All my resources are aimed at teaching students to the top, that's the USP! You can find them on the UK's second largest English teaching channel, Mr Salles Teaches English, and also see how I deliver them there. If you want to be an even better teacher, try The Slightly Awesome Techer, https://amzn.to/2GtQu6l
All my resources are aimed at teaching students to the top, that's the USP! You can find them on the UK's second largest English teaching channel, Mr Salles Teaches English, and also see how I deliver them there. If you want to be an even better teacher, try The Slightly Awesome Techer, https://amzn.to/2GtQu6l
Students struggle to create interesting plots and characters.
This story and presentation shows students how to use a celebrity they know a bit about, and choose a moment of crisis in their lives.
Yes, it covers all the usual techniques we all teach: alliteration, simile, metaphor, the senses, etc.
But it also pays particular attention to:
Repetition
Allusion
Powerful Verbs
Contrast.
Overdoing some techniques
Minimising adjective and adverb use
Showing the character's state of mind.
Each paragraph has 3 explicit teaching points.
You get two copies of the story - one as a Word document for you to customise or read.
The other, in Word, to teach each of three explicit points for each paragraph.
What if you could teach your students 3 key skills which would make their essays worth grades 7-9?
What if you could show your students 7 mistakes students make, which reduce their marks?
And then, what would happen if your students learned to correct those mistakes? Then they would get grades 7, 8 and 9.
A poll of over 600 students on my YouTube channel shows that 79% of students think my resources earned them at least one extra grade, and 38% think that they went up by at least two grades.
You can find the video which teaches this presentation on Mr Salles Teaches English so that your students can also dramatically improve their grade.
Students can achieve grade 7 and above just from reading this - they wouldn’t even have to read the novel! When they do, it will make so much more sense to them. They get a very clear summary, linked to lots of top grade interpretations, ready to simply fit into their essay writing.
Teach your students how to use the indicative content to write their revision essay.
Then show them how to refine this to a grade 9 essay which can be done under exam conditions.
Next teach them from the model.
Show exactly how it meets all the exam criteria for AQA and Edexcel.
Here is an extract:
Get ready for the AQA exam by preparing your students fully for two comparison questions:
Compare Pip to Miss Havisham, and Pip to Magwitch, my two top picks for the 2019 paper.
There are 20 ideas for each essay, and 20 quotations for each.
It also gives you at least 3 big ideas for each essay, so that students can debate Dickens purpose and claim gades 7, 8 and 9.
Get an in depth analysis of 5 key themes of Jekyll and Hyde to propel your students to get the top grades.
Ideal to teach from or print off as revision cards.
An amazing bargain.
Do you want a bundle which will equip your students with all the tools to write great informative writing and great travel writing?
Would you like them to see models of grade 9 writing, fully explained? How about grade 6 writing which gets improved to grade 9?
Will you give them a glossary of all the skills they will need, and numerous examples of each one, so that they can begin to use them themselves?
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This complete scheme of work teaches students through:
Lesson activities to develop the skills of reading and writing
Examiners's advice as well as the criteria
Links to demonstration videos
Ways to improve spelling and punctuation
Assessments
Model answers of varying quality for students to assess and improve
A teaching sequence to use and remember Rhetorical techniques
A mnemonic to remember these techniques: AH!FASTERCROCH
A PLC (Personal Learning Checklist)
Here are five texts to teach from, model answers for questions on argue, persuade and inform, and 15 rhetorical techniques to teach your students.
Better than that, these 15 techniques are made explicit in each of the texts, and in the three model answers.
Does any other resource help your students see how to get 100% in Question 5, no matter what the question?
This is a 20 minute assembly, or tutor period, or presentation to parents, showing students exactly how to revise so that they remember more of what they study.
It shows them the cognitive science behind why revising in very small chunks works over time, and why only revising in the last month before the exams is a very poor strategy.
It uses the analogy of eating an elephant to make clear why the best strategy is to revise in 10-20 minute chunks over the whole of year 11, or 10 and 11.
It has a highly engaging embedded video of Twilight, Bad Lip Reading, in which you test students on what they have heard. It works - they all chant out the ridiculous answers. Example, what did he slap? Answer: A fish.
You can use this to show how dual coding works: marrying images with speech really helps memory and explains why YouTube is your friend or, if you have bought it for your school, GCSEpod.
