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English GCSE and English KS3 resources by a lead practitioner. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance.
Leave a review and choose any other single resource for free! Just get in touch at info@englishgcse.co.uk
TWENTY fully differentiated and resourced lessons that prepare KS3 students for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 by looking at a range of science fiction extracts. Includes differentiated lessons on both reading and writing skills, including descriptive and narrative writing.
All lessons recently revamped and expanded.
Includes:
Science Fiction Dystopia Introduction
Creating Empathy
Figurative Language
The War of the Worlds and Foreboding
Recapping Language Techniques
The War of the Worlds Language Analysis
Science Fiction Characters
Creating Settings
Openings to Texts
Narrative Perspectives - Frankenstein
Time Travel and Descriptive Writing
Speech Punctuation
Science Fiction Endings
Structure
Critical Evaluation (Q4)
Vocabulary
Punctuation and Grammar
Assessment prep
Escape room
Six week scheme of work document
Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 1 Section A pack with 18 resource packs included. Covers Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4(a), Q4(b), Q5 and Q6, includes pairs of 19th century non-fiction texts with common themes, modelled answers, differentiated activities, exam timings, advice, teacher and student notes and more!
Non-fiction introduction
Analysing language (Q3)
Evaluating Text 1 (Q2)
Q1, Q4 (a) and (b), Q5 (evaluation)
Q5 and Q6 evaluation lesson
Q6 model answer lesson
Q1 and Q3 language lesson
Language analysis Q3
Q2 evaluation of an extract
Q4 and Q5 evaluation
Q6 Text 2 whole evaluation
Writing Q6 Text 2 answers (evaluating)
Improving Q6 answers and exploring Q3
Improving Q3 answers (using specific examples)
Q1, Q2 and Q3 recap
Q4 and Q5 recap
Q6 recap
Revision quiz
Scheme of work document
Cirque du Freak English lessons on Darren Shan’s novel - a complete scheme of work. A collection of Cirque du Freak lessons that aid KS3 students in developing their understanding of plot, character, language and structure through studying Darren Shan’s text.
Includes:
Chapter One analysis
Narrative Hooks
Chapter Two
Chapters Four and Five
Chapter Six and Seven lesson on narrative perspectives and tone
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine and Tension
Chapters Ten and Eleven and language techniques
Chapter Twelve and Vampires (Context)
Analysing Structure (Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen)
Chapters Seventeen to Twenty (Madam Octa)
Structure in Chapters 21 to 23
Structure of the whole text lesson
Lesson on anti-climax in Chapters 27 to 29
Lesson on the end and endings
Punctuation Workshop
Assessment lesson and assessment task with notes
Six weeks of homework with differentiated tasks
Scheme of work document - differentiated
Poetry lessons for KS3 English students that explore poems by writers from a range of backgrounds and contexts. A complete scheme of work exploring poetry.
It includes:
Poetry introduction lesson
Grace Nichols Island Man language lesson
Island Man lesson on structure
Imtiaz Dharker language lesson
Blessing lesson on structure
Search For My Tongue Sujata Bhatt - metaphors and voice
Tatamkhulu Afrika Nothing’s Changed - imagery, sounds and vocabulary
Nothing’s Changed structure, caesuras and enjambment lesson
Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan lesson on key themes
Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan structure
There Came A Wind Like A Bugle SMILE lesson
Types of rhyme lesson on full rhyme, half, assonance, consonance
Not My Business lesson exploring tyranny and its effects
Limbo poem lesson, connotations and denotations
Two Scavengers essay preparation lesson
Poetry assessment and lesson
Six week poetry homework plan
Poetry escape room
SIX week poetry scheme of work document
Contains differentiated activities, engaging resources, models, scaffolds and extensive teacher and student notes.
Edexcel English Language 2.0 pack with lessons covering the whole of Section A for Paper 2.
Includes:
Introduction to Paper 2
Q4-5 in detail
Q6 introduction
Q5 continued
Q6 comparisons
Q6 continued
Language analysis Q2
Language analysis
Q3 and Q4 - nature theme
Q4 model answer and analysis
Summary skills
Q6 comparing
Q6 comparing
Recapping language techniques
Football World Cup themed lesson
Using analytical verbs
Summaries
Comparing texts
Paper 2 escape room - revision
Scheme of work document
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Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 2 Section B scheme of work with differentiated activities, modelled answers, knowledge organiser, exam practice pack and more.
Includes:
Imaginative Writing Introduction
Exploring Setting and Description
Using Sentence Types
Tone
Using colours
Dashes, semicolons and colons
Tenses
Language techniques for describing characters
Sentence openers
Structure and narratives
Imaginative writing examples
Imaginitive writing practice resource
Improving creative writing
Narrative perspectives
Endings
Knowledge organiser for Section B
Exam practice pack with modelled answers
Scheme of work document
Non-Fiction Writing English pack designed for Year 9 but easily adaptable for Year 7, Year 8 and GCSE English Language classes. This pack will grow into a full scheme of work over the next few weeks.
