Here are two sessions that I created for the whole-school as part of an SMSC/PSHE fortnight. Both sessions have a Growth Mindset focus, video resources and a fab Poster/Display that I created to display around school. The poster has a focus on the following skills: - Listening - Communicating - Organising - Investigating - Mastering - Being resilient - Being co-operative - Being respectful - Being creative Both sessions worked really well with students in Key Stage 3 and 4 and are ready to go without needing to print anything/resource anything extra. These sessions can be taught by non-specialists and each contain one activity for students. I hope you find them useful!

These have worked really well with my year 11 class. I actually made them last year but modified them for the new specification. The first resource is a great wheel (you also get the PowerPoint so you’ll have the template) that I made in order to put all of the AOs in one place. I wanted my class to understand the importance of sophisticated vocabulary in their exam response so I created this first resource in order to help them with their topic sentences. These look great printed in colour - or if you really want to go to town - laminated. The second resource is a paragraph building tool which I used as a prompt sheet for students. Both resources are fab - the first one took me ages to create (getting the lines right was a nightmare!) so just think, you won’t have to spend ages fiddling around to get it right! Check out my other resources as I have something similar for A Christmas Carol.

A 39-slide PowerPoint that takes parents through the English Language Paper 1 and 2 examination papers and requirements of each question. A very valuable document if you want to discuss exam prep with parents, either on a one-to-one or at a parents’ evening/assembly session. It also touches on the Literature towards the end of the PowerPoint.

The aims of sentencing in UK prisons is outlined using a visual stimulus. Students are given one of a number of scenarios and have to decide what the punishment ought to be for their scenario and whether it met the aims of sentencing. The lesson works well for a citizenship lesson or as an interactive assembly.

I made this resource to decorate my classroom with. They are posters that can be displayed around the room to help students remember to use a variety of punctuation in their work. Each poster is themed in the same way so students know where to look for the information and they are not too heavy with information so are suited to a range of students. 1. Apostrophe 2. Colon 3. Semi-Colon 4. Commas 5. Full Stops I have included sentence types posters too: 1. Simple Sentences 2. Compound Sentences 3. Complex Sentences I have included several posters which help students to vary their sentences: 1. Adverb start 2. 'ing' start 3. 'ed' start 4. Relative clause 5. One word sentence start I have also included commonly-made errors to remind my students to be mindful of ensuring they are proof reading their work for literacy errors. 1. Comma splicing 2. Fused Sentences I have also attached the template if you want to adapt them or make additional ones suited to your class.

* students absolutely loved these lessons! If you're looking for something to engage students - this is the download for you! * A great, ready to go resource! No planning required. This resource was fantastic with both my year 9 and GCSE classes (differentiated for each). It outlines the conventions of writing/speaking to argue/persuade, then goes onto discuss some higher order rhetorical devices that Trump employs. There is plenty of differentiated work in the 9-slide PowerPoint, including Argue/Persuade features, as well as flaws in logic. The lesson includes: - An explanation and example of many persuasive/argumentative features such as direct address/hyperbole/triadic structure - An example of four annotated paragraphs from the speech - A student model of a comprehensive paragraph response - Several printable resources from the PowerPoint including a reminder of common techniques and features to argue/persuade - A success criteria for the written response. * New - annotation of the whole speech as a PDF file. There is enough work here for at least two hours; I broke the lessons down into one lesson looking at features and annotating and then the second writing an essay and reviewing the success criteria. All in all, the lesson could probably fill a week's worth of lessons if you do the following: Lesson 1 - annotate the speech Lesson 2 - consider the effect and plan the included essay Lesson 3 - write the essay. You could then follow it up by asking students to write a speech using the conventions they've covered. If you did this, there would be several weeks' work here. There are printable sheets that make up the slides, such as a model annotation and a model paragraph for students. This is a fab resource and I hope you find it as useful as I did!