Other explanations are of spaced learning, retrieval practice, interleaving, and elaboration.
It also explodes three key myths about revision: reading, cramming and highlighting.
You can see what the assembly might look like by watching my video on it in the link with this resource.
There are over 50 slides - more than enough to adapt to your context.
How can you use the advice of teaching more than one interpretation, applying context to each interpretation, developing alternative interpretations, writing about the context of the extract, linking points to Shakespeare’s life and his own society, exploring the main themes of each play from more than one perspective.
Numerous examples are provided from Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
There are also 2 videos on my YouTube channel, Mr Salles Teaches English to show you how to teach from these presentations.
There are on average 20 ideas for each essay, with 20 quotations to back them.
The quotations are short extracts from the novel, to encourage students to select precise words to quote judiciously.
Taken together, these essay plans will fully prepare your students for any question on Pip, Miss Havisham, Estella, Jaggers and Magwitch.
Dickens is a master of his craft, but by God, you can tell he was paid by the word, can’t you? Never was a man so in love with a sentence, loaded with clauses, garnished with phrases and then, to add to the confusion, the main clause tagged on at the end. What 16 year old wouldn’t struggle?
I’ve abridged this great novel down to 20,000 words, from 27,000. That’s a quarter less time to read it, and a quarter more time to teach the content.
Better than that, it actually makes for a more entertaining read. The conversation feels much more natural, and has some real pace. You can easily have your students taking parts.
And of course, none of the essential quotations are left out!
Here is a sample:
Dickens is a master of his craft, but by God, you can tell he was paid by the word, can’t you? Never was a man so in love with a sentence, loaded with clauses, garnished with phrases and then, to add to the confusion, the main clause tagged on at the end. What 16 year old wouldn’t struggle?
I’ve abridged this great novel down to 90,000 words, from 163,000! So each chapter can be read in 20 minutes or less. That’s a 45% reduction in reading time, which buys you an 45% more time to teach your analysis!
Better than that, it actually makes for a more entertaining read. The conversation feels much more natural, and has some real pace. You can easily have your students taking parts.
As a bonus, I’ve placed in bold the most important quotation in each chapter. This means your students should find it much easier to make notes, and you can find it easier to decide on key passages to approach in your teaching.
Quite simply, there is no more comprehensive guide to how to teach these 4 questions.
It includes advice for students on each question, the mark schemes, sample questions, sample answers, plenty of fresh texts to practise on, a glossary of terms, how to move beyond PEE paragraphs and, if you are in the mood for more, over 30 English jokes.
All in Word, for you to edit and reproduce as you please.
And all for an unbelievably good price.
This is an amazing bundle.
It contains texts for every question, usually more than one.
It gives you model answers for every question, annotated and explained, all at grade 9.
It gives students the mark scheme in language they can understand, and tells them a series of clear steps to follow for each question.
It includes a glossary of terms, covering skills like juxtaposition and allusion which helps access grades 8 and 9.
It teaches 15 rhetorical techniques for each of questions 2, 3 and 4. And you get a mnemonic to help students remember them.
In short, you won’t find a better bundle for this paper, anywhere.
And, at 62% off, can you afford to turn this opportunity down?
This series of lessons will help your students select the key quotations they will need to write about when studying Hyde. Because it is linked to 5 Themes and further 5 Contextual purposes, your students will feel confident to tackle any question on Hyde.
They will also be able to apply these to any question on the whole novel, or on Jekyll.
This amazing bundle is better than anything else on the market. CGP, York Notes, Collins, Mr Bruff all aim to the middle.
These analyses show your students who to get grades 8 and 9 with each character.
They’ll discover new interpretations they’ve never met before. They’ll see how to explore alternative viewpoints about each key moment in the play.
They will decide whether the Inspector is supernatural, why the younger generation ultimately fail, how Priestley was even more worried about war than about capitalism and consider whether Priestley himself is an early feminist.
Every page models essay writing in such a way that your students will move beyond PEE, and write in a more fluent style.
And you get 67% off!
What’s the one thing exam boards fail to give you for the narrative question?
Stories. Can you find a story 500-700 words long? Do you have a single story that a student could write in 45 minutes?
If the answer is no, then this bundle is for you. Not only does it give you 6 stories, but over a dozen interest ways to teach from them.
And at this price, how can you resist?