Offering 18 years of English Language and Literature experience with: AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas.
Currently, teaching A Level English Language and GCSE English Language and Literature in an FE setting - providing lessons and training documents aimed at updating pedagogy.
Private tutor and Education Consultant, working with schools and colleges, delivering teaching and learning development sessions.
Lessons created for: Entrance Exams, SATs, GCSE, FS and A Level.
Previous PGCE Mentor.
Offering 18 years of English Language and Literature experience with: AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas.
Currently, teaching A Level English Language and GCSE English Language and Literature in an FE setting - providing lessons and training documents aimed at updating pedagogy.
Private tutor and Education Consultant, working with schools and colleges, delivering teaching and learning development sessions.
Lessons created for: Entrance Exams, SATs, GCSE, FS and A Level.
Previous PGCE Mentor.
KS4 EDUQAS English Language GCSE .
A full and comprehensive 20 page PowerPoint that can easily span over two, one hour lessons.
The lesson includes the following:
Do now task
A fabulous knowledge organiser for both Paper 1 and Paper 2
Recap and reflect activity on evaluation skills
Core/Extension/Challenge task based on XFactor video clip
Reflect and recap questions
Paper 1 Q5 evaluation exam question
Paper 1 Q5 evaluation answer
Examples of both Component 1 and Component 2 evaluation questions.
Source A non fiction reading piece
Evaluation Success Criteria
Component 2 Writing Homework Challenge Task
Recap of PAFL
Two Sessions that can easily be used over two, one hour lessons.
Includes an informative 22 page PowerPoint and a revision advice letter for students with helpful hints and tips.
Package includes:
Session 1:
Do Now Match up task pinpointing skills required for both exams
Brain dump activity
Progress trackers for both Paper 1 and Paper 2
Key Questions
Paper 1 recap video with QR code
Paper 1 Knowledge Organiser
Discussion slide of fixed v’s growth mindset with statements
Circle of control worksheet slide
Exam stress strategies
Session 2:
All of the above but aimed at Paper 2 English Language.
Edexcel Functional Skills Level 1 English Language. Includes full 17 page PowerPoint with reading extract and quiz resources.
The lesson and resources can easily span over two, one hour lessons dependant on skill and ability.
Includes:
Do now activity with separate resource: ‘Common Spelling Mistakes’ worksheet.
Key questions
Retrieval Task: naming text types
Reading recap
Multiple choice questions
Quick quiz with answers relative to exam style questions
Skimming and scanning tasks with link to YouTube video
Quick quiz ‘Shopping for Less’ - text included and answers provided
Speaking and listening task ‘Cost of Living’
Exam style questions
Email writing with example
Key question review and exit task.
A great lesson for Halloween, focusing on AQA GCSE English Language - Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives. Links to comparison tasks between the two texts.
The lesson includes extracts from ‘Twilight’ and Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire.’ This lesson can easily span across two, one hour lessons.
Includes:
Video links from both gothic tects.
An 18 page PowerPoint
Do Now Halloween inspired starter activity, including answers
Four in four retrieval task
Gothic horror vampire task
Video 1 and 2 prompts to discuss various character attitudes
‘Twilight’ source with questions
‘Interview with the Vampire’ source with questions
Points of view table to complete: What is character’s perspective/ How do you know? Why do you think this?
Comparison question
100 quick write task activity for both fiction and non fiction
Editing checklist
Show Don’t Tell image task
Exit Ticket
Thunks slide
Retrieval key word vocbulary task
A great introductory lesson to what is non-fiction writing. Can be used at both KS3 and KS4 level. Also, serves as a great revision/recap lesson prior to the exam.
Lesson includes:
Informative PowerPoint
The Guardian Article: Children’s Mental Health: It’s time to put wellbeing on the curriculum.
Article analysis grid
Modelled answers for analysis grid
A step by step approach to understanding writers’ perspectives, viewpoints, ideas and experiences.
This pack can be used as a great introduction to the skills required for the exam or as a revision lesson when addressing non-fiction texts The pack can easily be stretched over two, one hour lessons.
The pack includes:
a comprehensive 9 page PowerPoint with instructions
Prince William and Harry reading extract
AQA 19th Century Queen Victoria extract
Glossary table with definitions of key terms and mix and match task
Source openings and questions resource
Straightforward and easy to use approach - suitable for mid ability and higher ability students.
A fabulous resource that can be utilised by parent, teachers and students to aid with CEM style 11 Plus English Language assessments/exams.
a comprehensive 22 page PowerPoint that will maximise student potential and their understanding of common questions in CEM style exams with a particular focus on shuffled sentences.
shuffled senteces are sentences out of sequence, usually along with a superfluous word. Students are asked to identify the surplus word that does not fit the sentence.
This amazing guide offers a staged approach to support children’s confidence and success with CEM style questions.
Each stage in this guide is designed to break down specific areas of grammar that are implicitly tested.
The guide contains 88 example exercises complete with answers.
-A fabulous resource that will help you and your students to plan for success.
A great resource to use when either introducing the novel or reflecting and revising on Stave 1.
5 pages of resources to aid with the understanding of character, setting and location.
includes a cloze activity to consolidate understanding of Stave 1.
includes keeping track questions -‘what do we learn about Marley from the opening two paragraphs?’
word bank
Includes full extract of Stave 1 ‘Marley’s Ghost.’
A 10 page PowerPoint that addresses the historical context of the play and the two characters: Macbeth and Banquo.
Each PowerPoint page is dedicated to an Act and various scenes from the play, offering great annotations of important quotes needed for the exam.
