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.
A model answer for the whole play that you can add to an extract of your choice.
I have used this as a starter activity then changed the question focus to ambition so students could apply the points they had read.
It has a bronze, silver, gold task with a PYT challenge to stretch the most able.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
An engaging article to hook your students and to get them to think about tone, humour and the development of ideas for this transactional writing task. It is differentiated using bronze, silver, gold so students have clear level of challenge when they are evaluating the article.
A poster to display so that students know what comes for each component of the examination. This is useful to refer to and helps students to understand what they are studying and how they will be assessed.
Students need to know the importance of why Dickens wrote a novella and why he used the traditional form of a ghost story. This handy worksheet offers three tasks, which allow them to improve their knowledge of this to use for their examination responses.
A GCSE exam question for students to revise for their GCSE Literature examination. Focus on annotating the extract for 5 minutes (making sure students use subject terminology) then consider the question with regards to the whole play. The students can either write collaboratively, or in exam conditions after the teacher has modelled how to write one point on the board.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
There are three revision lessons for Macbeth that are fully differentiated with bronze, silver, gold tasks, including ‘challenge’ tasks to stretch the most able. The lessons include model answers, bell tasks, learning objectives, key quotes, opportunities for self/peer assessment and plenaries to conclude the lessons. I have used these in the run up to the exam as each lesson leads carefully to a GCSE exam style question, which the students will be able to answer having completed the starter activities and other learning activities which provide them with the information to plan and write their own responses. These worked very well with my own year 11 classes as they found them very useful in developing the length and quality of their exam responses.
A colour coded grid of retention questions for Dickens ACC that helps to ensure secure understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and key quotes.
A differentiated set of lessons designed to get students to consider the meaning of the poem, why Emily Dickinson wrote the poem and allows for opportunities for students to comment on language and structure (AO2) needed for their literature examinations.
A fully differentiated set of lessons that has the LOs running on every slide. The lessons use bronze, silver and gold tasks to challenge all learners and gives opportunities for students to develop their transactional writing skills, much needed for the Language examination for every exam board.
A set of lessons that help develop students' speech writing skills for their GCSE English language examination. They include bell tasks/starters, main and development and a plenary. These three lessons also include a mini assessment. The LOs are on each slide to be referred throughout the lessons and they are differentiated.
A fully differentiated lesson for the unseen poems used for the EDUQAS WJEC examination in 2015. This is a fantastic lesson to get students to consider how to compare two poems and what they should consider.
A fantastic poster that students can stick in their books so they know what they need to do for each component of the Language examination. This is specifically for the WJEC course and details the percentage of each component, how many marks you get for each question and the type of texts you will read and be asked to write. This is very handy for students to refer to in each lesson to remind them about what they are studying and why.
What makes a sentence poster to remind students of the four main points about sentences. This is great to refer to for students who forget capital letters, full stops of write hanging sentences that are incomplete.
A great poster to remind students of the different word classes. Even more so important as the students are now required in the 2017 examinations to comment on subject terminology, which is much easier to do with a display that gives a definition and some examples.