I am a second in department currently responsible for Key Stage 3. As a result of this I have been creating in depth booklets which provide detailed units of work for my teachers. These booklets provide all the extracts/worksheets a teacher needs for a unit of work. I offer these at £3 a booklet and then have created bundles at 30% off with 3 booklets costing only £6.30.
I also have a lot of GCSE AQA revision materials, most of which are offered freely.
I am a second in department currently responsible for Key Stage 3. As a result of this I have been creating in depth booklets which provide detailed units of work for my teachers. These booklets provide all the extracts/worksheets a teacher needs for a unit of work. I offer these at £3 a booklet and then have created bundles at 30% off with 3 booklets costing only £6.30.
I also have a lot of GCSE AQA revision materials, most of which are offered freely.
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 2. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The two sources (with line numbers, on one page)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
The extract s are:
The article ‘It isn’t about punishment from The Guardian. (2008)
The extract from Social Investigation/ Journalism- How the Poor Live. (1883)
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 2. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The two sources (with line numbers, on two pages)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
The extracts are:
The article ‘Dome, Sweet Dome’ from The Guardian. (2002)
The extract from Londonby Day and Night. (1852)
You are purchasing a 16 page booklet which takes students through the skills and structure of the P1Q5 task. You will recieve the .pdf and .doc files (please note because of the fonts used the word document may change from the pdf.) This was used for a 3 hour revision writing workshop. The PowerPoint for the workshop is included.
The booklet has the following structure:
Front page with key information
Page explaining a planning structure: Drop, Shift, Zoom in, Zoom out
Space with 2 practice questions to apply the structure (with linked ambitious vocabulary)
3 descriptions of snow and 3 rural descriptions where students can extract new vocabulary and phrasing
Example AQA question (storm image) and an example response
Reduced mark scheme on one page
Another example response for students to mark
A band 3 answer for students to move the response into band 4
A space with slow writing prompts for students to write an opening paragraph
A space for them to continue their response
4 x practice questions with linked ambitious vocabulary
A ‘stolen vocabulary’ page for students to add vocabulary as they work through the booklet
You are purchasing a 20 page booklet with a range of short practice questions. There are examples of every single question on both papers, with four P1Q5 and four P2Q5. There are two examples for each of the Q4 from each paper. For the paper 2 sample questions, two short extracts are provided on a common theme - these extracts are not full length but provide plenty of comparison and ancourage students to hone their skills on shorter extracts.
The booklet is structured to move through the questions but the questions are interleaved. There is a clear contents table and instructions on the front with a notes page on the back.
Both the .pdf document and the editable word version are included, but please note the editable version uses a range of fonts and so will be formatted differently.
The answers to P2Q1 are BCDH for the first question and BDEH for the second question.
This is an extremely dense 12 page booklet with easily an entire scheme of work. This has been created to give year 7 an introduction to Shakespeare: to understand his life, works, times, theatre and to grasp how a script works. There are two pages which focus on Shakespeare’s villains (Don John and Iago) but in reality this is to simply expose students to Shakespeare’s life and characters rather than to complete in depth analysis of a plot and character. Although this was created with year 7 in mind it would fill a gap at any level of Key Stage 3 if students’ knowledge of Elizabethan England is lacking.
Both the editable Word document and .pdf are provided - please note the word document may not appear like the booklet pdf because of font use and formatting.
This booklet is also available as part of a Shakespeare bundle with two other KS3 booklets covering Shakespeare heroes and the idea of tragic heroes and Shakespeare’s relationships.
The booklet is as follows:
1 - front cover and basic dramatic terminology glossary
2 - William Shakespeare information with space to create a fact file
3 - Shakespeare’s works - basic information, followed by a task to understand the difference between comedies, tragedies and histories then sorting key plays into each type
4+5 - a double page spread with a timeline across Elizabethan and Jacobean England. At the top students can create a timeline of historical events and then plot Shakespeare’s life underneath (perhaps using page 2)
6 - Elizabethan entertainment - 4 boxes for students to complete information about bear baiting, bull baiting, cock fighting and the theatre - I have attached the factfile made to accompany this lesson.
7- The Globe Theatre - A label the Globe picture followed by a gap fill about its history (in image)
8- Understanding a script - the first scene of Macbeth is used to explain the layout of a script, followed by a gap underneath for students to make their own mini script using a similar layout and features.
