I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
20 full differentiated (by colour) and meticulously planned lessons to support the teaching of reading and writing skills. These lessons are ready to go.
Ideal for transition from KS2 to KS3, for year 6, year 7 or year 8 classes.
Within these lessons students are exposed to a wide range of fiction, non fiction and literary non fiction texts and will use these as a stimulus for creating their own texts.
These lessons allow students to develop skills for accessing the new English language and English literature 9-1 specifications.
Students will explore the following texts/extracts:
- Article on bats
- Extract from the Twits & BFG - Roald Dahl
- Extract from Frankenstein
- Extract from A Christmas Carol
- Extracts from autobiographies
- Extract from Bill Bryson - travel writing (non-fiction literary)
- Extract from Bleak house
- The Lion the witch and the wardrobe
- blogs
- poetry - Sister Maude, Mother any distance
- articles about Friendship
Students will develop the following skills in preparation for accessing new 9-1 GCSE
- Synthesis
- Comparison
- Language. structure, form analysis
- Theme exploration
- Analytical writing
- Imaginative writing - narrative and descriptive
- Transactional writing
Assessment opportunities and homework tasks also included
Resources to support the teaching of Edgar Allan Poe short stories. (Gothic literature) Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Short stories resourced:
- Masque of the red death
- The pit and the pendulum
- The tell tale heart
Resources provide opportunities for students to:
- write imaginatively
- analyse language
- develop speaking and listening skills
- explore context - black death
- explore structure
Over 16 lessons that are ideal for KS3/KS2 students to develop grammar skills through creating an autobiography
Topics covered:
- Sentence structure
- Paragraphing
- Tenses
- Word classes
- punctuation
A wide range of ideas and resources for speaking and listening assessments at KS2/KS3.
Speaking and listening lessons included based around:
- Man V food
- Arguing that cats are better than dogs
- Deserted house - selling houses
- Murder mystery
- Banning Christmas
- 50 things to do before you die
- persuasive speeches
Teacher and peer/self assessment proformas also included
Revision guide to support student revision and understanding of the novel.
This resource could be ideal as an ongoing homework project as students read the novel in class.
Resources to support the understanding of the context of being homeless.
Ideal for supporting students with their exploration of texts such as 'Stone Cold' and 'The Outsiders.'
Resources included:
- Homelessness case studies
- missing person posters/adverts
- extract from Stone Cold - homelessness and the law
- true or false activities
- what is a home?
- 'The Streets of London' Ralph McTell exploration
- 'London' by William Blake poem exploration
- consideration of bullying
- leaflet examples
- investigation into homeless charities
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore homelessness through case studies and exploring the law
- write persuasively
- structure formal letters
- explore and create missing person posters
- explore poetry
- analyse texts
- investigate and create leaflets#
- debate whether more housing is needed
8 fully differentiated lesson (by colour) that support the teaching of writing speeches. (Spoken language) Lessons are meticulously planned and culminate with students writing a speech on a topic that interests them.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Speeches that are used as a stimulus:
- Emma Watson
- Winston Churchill
- Queen Elizabeth I
- George W Bush
- Napoleon (Animal Farm)
Students will practice writing speeches using the following topics:
- increase in legal driving age
- importance of mobile phones
- social media
Students will develop the following skills:
- speech writing using the 6 part structure
- persuasive writing
- speaking and listening
- developing effective openings
Resource to support the revision of context of Jekyll and Hyde and how to form exam responses to an extract from the novel and make links to the novel as a whole.
Meticulously planned and differentiated.
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources provide opportunities for carousel activities whereby students read 4 extracts from the novel and make notes to form an exam response. Students will consider other parts of the text as part of their answer.
Extracts taken from:
-chapter 3 - 'Dre Jekyll was quite at ease'
-chapter 4 - 'Carew murder case'
-chapter 9 - 'Dr Lanyon's narrative'
-chapter 10 -'Henry Jekyll's full statement'
A booklet is also included to support higher ability exploration of context.
Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of Q3 and Q4 of the AQA new specification 9-1 GCSE examination - paper2.
Resources support the texts provided in the AQA GCSE English Language: Developing the skills for learning and assessment (turtle on the cover) All texts are included in this bundle.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources prepare students for answering Q3 (language) and Q4 (comparison) and cover the following:
- analysis of vocabulary
- analysis of sentence forms
- analysis of language techniques
- explore audience and purpose
- study of model answers
- exploring the effect of language
- improving exam responses using mark schemes
- explore perspective
- understand the difference between synthesis and comparison
- form comparisons between texts
- practice timed responses
Regular assessments are included to assess students ability in true or false and synthesis tasks.
Texts covered:
- Inside the supermarket's dark stores
- 19th century report on night market for the poor
- Extract from 'The Girl of the period' about young people
- Extract from Sui Sin Far's autobiography about growing up with dual identify
- The Watercress girl
- Why we shouldn't wrap our children in cotton wool
All texts are included
Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of Q1 and Q2 of the AQA new specification 9-1 GCSE examination - paper2. Resources support the texts in the AQA GCSE English Language: Developing the skills for learning and assessment (turtle on the cover) ALL TEXTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources prepare students for answering Q1 and Q2 and cover the following:
- structure strip to help form better responses to question 2 (synthesis)
- introduction to paper 2 - expectations and timings
- identifying key information in 19th century and modern texts
- identifying the point of view of a writer
- inferring
- exploring how language creates tone
- complete true or false tasks (as per the exam) for the texts read
- explore the term synthesis
- synthesise information from 2 texts
- work in pairs and groups
- explore model answers
- investigate these of connectives to synthesise
- self and peer assess
- develop vocabulary and analyse vocabulary in texts using inference
- explore audience and purpose
Regular assessments are included to assess students ability in true or false and synthesis tasks.
Texts covered:
- Queer stories for a queer age - tattoo article (19th century) text included
- Making my skin crawl - article about tattoos
- Extract from Girl of the period (19th century)
- A letter from Jenni
- Inside the supermarket's dark stores
All texts are included
A glossary of over 60 English language terms with definitions.
Useful for students when identifying language in texts and for revising language terms ahead of examinations.
Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen.
Interleaved content: misery in the poem and in Romeo and Juliet
Carousel activities for exploring context and quotations
4 lessons that cover:
- intro to analysing poetry
- context of the poem
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
Differentiation:
purple = low ability
blue = middle ability
yellow - high ability
Fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of context for the 15 AQA new specification 9-1 GCSE English literature poems. (Power and conflict)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of war poetry.
Poetry covered:
- Exposure
- August 6 1945
- The Drum
- O what is that sound?
- Invasion
- Conscientious objector
- Belfast Confetti
Resources explore language, form, structure and context.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue - middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Differentiated resources to support the teaching of poetry that deals with discrimination.
Poems covered:
- Half Caste - race
- The class game - social class
- Your dad did what
- Hitcher
- Cousin Kate
- Our Sharpeville
- Parade's end
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Differentiated (by colour) lesson to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 5.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore language, form and structure
- assess against the 9-1 specification success criteria
- explore the presentation of character and theme
Fully differentiated resources (by colour) to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet for the new GCSE 9-1 specification. (Whole play is covered)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources fully cover:
- language, form and structure
- context
- exam revision including extract to whole
Medium term plan (MTP) is included which embeds skills for the language papers and also signposts homework and assessment opportunities.
Also included are sample assessments that have been created in line with the new GCSE. (Perfect for mock examinations)
Fully differentiated resources (by colour) to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet for the new GCSE 9-1 specification. (Whole play)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources fully cover:
- language, form and structure
- context
9 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of writing skills for paper 2 (non fiction and transactional writing (writing to argue, persuade etc.)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide example responses and activities to allow students to develop the following:
- Language - linguistic devices
- tone
- style
- register
- vocabulary
- structure
- perspective