I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
This 55 page exam revision booklet full of planning sheets for each poem, scaffolded exam practice sheets, AO specific revision and **SO MUCH MORE! **This booklet focuses on AQA’s assessment objectives and supports students to develop explained, structured responses.
This booklets includes:
Planning sheets for each poem
Scaffolded exam practice
Scaffolded PEEZL structures
Self Assessment linked to AQA AOs
Information sheets on form, and structure and poetic features
Quotation analysis guides
Writing guides for a comparison
Summary card templates
30 day revision challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
These presentation slides, worksheet and self-reflection sheet has been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson work well as starter and a way to consolidate the basic!
The exam question is: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of family?
Included is:
Extract from Stave Three
PEE structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure with modelled paragraphs
Self-reflection sheet: plus, minus and improve.
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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This ‘How to…’ bundle is a warm up to the skills students need to exercise in English. From identifying language features to using full stops correctly. More lessons will be added; this is a good taster!
A quick five slide start into how to… annotate a poem. Students can work through each step independently or they can be guided through each step with a teacher. All the best!
This bundle gives you:
An Inspector Calls
Power & Conflict Poetry
Love & Relationships Poetry
Each booklet has a range of revision activities, with over 5 exam questions each. Students are given PEEZL scaffolds as well as guidance in their academic writing.
Get students choosing a TRICK or TREAT challenge. Each one is designed to test pace of reading, explore spell making skills, testing our different reading voices and so much more!
Once they complete them, get them sharing with their peers.
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Printable on ONE A4 sheet, these character flashcards focus on three areas:
Summary
Quotations
Contextual Links
There is one bonus flashcard with information on J.B Priestley.
These flashcards have been designed to support weaker learners grasping key information for the AQA English Literature Paper 2 exam.
This worksheet is best A3 as students can consider the key assessment objectives when answering an exam question. This sheet is specific to the modern prose section. There is a modelled example on the second sheet to support students gaining the most from the work sheet.
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This scheme of work looks to engage students in both Section A: Reading and Section: Writing. As for the reading section, there is a breadth of literature that gives students the opportunity to exercise each of skills mentioned in the AQA specification. Good luck!
This SOW includes 20 lessons with the following:
Range of fictional extracts
Self assessment sheets with AQA exemplars
Writing guides
Range of writing techniques explored
Example writing
SO MUCH MORE!
This is quick and easy mini-lesson on how to identify language features. Students can guide themselves through the slides or they can be guided step-by-step. Examples texts have been included, with a few language features to warm up those skills!
A clear structured lesson guiding students reading of My Last Duchess. Annotations have been included with a small focus on structure. To complete the lesson is a debate statement.
This resources has been designed to show students how inferences can be developed. Using both audio books and an excerpt students will have the opportunity to broaden their reading and skills. All the best,
Get this FULL SOW with 18 lessons! This SOW will give students the opportunity explore writing a script/ screenplay as well as writing in prose. With regular self and peer assessment sheets, students will be guided through collaborative writing practices.
This SOW includes:
Writing descriptions
Defamiliarisation
Pathetic fallacy
Reading a script
Writing a script
Developing their use of vocabulary
Settings
Characterisation
Playing with structure
Drafting
Proofreading
SO MUCH MORE!
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This short step-by-step guides helps students to warm up those comparison skills. Using a two short stanzas, students can start to compare two poems. All the best,
This bundle has everything you need to teach, revise and go beyond!
Complete SOW
Character Profile Worksheets
Summary Infographic
50 Questions for revision
Revision Map
Macbeth Quotation Images/ Stickers
a colourful glossary of the language features, sentence types. This is a great resources for Question 2, English Language Paper 1. Also a good reminder for students studying Question 3, English Language 2.
Here are a range of structural features for fictional texts. A great revision resource for all ages, in particular for GCSE students studying English Language Paper 1, Question 3.