"Keep loving teaching. Keep being creative."
Well, it might seem like madness to you and, indeed, to myself much of the time but it’s fair to say that I love teaching.
What I seek to keep at the heart of my blog & resources, and in my own heart of hearts, is a passion. A passion for learning in myself and my students.
A passion for my subject: English.
Led by principles from 'The Learning Scientist'.
"Keep loving teaching. Keep being creative."
Well, it might seem like madness to you and, indeed, to myself much of the time but it’s fair to say that I love teaching.
What I seek to keep at the heart of my blog & resources, and in my own heart of hearts, is a passion. A passion for learning in myself and my students.
A passion for my subject: English.
Led by principles from 'The Learning Scientist'.
AQA GCSE Language students will benefit from these example fiction reading questions using the latest question format (May 2019).
These texts will provide stretch activities for more able students, and it would be possible to run through these as class activities for less able students.
For students who are just coming across the fiction exam for the first time, it would be useful to run through question by question, culminating in question four as an amalgamation of the previous questions.
Students approaching the exam could do this as a timed practice or it could be set as cover.
Additionally, the formatting and layout has been influenced by ‘The Learning Scientist’ and their principles on how to make resources most accessible.
Difficult words are translated and there is some planning space provided.
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Here, every poem from the power and conflict cluster is titled and summarised. Additionally, significant phrases from each poem are selected.
These should be a handy revision aid for students or as posters to put up outside classrooms. They could also be cut up, becoming useful revision cards.
These have become a real bible for my classes as we write essays based on the poems and a handy reminder for my less able students who struggle to remember what each poem is about…
Do check out my other resources!
Here you’ll find three different worksheets: one running through the first text on slavery; the second running through a second text on ancient Egyptian slavery; and a worksheet running through the different questions, one to four.
Both of these texts are 19th century to provide increased stretch.
The aim here is that the worksheets provide a structure for a series of lessons, giving students time to learn how to approach a non-fiction text before then answering exam style questions. The texts could be used separately or could build up to writing full exam answers.
Questions one and three could be done when studying the separate texts.
Take at look at my other resources and blog!
http://idealisticteacher.edublogs.org