* Ready to teach lesson with some fab independent prompts for students and video resources * I put this lesson together for my year 11 class in order to prepare them for the AQA English Literature 8702 (New Spec) Unseen Poetry (Section C). This is a really engaging and interactive lesson which is ready to go. There are three resources within the pack: 1. The lesson itself. This outlines the AQA Literature mark scheme for top marks (can be adapted to suit other specs), a model paragraph and some really thought-provoking videos. I have used ‘The Manhunt’ from last year’s Anthology and you could hear a pin drop in my class. The students took it incredibly seriously and were able to really get to grips with the themes within the poem. 2. I have included a poetry overlay that I created. You can simply print this and you’re ready to go. It helps students to work independently and asks them prompt questions about the poem (unseen or otherwise). Feel free to adapt this but like I said, it’s ready to go as-is. 3. Finally, I have included a copy of the poem. This is a fab resource and has always worked really well for me; the poem and clips come with a bit of a warning as they discuss serious themes of war. I always start with a bit of a disclaimer but my students have always taken the whole things incredibly seriously! A ready-to-go resource!

* This is a wonderful little resource if you are trying to encourage your students to become more independent; the poem just goes in the middle and you're set for just about any poem - just slot it in there and there's a lesson! * I crated this resource in order to support my year 11 students analysing poetry - both unseen and otherwise. Usually, I cut out the white section so students can simply put the poem in the middle. If you really want to go to town, you can laminate them once you've chopped the middle out. Simply print it on A3 and you're ready to go. I've also included the original file so it's fully adaptable should you need to change anything at any point. Like I said though, it's ready to print and go! I've also included a non-fiction text analysis grid as a bonus! I hope you find it as useful as I have.

This document is a two-page help sheet for students, teachers and parents that outlines common errors made in English such as: - Fused sentences - Hanging clauses - Comma splicing ... and many more. I usually give this to students when they are responding to feedback - or I give it to parents at parents' evening so they can help their children at home.

This resource begins by drawing a comparison to analysing a film trailer - first of all, you will look at a spooky trailer and then comment on the transitions, the fades etc. and discuss how it creates a spooky effect. The lesson works well if you really engage the students and get them talking about the effect of the transitions, fades, spooky sounds. Following that, a similar link can be drawn to the attached text. Students think about the way they are guided through the text in the same way they thought about the film trailer. I found it really effective. A number of my students who didn't get question 3 said this really made it click for them! Following on from this, you will look at the attached resource and comment on how the changes of focus give a particular effect. This went down incredibly well with my year 11s and helped them to finally understand the requirements of the question!

This is a simple slide that I use with my students as a prompt when they are responding to feedback. I have it in front of them so they have a reference and prompt when responding to comments. I usually laminate these and put them on desks - that way, they last the whole year!

A two hour session that talks students through the exam paper. All links to mark scheme, insert and exam paper are in the slides.

I was struggling to find exam papers so decided to make one myself! This is a complete paper for AQA English Language Paper 1 of the 8700 (new) specification. The great thing about this is that you will then have the template to use in the future!

A quick reference guide for students answering the English Language (8700) exam paper. It's an easy read, which includes activities. I printed them out in A5 booklets and they looked absolutely fantastic. Grab a bargain.

Would work perfectly for other exam boards as well as AQA! I created this wheel in order to give students some kind of autonomy in terms of their essay writing. It outlines what students might say for AO1/2/3 in order to sound sophisticated. In my lesson, students absolutely loved it! They were able to use the wheel to inform their own topic sentences, AO2 analysis and essentially, write an independent essay. Two files: PDF/PPT (same file) so you can edit it if you like!

This ideal one page resource gives eight different ways to start a sentence and is really useful with weaker Key Stage 3/4 students, as well as those who continually start a sentence with the subject of the verb. Ideas for use: simply as an aide memoir, a revision tool, descriptive writing homework or to help with descriptive writing. Has been invaluable with my year seven and eight students!

* Tremendous resource to simply give to the students as a revision prompt; put them out as desk mats, send them home with students, allow struggling students to use them to support mock exams - really useful little document to support progress and embedding knowledge for the new spec GCSE exam * I created this resource in order to help students with their sentence starters and responses to the exam questions in Paper 1 and 2 for the new AQA English Language papers (reading only). The resource covers what students should say for each question, how long to spend on answering them and any banned terms to avoid using. This can be used by students when sitting mocks, responding to feedback or just as a revision helper. It has been great for feedback too as I can signpost students to where they need to look/where they need to revise/where they have gone wrong! Please review if you find it useful!