As a comprehensive secondary school English teacher, I always aim to make my resources as engaging and accessible for a wide range of students as possible!
I have been teaching secondary English for 8 years. I appreciate all feedback that is left - thank you.
As a comprehensive secondary school English teacher, I always aim to make my resources as engaging and accessible for a wide range of students as possible!
I have been teaching secondary English for 8 years. I appreciate all feedback that is left - thank you.
I created this free resource when re-reading the Dickens novel 'A Christmas Carol' in preparation for teaching it to my year 10s next year.
I wanted to take some really key (quite short) quotes from the novel that would be easy for my students to remember and use for revision. This resource could easily be used in lesson by making it into a test / quiz - the students would need to be confident in answering 'who said' the quote and in what context it was said. Equally, this resource is great to provide students with as part of a larger 'A Christmas Carol' pack.
If this resource is helpful to you, please leave a review.
This free resource has been created by myself in an aim to support my students with their home learning of Macbeth - a surreal necessity during the Coronavirus outbreak!
It’s a Microsoft Word document with enough annotations to ensure a good understanding of this Shakespeare text. This does not include really high level analysis and development but it does make this fantastic resource accessible to all ability levels.
I would suggest that this would be a good resources to use in any of the following situations:
Remote learning
Accompanying resource for classroom teaching
Homework setting
Booklet creation for students who have missed Macbeth lessons (i.e. students off school with long-term illness)
Although this resource is free, it is just a sample of the whole text annotations that I have created. Please find a link here to the download for the annotations for the entirety of Macbeth’s Act One - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-act-1-annotations-12284655
I have used this SOW with my current year 9, middle ability set. The first 10 lessons and any accompanying resources are included. I have used a wide variety of activities, aiming to engage all. I would be really grateful for any feedback and please give a review if it's been helpful to you, thank you.
The lessons use Notebook software!
The full SOW is available for purchase.
This lesson is focused on answering the ‘List’ question as part of EDUQAS Language Paper 1 - fiction reading. I am an examiner for this paper and have created a full SOL for teaching fiction reading to GCSE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12903917
If you find this lesson useful, please check it out!
This resource is a bookmark designed for use in The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson.
I have started created these bookmarks as so many of my (secondary age) students struggle finding books that they enjoy reading. Sometimes, getting them to even pick up a book is tricky! I am aiming to make picking a book easier through the use of these bookmarks.
I hope it can be of use to you and your students,
Any feedback greatly appreciated.
This lesson is a free resource on Ted Hughes’ poem ‘Esther’s Tomcat’. It is part of a 19 lesson SOL which is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-7-8-nature-poetry-complete-sol-12419991
This resource is a bookmark designed for use in One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus.
I have started created these bookmarks as so many of my (secondary age) students struggle finding books that they enjoy reading. Sometimes, getting them to even pick up a book is tricky! I am aiming to make picking a book easier through the use of these bookmarks.
I hope it can be of use to you and your students,
Any feedback greatly appreciated.
This resource is a bookmark designed for use in Boy Underwater by Adam Baron.
I have started created these bookmarks as so many of my (secondary age) students struggle finding books that they enjoy reading. Sometimes, getting them to even pick up a book is tricky! I am aiming to make picking a book easier through the use of these bookmarks.
I hope it can be of use to you and your students,
Any feedback greatly appreciated.
A PowerPoint with all necessary resources on the one document, I have used this lesson for revision with my Year 10s and 11s prior to their EDUQAS GCSE examinations. It focuses on Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ and includes the following:
retrieval starter on 3 other EDUQAS poems
a ‘find and fix’ styled activity summarising the poem
key contextual information
statements matching key themes to be annotated on the poem
a final thought / plenary
A worksheet which gives examples of relative clauses and then gets students to write their own. There is a ‘spooky stories’ theme to match our current year 7 unit and ‘challenge’ boxes will help to stretch and challenge your more able students.
This resource is easy to use for whole classes or for individual intervention and is presented in an engaging way.
Please leave comments and reviews, thank you.
This resource is tailored for the EDUQAS specification. As a current EDUQAS examiner for Language Component 1, I am skilled in creation of accurate paper questions. This singular Microsoft Word resource includes:
an extract from a story (similar in length to those that the examining body EDUQAS use)
5 questions, worth 40 marks, following the same format as EDUQAS use
I have used this resource with my class as a walking talking mock which has been brilliantly effective, especially when using the visualiser. It could also be set as a complete Language Component 1 Part A mock examination.
