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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.

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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.
Mega GCSE/A Level English Essay Writing Toolkit
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Mega GCSE/A Level English Essay Writing Toolkit

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A handy pack which helps students to write coherent and well-structured essays. Students are taught how to be critical (and evaluate) with worked examples and frameworks to help them structure their essays. They are also taught how to synthesise information and to put things in their own words, without losing authenticity. The guide also encompasses a resource which provides advice on helping students answer different types of essay question (summarise, describe, evaluate etc.) as well as a handy revision aid of a list of strategies for writing a first class essay.
How to write different styles of essays
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How to write different styles of essays

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This is a guide which covers how to answer the whole spectrum of essay questions at GCSE, A Level and university, with in-depth advice on how to answer each type of question (as well as being accompanied by a handy bank of words for each question). Whilst serving as a useful pedagogical guide for teachers, this could also be distributed as a revision aid or tool for students to help them understand how to answer each essay question.
A Level English Child Language Acquisition Theories Revision
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A Level English Child Language Acquisition Theories Revision

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This is a useful revision aid for A Level English students summarising the theories of Child Language Acquisition. All major theorists are covered including Skinner, Piaget, Vygotsky, Chomsky and Lenenberg and how these theories correspond to the features of a child learning language in data and in general with short, but succinct explanations of each theory of child language acquisition. This would be a suitable handout for students to keep for revision before the exam and also to have alongside them as an aide memoir when completing exam questions.
Model first class university essay
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Model first class university essay

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This resource is intended for sixth form and university students and is an example of a first class essay, for which the topic was Mathematical Modelling. The essay is annotated with commentary (in red) which describes why the essay was a first and the steps the author went through in completing the essay as well as some general hints and tips. This could be used as part of a study skills workshop for students or just a general seminar on what constitutes good essay writing. An example of an activity for this resource could be to omit the commentary and ask the students themselves to annotate the essay and comment on why they think it was a first, before then resupplying them with the essay but this time with the commentary. This may be a useful way of assessing students’ perceptions of what it takes to get a first in an essay.
A Level English Student Revision Pack
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A Level English Student Revision Pack

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A set of resources that are ideal for those studying and teaching A-Level English Language. Included in the bundle are a set of revision notes covering the main topics in Child Language Acquisition, including notable theories, definitions of key words and stages of development. It also contains a set of guides on essay writing techniques, including how to be critical and paraphrase in an essay as well as handling different types of essay questions with model answers and worked examples. The bundle concludes with an extremely useful learning mat (with colour and diagrams) on how to write essays at college including how to structure and compose essays, key words, phrases and terminology, a list of dos and don’ts of academic writing and tips for formatting and achieving good marks.
Sixth Form Student Writing,  University and Employability Pack
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Sixth Form Student Writing, University and Employability Pack

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This bundle contains a wealth of high-quality resources to help sixth form students advance their writing skills, apply to university and also gain employment. The resources in this pack would be very useful as handouts for teachers/tutors to distribute to their students. Within the pack is a series of tutorials aimed at helping students improve their writing skills including how to write different types of essays, be critical and paraphrase in an essay. Also contained in this bundle is numerous resources to help apply to university include model personal statements (for courses such as teaching, chemistry and nursing) and a template with tips to help students create their own. It concludes with materials which assist students in applying for jobs including examples of model CVs (academic and personal) and covering letters and templates for students to create their own CV and covering letter.
Sixth Form Student Writing Toolkit
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Sixth Form Student Writing Toolkit

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This bundle contains a wealth of resources to help sixth form students with their essay writing skills and with applying to university. It contains a set of tutorials on essay writing techniques including how to be critical, paraphrase and write different styles of essays (with word banks included for each type). Also included is a model essay, and handouts for students summarising the main points of good essay writing and top tips for writing a first class essay. It has ample resources to assist students with applying to university. It has a template for creating their own personal statement, a model personal statement (with annotation and commentary) and three other examples of model personal statements applying for chemistry, nursing and primary teaching degree courses.