The Full English : English teaching resources, ages 10- 18!
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High quality and varied English teaching resources, from KS3 to A level. I've got single and pack resources which cover language and literature from KS3 to IGCSE, AQA GCSE and A level Literature and Language. Thanks for stopping by.
High quality and varied English teaching resources, from KS3 to A level. I've got single and pack resources which cover language and literature from KS3 to IGCSE, AQA GCSE and A level Literature and Language. Thanks for stopping by.
A useful list of approximately twenty key quotations for the novel, ideal for last minute revision and consolidation. Please see my LOTF bundles for more useful resources.
This is a great value bundle, containing:
Detailed notes on key repeating motifs in the book
A handy Skellig themed revision sheet of all the word classes
A detailed list of tricky vocabulary from the first ten chapters,
A slideshow aimed at younger children which explains the Gothic genre. A great way to springboard from here to teaching rhe students about the Gothic elements in the book.
Colourful stimulus material for writing their own descriptive fiction…a set of slips, each saying what makes a good story. students have to sort them in their own rank order.
A great value bundle which contains:
A full revision pack to help students consolidate their knowledge and focus revision skills
Contextual enrichment: a very detailed PowerPoint slideshow, explaining the background to anti-Semitism in Shylock’s time
Follow up task where students analyse Shylock’s famous speech, ‘To Bait Fish Withal’, looking at the detailed explanations of each part of the speech and analysing it, applying their knowleledge of how Jews were treated then.
A sample essay plan to help teachers plan a demanding assessment for students.
Shakespeare Week is on the way!
This pack contains a great set of A4 display pages. Each has a different quotation to make your students think.
Under each quotation, which should be big enough for classroom displays, I’ve put a concise summary of what the quotation is about, who said it, and the scene reference.
Teaching: you could quickly insert the ‘animation’ function into my PowerPoint to turn this int a great classroom quiz, as the coloured explanatory text is essentially the ‘answer’ -so you get a display and a quiz in on e!
The quotations cover the Histories, Tragedies, Comedies and Late Plays.
I have chosen more for ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to help our GCSE students!
Teaching: you could quickly insert the ‘animation’ function into my PowerPoint to turn this int a great classroom quiz. Happy Shakespeare Week, gentles all. Please browse my shop (search under ‘Shakespeare’) for other resources, including a Shakespearean insults tournament lesson and lots of revision packs.
Here’s a useful bundle on the popular ‘Merchant of Venice’ play plus a really thorough revision pack on the IGCSE Literature anthology poems.
Equally useful to teachers of year 9 and upwards who want to deliver a range od poems and the Shakespeare play as course texts in advance of year 10. Also included is a useful enrichment poem by Carol Anne Duffy, which helps to explain the role of dramatic monologues, their form and the use of a persona in poetry.
A HUGE BUNDLE! Contains a top-selling revision pack for ‘Macbeth’ which cross refers ideas and quotations across the play, a key skill required by most boards. Also included are notes on Act V, a sample student answer on guilt in the soliloquies, a great trio of resources for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ which focus on themes, key scenes and characters, two focussed handouts for chapters six and nine of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’, plus a full revision pack for ‘An Inspector Calls’, total bargain bundle.
Language and gender…do men and women have different genderlects?
What linguistic features can be seen in male and female conversation…if any?
What does the research say?
These two HUGE resources cover the whole unit… the 47 page unit covers all the main areas of structural, theoretical and spoken variation and addresses some examples of gender bias within written texts, while the second resource covers gender bias in more depth, using fun and colourful resources, taken from horoscopes, problem pages, marriage guides, romance novels and news stories.
This is a great value bundle with three slideshows and over four separate documents on top, offering many hours of teaching.
There are two informative slideshows which define what the Gothic genre is and provide many useful terms, quotations, images and focus task opportunities.
Slideshow one is aimed at younger students, mainly years eight and nines, or as a quick contextual background starter for GCSE texts with a Gothic backdrop.
Slideshow two ha more details and is targeted at older students, year 11-13.
Useful reference grid for many types of suspense, with full definitions AND suggestions for the effects they create. Ideal resource for helping students analyse Gothic writing. Also shows them new techniques they can apply in their own compositions.
A substantial narrative writing pack which consists of many resources to help students write in a structured narrative, story-telling style, master more technical skills and confidence. The pack has a task based on a haunted house, and ideally, students write this ‘spine-chilling tale’ at the end of the unit, after they have worked through the resources. You may like to laminate images of scary scenes from the haunted house, alongside other Gothic images, to stimulate their imaginations…plus you can use the resources again.
