Differentiated literacy worksheets to support the teaching of Samson and Delilah.
Includes:
Copy of the story
Bronze, Silver, Gold storyboard activity
Differentiated inference carousel questions about Delilah, Samson, Israelites and Philistines
22 strategies for promoting extended writing across the curriculum.
The PowerPoint looks at various ways of using various modelling, planning and assessment strategies to promote extended writing . They are applicable for all subject areas that involve extended writing. Originally created for whole school staff literacy training in my role as a literacy coordinator.
Also includes a staff survey to measure how literacy and extended writing is promoted across each department in your school.
Eduqas GCSE poetry quiz. 5 rounds of questions with 18 questions per round - one per poem. Worksheet and PowerPoint. Useful for finding out which poems to go over again.
Links to other Eduqas poetry resources:
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545
Lessons on all poems
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591
Revision resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072
Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065
Includes powerpoint and planning resources for an assessment analysing Crooks in Chapter 4.
Also includes a model essay to help with responding to feedback.
Also includes 6 tasks based on Chapter 4 that works well as an independent learning task or as a cover lesson.
Use for a final revision session or series of sessions on A Christmas Carol
Present the students with 6 big ideas about the novel.
Students use the attached top 50 quotations sheet to help add their ideas about each big idea.
I have also included a top 100 quotation version for higher ability students.
Then go through possible answers on the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is animated and each answer appears on the mouse click so you can talk through each one as it appears.
I have also included 6 predictions about what extract might come up. Now we are 3 years into the 9-1 syllabus, I predict they might use a more obscure extract so I have picked 6 less obvious extracts. Students read each extract and complete the planning grid.
Also includes some sample exam style responses to different generic questions.
New for 2022 is a large PowerPoint encouraging students to choose and explain their top 3 quotations for 9 different themes.
Large 40+ slide PowerPoint covering key quotations with high grade analysis from across the novel linked to 9 themes.
There are 3 suggested revision activities to accompany the PowerPoint to ensure students use the resource efficiently and effectively:
a. Select the 3 best quotations for each of the 9 themes
b. Complete essay plans for 6 exam-style questions
c. Create a mindmap to revise big ideas in the
Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose.
Also includes: A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist.
A01: What is the meaning of the quotation?
A02: What is the impact of words/methods?
A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation?
Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it.
Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.
This resource summarises two ways of structuring a comparative poetry response for the power and conflict poems: the 4 paragraph ‘methods-based’ approach and the 2 paragraph ‘conceptual’ approach.
This PowerPoint contains detailed annotations of 34 key quotations to the novel.
There are 4 annotations for each quotation which link to
A01 - meaning
A02 - writer’s methods
A03 - context/themes/wider ideas
Start by showing the students the 4 quotations and asking them to annotate them. Then talk through the annotations which appear one by one on the mouse clicl
The following characters and themes are covered:
Simon
Roger
Jack
Ralph
Piggy
Hair
Evil
Island
Conch
Also includes a random generator quotation PowerPoint. Simply stop the PowerPoint on a slide and students must guess the missing word.
Updated PowerPoint with annotations, differentiated question worksheets and differentiated writing frames for analysing Act 1 Scene 6 and Act 1 Scene 7 from Macbeth. Also includes questions to recap the main events in Act 1 as a whole.
Lesson exploring the significance of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.
Looks at 10 key quotations and makes links to A03 wider context.
Also includes a high grade exam response on Tiny Tim.
Lesson teaching November by Armitage as an unseen poem for GCSE.
Includes success criteria for grades 7, 8 and 9, annotations and an exemplar paragraph.
Differentiated PowerPoint with learning outcomes to help students answer the following question based on Chapter 8 and 9 of Oliver Twist:
To what extent is Fagin an out and out villain?
Lower ability students will look at how Fagin is an absolute villain.
Higher ability students will also look at his redeeming qualities.
Also includes a model response to annotate to help students improve their second draft or respond to feedback.
50 question multiple choice quotation quiz on An Inspector Calls with answer sheet. I use it a drill for the first 5 minutes of a lesson every week until all the class can memorise each one.
Analysis of 6 key quotations linked to the theme of supernatural in Macbeth.
Also includes a timeline to help trace the development of the supernatural across the whole play.
Useful revision for any exam question about the supernatural.
Also includes a walkthrough lesson which teaches students every step of writing a successful exam response on the supernatural in the play.
3 Power and Conflict revision quizzes.
A 50 question revision quiz to complete once you have taught all 15 poems from the Power and Conflict section of the anthology. Includes the answers at the end.Can be repeated to help measure progress and identify which poems you need to go over again.
Also contains a second paper-based 6 round revision quiz.
Also contains a quiz with 75 questions (5 questions on every poem_ with answer sheet.
4 detailed essay plans on A Christmas Carol to convert into 4 essays.
A detailed success criteria is provided for each paragraph.
This A Christmas Carol resource offers 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas.
Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations.
Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations.
Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.
Character revision sheets for the 5 main characters in Lord of the Flies - Piggy, Ralph, Jack, Roger and Simon. Each sheet explores 10 key quotations from across the novel. Also includes a revision sheet on the island because this is a common exam question that hasn’t come up for a couple of years. Perfect revision preparation for 2024.
Includes a pdf version or an editable word version in case you need to swap around any of the top 10 quotations to suit your teaching.