This resource has 8 x weekly SPaG review slides for use when teaching Macbeth. Each slide comprises 6 common areas of SPaG error for review and consolidation. Help yourself! PLEASE NOTE: Sell and be damned!

This is a set of 16 x weekly SPaG review PPT slides. Each slide comprises 6 common error SPaG review tasks. The template was designed and shared by Chris Curtis (@Xris32 over on Twitter!) Hope it’s useful. NOTE: Just don’t sell it or you’ll be cursed!

Help yourself. Just don’t sell it or you’ll be cursed with bad luck :)

15 x PPT slides, each containing 5 Qs encouraging students to recall previously learned knowledge of the text. Based on the latest educational research which suggests that spaced retrieval of previously learned material leads to better transfer of knowledge to long term memory. Hope they’re useful. Please leave a review. Matt

25 x PPT slides, each containing 5 retrieval practice Qs to encourage regular recall of previously learned information. The latest research suggests retrieval practice improves transfer of knowledge to long-term memory. Hope they’re useful. Please leave a review.

A set of 15 editable PPT slides, one for each of the poems in the Literature P&C anthology, inviting pupils to explore a quotation in terms of a close analysis of the poet’s choice of methods, the contexts of the poem and its links to other poems. I hope that you find them useful. Please leave a review. If you like these, there are sets for A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls - all FREE at my shop here on TES. Resource cover image courtesy of Mervyn Chan, at Unsplash.

Designed to be used alongside study of the play, the 25 slides are used as a recall starter, providing opportunity for regular low-stakes quizzing and retrieval of knowledge of the play. The slides are editable and assess knowledge cumulatively, Act by Act so by the end of the play they should have a secure knowledge of key quotations, stagecraft, characters and contexts. I hope they are useful. Please leave a review. Thanks.

Four spreadsheets, one for each of the AQA GCSE Language and Literature exam papers. Input the students’ scores Q by Q and the cells automatically turn shades of red, amber and green, enabling you to see at a glance individual or collective strengths and areas for further teaching or revision. These columns are protected so the formulae cannot be accidentally corrupted. There are 250 rows so it’s useful for either the individual teacher or for use across the Year group. Simply input the scores, the rest is automatic: the raw total, expressed also as a percentage and then converting automatically to the grade equivalent based on AQA’s published grade boundaries FOR EACH PAPER (not overall!) It might help inform your planning or to identify patterns of underperformance across a teaching group or across the department, so you can tailor interventions which target specific students on specific questions. Hope you find them useful.

A set of ten editable PPT slides for use with revision or consolidation of Priestley’s play, “An Inspector Calls.” Each slide features a quotation integral to one of the play’s main themes or characters and each contain four tasks: identifying a writer’s methods; linking the quotation to the play’s social, cultural or historical contexts, contrast (or connect) to elsewhere in the play; and synthesising details in the quotation for more sophisticated textual analysis. Feel free to tweak them, or add your own. There are sets for Macbeth and A Christmas Carol, too, if you like the format! Hope they are useful.

A set of ten editable PPT slides for use with revision or consolidation of Dickens’ novella, “A Christmas Carol.” Each slide features a quotation integral to one of the novella’s main themes or characters and each contain four tasks: identifying a writer’s methods; linking the quotation to the novella’s social, cultural or historical contexts, contrast (or connect) to elsewhere in the novella; and synthesising details taken from the quotation for more sophisticated textual analysis. Feel free to tweak them, or add your own. There are sets for Macbeth and An Inspector Calls, too, if you like the format! Hope they are useful.

A set of ten editable PPT slides for use with revision or consolidation of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. Each slide features a quotation integral to one of the play’s main themes or characters and each contain four tasks: identifying writer’s methods; linking the quotation to the play’s social, cultural or historical contexts, contrast (or connect) to elsewhere in the play; and synthesise details in the quotation for more sophisticated textual analysis. Feel free to tweak them, or add your own. There is a set for A Christmas Carol, too, if you like the format! Hope they are useful.

A handy little bookmark, designed to be folded and sized so that 3, once folded, fit comfortably inside one A4 sized laminating pouch. The bookmark reminds students how to tackle each of the four Reading Qs on AQA English Language Papers 1 and 2. I hope that you find this useful. Please leave a review.

A new AQA-style English Language Paper 2 specimen exam paper. The 19th century text is an extract taken from Darwin’s ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ The 20th century text is an excerpt from Howard Carter’s diary, detailing his breach of Tutankhamun’s tomb The section B writing task is also available as a JPEG which can be displayed on an interactive whiteboard in your classroom. I hope that this is of use to you. Please leave a review. Thanks, Matt :)

A new AQA-style English Language Paper 2 on the theme of HUNTING wild animals. To accompany the Word document version of the mock exam paper, I have produced also a set of SMART Notebook slides to be used in classrooms as a “Walking - Talking Mock Exam” in advance of the June 2018 exam. The slides provide Q by Q explanations, indicative content for each answer and then Qs with timers for students to practice responding in timed conditions. I hope that this proves useful to you. Please leave a review. Thanks, Matt :)

A set of 15 resources, made available in PPT and SMART Notebook formats. Each resource offers students a variety of tasks on an individual poem, encouraging them to ‘think hard’ about the poem, its form, structure, language and themes. These resources have been designed for classroom use, or can be set as homeworks, or used as exam preparation tasks. Hope they are useful. Please leave a review. Matt :)

A set of five resources, made available in both PPT and SMART Notebook formats, for use with Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. Act by Act, each resource offers a variety of activities designed to encourage students to ‘think hard’ about the text. Useful classroom resources, or set as homeworks, or use as revision of the text in preparation for the GCSE Lit exam.

A set of five resources, made available on PPT and also SMART Notebook formats, offering students a variety of challenging tasks which demand ‘thinking hard’ about the text. They are useful in the classroom, set as homework or as a revision activity in preparation for the GCSEs Lit exam. Hope they’re useful. Matt :)

A highly differentiated AQA-style Language Paper 1A, designed for use with students who have very low-level literacy. There is a pupil workbook and also the SMART Notebook slides which replicate the workbook for interactive, whole-class teaching and learning. Q1 - as per exam paper Q2 - cloze exercise, modelling writing about language Q3 - sequencing structure and then cloze exercise, modelling use of structural features vocabulary. I've produced loads of these and they, like the typical specimen papers I have also produced, are available FREE at my shop. Hope it's of some use to you. Matt

Made using copyright free images from www.unsplash.com and the free software package Adobe Spark, here are thirteen key quotation display posters for use in your classroom. When printed, the posters are approx 40cm x 40cm and the images are high resolution - perfect for display. They also only take a couple of minutes to make each one! Have a go!

The Examiners' Report for the June 2017 series commented on candidates' responses to Paper 1B writing tasks by stating that "Many students would have benefitted from a quality rather than quantity approach: having the confidence to take time to plan, and then craft a shaped and structured response in two or three sides, with time at the end to revise and improve." These 200 Word challenges are designed to encourage narrative or descriptive writing in response to an image, with either three techniques or three vocabulary choices to include in their 200 words long response, produced in 30 minutes, with 10 minutes spent proofreading, editing and correcting. I hope that they are of use to you.