - U. A. Fanthorpe Stewart Island - Fleur Adcock Hurricane HIts England - Grace Nichols Postcard from a Travel Snob - Sophie Hannah In Romney Marsh - John Davidson Absence - Elizabeth Jennings
AQA English Language June 2019
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AQA English Language June 2019

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Four walkthrough packs that include: Model answers Scaffolds Success criteria Exam timings Exam tips and advice Perfect for exploring the AQA English Language June 2019 papers, both Paper 1 and Paper 2 - Section A and Question 5 or Section B.
Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 1
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Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 1

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Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 1 Section A pack with 18 resource packs included. Covers Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4(a), Q4(b), Q5 and Q6, includes pairs of 19th century non-fiction texts with common themes, modelled answers, differentiated activities, exam timings, advice, teacher and student notes and more! Non-fiction introduction Analysing language (Q3) Evaluating Text 1 (Q2) Q1, Q4 (a) and (b), Q5 (evaluation) Q5 and Q6 evaluation lesson Q6 model answer lesson Q1 and Q3 language lesson Language analysis Q3 Q2 evaluation of an extract Q4 and Q5 evaluation Q6 Text 2 whole evaluation Writing Q6 Text 2 answers (evaluating) Improving Q6 answers and exploring Q3 Improving Q3 answers (using specific examples) Q1, Q2 and Q3 recap Q4 and Q5 recap Q6 recap Revision quiz Scheme of work document
Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 2 Section B
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Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 2 Section B

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Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 2 Section B scheme of work with differentiated activities, modelled answers, knowledge organiser, exam practice pack and more. Includes: Imaginative Writing Introduction Exploring Setting and Description Using Sentence Types Tone Using colours Dashes, semicolons and colons Tenses Language techniques for describing characters Sentence openers Structure and narratives Imaginative writing examples Imaginitive writing practice resource Improving creative writing Narrative perspectives Endings Knowledge organiser for Section B Exam practice pack with modelled answers Scheme of work document
AQA English Language Paper 2 Revision
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AQA English Language Paper 2 Revision

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AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A revision pack that includes: Q1 and Q2 masterclass Q3 masterclass Q4 masterclass - part 1 Q4 masterclass - part 2 All resources include worksheets, success criteria, exam tips, model answers, sentence starters, timings and more. The perfect way to prepare your students for June 2024. Could also be used for intervention and revision sessions.