This workbook takes students through the key essentials they need to know about each poem in the AQA anthology by steering them to their own interpretatons using prompt questions, targetted to the richest parts of the poem. To accompany the booklet, there is a video for each poem, talking students through the meaning of each poem, before examining in depth, with multiple interpretations, key aspects of language, structure and form. The workbook also includes a blank version of each poem for further analysis as a class or as HW. Primarily aimed at a middle ability group - this is essentially everything they would need to know about the poetry anthology, broken down into accessible, retainable chunks.
I have used these workbooks as the anthology in my GCSE poetry teaching (for the term) and the feedback from students has been really positive. Could also be used as HW or as a revision tool.
I swear by Walky Talky mocks in the run up to the final exams. This one includes:
Copycat AQA exam that looks and feels like the real thing.
A 19th century and a modern text both focussing on women in prison.
Accompanying slides of strategies, approaches, tips and structures.
Model answers for every question, annotated with why they’re effective.
Relevant stimulus materials: one from Dickens and one from March 2022.
A 37 page activity workbook that can be used either as a revision tool, or a resource that a unit of work could be based around. The workbook has tasks and questions that scaffold learners interpretations and learning of the characters, themes, settings and symbols of the novel - so students are essentially constructing their own revision guide as they complete it. Tasks are heavily based on key quotes from the text. The last section is for exam preparation, with an annotated model paragraph and practice questions for the AQA literature exam.
I always teach literature using a booklet like this for students to record the KNOWLEDGE they need on the text. The quotes, questions and tasks in here shape the learning every learner needs on An Inspector Calls. It moves through the characters and themes and the tasks are shaped in a way to allow learners to have their own personal interpretations for each point.
This booklet could be used as…
A homework resource alongside usual teaching
A final revision resource before an Inspector Calls exam.
A long term cover booklet for a class that needed to complete An Inspector Calls Study
A core knowledge store resource in literature teaching
The knowledge organiser I’ll be using with my students for their AQA Literature Poetry Anthology.
Each poem is broken down by poet, key themes and then 2 language and 2 form / structure points.
The last page is a ‘Tube map’ that links the different poems together by their theme.
I swear by Walky Talky mocks in the run up to the final exams. This one includes:
Copycat AQA exam that looks and feels like the real thing.
An exam style text from the classic Birdsong - the scene of the Somme battle.
Accompanying slides of strategies, approaches, tips and structures.
Model answers for every question, annotated with why they’re effective.
I always teach literature using a booklet like this for students to record the KNOWLEDGE they need on the text. The quotes, questions and tasks in here shape the learning every learner needs on A Christmas Carol. It moves through the text in chronological order and the questions are shaped in a way to allow learners to have their own personal interpretations for each point.
This booklet could be used as…
A homework resource alongside usual teaching
A final revision resource before a Christmas Carol exam.
A long term cover booklet for a class that needed to complete A Christmas Carol Study
A core knowledge store resource in literature teaching
I swear by Walky Talky mocks in the run up to the final exams. This one includes:
Copycat AQA exam that looks and feels like the real thing.
A 19th century and a modern text both focussing on using people as entertainment.
Accompanying slides of strategies, approaches, tips and structures.
Model answers for every question, annotated with why they’re effective.
Relevant stimulus materials: PT Barnum (Greatest Showman) and Jeremy Kyle.
A mock exam using an extract from ‘The Road’ made to look like the real AQA exams, with accompanying ‘Walky-Talky’ Mock powerpoint. The powerpoint features important reminders for each question, reminders of structures, approaches, key reminders and colour-coded model examples. An outline of recommend times is at the start, with timers throughout for students to practice their timing of the exam. My students found this very helpful preparation for their Language Paper 1, and I hope yours do to!
This 48 page activity workbook includes everything a student will need to know for both papers of the AQA English Language GCSE. It gives overviews of the whole exams, with advice regarding timing and approaches. For all questions in both papers, it includes key information and strategies students need to know, and smaller tasks where appropriate to support students with their planning. There are annotated model examples and paragraph structures for each task, and practice questions with space for them to be completed. The texts are all linked to the theme of extreme weather, with a narrative extract from 'Blood on Snow' for paper 1, and non-fiction extracts from Captain Scott's diary (1912) and Simpson's account of his mountaineering disaster (1988
This could be ideal as a revision workbook or a resource for a unit of lessons.
