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This planning and revision document can be used to revise William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Simply print off copies (preferably in A3) and have students complete the boxes. The first question has been completed for them.
It was made for the Edexcel specification, however it could easily be adapted for any other examination board.
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 70 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets exploring the topic of child language acquisition (reading and writing) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. The first 2 lessons are about reading and the final 8 are about writing. This unit can be used for any exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing examples of writing or a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 10), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Early literacy – Shirley Brice Heath (1983)
Stages of Reading Development – Jeanne Chall (1983)
Features of reading schemes
Language Acquisition Support System – Jerome Bruner (1983)
Synthetic phonics
Stages of writing development – Barry Kroll (1981)
Emergent writing
Stages of writing development – Kathy Barclay (1996)
Emergent literacy – Marie Clay (1975)
Initial literacy – Yetta Goodman (1985)
Ascender/descender graphemes, cursive handwriting and different types of join
The impact of touchscreen technology on children’s writing – Dunn and Sweeney (2018)
Homophones, graphemes and digraphs
Stages of spelling - Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston (2004); Bear & Templeton (1998); Gentry (1977; 1982)
Categories of spelling errors
Functions of punctuation – David Crystal (1995)
Learning About Punctuation – Nick Hall and Susan Robinson (1996)
Playful punctuation – Andrew Burrell and Roger Beard (2022)
Genre theory in children’s writing – J.R. Martin and Jean Rothery (1981)
How genre is linked to schoolwork – Frances Christie (1987)
Modes of children’s writing – James Britton (1982)
Chronology in texts – Katherine Perera (1984)
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language resources:
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 74 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of child language acquisition (speech) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used for any exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 10), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Pre-verbal stages of CLA including reduplicated, variegated and jargon babbling
Lexical and grammatical stages of CLA
Nelson – Categories of first words (1973)
Reduplication/ diminuitives/ addition/ substitution/ assimilation/ deletion/ consonant cluster reduction
Gestalt expressions/ content and function words
Noun bias –Bloom (2001)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and Universal Grammar –Chomsky (1965)
Virtuous errors/overextension/Underextension
‘Fis’ Phenomenon –Berko and Brown (1960)
The Wug Test –Berko Gleason (1958)
Pivot Schema –Braine (1973)
Semantic Development –Brown (1973)
The Acquisition of the System of Negation in Children’s Speech and Stages of Pronoun Acquisition –Bellugi (1967)
Formation of questions –Brown (1968)
Behaviourism –Skinner (1957)
Social Learning Theory –Bandura (1977)
A usage-based approach to learning language –Ibbotson (2009)
Stages of Cognitive Development –Piaget (1936)
Learning as a social process –Vygotsky (1930)
Criticisms of Piaget’s Theory – Repacholi and Gopnik (1997) and Lewis and Ramsay (2004)
Social Interactionism and LASS – Bruner (1983)
Functions of Children’s Language – Halliday (1975)
Functions of Children’s Language – Dore (1975)
How a lack of social interactionism affects language learning – Pinker (1994) and Kuhl (2010)
Child Directed Speech and its features
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
A 9 lesson unit comprising a 66 slide PowerPoint and 9 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of spoken language analysis and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used to teach A Level English Language or A Level Language and Literature and is not linked to any particular exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Discourse – Michel Foucault (1969)
Narrative Categories – William Labov (1972)
Turn taking; adjacency pairs; backchanneling
IRF Model – Sinclair and Coulthard (1975)
Charles Goodwin – Storytelling Structure (1984)
Discourse markers; tag questions; skip connectors; overlap
Speech Acts – J.R. Searle (1969)
Transactional talk; phatic talk; monitoring features
Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims – Paul Grice (1975)
Contraction; elision; ellipsis; interruption
Register and Context – Michael Halliday (1985)
Situational Factors Affecting Language Use – David Crystal (1995)
Assimilation; false start; filler; intonation; non-fluency features; paralinguistic features; prosodic features
Face-work - Erving Goffman (1967)
Politeness Theory - Brown and Levinson (1987)
Accommodation; colloquialisms; comment clauses; deixis; hedging -
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Language Discourses Opinion Writing
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
Based on the Eduqas poetry anthology, this unit is comprised of 18 poetry lessons (which can be extended to 36 lessons if you include the assessment lessons).
Each PowerPoint explores a different poem in isolation and is the perfect introduction to poetry for a Year 9 group. This can also be used as an unseen unit for GCSE if you do not teach Eduqas. Eduqas questions lend themselves well to unseen analysis as they are comprised of two parts - one question focuses on the poem and the second question asks students to compare that poem to another in the anthology.
You will need to download the Eduqas poetry anthology or print off copies of the poems from the PowerPoint slides.
This bundle comprises 18 poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology - guided poetry analysis
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
This bundle comprises eighteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource (from the Edexcel specification), ‘Island Man’
Two detailed lessons exploring Rita Dove’s ‘Cozy Apologia’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Eduqas poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 18 poems from the Eduqas poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922
A revision lesson (or lessons if you want to do more with the initial card revision activity) for the Eduqas poetry anthology question for GCSE English Literature.
Students will use the enclosed resources to briefly revise the poems from the cluster before identifying the four or five key poems they should revise for the examination. This encourages analytical and evaluative connections. This is best used once the students know the poems well and understand the requirements of this question.
Included:
Blank revision cards for a starter activity which can be extended into a whole lesson activity (with one card modelled)
Poem linking and choice grid with ten example exam questions
Lesson PowerPoint with 17 slides
Lesson plan with guidance as to how to adapt this activity across two lessons
Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922
Two detailed lessons exploring Emily Dickinson’s ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘Excerpt from The Prelude’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Philip Larkin’s ‘Afternoons’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘A Wife in London’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Ted Hughes’ ‘Hawk Roosting’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Seamus Heaney’s ‘Death of a Naturalist’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Owen Sheers’ ‘Mametz Wood’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnet 43’ from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnet 43’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
