A six week scheme of work that teaches students all they need to know about the transactional writing element of the new GCSE for English Language. Although this is designed with Edexcel in mind, it does adapt easily to other exam boards (the only specific references to Edexcel are on slides containing shots of the success criteria).
This SOW is very detailed, containing multiple grade 9 exemplars to use for inspiration, as well as exam tasks. The lessons cover different genres, for example writing a speech, a newspaper article, a magazine article, an obituary, a letter and a blog, as well as different purposes including writing to persuade, inform, argue and entertain.
This 2 hour session explores how the English language has changed as a result of technological advancements with regards to texting, considering key terminology, a prescriptivist stance on language change and the affordances of texting with references to theories from Dr Wood and David Crystal.
The assessment task at the end is designed for the OCR syllabus but can be easily adapted to suit other exam boards.
A 20/20 (grade 9) response to the question “Explore how memories are presented in What Were They Like and one other poem from the Conflict anthology”.
For Edexcel exam board - English Literature (9-1)
An assembly for KS3, KS4 and KS5 which links to whole school Literacy and the importance of reading, both academically and for pleasure.
With reading high on the Ofsted agenda, this assembly is a good way of evidencing a whole school drive towards improving standards.
I have recorded a voice over on each slide however this can be removed/scripted with your own members of staff.
A bundle of lessons specifically targetted at boosting progress in the Imaginative Writing sections of the English Language exams.
There are holistic lessons (exam skills and requrirements), model answers and specific intervention lessons on common areas of weakness.
A 10-week scheme of work for KS3 English based on myths, legends and symbols. Through this scheme of work, students will study a range of texts (Bible stories, non-fiction extracts, poetry and fiction extracts) and examine how these texts form the basis of modern Literature. Lessons are designed to target a range of skills, such as language and structural analysis, comparing texts, analysing poetry, using quotations to support ideas, writing analytically and writing creatively. This scheme of work has been used successfully and enjoyed by students in my school for the last three years.
This fully-resourced scheme of work (16 lessons minimum) is ideal for teaching and revising Animal Farm with your students. We used these lessons and last year our students exceeded National Average on this question. This SOW covers every chapter and then teaches students how to write essays for the Edexcel Literature exam.
There is a lesson for every chapter, covering comprehension, key quotations, symbolism, foreshadowing and context (including authorial viewpoints). This scheme of work also teaches students how to write critical and academic essays.
This SOW includes model answers written by teachers in addition to exemplar responses from the June 2017 exams.
As a centre, we scored 15% above National Average using this sow.
This is a full marks model answer comparing how the theme of anger is presented in A Poison Tree and Half-caste, two poems from the Edexcel (new spec) Conflict Poetry cluster.
We used these 10 lessons with our lowest ability Y7 pupils in order to help them to develop basic literacy skills such as scanning texts, summarising information and decoding texts. They are based on engaging, low ability texts and cover fiction and non-fiction texts.
Great for remote learning and the catch up curriculum.
A fully-resourced, differentiated lesson for Year 10 on one of the key scenes in Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 1. Observed by an Ofsted inspector and graded outstanding.
A fully-resourced A Level lesson on Lakoff’s Deficit Model, using a Loose Women transcript as a stimulus. Observed by Oftsed inspector and graded outstanding. All resources, differentiation and a lesson plan are included.
This is a fully-resources scheme of work that I created for Year 7 students. After visiting a local primary school and learning more about the KS2 SATs requirements, I designed this scheme of work to ensure that our KS3 students continue to build on the skills learned in primary school.
Every lesson has a powerpoint, worksheets, homework activities, differentiation (including differentiated learning objectives) and there are assessment opportunities built into the scheme of work.
This 40/40 piece of imaginative writing demonstrates the skills and techniques that students need to be able to use in order to achieve a grade 8 or 9 in the Edexcel Language exam. This piece of writing is based on a moment from the movie John Wick - I encourage students to use poignant moments from films/shows as inspiration.
This is a complete scheme of work for the poetry section of the Edexcel GCSE English Literature specification; the CONFLICT cluster.
This scheme of work contains three lessons focusing on each individual poem, which each walk students through the context, language, form and structural analysis they need to understand and teaches them how to analyse the poem with regards to a specific theme. There is also a differentiated glossary for each poem.
There are also four lessons which teach students how to answer the comparison question, focusing on the themes of war, anger, relationships and nature. Including within these lessons are model answers, references to the mark scheme and planning sheets.
Additionally I have created a poetic terminology workbook to run alongside the unit which students complete as they annotate each poem. There are also memory quizzes designed to help students to be able to quickly recall important quotations from across the cluster.
An introductory unit lasting 8 lessons which introduces students to some of the concepts which are key when studying A Level English Language. Adaptable for any exam board. Students are also introduced to the concept of writing about topical language issues.
Consists of Powerpoints for each lesson as well as a booklet for students to complete.
Ideal for shared classes.
Topics covered include:
Lesson 1: A Timeline of Language
Lesson 2: My Accent, My Language, My Voice
Lesson 3: Essexisms ain’t totes bad
Lesson 4: Why do we need new words?
Lesson 5: Bad Language
Lesson 6: Political Correctness
Lesson 7: American Language
Lesson 8: The Future of English
This two hour revision session is designed like a walking talking mock, only there is more teacher modelling involved to ensure that students fully understand how to construct an exam answer.
This is a collection of resources that I used with my Y11 students during an Easter holiday revision session. I spent two hours delivering this lesson, however students were asked to finish many of them at home independently (therefore this could last several hours if used during lesson time).
Conflict poetry pub quiz (containing true/false questions, context questions and fill in the blank quotation questions)
Comparisons grid (students are given a plethora of exam questions and asked to identify comparable poems)
Poetic Terminology task (students revise poetic terminology and definitions, then match terminology with examples from Conflict poems)
Context and Form Bingo game (designed to help students remember key information regarding the form and structure of all 15 poems).
A preview of the first 7 pages of the Jekyll and Hyde revision booklet - available to purchase in full for £10 if you follow the link to my ‘shop’. Full booklet is 57 pages in total and covers every chapter.
Each chapter includes space to summarise, comprehension questions, vocabulary/glossary work, character/thematic exploration opportunities and key quotations for analysis.