A 30 page revision workbook taking students through all they need to know for Language Paper 2. This updated 2018 version has been updated based on our experiences in the 2017 exam series. For each question it includes key reminders, advice regarding approach and strategy, structure outlines, mark schemes, high quality colour-coded model examples and signposts towards reminders and considerations for the highest marks. The whole booklet is based around extracts connected to nursing: a 20th century article from a newspaper by a disenchanted NHS nurse and an extract from Florence Nightingale’s diary from the 1800s.There is space to practice each Language Paper 2 question. The booklet can be used as either a revision booklet, a homework booklet or as a basis for a series of lessons.
Everything a student would need to smash AQA Language Paper 1…
Strategies and approaches for every question.
Examiner’s advice for every question.
Model examples for every question
Structures and recipies for each question that have been PROVEN to hit the top marks
Mark schemes for each question.
Example text and example questions for application practice.
Resources for planning where appropriate.
A 55 page activity workbook that takes students through everything they will need to know for their GCSE. Through completing tasks including graphs, tables, timelines, explorative and multiple choice questions, students are essentially building their own revision guide for the exam. Students are able to revise the content of the play whilst developing their own personal interpretations of Shakespeare’s choices and purpose. The booklet takes students through the scenes, characters, symbols, motifs, contexts and themes and is targeted towards the GCSE mark scheme, so has specific tasks on the language, structure and stage choices deployed. The last section focusses on essay technique and includes annotated paragraphs, an annotated Level 7+ essay, practice tasks and guidance for completing effective essays. I use this instead of an exercise book for my Macbeth teaching, but could also be used as a homework or revision tool.
An A4 booklet of example texts for paper 1 and 2, with exam style questions. Unlike my workbooks, this one does not have the model examples and structures, as it is meant for students to apply their learning - however there is pin-pad space by each question for prompts and reminders.
The first half of a scheme of work on the AQA Language Papers. This has 17 lessons - although most are best stretched across two lessons. Lessons are very exam focused, with scaffolded tasks taking students from question to response. All lessons include relevant mark scheme and differentiation and stretch challenges where appropriate. Each question cluster culminates in a dedicated peer-assessed lesson applying what they've learnt to a question. All texts, resources and lessons included.
A bundle of preparation for the AQA English Language GCSE, featuring:
- A fully-resourced 28 lesson SOW taking students through each question.
- Differentiation and stretch activities where appropriate.
- Very exam focused approach with time built in for extended practice.
- Over 80 different resources including worksheets, texts & lessons within the SOW.
- A very popular and useful activity workbook, with annotated model examples, key revision information and space to practice. Suitable for HW, intervention groups or as a lesson resource.
- A practice workbook, with practice texts and questions, so students can apply their learning as a HW or extended lesson task.
Using the London Tube Map as inspiration, here I have connected the poems from the Power & Conflict AQA anthology by theme.
Useful display or revision resource. Could easily remove the names as a lesson exercise as well.
A 17 page resource to support Key Stage 4 students with the reading section of their Language Paper 2 preparation. 'Edna the Examiner' takes students through each of the four reading questions in the new AQA specification; with model answers, a guide to completion, scaffolded tasks to prepare an answer and important exam tips. There is space for students to complete each question, with attached self-assessment. It can be an excellent lesson tool, homework book or revision exercise.
34 page resource made as a Key Stage 3 introduction to the new GCSE paper, but would also be suitable for Key Stage 4. 'Edna the Examiner' takes students through each of the four reading questions an both writing tasks in the new AQA specification; with model answers, a guide to completion and important exam tips. There is space for students to complete each question so it can be an excellent lesson tool, homework book or revision exercise.
A mini-guide designed to fit in a student’s blazer pocket of all the processes, tips, reminders, models, structures and terms required to SMASH Language Paper 1.
How to fold it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYc2eQfO40k