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Five star rated and 'TES Recommended' authors, we are two Heads of English who are passionate about using and developing quality, engaging resources. We recognise the need for resources that are 'ready to go' and that don't require a huge amount of 'polishing' before they can be used. Every resource that we publish is quality assured and, most importantly, has been tried and tested by us in the classroom! We hope you find our resources useful and we welcome any feedback.
A 20 slide presentation guiding students through the process of responding to question 4 in Paper 1, Section A of the new AQA GCSE English Language exam.
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Over 100 slides comprised of 8 lessons focusing on descriptive and narrative writing techniques to prepare students for Paper 1, Section B of the new AQA GCSE English Language exam. Each lesson is fully resourced with clear links made to the new exam criteria.
High quality and visually engaging throughout, each lesson contains elements of independent and collaborative work. Extension and intervention support tasks also included.
Lesson 1: Narrative conventions and structure
Lesson 2: Effective openings
Lesson 3: Setting
Lesson 4: Dialogue
Lesson 5: Character
Lesson 6: Ambitious vocabulary and figurative language techniques
Lesson 7: Structure
Lesson 8: Structure
A high quality, focused lesson exploring the significance of the death of Tiny Tim in Stave Four. The lesson follows a clear format and structure in order to embed new knowledge and consolidate student understanding.
Each lesson has a recall task, key vocabulary, analysis of the scene, opportunities for analytical writing, a model response and self assessment slide.
You can buy this lesson as part of a bundle of fourteen lessons here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-revision-pack-12415380
Six engaging narrative writing lessons using a diverse range of world literature extracts as prompts.
Extracts from:
‘The Patience Stone’
‘Farewell to the Sea’
‘First They Killed My Father’
103 slides plus an extract booklet.
Each lesson contains clear learning objectives, success criteria, modeled answers, opportunities for peer and self assessment.
A key aim of the lessons is to introduce and embed new vocabulary.
A high quality, focused lesson exploring the significance of the charity collectors in Stave 1. The lesson follows a clear format and structure in order to embed new knowledge and consolidate student understanding.
Each lesson has a recall task, key vocabulary, analysis of the scene, opportunities for analytical writing, a model response and self assessment slide.
You can buy this lesson as part of a bundle of fourteen lessons here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-revision-pack-12415380
A lesson focused on improving students' vocabulary and sentence structures culminating in students writing a description of a circus. Students will read a short extract from 'The Night Circus' to stimulate discussion. A mixture of independent and collaborative activities designed to demonstrate progress throughout the lesson. Links to AO6 in the new GCSE assessment criteria.
A high quality, focused lesson exploring the significance of Fezziwig in Stave Two. The lesson follows a clear format and structure in order to embed new knowledge and consolidate student understanding.
Each lesson has a recall task, key vocabulary, analysis of the scene, opportunities for analytical writing, a model response and self assessment slide.
You can buy this lesson as part of a bundle of fourteen lessons here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-revision-pack-12415380
A 31 slide lesson presentation taking students through a sample paper for the GCSE AQA English Language, Paper 2, Section A exam.
The presentation includes clear learning objectives, a starter and review activity and opportunities for self and peer assessment.
Clear guidance is given for each question and model answers are also provided. Differentiation to extend and support students is also incorporated into the lesson presentation.
Clear links are made to the markscheme and assessment objectives throughout.
Could be used to walk students through the paper or as a follow up and feedback lesson once students have completed the paper.
Lesson plan included.
Sample exam paper also included.
A 26 slide presentation preparing students for the Paper 1, Section A of the AQA GCSE English Language exam.
The presentation takes students through each question on Section A with top tips provided for each question.
The text used is an extract from ‘White Fang’.
Model answers provided and opportunities for peer and self assessment throughout.
Clear reference made to the markscheme and assessment objectives throughout the presentation.
A high quality, focused lesson exploring the significance of Belle and Scrooge’s relationship in Stave Two. The lesson follows a clear format and structure in order to embed new knowledge and consolidate student understanding.
Each lesson has a recall task, key vocabulary, analysis of the scene, opportunities for analytical writing, a model response and self assessment slide.
You can buy this lesson as part of a bundle of fourteen lessons here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-revision-pack-12415380
A 32 slide lesson presentation taking students through Paper 2 Section A of the November 2018 paper.
The presentation walks students through each question on Section A and provides opportunity for self assessment and reflection.
Model answers and a generic mark scheme for each question provided.
