KS3 Comprehension - Jamaica Inn This three-lesson unit is designed to help Year 9 learners develop their comprehension skills in preparation for GCSE. It is made up of a 44-slide PowerPoint presentation, 4 worksheets and a comprehension assessment that uses an extract from Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Jamaica Inn’. Unit Contents: Lesson One An introduction and advice about approaching a GCSE-type comprehension task Analysing the extract – what to do on a first and second reading Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary and reading between the lines How to write an extended answer about language and techniques Lesson Two How to refer to the text and use quotes and quotation marks accurately and effectively How to write an extended answer about structure How to answer a 20 mark evaluation question effectively A 45-minute 5-question comprehension exercise Lesson Three Feedback on student responses to the previous lesson’s comprehension task and discussion of success criteria All five comprehension questions and answers explored in detail Detailed exemplar/model answers for all five questions discussed KS3 Comprehension – Jamaica Inn has everything you need to help you develop essential comprehension skills at upper KS3.

This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help GCSE students develop their reading assessment skills. It is made up of a 43-slide PowerPoint presentation, 7 worksheets and an assessment task using an extract from the crime novel ‘A Gun for Sale’. Contents: Lesson One An introduction to the ‘Reading Fiction’ section of the GCSE English exam How to approach the exam task Analysing an extract - first and second reading Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, consolidation and using deduction skills How to write an extended answer about language Lesson Two How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively How to write about structure How to answer a 20 mark evaluation question effectively A 45-minute assessment task Lesson Three Feedback and discussion of student responses All five GCSE-type assessment questions and answers explored in detail Exemplar answers for all five questions GCSE Reading Fiction Comprehension has everything you need to help you develop essential exam skills.

Year 9 Comprehension – A Gun for Sale This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help upper KS3 learners develop their comprehension skills with an eye towards GCSE. It is made up of a 44-slide PowerPoint presentation, 8 worksheets and a comprehension exercise using an extract from Graham Greene’s ‘A Gun for Sale’. Contents: Lesson One An introduction to KS3 comprehension How to approach a comprehension exercise (the dos and don’ts) Approaching an extract – what to look for on a first and second reading Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary and using deduction skills How to write an extended answer about language and techniques Lesson Two How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively How to write an extended answer about structure A 45-minute comprehension exercise Lesson Three Feedback on student responses to the comprehension task and discussion of success criteria All five comprehension questions and answers explored in detail Exemplar/model answers for all five questions Year 9 Comprehension - A Gun for Sale has everything you need to help you develop essential comprehension skills at upper KS3.

KS3 Comprehension - Frankenstein This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help Year 9 learners develop their comprehension skills with an eye towards GCSE. It is made up of a 51-slide PowerPoint presentation, worksheets and a comprehension test using an extract from Frankenstein. Contents: Lesson One An introduction to comprehension at upper KS3 and GCSE How to approach a comprehension task (the dos and don’ts) Approaching an extract - first and second reading Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, narrative consolidation and using deduction skills How to write an extended answer about language and the writer’s use of techniques Lesson Two How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively How to write an extended answer about structure A 45-minute comprehension task Lesson Three Feedback on pupil responses to the tasks and discussion of success criteria All five comprehension questions and answers explored in detail Exemplar answers for all five questions

Edexcel GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry 'Edexcel GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry' is perfect for preparing students for the unseen poetry question on the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Paper 2. Contents include a 68 slide PowerPoint presentation and 10 accompanying worksheets. This teaching resource covers the following: Example examination question and poems A mnemonic to give students a structured approach to answering the unseen poetry questions How to write about content, imagery, poetic techniques, structure, mood and theme How to construct a personal response How to write a comparison of two unseen poems An example model answer

AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry 'AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry' is a 75 slide PowerPoint presentation with 11 accompanying worksheets and is ideal for teaching approaches to the unseen poetry question on the AQA GCSE English Literature exam. Contents include: Example examination questions with example poems A mnemonic designed to give students a structured approach to answering the unseen poetry questions A step-by-step guide to writing about unseen poetry using the example questions and exemplar responses How to write about an unseen poem's content, imagery, poetic techniques, structure, mood and theme How to write a personal response How to compare one unseen poem with another unseen poem Exemplar model answer

WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry ‘Eduqas GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry’ is a 103-slide PowerPoint presentation with 19 accompanying worksheets and is ideal for teaching approaches to the unseen poetry question on the Eduqas GCSE English Literature exam. Contents include: Example examination questions with example poems. A mnemonic designed to give students a structured approach to answering the unseen poetry questions. A step-by-step guide to writing about unseen poetry using the example questions and exemplar responses. How to write about an unseen poem’s content, imagery, poetic techniques, structure, mood and theme. How to write a personal response. How to compare one unseen poem with another. Exemplar model answers. To preview ‘Eduqas GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry’, please click on the images from the PowerPoint lessons.

GCSE WJEC Comparing Unseen Poetry (PowerPoint and worksheets). This unit of work is designed to help pupils with the Unseen Poetry section of the WJEC GCSE English Literature Exam at GCSE. GCSE English Literature Teaching Resources: WJEC Comparing Unseen Poetry is a complete lesson by lesson unit of work (includes detailed lessons and activities, a 53 slide PowerPoint and 4 accompanying worksheets). If you are looking for a version of this resource made specifically for Higher Tier students go to https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12831962 If you are looking for a version of this resource made for Foundation Tier students go to https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12831779 GCSE English Literature Teaching Resources: WJEC Comparing Unseen Poetry includes a range of varied lessons and activities for pupils of all abilities. - An introduction to the unseen poetry exam question - Using the A HIT POEM mnemonic to approach the unseen poems - How to write about the poems' content and context - How to discuss imagery, poetic techniques, structure, tone and theme - How to write a personal response - How to compare the poems - A model/exemplar answer for annotation and discussion - 53 slide PowerPoint presentation - 4 pages of worksheets

WJEC GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry - Foundation Tier This teaching unit has been made to help foundation students prepare for the Unseen Poetry section of the GCSE English Literature exam. It contains a 68-slide PowerPoint-based teaching resource and 13 worksheets. Contents: Example examination question with two poems A mnemonic (A TIP TOP) to give students a structured approach to answering the question. Explaining how to write about content, imagery, poetic techniques, structure, mood and theme. Constructing a personal response. How to compare two unseen poems. An example model answer. To preview a selection of slides from ‘WJEC GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry – Foundation Tier’ click on the images.

‘WJEC GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry – Higher Tier’ has been made to help higher tier students prepare for the Unseen Poetry section of the GCSE English Literature exam. It contains a 69-slide PowerPoint-based teaching resource and 13 worksheets. Contents: Example examination question with two poems A mnemonic (A TIP TOP) to give students a structured approach to answering the question. Explaining how to write about content, imagery, poetic techniques, structure, mood and theme. Constructing a personal response. How to compare two unseen poems. An example model answer. To preview ‘WJEC GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry – Higher Tier’ click on the images.

A Letter to Primary School - Year 7 This resource (perfect for the Autumn Term) contains six progressive lessons designed to teach formal letter writing to Year 7 students. All lessons are structured using the four part lesson format (starter activity, introduction, development and plenary) and all PowerPoint slides can be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs. A Letter to Primary School - Year 7 is a fun and engaging teaching resource with a variety of activities including: Exploring the key features of letter writing What is formality? How to set out a formal letter. Using an extended vocabulary. How to draft and redraft to develop writing skills.

An Inspector Calls – Eduqas GCSE English Literature Exam (70-slide PowerPoint presentation with 16 worksheets) This five lesson resource provides a step-by-step guide to the Eduqas GCSE English Literature examination question on An Inspector Calls. It works through the paper via a demonstration of exam techniques and shows students how to produce an effective answer under exam conditions. It offers guidance on approaching the question, planning and managing time effectively. It explains how to structure and write an effective answer and looks at a range of exemplar answers which students are required to mark using the GCSE English Literature mark scheme. Students are then given a GCSE exam question and extract and are required to answer it in exam conditions. The resource includes the PowerPoint, question papers, mark schemes, extracts and exemplar responses in PDF format.

AQA GCSE English Language Exam Practice Paper – Paper 1 Mock Exam with Mark Scheme This AQA GCSE English teaching resource contains a mock exam paper for Paper 1 Section A and Section B. The teaching resource includes an example AQA GCSE English Paper 1 examination paper plus a mark scheme to enable teachers to mark students’ papers. This mock exam paper has been created by Teacher-of-English.com based on recent AQA GCSE English past papers. It can be used at any time during the GCSE course but it is especially helpful for revision when the final exams are approaching.

Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1 ‘Rudolph Saves Christmas’ is an English KS1 teaching resource that covers many of the year 1 English curriculum objectives for comprehension and composition. This bright and engaging 77 slide PowerPoint presentation includes: Whole class telling of the story by the teacher and accompanying pictures An interactive quiz to check understanding following the reading of each part of the story A retelling of the story by volunteers with accompanying pictures to help A retelling of the story writing activity with 10 accompanying worksheets Learning about rhyming words Rhyming words activities and 3 accompanying worksheets Link to a ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’ song Exploring the meaning, message or moral behind the story Story sequencing activity with an accompanying worksheet ‘Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1’ is completely editable so that teachers are able to adapt the resource to suit the individual needs of each class they teach.

g, o, c, k - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 3 This EYFS/KS1 phonics teaching resource introduces the phase 2, set 3 letters and sounds g, o, c, k from the DfES phonics teaching programme. Before a new letter and sound is introduced all previous taught letters are revisited in the form of an interactive activity. Each new letter and sound is introduced via a link to an explanatory video and the resource uses animation and interactive activities to engage the learner. Once a letter and sound has been covered there are two worksheets that give children practise in writing the letter and recognising the sound in everyday objects and words. Each lesson ends with an activity that gives children the opportunity to blend and segment the decodable words from the letters taught so far. Content includes: 14 worksheets 4 links to introductory videos interactive activities flashcards for the decodable words for set 3 'g, o, c, k - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 3’ is completely editable so that teachers have the freedom to adapt each slide to suit teaching needs.

ck, e, u, r - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 4 This EYFS/KS1 phonics teaching resource introduces the phase 2, set 4 letters and sounds ck, e, u, r from the DfES phonics teaching programme. Before a new letter and sound is introduced all previous taught letters are revisited in the form of an interactive activity. Each new letter and sound is introduced via a link to an explanatory video and the resource uses animation and interactive activities to engage the learner. Once a letter and sound has been covered there are two worksheets that give children practise in writing the letter and recognising the sound in everyday objects and words. Each lesson ends with an activity that gives children the opportunity to blend and segment the decodable words from the letters taught so far. Content includes: 12 worksheets 4 links to introductory videos interactive activities flashcards for the decodable words for set 4 'ck, e, u, r - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 4’ is completely editable so that teachers have the freedom to adapt each slide to suit teaching needs.

h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 5 This EYFS/KS1 phonics teaching resource introduces the phase 2, set 5 letters and sounds h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss from the DfES phonics teaching programme. Before a new letter and sound is introduced all previous taught letters are revisited in the form of an interactive activity. Each new letter and sound is introduced via a link to an explanatory video and the resource uses animation and interactive activities to engage the learner. Once a letter and sound has been covered there are worksheets that give children practise in writing the letter and recognising the sound in everyday objects and words. Each lesson ends with an activity that gives children the opportunity to blend and segment the decodable words from the letters taught so far. Content includes: 17 worksheets 7 links to introductory videos interactive activities flashcards for the decodable words for set 4 'h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 5’ is completely editable so that teachers have the freedom to adapt each slide to suit teaching needs.

i, n, m, d - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 2 This EYFS/KS1 phonics teaching resource introduces the phase 2, set 2 letters and sounds i, n, m, d from the DfES phonics teaching programme. Before a new letter and sound is introduced all previous taught letters are revisited in the form of an interactive activity. Each new letter and sound is introduced via a link to an explanatory video and the resource uses animation and interactive activities to engage the learner. Once a letter and sound has been covered there are two worksheets that give children practise in writing the letter and recognising the sound in everyday objects and words. Each lesson ends with an activity that gives children the opportunity to blend and segment the decodable words from the letters taught so far. Content includes: 12 worksheets 4 links to introductory videos interactive activities 30 flashcards of the decodable words for set 1 and 2 'i, n, m, d - Letters and Sounds - Phonics Phase 2, Set 2’ is completely editable so that teachers have the freedom to adapt each slide to suit teaching needs.