I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
This 42 page booklet aims to support students developing their skills in responding to questions on this paper. With pages dedicated to students ‘warming up’ their skills before attempting a question, this booklet is driven with AQA’s mark scheme in mind. What’s more this booklet has a range of speeches:
The power of vulnerability, Brene Brown
I am still the greatest, Muhammad Ali
Try something new for 30 day, Matt Cutts
The dange of single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Looks aren’t everything, believe me I’m a model, Cameron Russell
Your brain on video games, Daphne Bavelier
What is it like to be a gamer? Aaron Suduiko
The writing section has a range of warm up task and exam practice. This section also has support for students in considering their audience when writing, checking their spelling and punctuation and target support for developing their writing.
This Halloween, get students reading The Monkey’s Paw, W.W.Jacobs. This 21 page booklet has mini comprehension questions to support students understanding of the story. This booklet also includes:
My predictions
Themes
Quotation analysis
Character summary sheets
SO MUCH MORE!
Suitable for all ages, this creative writing tasks informs students of each reindeer’s personality traits. Then, students are set up to write a letter to Santa sharing their thoughts, feelings and ideas on the lead up to Christmas.
What’s included?
Reindeer Descriptions
Planning sheet
Letter writing sheet
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This 71 page study guide gets students developing their knowledge of each poem. There are a range of activities that adheres to AQA’s assessment objectives:
Quotations analysis
Contextual research
Theme analysis
Creative activities
Exam practice
Writing guidance
Poetic features
Summary sheets
SO MUCH MORE!
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This 55 page exam revision booklet full of planning sheets for each poem, scaffolded exam practice sheets, AO specific revision and **SO MUCH MORE! **This booklet focuses on AQA’s assessment objectives and supports students to develop explained, structured responses.
This booklets includes:
Planning sheets for each poem
Scaffolded exam practice
Scaffolded PEEZL structures
Self Assessment linked to AQA AOs
Information sheets on form, and structure and poetic features
Quotation analysis guides
Writing guides for a comparison
Summary card templates
30 day revision challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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Don’t want to get the full booklet? Get this mini booklet to practice Question one and two for Unseen Poetry with AQA. With a supporting guide for writing too!
Scaffolded practice
Sentence starters
Colour coded
Self assessment using AQA AOs
Writing guide
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Printable on ONE A4 sheet, these character flashcards focus on three areas:
Summary
Quotations
Contextual Links
There is one bonus flashcard with information on J.B Priestley.
These flashcards have been designed to support weaker learners grasping key information for the AQA English Literature Paper 2 exam.
Tried and tested in the classroom! This character profile for Lady Macbeth allows student to get all their notes in one place!
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This bundle has everything you need to teach, revise and go beyond!
Complete SOW
Character Profile Worksheets
Summary Infographic
50 Questions for revision
Revision Map
Macbeth Quotation Images/ Stickers
There are OVER 30 cards in the pack. One card per one student.
Each card has three visual symbols that will inspire your creative writing. Write the opening to a story where each of these symbols features. It does not have to be directly mentioned, it could be described in a more subtle manner.
ONE RULE: YOU MUST include the visual symbols in the order they are presented on the card. They MUST appear in this order in your writing.
The rest is up to your imagination!
WANT TO MAKE IT CHALLENGING? Set a timer!
This booklet is jam-packed with 45 pages of revision activities. From beginning to end this booklet aims to support students revising each character, understand each of the assessment objectives and practice a range of exam questions with scaffolds to facilitate.
This booklet includes:
5+ exam questions
Quotation analysis
PEEZL scaffolds
Thematic analysis
Flashcards
Character analysis
30 day revision challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
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These presentation slides, worksheet and self-reflection sheet has been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson work well as starter and a way to consolidate the basic!
The exam question is: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of family?
Included is:
Extract from Stave Three
PEE structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure with modelled paragraphs
Self-reflection sheet: plus, minus and improve.
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
This is a jampacked scheme of work that goe sthrough each scene of Macbeth. With differentiated tasks and worksheets to support students learning of the Shakespearean tradegy. starting from underpinning the context of a tragedy all the way through to the finale scene of the texts. Plus, there are reading slides to support class reading of the play. Good luck!
Get creative with a range of activities for students to learn about Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot. In this 12 page booklet, students will have the opportunity to:
Read an English folk tale
Creative task: writing your own poem
Writing a newspaper article
Reading activity
Research tasks
Creating a wordsearch
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This 12 page mini-booklet gives students the resources to plan, draft and write their opening to a story titled ‘The Poisonous Pumpkin’. This booklet includes:
Designing the pumpkin
Drawing a map
Language features
Opening of stories
Structural features
Story development questions
SO MUCH MORE!
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Get this FULL SOW with 18 lessons! This SOW will give students the opportunity explore writing a script/ screenplay as well as writing in prose. With regular self and peer assessment sheets, students will be guided through collaborative writing practices.
This SOW includes:
Writing descriptions
Defamiliarisation
Pathetic fallacy
Reading a script
Writing a script
Developing their use of vocabulary
Settings
Characterisation
Playing with structure
Drafting
Proofreading
SO MUCH MORE!
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Here are a range of structural features for fictional texts. A great revision resource for all ages, in particular for GCSE students studying English Language Paper 1, Question 3.
This 30 day revision challenge boasts a whole range of ways for students to revisit the play. From re-watching scenes and summaries, to re-reading, extracting quotations and SO MUCH MORE! As a part of each activity, students can tick off what they have achieved!
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