Language technique cards and definitions for revision.

This assessment planning sheet will help students to select key language techniques from the texts and analyse appropriately, whilst covering all the PEE areas needed. .

Literally what it says in the title here. This is to get those students who struggle with PEE writing in the correct layout first.

This mark sheet is a quick and easy way to mark students work for writing skills. It also encourages students to respond and could be used for DIRT.

This mark sheet is great for doing DIRT with your students on The Tempest. You can adapt it by changing the characters if necessary. It is a quick way of marking a baseline assessment. I usually print it on green paper so it stands out as marking in the exercise books.

This poetry lesson introduces poetry through the use of music. Students will have the opportunity to listen to each song and then discuss the lyrics. They will then analyse using the questions on the slide show. Included are the lyrics to all three songs, selected quotations for the teacher to hand around the class for the students to analyse, and an extra resource focusing on the song 'Skyscraper'. (internet connection required for the music)

Here is a KS3 lesson that includes a lot of differentiation for those mixed ability classes. The lesson looks at an extract from Great Expectations and then the tasks are based around analysing quotations from the extract.

This lesson helps students to answer a question about Candy's loneliness and friendship with his dog. It contains a model answer and PEE structure help throughout. A quick and easy PEE lesson on Chapter 3.

Worrying about what you need to set for homework - well look no further... Here is a booklet full of your homework setting dreams. Here it is, the first of my Homework Booklet collection. This homework booklet was made to work along side a scheme of work for Year 7s who were in their first term at Secondary School. There are 10 tasks in this booklet such as letter writing, creative collage tasks, poems, cartoon strips, etc. It can be adapted and used as one off activities in or outside the classroom, or can simply be printed out in a booklet for homework. Happy Homework Setting!

Whilst Christmas maybe over, some of us are still teaching the details of A Christmas Carol to our GCSE Classes. In order to start practicing the exam paper questions with my class, I created my own version of the paper with answers. In this pack, I have included lesson slides that take the students throught the extract using highlighters and questions to help them think about different ways in which Scrooge is presented. I also get the students to rate the quotations they have chosen so they can start thinking about which quotation are better qualities than others. You can use the 'Quote Answers' sheet to guide your students towards the correct points and quotations to answer Part A of the question paper. This lesson and practice paper really helped my students. I hope it helps yours too. Happy Teaching!

The Context and Theme Linking Sheet is here. A Christmas Carol Part B of the GCSE paper is all about linking themes to the context to the quotations and ideas in the novella. So here is a sheet that gets the students to think about that and put it all on one revision sheet. How to use it... All you need to do is get the students to use the context notes (writing context notes is a separate lesson I did before this one) to write down shortened notes using subtitles such as Poor and Rich, Education, etc. Then use highlighters to link them to the themes in the middle boxes. Then the students must look through the book and find key moments and relevant quotations that would link to the theme and context they have selected. Done properly this is a really useful worksheet.

So here is a new design to my planning sheets. This is one for comparison, but it is very adaptable. You can just use this one and change it. As usual it has the different sections for students to fill in with regards to PEE. On the back of this there is even a labelled map of how this sheet should be used, including some helpful structure sections and helpful words.

This high ability model PEE paragraph will show your top students exactly how to write an outstanding answer to a question on tension using an extract from The Woman in Black. Please find the model paragraph and extract which was used. Happy Teaching!!

Here is another one of these fabulous Activity/Homework Booklets that will make setting homework a piece of cake. Just download this Travel Booklet resource, click print adding staples to make it into a booklet for your students to take home and you're sorted for this terms homework. Or use this little number in your lessons as a task that the students can do to get them used to writing and designing all based around travel. All 10 tasks in this booklet are linked directly to English and writing skills. This is a good one. There are activities such as collage making, poem and creative story writing, research tasks and designing activities. Happy Homework Setting!

Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.

Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. This one is different from my other worksheets as this one is for low ability. Extra help and fill in the blankets is used here to help those struggling with these techniques. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. As I said, there is extra help in these ones as opposed to the others I have uploaded. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.

Here is a really adaptable planning worksheet for low ability students to plan or complete their letter writing assessment. This has all the guidance needed to help your students who need that extra bit of scaffolding. Happy Planning!

Teaching PEE - KS3/KS4 This little book is a step-by-step guide for students to learn how to write Point Evidence Explain paragraphs. What is included: - General PEE structure questions and sentence starters - A Christmas Carol PEE structure questions and sentence starters - A mark scheme based on the new 1-9 mark scale - Three PEE model answers - one grade 4- and one grade 5+ This is a 10 pages guide. Once in their books, this Little Book of PEE can always be referred to as it has general aspects of PEE in it as well. Very effective resource- I and many of my colleagues have used this with students in KS3 and KS4.

Here is a fantastic Gothic Literature Booklet that can be used as a homework booklet or used in your classroom as an activities booklet. You could even just pull out activities you want from the booklet and use them as starters or main activities to teach gothic literature. In this pack there are 10 tasks to help students research, design, identify gothic motifs from extracts, and write gothic literature themselves. This is a fab booklet. Happy Teaching and Homework Setting!

This is a great project booklet which will span over about 5-6 lessons. It is designed for students to work through the initial tasks to help their knowledge about hotels/holidays so they gain an understanding and knowledge of what they should be designing. It also helps them with web design, as they have to annotate and design their own. Once these pages are complete, your groups of five get designing, planning and speech writing, in order to create a 5-10 minute presentation to the class. I used this as an opportunity to assessment my students on their speaking and listening skills. This booklet is packed with activities and even a clip link for the students to see some of the top 10 Hotels in 2016. This is a great buy and can be used repeatedly. Could be used in class or as a homework project. 15 page booklet. What will it teach my students: To work in a team To create a speech/script To learn about target audiences To present ideas to the class in a group To understand and design webpages and a hotel To keep to a time limit when presenting What does it include: Preparation task - positives/negatives of hotel life, investigations into top hotels, persuasive language analysis, target audience, website analysis and annotations, website design. Main Task - 5 Roles for the students to decide between themselves, with details of what they each need to prepare and design in the role they have chosen. Time - 1/2 Lessons to prepare 1/2 Lessons to design and practise their presentation 2 Lessons for presentations - class of 30 Happy Teaching!