An entire study pack which focuses on over five key soliloquies
Act Five worksheet
Shakespeare quotations for displays and start activities
A level 9 student response to essay task on guilt.
Glossary of 40 poetic terms, with examples and definitions
A very thorough detailed booklet on ‘Songs of Ourselves’, with background context and focus questions on every poem
Handy terminology revision: supporting activity on similes in an unseen Ted Hughes poem.
A mega detailed analysis of 23 scenes
A detailed revision test on ACT V which really stretches them
A great sample essay answer on guilt
Supporting contextual background on Shakespeare
Handy and colourful quotation flyers for your classroom displays
This is a great slideshow with lots of tasks and interesting background material to help introduce GCSE students to the contextual background of Romantic poetry. You could also deliver this at the end of year nine as a stand-alone unit. There are over 14 slides which explain what the poetic movement was, the concerns voiced by Blake, what the 'Fall' was and how Romantics wanted to redeem it and, finally, links on to a study of 'The Prelude'. The poem section is covered in the last part of the resource to enable students to analyse the section using their new-found contextual knowledge of Romanticism, This resource could be adapted to be used with older or younger students, but is ideal fr GCSE students, particularly those studying the AQA anthology, which includes the extract from Wordsworth's poem.
This bundle pulls together a lot of tried and tested resources, including:
Punctuation learning mat to improve written accuracy - ideal to laminate
Handy scheme on narrative and descriptive writing skills
Full pack on key features of narrative writing, including a large 12 slide slideshow, plus a great image grid writing activity with a horror theme
A fantastic and fun to use story writing grid based on the theme of a fairground - very flexible and popular, ideal for shy writers, as a full class paired activity or even practice timed descriptive writing task.
Even better, a lot of these resources can be adapted for younger or older students. In the main, they are aimed at GCSE learners, although the fairground grid works with all ages.(don't forget to buy your dice!)
Fun and varied selection of files to enrich the students' knowledge of Shakespeare, including:
A full 14 slide overview of Shakespeare's life, context, times and language, with lots of facts and images to interest the students
A handy guide to Shakespearean grammar, ideal for role play work.
Helpful ‘Odd One Out ‘activity for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', differentiates really well across rhe ability range and easily adaptable for other popular school Shakespeare set texts.
A good pair of revision packs which cover the lot. Please note that the cover sheet is a separate A4 overview page. You may well want to select what you prefer from each. The cover sheet goes with the 'complete' PDF and the second revision pack looks more at specific revision tasks. The aim is to improve textual understanding and confidence with the play whilst giving students lots to work on.
This PowerPoint covers the whole poem in great textual detail. I have a blank slide of the poem and have then close-annotated a second slide copy of the poem which enables students to add in more key terms and suggested effects. The slideshow covers lots of advanced poetic terms, such as allusion and oxymorons, colurful and allusion. Ideal to use with AQA students as a practice comparison with 'War Photographer', or as a stand alone analysis task for able GCSE or year nines.
Useful selection of the main resources, including:
Detailed Act One questions for students
Revision questions on the play
Useful and funny handout on non-standard dialect and Scouser’ language in the play - a great springboard for discussions about class and society
This activity can fill most of a lesson and consists of students completing the cloze test blanks for similes in a list, using their analytical and discursive skills to make the best choices. Ideal paired activity.
This resource was created with the IGCSE Paper 2 'Writers' Effects' task in mind, I found that my year tens were left cold by the sample past paper texts, so used this extract from the famous horror tale. As it is so well written, the students respond well to it and start to grasp how much detailed analysis is needed in these ten mark tasks. Obviously we then moved on to exam board papers, but thiis is ideal as a starting point. Ideally, if your were a year ten teacher you would use this as a starter, get them thinking about the language, then introduce the AOs for the task. You could then give students allocated quotations to hone their analytical skills upon. This task would also be useful practise for unseen prose analysis and for anyone studying the actual novel in full, so is very flexible, suitable for IGCSE or year nine pre-IGCSE students.
1) A great slideshow lesson with lots of images and colour which focuses on the essay: 'With close reference to his use of language, explain how Richard manipulates and controls his victims.'
2) This file is an ideal way to encourage younger year 8 or 9 students to write paragraphed analysis on a Shakespearean villain.
3) The group tasks encourage students to discuss the language, and there are slides which model suitable language analysis techniques for students to use on their own examples.
4) You can return to the in-depth quotation analysis slides and technical terminology definitions when teaching Macbeth at GCSE; similar skills and techniques appear!