9- Stage directions- a list of common Shakespeare stage directions with definitions for students to match followed by some complex stage directions to "translate"
10 - An explanation of the character and his motives, an extract from the play (1.3) and a series of questions which track students through the extract.
11 - An explanation of the character and his motives,an extract from 1.1 alongside a modern translation followed by a series of questions.
12- a common words glossary where students should independently record new words learnt.
You are purchasing a 16 page booket (both the .pdf and editable word document) as well as a page of teacher’s notes and the resources needed for the timeline activity.
This booklet was created for year 8, to resource an entire unit looking at the historical context of Victorian England/ the Industrial Revolution and the key contextual factors contributing to the novel ‘Oliver Twist’. The booklet therefore also contains an abridges version of ‘Oliver Twist’, the lenth of approximately 6 A4 pages. Although this unit was intended for year 8, it would be suitabe for the whole of key stage 3 (or, perhaps as an introduction to Dickens for KS4 before studying ‘A Christmas Carol’ or ‘Great Expectations’).
The booklet includes:
A double page spread for a carousel activity where students look at key aspects of the victorian era (such as Queen Victoria, health and sanitation, the British Empire etc.) and then record key dates on an A3 timeline for the period.
A look at the lives of children in the Victorian era, considering the jobs they did, and Lord Shaftsbury’s Ragged Schools.
A page to record notes on the impact of the Industrial Revolution, linked to an online video.
Some consideration of crime and punishment in the Victorian era.
A look at the class system and the different hobbies, work and education of each class.
An opportunity to create a fact file of Charles Dickens’ life
An abridged version of ‘Oliver Twist’ including a series of key extracts, with a large margin to record new vocabulary. key plot points.
An ‘Oliver Twist’ summary page with 6 original ilustations for students to explain.
A 20 page booklet containing 9 practice questions for Paper 2, Question 4. In the style of the mini mock papers, these practice questions focus on short extracts which provide detailed viewpoints on a topic, followed by a Q4 style question. As per the exam papers so far, students are provided with a 19th century non-fiction text and a 21st century non-fiction text. Students are provided with a small planning grid and then a page to practice an answer, making this an easily printed booklet to provide students with 9 weeks of independent study.
A wide range of topics are provided to interest a wide range of students:
burglary and crime
halloween
football/ spectator sport
Leicester Square
going to the theatre
train travel/ safety
thunderstorms
teachers/ teacher training
x rays/ science advancement
Both the .doc and .pdf format are purchased, but please note with varied fonts being used, the .doc formatting may be skewed.
This 12 page booklet was created originally for year 7 as an introduction to the genre of detective fiction. Initially it takes them through the genre conventions and then on to the authors before finally giving a series of extracts (almost an abridged version) of Conan-Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ and Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’. In the purchase you will recieve a .pdf version, an editable word document (the format of this will shift if your computer does not store the relevant fonts) and some teachers’ notes proving relevant links and answers.
The booklet contains:
A front page which allows students to record prior knowledge.
A page which looks at detective fiction titles then the classic structure given
A page covering archetypal characters and common features (such as red herrings)
A page for students to record knowledge of the authors
A page for students to break down the plot after reading the synopses
A 4 page version of Conan-Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’
A 3 page version of Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
This resource has been produced to be aimed at students studying AQA English Language. It contains a booklet (pdf and editable word .doc) of 8 pages, along with a (minimum) 5 lesson PowerPoint of 36 slides.
The booklet includes:
A front page with strategies for accessing 19th century non-fiction and an exam overview
Two sources (19th century and modern) with letters on the topic of marriage. The 19th century source has 5 tasks which develop the skills needed for the exam. The modern source has exam style questions.
Two sources (19th century and modern) on the topic of Charles Dickens. Again the first text has tasks and there are a range of exam style questions for both sources.
Two sources (19th century and modern) on the topic of London fog. This has a full section A set of questions.
A back page with space for a common 19th century vocabulary glossary. There are some common terms already there, and students are encouraged to add words as they work through the booklet.
The lessons include:
5 retrieval questions to start each lesson. They are linked to ‘A Christmas Carol’ and the ‘Power and Conflict’ cluster, but are fully editable so can be changed to suit your texts.
The first lesson begins with explaining the strategies and then getting students to read the text and respond to the tasks.
The second lesson looks at the differences between Q2 and Q4 and then plan an answer to each.
The third lesson gets students responding to these questions, offering model answers and clear success criteria
The next lesson encourages students to read the texts and respond to questions quicker, with in built timers used to manage students’ time.