I have not uploaded the sources due to copyright restrictions but they are available to download from the eAQA Secure Key Materials website: https://www.aqa.org.uk/contact-us/secure-services/eaqa
This would be an excellent resource to teach or revise the skills for Paper 2 Section A or to use after students have completed a mock using the November 2018 paper to walk them through the strengths and weaknesses of their response.
A 26 slide, two lesson presentation covering the poem 'Bayonet Charge' in detail. Annotations for the entire poem as well as example analytical paragraphs. The lessons feature a range of individual and collaborative tasks to develop students' understanding of the poem.
20 slides that can be dropped into any lesson presentation for Paper 2, Section A of the AQA English Language course.
Presentation includes:
An overview slide explaining the requirements of the exam.
A slide for each question explaining the key aspects and requirements for each question.
Peer/self assessment slides for each question.
'First Responses' template to use when tackling an unseen extract.
An assessment sheet to be used when marking Paper 2, Section A responses - either by student or teacher.
A slide detailing the requirements of each Assessment Objective.
A 15 slide full lesson presentation to develop students’ nonfiction writing skills. The lesson references the new AQA English Language exam and includes a markscheme for Paper 2, Section B although the resource could very easily be adapted to suit all specifications.
The theme of the lesson is ‘reality TV’ to engage students with the task of non-fiction writing for a specific audience.
The lesson includes a number of engaging activities including: individual and collaborative work, assessment opportunities and intervention and extension opportunities.
My students have struggled to get to grips with the structure question (question 3) on the new Paper 1, Section A exam for AQA. I recently attended an AQA support meeting and planned this lesson to incorporate some of the exam board's messages with regards to teaching the structure question. My students produced mucher better responses to question 3 after I went through this lesson with them.
The lesson is focused on the opening of '1984' and includes 15 slides plus a copy of the extract to use with students.
Includes:
Sample 8 mark answer
Planning grid for students
Clear and explicit links to the AQA markscheme
Key terminology and suggested phrases
Hope it helps!
Five full lessons focused on the new 2015 AQA Paper, 1 Section A exam: 'Explorations in Creative Reading'.
The lessons focus on teaching students the skills needed to analyse an unseen prose extract. Lessons provide detailed guidance as to how to approach the four question types and include exemplar responses.
Lesson 1- 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' with a focus on question 3 and 4.
Lesson 2 - 'The Night' with a focus on question 4.
Lesson 3 - 'Of Mice and Men' with a focus on question 2.
Lesson 4 - 'The Great Gatsby' with a focus on question 1 and question 3.
Lesson 5 - feedback lesson on 'The Brighton Rock' specimen paper from AQA.
Each lesson has clear learning objectives, link to the AQA assessment objectives and markschemes and include a range of engaging independent and collaborative activities for students.
10 fully resourced lessons to prepare students for the AQA English Language Paper 2, Section A exam: 'Writer's Viewpoints and Perspectives'.
This resource bundle includes:
Two powerpoint presentations totalling 142 slides.
A full lesson by lesson scheme of work including clear learning objectives and outlining assessment opportunities.
Eight different extracts to use with students from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Each lesson is clearly structured with learning objectives, learning start activities, learning review activities and opportunities for students to demonstrate and assess their learning in a number of ways.
The lessons aim to develop a common approach for tackling each question to build students' confidence. There are a number of opportunities for students to tackle the different question types and the presentations provide clear steps and guidance to support students during the assessment process.
Model answers and assessment sheets also included.
Extracts included:
'American Sniper', Chris Kyle
'The Charge of the Light Brigade', William Howard Russell
'Letter to My Mother', Wilfred Owen
'A Beautiful Job', Gunner William Towers (WW1)
'The Death of Lord Nelson', William Beatty
'We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches', Winston Churchill
'Surrender Speech', Chief Joseph (taken from the AQA Reading Support Booklet)
'The Gettysburg Address', Abraham Lincoln
In addition to this, the presentations also include some optional Paper 2, Section B questions that link to the extracts and aim to develop students' nonfiction writing skills.
The lessons and extracts are focused around the theme of war so they can be linked with the 'Power and Conflict' AQA poetry anthology to develop students' contextual understanding for the English Literature exam.
Any feedback on the resource would be greatly appreciated!
15 slides to revise the AQA Power and Conflict poetry anthology. Each slide asks students to consider the how the title of the poem links to the last line. Great for a quick 5 minute burst of poetry revision at the beginning or end of the lesson.
