I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
This is a booklet designed at improving the retention of key knowledge linked to the poems in the anthology for love and relationships. Great to use as homework or as intervention for key stage four pupils.
A brand new, unseen paper for English Language paper 2 with a modern, engaging text and a 19th century diary entry. The paper also includes a helpful grid to scaffold answers making revision easier and helping students to form their own answers.
There is also a section B writing activity that includes a planning sheet. I have used this with my own year 11 classes, which helped them to develop their paper 2 exam responses, particularly the synthesis Q2 and the Q4 comparison.
Model answers all with activity tasks attached. I have used these as activities in class or for flipped learning style homeworks where they had the model answer before a test so they could use some of the points they’d read.
The questions covered are:
Supernatural
Macduff
Appearance Vs Reality
Lady Macbeth
Loyalty
A full mark response that provides a conceptual response for the theme violence. The extract used is the scene with the old man discussing the night of Duncan’s death. This responses hits the highest level of the mark scheme as it provides a critical response to the theme of violence, uses a range of judicious quotes and fluently explores the use of writer’s methods. The opening paragraph uses the ‘define the the question,’ then ‘refine’ it to the most significant moment.
A handy resource to give out over a holiday as homework to help with the retention of the key ideas of the AQA Love and Relationships poems. It is differentiated to add challenge if pupils want to push their revision to help consolidate their understanding.
A large collection of revision resources for the text. Key quotes, model answers, questions and extracts, lessons, learning mat - everything your year 11 needs before their exam.
A set of posters for Macbeth including key quotes for: Macbeth, The Witches, King Duncan, Donalbain, Macduff, Lady Macbeth, Malcolm and Banquo.
I have these as posters in my room and encourage students to use the quotes independently when writing exam responses. I have also shrunk them down to A5 and made them into a revision booklet.
A revision lesson for the character of Mrs Birling that includes key quotes and starter of true and false and a main activity where students can write an exam response.
***Now with an added revision lesson attached where students have to plan their response to five additional questions focused on the character of Mrs Birling ***
This has everything your year 11 needs to revise before their GCSEs - questions, worksheets, revision grids, lessons with model answers, key quotes etc.
You could cut these out and get students to rank order them to justify, which is better and why.
This can be used for a homework, revision task before an exam.
This could also be used as part of a task within a lesson.
There are five responses to an exam question on Eric that gradually become more perceptive and detailed. Alongside the responses is a bronze, silver and gold differentiated task to challenge all learners. There is an extension task (push your thinking) to add additional challenge.
This is something I have used with year 11 to help develop their understanding of the character, context, writer’s intentions and to teach the skills of writing a detailed reading response.
If you want to push your students’ responses for the English language papers then it helps if they are using sophisticated, higher level terminology when they explore the effect of the writer’s use of language.
This worksheet includes 11 key terms that students need to revise and use to access the higher levels, alongside a differentiated bronze, silver, gold activity so they can apply what they have learnt.
There is a question: how does the writer use language to describe the horror of prisons? where the students can then answer to show they can incorporate the terms into their analysis. This is a useful resource for top sets, but also any students who are at a Grade 5+ and are pushing for a higher grade.
A handy resource for an Assistant Headteacher/ Deputy Head leading on reading across the curriculum. It focuses on three key areas: the lowest 20% of readers in need of intense targeted support, then how to create a love of reading and then how teachers across the whole school can ensure reading skills improve across the curriculum.
A useful exemplar to show how an exam response could be written for 'An Inspector Calls' with a focus on Gerald. It is differentiated to allow students to make progress at an appropriate level of challenge.
Numerous writing task titles to get students to develop their writing skills ready for their Language exams. These titles fit all examination boards and are realistic to form useful revision tasks.
This bundle includes:
25 writing questions for paper 1
a great writing frame for narratives
25 writing questions and guidance for paper 2
with other handy worksheets for reading skills.
This bundle contains x2 paper 2 full papers for the English Language GCSE.
There is enough content for two weeks worth of lessons following:
Food paper -
Lesson One Q1-3,
Lesson Two - Q4
Lesson Three - Writing Question
Dog paper
Lesson One - Q1-3
Lesson Two - Q4
Lesson Three - Q5
Each pack contains a help grid for students to fill in to bullet point notes before they start to write their responses.
There are six questions on this worksheet that focus on six poems. The task is differentiated with bronze, silver and gold.
The poems are in pairs:
Simple Joys and Bags of Love
Homework and Studying
Apologising and I’m Sorry
This will work well as a revision tool before the GCSE exam or could be used as homework.
If you need to focus your year 11s then this great little bundle for Macbeth will do just that. Spend a lesson on each, annotating the question, then then the scene, then model how you would write it. The students can then finish the response collaboratively or in exam conditions.