Includes: Full booklet scheme of child language development- spoken language acquisition.
PowerPoint to support.
8 lessons that take me a half term to complete with time for application and essay practise.
Inside the scheme is a complete breakdown of how children learn to speak from womb to 5+ years old. Homework, model essays and application questions included.
I’ve developed this with AQA English Language A Level in mind, but could be easily adapted.
Using June 2019 exam paper, a revision booklet for paper 2 question 3 and 4.
Includes guidance and scaffolding on answering paper 2 question 3 and model responses for question 4.
A really effective double lesson that compares War Photographer and Kamikaze for inner conflict.
Opportunities for:
Scaffolded tasks
Worksheet completion
Whiteboard challenge
Using Alex Quigley’s Closing the Reading Gap, this session aims to introduce staff to the idea of literacy as a whole school issue and the importance of reading across school.
A paper 2 Q4 lesson exploring the English Language and it’s changes through AI and Tik Tok.
Lead to really good discussions and also helps with NEA Language Investigation.
Perfect for language and technology or language and age.
Lesson 1: reading Greta Thunberg’s speech, comprehension questions and analysis.
Lesson 2: Writing your own non-fiction writing task about the environment, using Greta’s as inspiration.
Lesson 3: Reflection using real examples and redraft.
Powerpoint and worksheets all included.
2 lessons exploring gender through the concept of dramatic foils.
Lady Macbeth vs Lady MacDuff
Macbeth vs Macduff
Really enjoyable lesson for teacher and students!
Perfect for revision or post reading.
Lesson focused on Question 4 of the new AQA English language paper 2.
Comparison of two articles that discuss the Hillsborough Disaster: The Sun (1989) and The Guardian (2016).
Included: Powerpoint presentation, linked to AOs, with questions throughout; two articles; comparison grid for students to collect thoughts.
Powerpoint for the scenes.
Brief look at Benvolio and Mercutio's differing views on: love, life, friendship and women.
Then activity in which students identify words that connote 'light' in Romeo's soliloquy. Provided a supporting worksheet in which they plot these references onto a graph depending on their 'brightness'- good for numeracy links.
A half term unit of work exploring all questions on the AQA paper.
Walkthrough of the paper, activities, practise questions.
Perfect for resit, intervention, year 11 revision, tutoring,
Perfect for Year 11 and encouraging wider reading.
Extracts include The Great Gatsby, Enduring Love, Five People You Meet in Heaven , The Kite Runner etc.
A lesson/double designed to push students to think about Shakespeare’s messages about the human condition in Macbeth.
Includes discussions, annotations and an exam question.
Worked really well with year 11 in 2023 examination prep.
An introduction to poetic form, used for extra intervention with year 11 students.
Contains a voiced over Powerpoint with key knowledge and questions.
Perfect for online learning.
A lesson looking at the damage done by writers’ viewpoints. The lesson uses an essay about Caroline Flack as a base for discussion, linking it to how media target audiences to achieve certain effects.
A lesson to introduce the idea of objectivity and subjectivity in non-fiction.
Booklet and PowerPoint with chunked tasks including true/false.
Short extracts, unlike my other resource, so good for low ability, intervention or resit.
Perfect for KS3 or 4.
Good for boys, uses the Hillsborough disaster to engage in topic of football.
A standalone revision lesson perfect for intervention, tutoring, form time etc.
Explores each character’s key quotes and encourages students to consider their construction by Priestley.
Was extremely useful in 2023!