I'm an English teacher who enjoys creating resources. I create things mainly for GCSE English Language and Functional Skills. I also teach creative writing and I like to look at ways for my learners to improve their writing.
I have been teaching for six years and I like to make complex material as simple as possible for my learners.
I'm an English teacher who enjoys creating resources. I create things mainly for GCSE English Language and Functional Skills. I also teach creative writing and I like to look at ways for my learners to improve their writing.
I have been teaching for six years and I like to make complex material as simple as possible for my learners.
Questions for revision or to assess learning.
10 questions - The learners add the commas to the sentence.
5 questions - The learners correct the mistakes.
This is a dyslexia friendly Power Point with green slides.
The learners are guided through the process of creating an excellent newspaper report on a recent sports day.
The lesson lasts 1- 2 hours. It includes an activity for groups, (a three minute word bomb) planning activities with a mind map and key tips on what the examiners are looking for.
Attention is paid to purpose and audience and the learners are encouraged to use language features in their work.
This resource is a Power Point with tasks and activities to help learners revise word classes.
There is a workbook for students to follow the exercises including a wordsearch, a crossword, anagrams, a board blast style game and other activities.
I have included some pictures for the imperative verb game.
This resource is perfect for learners studying GCSE English language and Functional Skills Level 1- 2. It helps learners understand how to use word classes to help their writing.
This activity takes one and half to two hours.
Three word-searches based on 16 different presentational features with colour and pictures. The word-searches have varying difficulty levels.
Wordsearch One - Star shaped with 10 presentational features to find.
Wordsearch Two - Large square wordsearch with 16 presentational features to find.
Wordsearch Three - Large Diamond wordsearch with 11 presentational features to find.
Ideal for GCSE English Language or Functional Skills Level 1-2.
Three wordsearches of varying difficulty level with colour and pictures including up to 26 different language features.
1. Star shaped wordsearch with 13 language features.
2. Diamond shaped wordsearch with 15 language features.
3. Large square wordsearch with 26 language features.
Ideal for GCSE English Language and Functional Skills English Level 1/2.
Improve your learners' reading skills by practising skimming and scanning.
Help your learners revise in a fun, easy and engaging way.
Interesting and engaging starter activity based on four pictures leading to one word for the learners to guess.
These 8 slides with varying difficulty levels make a starter activity to get your learners thinking. The learners should recognise the format of the game where letters are provided to fill the answer boxes.
This is suitable for GCSE English learners and Functional Skills Level 2.
It takes about 20 minutes to complete although learners could go on to make their own slides.
Answers are provided on the final slide.
Ideal for English GCSE or Functional Skills.
This is a Power Point with four catchphrase boards. Each board has the answer slide covered by nine squares. The learners choose a square and answer the question to remove the square, revealing part of the answer slide. The winner is the learner who guesses the catchphrase on the answer slide.
It is an enjoyable and fun game for a class.
This game cannot be played during a slide show.
*Please remember not to 'save changes' when you have moved all the squares.
This resource consists of a front cover, a worksheet and an answer sheet.
Ideal for engaging learners with new language and spoken language for GCSE English Language or Functional Skills English.
The worksheet involves the learners completing a table of 21 new words, providing definitions and deciding if each word is formal or informal. This resource can then lead on to an informal writing task. The learners are asked if they would use each word online, with friends or in a formal environment and this resource promotes lots of discussion. It could be used as preparation for a speaking and listening activity on neologisms.
The new words included could allow for a discussion on internet safety.
A huge bumper pack of resources for the revision of the AQA GCSE English Language Foundation paper.
***Warning*** This is by no means a definitive pack of resources for the GCSE but it is a bumper pack of my resources for people who want to save money, rather than purchasing all of them. This makes it EXTREMELY good value for money. Please read carefully and consider carefully before purchasing because I sell these resources to help not offend.
Resources include:
Three whole lessons, two activities, seven games/puzzles and two resources to focus on revision.
The pack includes two resources on writing a newspaper article, word classes, language features, presentational features and inference.
Over £25.00 of resources for £15.00.
A huge bumper pack of my GCSE English Language revision exercises and activities. 13 resources in total.
This pack includes:
Work booklet on inference.
Two Power Point starter activities - Revision Catchphrase and Four Picture One Word
Four whole lesson Power Point with work booklet when required - X2 Writing a newspaper report Crime Journalism and Sports Day, essay writing PEA and word classes with plenty of activities to ensure the learners retain the information.
Language Features Bingo
Three language features wordsearches and a language features crossword
A revision sheet explaining the effects language features have on a reader/text.
Over £25.00 of individual resources in a bumper pack for £15.00.
This resource aims to engage learners who have difficulty in spelling or a barrier to learning during English lessons due to spelling.
The Power Point is 15 slides and includes a starter and exit task.
This resource looks briefly at the history of the English language in simplistic terms to give learners an understanding of why spelling is difficult today.
Dictionaries will be required and the learners are also asked to work as part of a group. At least one computer needs to be available to access search engines as part of the lesson.
All answers are provided unless the task is discussion based.
A whole lesson on writing essays using PEA including a starter activity and research using the internet. 21 slides.
The starter activity involves putting the number 10 at one side of the classroom and 0 at the other side of the classroom and the classroom needs to be cleared on one side to allow the learners change to decide where they stand on the scale of 0-10.
Learners are encouraged to write extensive paragraphs. The learners are guided through the process of writing an essay.
This lesson is ideal for GCSE English Language and learners who are just starting to write essays.
