Hi! I've been an English teacher for well over twenty years and have made and adapted lots of resources and lessons over that time. I like to use visually eye catching resources that are easily accessible to students. Lots of my resources are for KS3, KS4 and A Level and can be used interchangeably between key stages. If you like my resources please leave me a review!
Hi! I've been an English teacher for well over twenty years and have made and adapted lots of resources and lessons over that time. I like to use visually eye catching resources that are easily accessible to students. Lots of my resources are for KS3, KS4 and A Level and can be used interchangeably between key stages. If you like my resources please leave me a review!
A useful lesson for KS3 or KS4 on how to develop sentence structure in creative writing. Using different settings as a way in and inspiration students can develop sentence structure whilst also developing skills needed for Paper 1 Section B writing for AQA (with a picture prompt).
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Three lessons on developing student responses to the opinion article for AQA A Level English Language Paper 2 Q4.
This question requires creativity with language as well as linguistic content. The lessons build on each other, the first one is 34 slides long and the second two include handouts and practice questions.
These resources could easily be extended for a six lesson unit of work.
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A 34 slide lesson on the introduction of Paper 2 Q4 Opinion Article writing. This is for AQA A Level English Language.
Many of my students struggle with this question so I have put together a range of resources in the bundle in my shop.
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SEVEN lessons in a unit of work based on the topic of ‘cooking’ for meanings and representations AQA English Language A Level Paper 1.
Unit includes 10 texts as a booklet to handout to students including a transcript, magazine articles, newspaper articles, adverts, modern and older texts - even a photo of the Good Housekeeping guide from 1796! Supports all aspects and AOs of the meanings and representations unit for Paper 1.
Fully useable lessons for Y12 or Y13 as revision for the exams with DO NOW tasks and scaffolding for weaker students. Lessons also include comparison tasks and photocopyable worksheets around the texts.
This unit is really fun as it can progress into debate about food and eating habits! I always encourage my students to share resources they have found on the topic of cooking as well.
This unit is part of a bigger bundle that is available for A Level English Language. Please look at my other resources and leave a review!
A lesson on the poem Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney in the AQA Poetry Anthology Power and Conflict. The lesson concentrates on Semantic Fields and analysing language techniques in the poem.
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Creative Writing Resources using an extract from ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald suitable for KS3 creative writing or KS4 Language Paper 1 Section B for AQA.
The extract is abridged for KS3 readers and the handout can be for either and adapted for higher ability students if needed.
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Complete unit of ten lessons and revision resources for the AQA Spec A Unseen Prose question for Paper 2. Using the AQA past paper inserts as a basis for building individual lessons.
Many of the lessons are walkthroughs of unseen prose extracts for the exam including a fun lesson on Modernism and Post-modernism.
The unit includes ideas on narrative voice and thesis statements and a ten extract booklet of texts from 1945 to the present day for use as an introduction to Unseen Prose study for Paper 2.
This is the full unit of work for A Level English Language Spoken Discourse. Worksheets and handouts included for 8 lessons including an assessment. I follow AQA spec and this is useful for Unit 1 Meanings and Representations.
The full unit and the workbook are available as a bundle.
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A useful introductory booklet for AQA A Level English Language Spoken Discourse. This booklet contains resources for the full unit of work that is also available in my shop.
The full unit is available as a bundle. Please take a look and if it is useful to you leave me a review!
This is one lesson that is part of a larger unit of work on Spoken Discourse for A Level English Language. I use it with my Y12 students and get them to find examples of different texts (spoken and written) for a follow up lesson.
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A Level English Language Transcript for use with Paper 1 meanings and representations. This transcript is also part of a bigger bundle unit of work as an introduction to spoken language analysis.
I use this with my Y12 classes for AQA however this transcript would work for any specification.