The final lesson gets students to attempt part of all the questions, with timers encouraging speed.
This 12 page booklet was used for a 6 week unit examining London in the Victorian era. It was originally aimed at year 9 following the study of ‘Of Mice and Men’. Both the .pdf and the editable .doc format are included.
It begins with a front page asking students about their prior knowledge of London now and in Blake/Dickens’ time.
This is followed with a A3 size page offering the poem ‘London’ by Blake, a vocabulary grid, and some simple imagery tasks.
There are then a series of non fiction 19th century texts covering a range of aspects in Victorian London. Many are from Dickens’ Sketches by Boz These 8 extracts cover:
London in the morning
London ‘Gin-shops’
Street children and their jobs
How to walk in London
A pick-pocket crime
How disease spreads
A night in a workhouse
Newgate prison
This could potentially be used as a contextual resource for Charles Dickens at KS4, or the extracts could be used for paper 2 revision for the 19th century text.
This 12 page booklet is designed to give students a taster of a range of Shakespeare plays and characters who might be considered heroes, or tragic heroes. This booklet was originally designed for year 8 but would work across the whole of Key Stage 3.
The booklet offers activities alongside extracts giving students a taste of Shakespeare and his characters and methods, rather than the plot of whole plays. It also gives students a gentle introduction to the idea of the tragic hero.
The booklet includes the following extracts/activities:
A front page which allows students to consider heroic qualities.
A prior knowledge page where students can enter what they already know about Shakespeare and three key plays.
A terminology page with key play and strucural terminology.
A page with gap-fill definitions of tragic hero, foil, aside and hamartia.
A rank the heroic events page, where students must rank a range of events which link to the extracts they will later study for a S+L lesson.
A range of descriptions about Macbeth from across each act in the play, with a heroic/villainous graph to plot his change (also useful at KS4).
Two small extracts with descriptions about Macbeth from the start and end of the play.
A range of extracts looking at Shakespeare’s heroines: Juliet, Cordelia, and Cleopatra
A speech from ‘Hamlet’
A summary pagewhere students rank all of the characters and answer overview questions of the unit.
A common vocabulary page to create a Shakespeare glossary.
This booklet contains 9 practice questions in the style of AQA English Language paper 1, question 2. For each practice question there is:
The extract (a short one, the length it would be in the exam)
The question, with phrasing taken from the question paper
Space for students to plan their response, with a space for point/quotation, terminology and effect.
A page for students to write their response.
The front page contains contents and a key word glossary, and the back contains an empty glossary for students to add definitions of terminology.
This booklet is entirely self contained so is ideal for homeworks, or tutoring sessions. Both the .pdf and the .doc word document file are included, but the formatting may shift on the word document because non standard fonts are used.
You are purchasing an extensive 12 page booklet looking at a range of Shakespeare’s relationship. Both the .pdf and word document (editable but without fonts) are included. This booklet is easily a term of work and was originally designed for year 9 but could be used across Key Stage 3.
The booklet includes a range of activities and extracts.
The activities include:
A front page which includes a research task regarding types of love in the Greek language
A research page where students can add notes regarding attitudes to various relationships during Shakespeare’s time.
A page including Shakespeare’s method terminology and terminology for Freytag’s pyramid.
The ten key events of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to be put in order and key quotations added (whist watching the Animated Tales versions) - this is also suitable for KS4.
Each extract page includes an explanation of the relationship, a gap to add in new vocabulary and notes, and a range of questions relevant to the extract. The extracts are:
Hamlet and Gertrude’s argument
Benedick and Beatrice’s first conversation
Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting and balcony meeting
Paris asks Lord Capulet for Juliet’s hand in marriage
Juliet refuses Lord Capulet’s arranged wedding
Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth into killing Duncan
The Macbeths’ reactions to murdering Duncan
An 8 page booklet which guides students through four autobiographies and encourages comparison and inference. The word document and .pdf are both included in the purchase. This was originally created for Y7 but would be suitable across KS3.
The booklet includes:
Front page looking at the root of auto, bio and graph.
A page with word clouds of each extract to encourage inference
A space for students to enter prior knowledge of each celebrity
An extract from autobiographies of Cathy Freeman, Anne Frank, Victoria Beckham and Roald Dahl. Some pages include spaces for students to record words from each word class.
A comparison grids for students to pick out similarities and differences from all four extracts.
