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I am an English teacher with over 16 years' experience. My high quality resources will save you time and offer creative and purposeful activities for your students.
For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Pride and Prejudice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Great Expectations and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 20 examination-length extracts from A Christmas Carol and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Jane Eyre and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 25 examination-length extracts from Macbeth and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
Five Powerpoints and accompanying resources to teach The Merchant of Venice in its entirety for GCSE with examination preparation and question resources.
Included:
The Merchant of Venice audit document
A comprehensive guide to tragedy with a terminology matching exercise
An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for the scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
15 short quotation cards from The Merchant of Venice for student analysis
An extract analysis booklet which contains 23 examination-length extracts from The Merchant of Venice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract
An extract analysis booklet which contains 23 examination-length extracts from The Merchant of Venice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 24 examination-length extracts from Much Ado About Nothing and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 24 examination-length extracts from Twelfth Night and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
You could also use the booklet as an A Level teaching resource for retrieval practice and development of analysis skills.
A complete set of six ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for A Level Edexcel English Literature.
Included are templates for every section of each exam paper and for the NEA.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 24 examination-length extracts from The Tempest and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
You could also use the booklet as an A Level teaching resource for retrieval practice and development of analysis skills.
A fourteen page revision workbook for students to revise Frankenstein and The Handmaid’s Tale (focused on the Edexcel specification but can easily be adapted for others - the focus is on connections and comparisons).
Enclosed are:
A quotation gathering template where students link common themes with examples from both texts (two examples modelled).
An AO4 focused table where students write up an analytical link between two short quotations from each text (one example modelled).
A more complex table which encourages links between a question focus; a quotation from each text; a contextual link; and analytical connections (one example modelled).
A more developed linking table providing quotations of which students produce a developed comparative analysis (all quotations provided and one example and a paragraph modelled).
A blank copy of the previous table.
A linking grid focused on ambitious narrative techniques, linked with quotations, context and themes (one example modelled).
A series of longer linked extracts from both texts where students analyse these in response to a question (eight pages of extracts).
The booklet is designed to be used by students with knowledge of both texts and is perfect for use in the run up to examinations. There is scaffolding but also appropriate stretch and challenge for those who are aiming for the highest grades.
This booklet works well with my free essay guidance for this particular question (Edexcel A Level Paper 2) which you can find here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12853413]
This resource is comprised of a 32 slide Powerpoint with four lessons on Scene One from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire.
The resource is aimed at A Level English Literature, but could also be used as a starting point for English Language and Literature.
The slides cover:
Contextual background to New Orleans at the time the play is set
Discussion of the epigraph (Hart Crane’s ‘The Broken Tower’)
Guided close analysis of key sections of the text with reference to key terminology, e.g. ‘motif’ and ‘in media res’
Teaching questions for each section of the first scene
Learning objective slides and homework tasks for each lesson
This resource will stretch and challenge more confident students and support those less confident.
It was not created with any particular exam board in mind so can be used with any specification.
This document is a blank template knowledge organiser for any GCSE or A Level text. Simply print off in A3 (the colour is easily removed if you wish).
Makes for an easy and productive revision lesson!
You can see what the document looks like fully populated by downloading one of my pre-filled resources:
Jane Eyre [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12835139]
Lord of the Flies [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12835151]
The Merchant of Venice [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12835148]
A fourteen page revision workbook for students to revise Lord of the Flies for GCSE (for any specification). This workbook focuses on analysis rather than knowledge recall and is perfect for those aiming for very high grades. The booklet can be used in class or for independent revision.
Enclosed are:
A question activity to encourage students to think perceptively about ideas in the text.
A quotation gathering template with half the quotations given.
An AO3 focused table where students write up an analytical link between context, quotations and links to language form and structure (one example modelled and all contextual points given).
A table which encourages deeper exploration of effects, with an extract and one example modelled.
An exercise where students identify and analyse ambitious literary terminology.
An effects table encouraging a What How Why approach to writing about effects.
A follow up activity where students then make contextual links with their analysis.
A set of questions, introductions and topic sentences.
A modelled introduction and main paragraph with a follow up activity for students to write their own.
Two guides to essay structure.
A modelled full response to a question.
The booklet is designed to be used by students with knowledge of the text and is perfect for use in the run up to examinations. There is scaffolding but also appropriate stretch and challenge for those who are aiming for the highest grades.
This booklet works well with my knowledge organiser and A3 quotation posters which can be downloaded for free here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12835151] and [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12836254]
This PDF workbook is designed to support the revision of the World Englishes topic in Paper 2, Section A of AQA A Level English Language.
The booklet is comprised of 15 pages covering terminology, key theory and concepts, including Crystal, Jenkins, Ostler, Graddol, Seidlhofer, Kachru and McArthur amongst others. Activities and questions are used to support learning, along with guided examination question practice and a model answer. The final two pages are comprised of revision cards.
All content is taken from my World and Global Englishes teaching unit (aside from the model answer) and is primarily designed to be used by students, especially those aiming for an A or A*.
Please note - this resource is offered in PDF form to preserve formatting.
A complete set of seven ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for A Level AQA English Language.
Included are templates for every section of each exam paper.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
A complete set of seven ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for A Level AQA English Literature A.
Included are templates for every section of each exam paper and for the NEA.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
A complete set of six ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for A Level AQA English Literature B.
Included are templates for every section of each exam paper.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Ethnicity and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
Idiolect, dialect, sociolect and ethnolect
Pidgins and creoles
Multicultural London English – Cheshire andKerswill (2011)
Multicultural British English – Drummond (2016)
Black British English – Thompson (2022)
Code switching – Haugen (1950s)
Code mixing – Wardhaugh (1986)
Types of Code Switching
West Yorkshire Study - Ives (2014)
White talk Black talk - Hewitt (1986)
South London Study - Ives (2014)
Code Switching - Holmes (2017)
Language in a Black Community - Edwards (1986)
The objectification of ‘Jafaican’ - Kerswill (2014)
Ethnolects - Eckert (2008)
Stylising the ‘roadman’ - Ilbury (2023)
Style-shifting in Multicultural London English - Oxbury and De Leeuw (2020)
Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora - Cole and Evans (2020)
Style Repertoire and Social Change in British Asian English – Sharma (2011)
Style variation – Sharma and Rampton (2015)
Aspects of identity in a second language – Drummond (2012)
Language as a resistance identity – Pitts (2012)
Black/white borders through linguistic stylization – Clark (2003)
Style shifting and identity – Barrett (1994)
Cultural appropriation in language – McWhorter (2021)
Language and ethnicity and identity – Ogbu (1999)
Linguistic Injustice – Baker-Bell (2020)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 57-65. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12983005]
Language and Region [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12973238]
Language and Power and Occupation [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12975755]
Language and Global and World Englishes [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12993850]
Language Change [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13003463]
Language and Technology [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13012666]
Language and Social Groups [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13024138]
Language Discourses… [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13035534]