I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
There are three revision lessons for An Inspspector Calls that are fully differentiated with bronze, silver, gold tasks, including ‘challenge’ tasks to stretch the most able. The lessons include model answers, bell tasks, learning objectives, key quotes, opportunities for self/peer assessment and plenaries to conclude the lessons. I have used these in the run up to the exam as each lesson leads carefully to a GCSE exam style question, which the students will be able to answer having completed the starter activities and other learning activities which provide them with the information to plan and write their own responses.
I only ever sell things that I know work well with my own year 11 classes and mine found these lessons very useful in developing their knowledge of the play.
A full paper one for English Language GCSE and insert for students to practise and develop exam skills. Used with my own year 11s as homework and as a walk through for exam prep.
Compare how death is presented in the poem Porphyria’s Lover and a poem of your choice: WWTP, Neutral Tones, Eden Rock. An annotated example of a comparison with a key to support students’ awareness of how to construct an answer.
If you need to focus your year 11s then this great little bundle for Macbeth will do just that. Spend a lesson on each, annotating the question, then then the scene, then model how you would write it. The students can then finish the response collaboratively or in exam conditions.
Numerous writing task titles to get students to develop their writing skills ready for their Language exams. These titles fit all examination boards and are realistic to form useful revision tasks.
A great tool to be used for staff training, which allows teachers of all subjects to reflect on their marking and assessment. This also includes a SWOT analysis hand out for targets to be set once teachers have reflected on their current practice.
A fully differentiated lesson for the theme of violence that links to the AQA GCSE Literature examination. The extract and question are included at the back of the PPT.
Includes - bell task,
Starter
Main 1
Reflection point
Main 2
Plenary
Fully differentiated (with Bronze, Silver, Gold) narrative writing frame designed to focus GCSE students for all exam boards on the key structure of the creative writing question. Students need to fill in the frame before then writing their own narrative. A fantastic resource that can support students who struggle to write an extended narrative that has a clear focus characterisation and plot.
A fully differentiated set of lessons that has the LOs running on every slide. The lessons use bronze, silver and gold tasks to challenge all learners and gives opportunities for students to develop their transactional writing skills, much needed for the Language examination for every exam board.
The character that teachers forget to focus on in detail! An important set of lessons all focused on the influence Macduff has on the play. They are fully differentiated and will focus students on exam skills.
An A3 revision worksheet that includes tips for the different writing styles for AQA English paper 2. Use this for year 11 for revision before their exam. There are 25 questions that the students can plan for and then write out under timed conditions.
A fully differentiated lesson for the unseen poems used for the EDUQAS WJEC examination in 2015. This is a fantastic lesson to get students to consider how to compare two poems and what they should consider.
A revision lesson for year 11 who already have an understanding of the poems. This reminds them of the skills of comparative responses, and recaps of two of the poems from the AQA anthology - love and relationships.
The lesson has:
Bell task on entry
LOs beginning, middle and end to review progress
Links to exam details
Collaboration built in
Oracy Task
Model essay response
Bronze, silver, gold task
Plenary
This is a useful resource to laminate and have on every table in the classroom as it will encourage the students to vary their punctuation to improve their writing.
This handy A3 resource is ideal for revising key themes and characters from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The sheet has 12 questions linked to the AQA spec (but could be adapted for other specs easily) and has 12 extracts, which provide key moments from across the whole of the novella.
I am using this myself to prepare my year 11s for their Literature examination.
An interactive lesson focused on the theme of class, which includes:
- LOs on every slide
- An interactive information gathering exercise
- A task to evaluate an exemplar paragraph
- A fun mini review where students pick an image to represent their progress midway through the lesson
- An exam question, which is differentiated to help scaffold answers
- Peer assessment with success criteria
A full, unseen paper 2 for exam revision that focuses on a modern extract from a letter to a school thanking them for their donation to the dog charity and another 19th century extract about the problem of stray dogs in London.
There is also a writing question attached.
I have used this with my own year 11 classes as walk through revision for the GCSE exams, which was beneficial as we added notes to the help sheet and then the students were able to write much more detailed responses, moving securely into level 3.