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For years I have been producing high quality PowerPoints to use with my English classes. I have always shared them around my department and now am offering them to you. For a very small fee, you can access these resources to hopefully help you plan or to inspire new lessons. I hope you and your students enjoy them.

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For years I have been producing high quality PowerPoints to use with my English classes. I have always shared them around my department and now am offering them to you. For a very small fee, you can access these resources to hopefully help you plan or to inspire new lessons. I hope you and your students enjoy them.
How to write an exposition essay - KS3 or KS4 - New WJEC GCSE English Language
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How to write an exposition essay - KS3 or KS4 - New WJEC GCSE English Language

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This resource is a 51 slide PPT to help students write an exposition/expository essay in line with the new WJEC English Language GCSE. The PPT explains clearly what an expository essay is, how to plan one effectively, how to write a good introduction, how to write excellent expository paragraphs and how to structure points with sophistication. It also contains proofreading tasks in line with the new GCSE, vocabulary extension exercises, examples of good and bad introductions and main paragraph examples. Perfect to help KS3 pupils prepare for KS4 or for KS4 students to practise their skills. The PPT focuses on an essay on War but also shows examples of an essay on Money and an essay on Footballers.
National Reading Tests Pratice Papers - KS3 - Preparation for new WJEC English Language GCSE
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National Reading Tests Pratice Papers - KS3 - Preparation for new WJEC English Language GCSE

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8 National Reading Test practice papers for KS3 students. Each test helps prepare students for the new WJEC English Language GCSE by testing a rane of CSE comprehension questions such as access, search and retrieve, words in context, sequencing, verbal reasoning and PISA text definitions. Topics include battery farming, a letter from Hogwarts, a first hand account of the Hillsborough Disaster, Battery Farming, War, Term Time Holidays, Travel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Worst Inventor in the World and a review of Despicable Me. Perfect preparation for KS3 pupils.
Mean Time - 6 Annotated Poems - Carol Ann Duffy
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Mean Time - 6 Annotated Poems - Carol Ann Duffy

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6 poems from Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy have been annotated comprehensively on A3 sheets. They are perfect to help facilitate the teaching of the anthology. Considering the number of poems required to be taught for the WJEC AS English Literature examinations, this helps save time and gives students very high quality revision materials. The poems included are: Brothers Crush Drunk First Love Pluto Small Female Skull
Exposition Essay Writing - War Unit of Work - KS3 - Preparation for new WJEC English Language GCSE
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Exposition Essay Writing - War Unit of Work - KS3 - Preparation for new WJEC English Language GCSE

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Unit of work teaching how to write a war exposition essay and how to complete a task 2 WJEC GCSE oracy discussion on the theme of war. A 51 slide PPT teaching how to write exposition essays with examples of good and bad introductions and main points, how to plan, how to structure paragraphs with sophistication and how to extend vocabulary. Two writing frames to help write the exposition essay on the theme of war and a success criteria. A full oracy discussion task stimulus material sheet in line with the new GCSE is also included, along with 5 verbal reasoning questions.
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin - Annotated Poems
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The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin - Annotated Poems

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This bundle contains 9 annotated poems from The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin. The notes are perfect for quickly understanding the poems before delivering, giving to students to focus attention and discussion and also for giving to students who miss a lesson. They are also perfect for delivering poems quickly so that all poems can be covered in the time given. The annotate poems in this bundle are Ambulances, Days, For Sidney Bechet, Ignorance, Nothing to be Said, Send No Money, Take One Home for the Kiddies, The Importance of Elsewhere and Toads Revisited.
Philip Larkin - The Whitsun Weddings -11 Annotated Poems
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Philip Larkin - The Whitsun Weddings -11 Annotated Poems

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11 poems from The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin have been annotated comprehensively on A3 sheets. They are perfect to help facilitate the teaching of the anthology. Considering the number of poems required to be taught for the WJEC AS English Literature examinations, this helps save time and gives students very high quality revision materials. Perfect for helping students catch up on poems they have missed, giving for self study or for helping teach poems quickly.