Welcome to the Teacher Toolkit shop! Here you will find a range of resources to make your life as a teacher easier, including modelled and sample answers, as well as pupil comment banks in a range of different subjects.
Welcome to the Teacher Toolkit shop! Here you will find a range of resources to make your life as a teacher easier, including modelled and sample answers, as well as pupil comment banks in a range of different subjects.
This document contains three different sample PEE answers for students to level and grade. Excellent for use as a revision tool or for use in class as students write their own answers. The three different questions are:
Compare how the power of memory is presented in Kamikaze and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict.’
Compare how Bayonet Charge and The Charge of the Light Brigade present the experience of soldiers in battle.
How does the poet present the power of nature in Storm on the Island and in one other poem from Power and Conflict?
A resource designed to help students understand some key contextual factors that influence Romeo & Juliet. All of the punctuation has been removed so students must check and correct the passage of text first before answering five comprehension questions.
I normally use this as a homework activity.
A lesson based on Act One Scene, the fight scene. Contains a starter linking to context which will need to be printed. Also contains a sample answer based on an exam style question.
A lesson based on finding key quotes for analysis for LM's soliloquy; contains a starter, main and plenary activities that can easily be differentiated.
An Ofsted 'Outstanding' lesson I prepared for an introduction to Scrooge; contains an example PEE, mark scheme plenary and starter activity which is linked to context.
This has been written specifically for the new 1-9 spec.
A GCSE revision lesson that looks at different aspects of love in Act 1 Scene 5 (the party scene).
The lesson contains:
a starter activity
an activity to help students understand how imagery is created
printable example responses based on the new GCSE AQA criteria for students to level and grade and use as a guide to help them.
plenary with links to the mark scheme
A lesson based on comparing Fezziwig to Scrooge; lesson contains a starter, main and plenary with an example PEE to an AQA style question.
All of the AOs for AQA's new 1-9 are represented.
A lesson focussed on Storm on the Island, with links to context and The Troubles. Contains sample responses and key quotes for analysis. Slides can be printed and stuck into pupils' books.
A lesson that focusses on the relationship between George and Lennie and the use of punctuation. Contains a sample answer and activities for students to find the key words.
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A fully-loaded Macbeth scheme of work that covers all of the main scenes in the play. All lessons contain starters and engaging main activities that allow students to explore the scenes in a number of different ways (such as through: PEE chains, diaries, directing the scene themselves, blogs, letters and other techniques). Also included are worksheets, research activities and contextual information.
An assessment lesson is also included, based on the scene where Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss the murder.
Where lessons require students to watch clips, links are included in the PowerPoints.
This SOW would ideally suit a middle-ability group although could easily be adapted to differentiate up or down.
13 full lessons are included in total, plus a computer research grid based lesson.
This lesson allows students to plan and write a comparative exam response based on two poems from the Power & Conflict cluster.
It features a starter that allows students to revise the key quotations, a planning activity (with examples) and a sample question that focusses on comparing Kamikaze and The Emigree. It also has an example essay for students to level and grade with clear links to the AQA marking criteria as a plenary activity.
This lesson could easily stretch to 2-3 lessons.
This lesson allows students to plan and write a comparative essay based on two poems from the Power & Conflict cluster.
It features a starter that allows students to the place poems into different themes, a planning activity (with examples) and a sample question that focusses on comparing Storm on the Island with The Prelude. It also has an example essay for students to level and grade with clear links to the AQA marking criteria as a plenary activity.
This lesson could easily stretch to 2-3 lessons.
A lesson that enables students to answer Q2 of AQA English Language Paper 1 in detail. Contains an engaging starter, extract to annotate, mark scheme annotations, peer assessment activity and exemplar answer for students to use.
This scheme of work contains 10 full lessons that allow students to study the complete play in full detail and a further 5 exam preparation lessons to use as revision before the examination itself.
The lessons all contain starters, mains and plenaries and also contain full examples of essay questions and activities for students to self and peer assess with annotations of key quotations that they will need for the exam.
These lessons are all excellent for Oftsed or in-school observations as they show clear progression and contain a full range of different AFL techniques.