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.
Very thorough and detailed focus questions on the early sections of the novel. Tests students of all abilities and encourages them to select quoted details, then comment on them with follow up questions. Covers first two chapters.
Students of all ages love these, so, as term approaches, treat yourself to my fairground- themed story grid! It works so well and you will be amazed at how much writing previously reluctant scribes can produce..
You need to colour print out the boards then, to recycle them, do get them laminated.
Game rules: Split students up into pairs or no more than three. Brighter students can do this independently, but it's more fun in pairs. You need two dice per card. Ebay sell really good cheap foam ones.
All the squares show close up details of aspects of a fairground.
One child is on the red numbers side and the other one the green. They throw dice to get two numbers, such as 1, 6. Look up 1 and 6 on the board. Where the numbers coincide is your 'focus square'. They then have to write between 3-4 descriptive sentences for that square. They have to link , so they produce, between them, a single continuous piece of paragraphed description. between each other's squares. They will need about 6 focus squares, which means three paragraphs each. Boys get really competitive over besting each other, and soon a really good bit of writing emerges. The aim of the game is that they help each other come up with good words and imagery for each square, but, together, on a single page of paper, they co-author theor masterpiece. They are not allowed to swap squares. Some are harder than others - for example, the text squares ask students to incorporate that phrase into their paragraph. Others are abstract, such as a black hole - good for forcing unimaginative kids to think in abstract and symbolic ways! This works well with my slideshow tips for good narrative writing, also available in my shop. Once the students have done their timed mini descriptive pieces, get them t read out their work to each other. You will see a huge differentiated range. It teaches students loads of skills, from improving their grammar and vocabulary to teamwork, from speaking and listening skills and boosting confidence to creating textual cohesion and good links between paragraphs. It's also lots of fun to play!
Very good bundle for your GCSE or younger students. It includes:
A great focussed text analysis comprehension of a key chapter in the novel. Ideal as class work and enough to set over two lessons or as homework.
A very thorough extension slideshow which introduces students to the Nigel's deeper themes, such as the human condition, faith, and the concept of evil . Higher level luteraryvtechniques, such as religious symbolism and allusions are defined and covered. Lots of focus questions and interesting imagery to help the kids contextualise this complex and provocative novel. Great for revision and for raising grades.
Finally, there is a handy list of at least twenty key quotations from the text. Good for final revision stages as it's 'at a glance' and compressed.
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.
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.
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.