Lesson includes:
Act 1 - Act 3 analysis with notable, important scene and character analysis of both Macbeth and Banquo.
Key quotes that have been analysed in great depth on each slide.
Includes overall conclusion of the two chracters and what each represents in the play
Useful discourse markers to successfully structure essay writing.
Close language analysis star paragraph guide.
A great resource that successfully analyses character and identifies key quotations from the play.
A great resource to use as a starter task or to consolidate understanding of subordinate clauses.
Resource explains what subordinate clauses are with four tasks - answers are also included.
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are modes of persuasion used to convince audiences. They are also referred to as the three artistic proofs (Aristotle coined the terms), and are all represented by Greek words.
A highly engaging and interesting lesson that focuses on the art of persuasive language by using the terms above, incorporating ‘The Art of Rhetoric.’ - Aristotle.
Additionally, it addresses the various ways to appeal to an audience, using: ethos, pathos and logos.
Lesson pack contains:
A 27 page PowerPoint
A video link to make notes from
A variety of examples of: ethos, pathos and logos with visual aids
Dual coding ideas for each of the persuasive writing techniques
A plenary task.
A great way to introduce both psychology and philosophy into a creative English session
A very informative 19 page guide that includes:
Thematic links grid to aid with comparing poems (Power and Conflict)
A full page of comparison discourse markers, demonstrating: similarities, differences, point development and alternative views.
Ozymandias: 7 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
London: 6 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Extract from The Prelude: 7 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
My Last Duchess: 8 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 8 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Exposure: 7 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Storm on The Island: 6 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Bayonet Charge: 7 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Remains: 6 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Poppies: 6 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
War Photography: 6 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Tissue: 6 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
The Emigree: 6 quotes: including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Checking Out Me History: 6 quotes, including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
Kamikaze: 6 quotes: including technique, key words. symbol and imagery.
A creative resource that I have used to stir excitement on entrance to an imaginative writing lesson based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or can be used as reward tickets for recognition of excellent work.
A 34 page PowerPoint with resources that addresses all Section A reading questions on the Paper 1 English Language exam. This package can easily be split into two, one hour lessons.
Includes the following:
34 page Powerpoint
Reading resource with exam style questions linked to the PowerPoint
A step by step approach wit teacher tips and guidance when answering each specific question on the paper.
Extract ’ The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl
This bundle can be used as either an introduction to the AQA paper or as a refresher. Students can also watch the televised version from ‘Tales of the Unexpected.’ It’s a great watch!!
A lesson that helps support student understanding of : topic sentence, supporting sentences and linking sentences. Demonstrating how to use them effectively in non-fiction writing, linking to question 5 on the Paper 2 exam.
Lesson includes:
Annotated 8 page PowerPoint
Do Now Activity
Language feature examples - how to utilise them and how they are effective in non-fiction writing.
Links to mark scheme
Suggested plan
A student model paragraph framework for writing to persuade.
A teacher model paragraph framework for writing to persuade.
A pack that can be used over two, one hour sessions. An action packed lesson that identifies the benefits of learning how to write a counter argument the right way, demonstrating how to be a fair and objective writer - taking students through creating effective plans for successful counter arguments.
The pack includes:
A 10 page PowerPoint with annotated notes
Sentences for effect worksheet
‘Sugar, So Sweet.’ article
Three student example counter arguments
A planning guide
A resource of example topics for students to use
Hints sheet
Plenary task: ‘what advice would you give to students?’
A full lesson that addresses how to use effective vocabulary and language features in viewpoint writing. Can be used for KS3 and KS4
The lesson includes:
Five page PowerPoint
Do now starter activities
Upgrading vocabulary task
Three separate visuals to watch on global warming
Exam style question
Harvey and Irma Hurricane article by Paul Hoare
Paper 1: Fiction - language focus.
A ten page PowerPoint aimed at close language focus.
using extracts from:
Charles Dickens ‘Great Expectations’
Bram Stoker ‘Dracula’
Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’
John Steinbeck ‘The Pearl’
JRR Tolkein ‘The Hobbit’
Ian McEwan ‘Enduring Love’
AC Doyle ‘The Hound of The Baskervilles’
Ray Bradbury ‘A Sound of Thunder’
Harper Lee 'To Kill a Mockingbird
Roald Dahl ‘The Landlady’
Addressing the four questions:
Three details you have identified
What? (is the point the writer is trying to make?)
How? (what method or technique does the writer employ?)
Why? (what impressions is the writer trying to convey?)
What do we think?
What do we feel?
A 12 page PowerPoint that explores: character, action, setting and theme. Additionally, textual references and context.
Includes the following:
-Romeo and Juliet clock resource
12 page PowerPoint.
Lesson addresses key exam style questions, such as: ‘How does Shakespeare present attitudes toward death?’ ‘How does Shakespeare present the idea of fate?’ With many more…
Includes four separate extracts
A great pack to introduce key themes and ideas or can be used as a revision resource.
A informative PowerPoint with resources that underpin comparison skills required for the exam. Teaching learners how to demonstrate understanding of a text and select a range of relevant quotations to support findings.
Key Elements:
Summary starter task to compare and contrast images.
Skills re-cap - true or false task based on a number of statements.
Comparison between a 19th and a 21st century extract.
Addressing point of view.
Addressing status, roles and housework between the two sources.
Example comparison response.
Resources Included:
Images for comparison.
Summary grids for comparison (differentiated chart for lower ability groups)
Extract A and B (19th and 21st Century
Example response
10 page PowerPoint