This resource is tailored for the EDUQAS specification. As a current EDUQAS examiner for Language Component 1, I am skilled in creation of accurate paper questions. This singular Microsoft Word resource includes:
an extract from a story (similar in length to those that the examining body EDUQAS use)
5 questions, worth 40 marks, following the same format as EDUQAS use
I have used this resource with my class as a walking talking mock which has been brilliantly effective, especially when using the visualiser. It could also be set as a complete Language Component 1 Part A mock examination.
Another paper in the same styling can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12676309
These three quizzes have been planned to coincide with world days and events: World First Aid Day, World Tourism Day and World Post Day. The quizzes make the perfect form-time activity as they are well presented, engaging and the perfect length at ten questions long. The quizzes have been created for whole-school use and, as such, they are brilliant for use with all secondary age students (years 7-13).
All of the answers are provided on the final slides - happy quizzing!
This includes two lessons (and attached assignment and resource sheets) for remote learning PSHE lessons on voting systems and BREXIT. It was created with KS4 in mind, but could also be used with KS3.
The PowerPoint lessons are engaging and contain notes on each slide with assessment and feedback suggestions for teachers.
This PowerPoint presentation provides the necessary information for years 10-11 to plan and complete their speaking and listening assessment. This PowerPoint is aimed at the EDUQAS spec, but could be very easily amended if the criteria were changed for a different specification.
I use this presentation as an introduction to S&L and then let the students complete research on the computer to start creating their presentations. With my classes, I find it is very helpful to print this PowerPoint for them so that they have a reference / guide to help them throughout the planning of their S&L presentation.
This PowerPoint includes:
- an overview of what the students are expected to present
- what the students can use to support them during their presentations
- criteria from the EDUQAS mark scheme
- FAQs
This resource is aimed at GCSE English Literature students studying Romeo and Juliet. It is a whole lesson which includes:
a quick test (with answers) on act 1 scenes 2 and 3
annotations, key word definitions and key questions on the scene (act 4 scene 3)
a table worksheet encouraging students to make inferences and match those to key quotations and relevant terminology
students then write their own PETER paragraph and self-assess it
LO: to develop our skills of inference
Feedback gratefully received.
This resource is aimed at GCSE English Literature students studying Romeo and Juliet. It is a whole lesson which includes:
* a quick test (with answers) on the prologue and act 1 scene 1
* annotations and key questions on the scene (act 4 scene 2)
* a ‘to what extent’ question
* a model PETER paragraph for students to support students in creating their own
LO: to improve our confidence with PETER paragraphs
Feedback gratefully received.
This resource contains a Powerpoint lesson created to help my students revise the use of STRIVE (subject, tone, rhyme and rhythm, imagery, vocabulary and effect) which aids them in analysing an unseen poem. It also contains a Word document which is a copy of Harrison's poem, 'Long Distance II'.
This lesson is an excellent resource to introduce using STRIVE as well as using it for revision purposes. It is aimed at set 3 and 4 ability, however could easily be adapted to add stretch and challenge. The Powerpoint provides details for students of different levels of analysis that they could comment on in this poem. For example, after asking students about what imagery they could focus on in 'Long Distance II', there is an animated text box which gives some detailed examples of commentary on the poem.
Please comment and rate if this resource has been helpful for you and your classes,
Thank you
This resource has been created by myself in an aim to support my students with their home learning of Macbeth - a surreal necessity at the minute!
It’s a Microsoft Word document with enough annotations to ensure a good understanding of this Shakespeare text. This does not include really high level analysis and development but it does make this fantastic resource accessible to all ability levels.
I would suggest that this would prove a good resource to use in any of the following situations:
Remote learning
Accompanying resource for classroom teaching
Homework setting
Booklet creation for students who have missed Macbeth lessons (i.e. students off school with long-term illness)
Please find a link here to the FREE download for the annotations of act one scene two - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/free-macbeth-act-1-scene-2-annotations-12282841
This resources was created as part of a new ‘bundle’ of resources which are aimed at meeting the needs of year 7s following the change to the KS2 SATs specification.
It is an engaging and easily accessible worksheet for all abilities. It has opportunity for stretch and challenge (tasks included on the sheet).