Currently includes:
Non-Fiction Writing Introduction - Purpose, audience, text types
Vocabulary and Tone lesson - How combining registers and styles can impact a reader
Paragraphing for Effect lesson
Beginnings and endings for non-fiction texts lesson
Article writing lesson including straplines and headlines
Writing to persuade article lesson
Writing to explain lesson on Feminism
Fake news leaflet lesson with a writing to advise focus
Spoken Language presentation skills lesson
Spoken Language planning resource
Spoken Language questions and answers lesson
Letter writing with a focus on tone, structure and language
Punctuation workshop on commas, full stops, capital letters, hyphens, dashes and apostrophes.
Writing to argue article lesson on plastic surgery.
Assessment and preparation lesson
Assessment review lesson
Homework pack - six weeks of differentiated activities including Spoken Language tasks
Non-fiction writing escape room
Six week FREE scheme of work document
A non-fiction writing pack for English KS3 students and adaptable for KS4. This complete scheme includes differentiated activities, modelled examples, scaffolds, student-friendly mark schemes, a revision escape room, six weeks of homework and so much more. Useful for AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 exam preparation. Includes:
Non-fiction writing introduction (text types, purpose, audience)
Creating and writing reviews (purposes, audiences, structure)
Improving vocabulary (prefixes, suffixes)
Interview article writing (Organisation and structure) *
Writing to argue lesson (George Floyd and rioting - perspectives)
Writing to advise lesson with model example
Paragraphing lesson on how to use paragraphs effectively
Writing to explain lesson on statues and protests
Speech writing lesson on the NHS and writing to persuade
Sentence openers lesson for improving non-fiction writing
Essay writing lesson on censorship
Tone and language lesson to impact on audiences
Letter writing lesson - writing to persuade
Leaflet writing on a contemporary topic
Punctuation workshop with differianted worksheets. Commas, semicolons, dashes, colons and more.
Writing to argue assessment planning lesson
Non-fiction escape room
Assessment review lesson including student-friendly mark scheme and peer assessment review sheets
Six weeks of English homework - all differentiated!
Six week scheme of work document
Everything you need to teach Macbeth! TWENTY+ HOURS’ WORTH! Includes a 2 hour Macbeth overview (or revision /recap session), a complete GCSE revision guide, and NINETEEN lessons:
Macbeth Introduction
Introducing Macbeth and Banquo
Analysing The Witches
Introducing Lady Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7
Act 2 Scene 1 - The Dagger Scene
Act 2 Scene 2
Act 3 Scene 1
Murdering Banquo
The Banquet Scene
Macduff
Malcolm
Lady Macbeth’s Sleepwalking
The End
NEW - FULL SCHEME OF WORK
Knowledge Organiser
Exam Practice Pack
With more to come! Keep checking your downloads as more lessons will be added shortly.
SEVENTEEN UNSEEN POETRY RESOURCES. fully differentiated and resourced lessons from a TES Award nominated author that help to prepare students studying AQA English Literature to prepare for the ‘Unseen Poetry’ sections in AQA English Literature Paper 2. All lessons are also easily adaptable for KS3 students, too. NEW - includes a very detailed knowledge organiser! Perfect for revision.
Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 1 Section B pack that is in development.
Currently includes:
Speech writing
Speech openers
Winston Churchill speech lesson
Abraham Lincoln speech lesson
Structure of a speech lesson
Newspaper articles
Article writing (space exploration theme)
Persuasive writing (football theme)
Writing to review
Black History Month essay writing lesson
Royal wedding (writing to argue)
Writing to advise
Letter writing
Letters of complaint - writing to persuade
Greta Thunberg climate change speech writing
Assessment planning - writing to argue
Assessment planning - formal letter writing
Paper 1 Section B knowledge organiser
Paper 1 Section B walkthrough and practise pack
Edexcel Belongong poetry scheme. A complete pack of lessons and resources for teaching all fifteen poems and comparing them, for all of the exam requirements for the GCSE English Literature paper.
Includes lessons on:
To My Sister - Williams Wordsworth
Sunday Dip - John Clare
Mild the Mist Upon the Hill - Emily Bronte
Captain Cook (To My Brother) - Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Island Man - Grace Nichols
The Emigree - Carol Rumens
Clear and Gentle Stream - Robert Bridges
I Remember, I Remember - Thomas Hood
Peckham Rye Lane - Amy Blakemore
We Refugees - Benjamin Zephaniah
Us - Zaffar Kunial
In Wales, Wanting to be Italian - Imtiaz Dharker
Kumukanda - Kayo Chingonyi
Jamaican British - Raymond Antrobus
My Mother’s Kitchen - Chomas Hardi
Comparing Poems
Scheme of Work Document
Seven English homework packs that include six weeks of differentiated activities, worksheets and relevant examples. That’s 42 weeks of homework!