You are purchasing an 8 page booklet with extracts and activities to create a unit of work. Both the pdf. and word document (editable but without fonts) are included.
This was originally created as a unit of work for year 9 structured around the viewpoint writing task in the AQA Language paper 2 question 5, therefore also making it suitable to be a KS4 resource. It offers a range of articles/speeches based on gender issues to inform students of the topic and how to write a successful opinion article.
The booklet is comprised of the following:
A front page which asks students to consider gender stereotypes.
A page to allow students to mind-map persuasive techniques.
Suggested paragraph types and a space to add modern gender issues.
A range of extracts including topics such as boys being meaner than girls, a transcript of Emma Watson’s HeforShe speech, protecting young children from gender stereotypes, and ideas about gender equality in the workplace.
This is an 8 page booklet provided for students to have access to a range of poetry and to compile key terminology as they study the poetry. The unit of work focused on poetry that has a viewpoint, allowing students to consider how poets create tone and the idea of writer’s purpose and intentions. This was created as a unit for the whole of year 7 so the poems are aimed at a range of abilities (lots of former GCSE poems are included) therefore it would be suitable throughout KS3. Both the .pdf and the word document (editable but without fonts) are included here.
The booklet is comprised of:
Front page with basic grammar terminology glossary.
A page of basic poetry terminology.
‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’
‘Blessing’
‘Flag’
‘We Refugees’
‘Not My Business’
‘Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes’
‘The Chimney Sweeper’
This could also be used as an unseen poetry booklet with KS4, with the right questions added.
An 8 page booklet which goes through history and across the world offering varying non-fiction travel texts. The following texts are included:
Gloucester, 1724 - Daniel Defoe
Gloucester, 1821 - William Cobbett
London, 1863 - C.L.E
USA, 1892-1913 - Rudyard Kipling
Japan, 1892-1913 - Rudyard Kipling
Egypt, 1892-1913 - Rudyard Kipling (Abu Sumbel and Valley of Kings)
London, 1995 - Bill Bryson
Everest, Nepal, 1996 - Sir Edmund Hilary (interview)
China, 2002 - Ma Jian
Antartica, 2016 - Joanna Symons
Peru, modern blog
Both the microsoft word .doc and .pdf are included.
A series of lessons which help students to revise the four main word classes (verbs, adverbs, nouns and adjectives). There is also a lesson included which helps students to learn how to extract information from an extract (in the style of a ‘list four things’ skill) and a lesson with a comprehensive quiz of word classes including all answers.
Each lesson follows on from the last, with interleaved re-capping activities to ensure students are remembering the function of each word. Each lesson helps students to identify that particular word class then provides them with an extract (mainly Harry Potter and Roald Dahl extracts) to analyse the use of that particular word class.
This was originally designed as a unit for year 7 but could be used to revise word classes across the whole of Key Stage 3.
You are purchasing a booklet which includes homework tasks/ self-learning activites for 9 weeks. On the back of the booklet once printed is a ‘Shakespeare’s World’ knowledge organiser. For alternate weeks students must self quiz different sections of the knowledge organiser building to learning the whole knowledge organiser by the end of the 9 weeks. For the other alternate weeks students must read various extracts, learning to apply 10 ambitious words taken from the first extract.
Students will read across the 9 weeks:
A non-fiction modern article about Shakespeare in the classroom
A Victorian non-fiction piece about the theatre.
Short extracts from Sherlock Holmes (Victorian fiction)
An extract from ‘Young Sherlock’ for a piece of modern fiction.
The aims of this booklet are:
To ensure students are embedding knowledge learnt in the classroom by self-quizzing at home on different sections of the knowledge organiser. This will also teach them the skills of revision.
To enable students to read around the topic studied in lessons. They are directed towards a range of extracts which build on the learning in the classroom.
To build students’ vocabulary. These complex words are taken from the first article then students must apply them in a range of scenarios in order to embed the new vocabulary.
You are purchasing the .pdf booklet and an editable word .doc (please note that this will not be formatted as seen due to the varied fonts used.
This booklet is intended to be completed at home alongside a unit on Shakespeare’s World (booklet also available separately) and was originally intended for year 7, but could be useful across KS3.
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 1. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The extract (with line numbers, on one page)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
A ** detailed 3 page document which provides indicative content, offering example answers for each level of a response** for questions 1-4
The extract is taken from a book published in 2003, ‘Eagle Strike’
Please note this paper is also available for £2.50 without the indicative content.