I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'My last duchess' by Robert Browning.
3 lessons that include pupil talk tasks, assessment, outcomes and cover:
- context of the poem
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow - higher ability
A higher and lower ability revision guide to allow students to revise Romeo and Juliet.
These would be ideal as ongoing homework projects as students read the play.
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapters 5 - 8 of The Edge.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- self and peer assessment
- character and theme exploration
- exploration of bullying
- analysing the creation of tension
- writing news reports
A sample preliminary material to give students ahead of their next mock examination on the theme of serial drama.
The mock exam itself is also included and has been created to replicate the real exam - 4 questions each worth 15 marks with one task being a creative design task.
Resources to support the understanding of the context of being homeless.
Ideal for supporting students with their exploration of texts such as 'Stone Cold' and 'The Outsiders.'
Resources included:
- Homelessness case studies
- missing person posters/adverts
- extract from Stone Cold - homelessness and the law
- true or false activities
- what is a home?
- 'The Streets of London' Ralph McTell exploration
- 'London' by William Blake poem exploration
- consideration of bullying
- leaflet examples
- investigation into homeless charities
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore homelessness through case studies and exploring the law
- write persuasively
- structure formal letters
- explore and create missing person posters
- explore poetry
- analyse texts
- investigate and create leaflets#
- debate whether more housing is needed
Resource to support the revision of context of Jekyll and Hyde and how to form exam responses to an extract from the novel and make links to the novel as a whole.
Meticulously planned and differentiated.
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources provide opportunities for carousel activities whereby students read 4 extracts from the novel and make notes to form an exam response. Students will consider other parts of the text as part of their answer.
Extracts taken from:
-chapter 3 - 'Dre Jekyll was quite at ease'
-chapter 4 - 'Carew murder case'
-chapter 9 - 'Dr Lanyon's narrative'
-chapter 10 -'Henry Jekyll's full statement'
A booklet is also included to support higher ability exploration of context.
Resources to support the teaching of boys and girls puberty, sex and relationships.
Sessions are intended to be delivered to same sex groups and the presentations outline the need for a safe learning environment where everyone can feel comfortable. Presentations guide students through talking about personal developments and issues as puberty takes place.
Resources cover the following areas:
- coping with puberty
- physical changes
- emotional changes
- feelings towards another person
- keeping clean and healthy
- acne
- hair growth
Student evaluation from also included.
18 fully differentiated lessons that use the theme of family holidays to analyse and compare non-fiction texts. (All texts included) Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Differentiation by colour:
purple = low ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = high ability
These resource re ideal for KS3 or KS4 in preparation for tackling non-fiction texts at GCSE. They are meticulously planned and ready to go. Download and use.
Texts:
- Butlins promotional video
- Practical caravan article
- Information leaflet - Holidays matter
- Extract from PGL - Family adventures
- Guardian online article
- Centerparcs blog
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Analyse language
- Analyse graphological features
- Analyse perspective
- Analyse audience and purpose
- Compare texts
Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'Checking out me history' by John Agard.
2 lessons that include pupil talk tasks, assessment, outcomes and cover:
- context of the poem
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow - higher ability
Resources to support the teaching of context of Shakespeare's plays - Romeo and Juliet - Much Ado about Nothing - Macbeth etc.
Useful carousel activities to allow students to get to grips with contextual information before reading plays or as revision activities.
Resources provide opportunities to:
-explore Elizabethan England
-Share Shakespearean facts
-explore gender
-explore crime and punishment
- explore Shakespeare's theatre
- compare traditional and modern audience reactions to plays
-explore Elizabethan entertainment
-explore rich and poor
A teaching and learning handbook that outlines the following areas:
Contents
Knowledge Rich Curriculum
Planning a great lesson
The non-negotiables
Feedback and assessment
Horsforth
Extended Learning
CPD
Princilpes of instruction
Quality assurance
Teacher files
Teaching and Learning group
This bundle includes power point slides that contain key information on each of the 15 poems which can be used as a carousel activity to allow students to revise the poetry.
Also included is a card sort activity and opportunities to revise the context of each poem.
Useful in the build up to the exam or mock exams.
Revision booklet for Macbeth with activities to help students revise character, theme, context etc.
This booklet would be useful for students after studying or to complete as they study the play or complete as a homework project.
This bundle of resources provides opportunities for students to tackle unseen poetry for GCSE. Poems covered include Catrin, Cousin Kate, The Motorway.
Differentiation is by colour where yellow is higher, blue is middle and purple is lower ability.
8 fully differentiated lesson (by colour) that support the teaching of writing speeches. (Spoken language) Lessons are meticulously planned and culminate with students writing a speech on a topic that interests them.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Speeches that are used as a stimulus:
- Emma Watson
- Winston Churchill
- Queen Elizabeth I
- George W Bush
- Napoleon (Animal Farm)
Students will practice writing speeches using the following topics:
- increase in legal driving age
- importance of mobile phones
- social media
Students will develop the following skills:
- speech writing using the 6 part structure
- persuasive writing
- speaking and listening
- developing effective openings
Over 10 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of spoken language. All lessons are meticulously planned and fully differentiated by colour. These lessons are ready to go and are numbered for ease of use.
Ideal for use in KS3 given the removal of this component as part of GCSE.
Differentiation:
purple - lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources allow students to identify and analyse the following spoken language techniques:
- face threatening acts
- jargon
- accent and dialect
- formal and informal talk
- Adjacency pairs
- back channel features
- Fillers and hedges
- Holding the floor
- turn taking
- overlapping speech
- standard English
- spontaneous speech
Students will explore spoken language taken from the following sources:
- Catharine Tate as Lauren in the UK sitcom
- Jeremy Paxman interview with Russell Brand
- Ali G interview with Tony Benn
- Jonathan Ross interview with Lady Gaga
- Board room conversations taken from the Junior apprentice
- Classroom talk taken from Highgate Wood school
- Transcripts of students talking with teachers
Links provided for YouTube video clips to allow students to observe the spoken language before analysing
Planning sheets, card sort of techniques, homework tasks and analysis writing frames are also included.
Resources to support the teaching of gothic horror short story with focus on the work of Edgar Allan Poe
Short stories and extracts covered:
- Masque of the red death
- The tell tale heart
- Frankenstein
- Dracula
Opportunities provided to:
- explore symbolism
- explore context of gothic and black death
- compare short stories
-analyse language and structure
- identify use of the senses and use the senses to create own gothic writing
- explore genre
6 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of act 1 of An Inspector Calls
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context 1912 and 1945
- explore Birling's political view point
- analyse language and structure
- structure exam responses
- compare the responsibility of Birling and Sheila
Over 16 lessons that are ideal for KS3/KS2 students to develop grammar skills through creating an autobiography
Topics covered:
- Sentence structure
- Paragraphing
- Tenses
- Word classes
- punctuation
33 cards of serial dramas for students to use in a variety of ways such as:
- sorting by sub genre
- sorting by format
- sorting by scheduling slot
etc.
Simply print - cut and use.