The packs cover a number of different topics, including:
Travel Writing - Paper 2 Language focus
Non-Fiction Reading - Paper 2 Section A
Non-Fiction Writing - Paper 2 Question 5
Poetry KS3 - Literature Paper 2
Myths and Legends - Language Paper 1
Cirque du Freak - Literature Paper 1
Non-Fiction Writing Year 9 - which includes Spoken Language activities
Othello homework pack - Literature Paper 1
Our Day Out pack - Literature Paper 2
English Language Paper 2 Homework
Creative Writing Homework
Much Ado About Nothing Homework
All are part of our new KS3 3 Year Complete Pack which can be purchased here:
3 Year English KS3 Complete Pack
TWENTY lessons AND a detailed scheme of work. A complete A Midsummer Night’s Dream bundle that includes everything you need to teach the text at KS3, including an assessment task, homework tasks, differentiated lessons, models, scaffolds, key quotes and more. Accessible, differentiated and detailed.
Introduction to Shakespeare (Genre and Context)
The Globe Theatre (Context)
The Great Chain of Being (Context)
Act 1 Scene 1 Relationships
Act 1 Scene 1 and Helena
Assessment Preparation
The Mechanicals and Bottom
The Fairies (Act 2 Scene 1)
Titania and Oberon (Act 2 Scene 1)
Oberon, Helena and Demetrius (Act 2 Scene 1)
Puck’s Mischief (Act 2 Scene 2)
Titania and Bottom (Act 3 Scene 1)
Act 3 Scene 2
Hermia, Act 3 Scene 2 and Structure
Act 4 Scene 1
The Theme of Dreams
Writing Your Own Shakespeare Comedy
Scheme of Work document
Available for single teacher licence or unlimited teacher licence so you can share with all your colleagues.
Eduqas Poetry Anthology collection of lessons that is a full scheme of work for all of the poems.
Includes resource packs for:
The Manhunt - Simon Armitage
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
London - William Blake
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
Ozymandias - Percy Shelley
Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes
Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
Living Space - Imtiaz Dharker
As Imperceptbily As Grief - Emily Dickinson
Cozy Apologia - Rita Dove
Cozy Apologia / Comparing Poems
A Wife in London - Thomas Hardy
Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
To Autumn - John Keats
Afternoons - Philip Larkin
Excerpt from The Prelude - William Wordsworth
English Language Paper 2 Section A complete scheme that includes 16 resource packs filled with lessons, worksheets, differentiated activities, modelled answers, scaffolds, success criteria, exam advice, sources, homework, revision materials and so much more.
All resources are designed for KS3 English students that could also be used for new GCSE English Language classes.
Includes:
Introduction to Paper 2 lesson
Language analysis (with model paragraph and notes)
Summary writing lesson
Comparison writing lesson
Language analysis lesson - FREE to download. Try before you buy!
Q1 and Q2 lesson on zoos (summary skills, inference skills)
Q3 lesson - language analysis. Include full model answer!
Q3 cherry-picking evidence to improve language analysis lesson
Recapping language techniques lesson - FREE to download. Try before you buy!
Q4 comparing non-fiction texts
Q4 model answer and lesson resource
Paper 2 revision quiz
Exam preparation and assessment resource
Escape room for revision
Exam review with indicative content
Homework pack for six weeks - fully differentiated
Euro 2020 Dear England Language Analysis lesson
FREE Scheme of Work document
Unseen poetry resources for the Eduqas spec - English Literature Component 2. All resources specifically designed for this paper and they explore both questions (3.1 and 3.2).
Includes:
A range of unseen poetry lessons that include differentiated activities, scaffolds, approaches to both questions and more;
Revision quiz;
Revision lessons;
Knowledge organiser;
Escape room;
Mock review lesson.
Edexcel collection of poetry resources for Relationships that currently includes resources for:
The Manhunt - Simon Armitage
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy
Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy
La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
A Child to his Sick Grandfather - Joanna Baillie
A Complaint - William Wordsworth
1st Date - She and 1st Date - He - Wendy Cope
One Flesh - Elizabeth Jennings
i wanna be yours - John Cooper Clarke
Love’s Dog - Jen Hadfield
Nettles - Vernon Scannell
My Father Would Not Show Us - Ingrid de Kok
Comparing poems lesson
Scheme of work document
Everything you need to teach Macbeth for the Eduqas spec! TWENTY+ HOURS’ WORTH!
Will soon include a 2 hour Macbeth overview (or revision /recap session), a complete GCSE revision guide, and NINETEEN lessons:
Includes:
Macbeth Introduction
Introducing Macbeth and Banquo
Analysing The Witches
Introducing Lady Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7
Act 2 Scene 1 - The Dagger Scene
Act 2 Scene 2
Act 3 Scene 1
Murdering Banquo
The Banquet Scene
Macduff
Malcolm
Lady Macbeth’s Sleepwalking
The End
Assessment Planning Lesson
Knowledge Organiser
Quotes / quotations revision
Revision lessons x2 hours
Mock and review lesson