I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
The resource includes 20 key quotes linked to the themes of: fear, appearance vs reality, violence and ambition. Students need to explode the key quotations using two layers of meaning, links to context, writer’s intentions and references to subject terminology.
This is a detailed A3 revision grid that has information on all 15 poems from the love and relationship cluster for AQA. It includes points on the theme of love/relationships, five key quotes for each poem, comments on the form/structure and points on context for each one.
Use this as a revision tool so that students have a secure understanding on the main ideas linked to each one.
A booklet full of retention exercises to help develop pupils’ knowledge of the play, key characters and the plot. There are a range of activites to help boost pupils’ memory of critical ideas - perfect for a homework booklet or an intervention pack.
A progressive, age-related assessment system that has been created working up from KS2 with the raised expectation of the new SATS 2017, and then up to the assessment objectives at KS4. The assessment grid offers guidance on how to use it, and also includes how students could be assessed across the year. This will focus your KS3 curriculum so the skills are developed ready for the increased expectation of the Grade 5 at GCSE.
The resource includes 20 key quotes linked to the themes of: violence, love, friendship and fate. Students need to explode the key quotations using two layers of meaning, links to context, writer’s intentions and references to subject terminology.
This is a booklet designed at improving the retention of key knowledge linked to the poems in the anthology for love and relationships. Great to use as homework or as intervention for key stage four pupils.
Model answers all with activity tasks attached. I have used these as activities in class or for flipped learning style homeworks where they had the model answer before a test so they could use some of the points they’d read.
The questions covered are:
Supernatural
Macduff
Appearance Vs Reality
Lady Macbeth
Loyalty
A fully differentiated lesson for the theme of violence that links to the AQA GCSE Literature examination. The extract and question are included at the back of the PPT.
Includes - bell task,
Starter
Main 1
Reflection point
Main 2
Plenary
A revision sheet that helps students analyse key quotations within four core themes in the play: social responsibility, class, gender and age. The students need to use two layers of meaning, make links to Edwardian context, and identify and comment on writer’s methods. There is an extension task - students need to comment conceptually on Priestley’s intentions. I get students to annotate around the quotes.
A great revision sheet that includes three model answers for an exam question on Scrooge. The students have a differentiated task linked to asnwers, with the opportunity of then writing their own response.
Fully differentiated (with Bronze, Silver, Gold) narrative writing frame designed to focus GCSE students for all exam boards on the key structure of the creative writing question. Students need to fill in the frame before then writing their own narrative. A fantastic resource that can support students who struggle to write an extended narrative that has a clear focus characterisation and plot.
A poster to display so that students know what comes for each component of the examination. This is useful to refer to and helps students to understand what they are studying and how they will be assessed.
This is a useful resource to laminate and have on every table in the classroom as it will encourage the students to vary their punctuation to improve their writing.
A Grade 8+ Model answer for the character of Mrs Birling.
To achieve a high mark in the exam, students need to create a convincing, perceptive argument about the character where they can thread a critical stance through their response.
The thread through this response is - could we pity Mrs Birling for her bourgeoisie, supercilious attitude instead of the initial dislike we have for her.
After reading the model answer and assessing it using a bronze, silver gold differentiated task, students need to plan their own response and add in the higher level terminology included: hubris, allegorical, supercilious, proletariat and bourgeoisie.
A large collection of revision resources for the text. Key quotes, model answers, questions and extracts, lessons, learning mat - everything your year 11 needs before their exam.
A free Macbeth model answer that uses a differentiated task to get students to assess it. This can be used for revision or before students do a mock exam to get them to consider how to deveop their ideas.
The focus of the question is ‘how Macbeth’s hallucinations and visions are important’ in the extract and across the play.
A brand new, unseen paper for English Language paper 2 with a modern, engaging text and a 19th century diary entry. The paper also includes a helpful grid to scaffold answers making revision easier and helping students to form their own answers.
There is also a section B writing activity that includes a planning sheet. I have used this with my own year 11 classes, which helped them to develop their paper 2 exam responses, particularly the synthesis Q2 and the Q4 comparison.
This handy A3 resource is ideal for revising key themes and characters from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The sheet has 12 questions linked to the AQA spec (but could be adapted for other specs easily) and has 12 extracts, which provide key moments from across the whole of the novella.
I am using this myself to prepare my year 11s for their Literature examination.