The GCSE, Reading Response, English Language Unit supports students in understanding how to write an extended response to a question on the Reading Section. Dyslexic GCSE, English students have commented that the structure helps them see what they need to do to succeed in this type of question. The texts focus on a difficult relationship between two explorers. It scaffolds students response by providing a Vocabulary Bank to help write the topic sentences, a model answer and a marking rubric for an independent activity. The model essay sentence openers are coloured in blue so students understand the way they need to begin their own sentences. The unit finishes with an independent, reading response unit with a marking rubric. The unit is effective in supporting students who struggle to structure a reading response answer!

This unit is designed for GCSE, English Literature - Macbeth. It focuses on Act 1, Scene 2 and engages students who struggle with the content and language. There is a Macbeth, rap poem to summarise the plot, as well as a modern gangster version of the scene. The genre of a gangster scene has been successful in engaging reluctant students! After they read the modern version there are multiple choice quizzes to help students summarise the plot of the scene and understand the main characters. The second resource contains a key quotation, colouring activity to aid memory and the original version with comic book style illustrations. The second resources finishes with a comic strip of the Macbeth soliloquy. Students are required to write down what he said. Full of engaging images and content, the unit is an excellent way to engage SEN and ESL students and help them understand Act 2, Scene 1!

This unit is designed for GCSE, English Literature - Macbeth. It focuses on Act 1, Scene 2 and engages students who struggle with the content and language. There is a Macbeth, rap poem to summarise the plot, as well as a modern gangster version of the scene. The genre of a gangster scene has been successful in engaging reluctant students! After they read the modern version there are multiple choice quizzes to help students summarise the plot of the scene and understand the main characters. The second resource contains a key quotation, colouring activity to aid memory and the original version with comic book style illustrations. The second resources finishes with a comic strip of the sergeant approaching King Duncan. Students are required to write down what he said. Full of engaging images and content, the unit is an excellent way to engage SEN and ESL students and help them understand Act 1, Scene 2!

Help students enhance their understanding of A Christmas Carol with this comprehensive PDF series, designed to prepare for the GCSE, English Literature examination. This pack offers detailed study resources for each stave of the novella, including three carefully selected extracts with corresponding comprehension questions, language analysis, and creative critical thinking prompts. There are 15 extracts and accompanying comprehensions in total! The students can explore key themes in a structured way to suit all abilities, while sharpening skills in textual analysis and interpretation. Each extract is paired with thought-provoking questions that delve into Dickens’ use of language, tone, and narrative perspective, helping students master the text for exams. Whether used for revision or seeking deeper insights into the novel, this resource will boost confidence and enhance literary skills. For students with additional needs there is an Understanding the Text section which leads into Analytical, Interpretation and Creative Thinking for the More Able. The carefully selcted extracts also help students digest information in a manageable way. Ideal for self-study, classroom support, or exam preparation, these PDFs provide a structured and engaging way to explore Dickens’ classic tale.

These resources are tailored to support teachers preparing students for the AQA, GCSE English Language exam, with a particular focus on Paper 2. They are suitable for students with additional needs such as dyslexia and autism because they include scaffolds to write their response. This is an effective way to prepare students to write answers independently. As well as a practice paper, the unit provides writing scaffolds, model paragraphs and structured responses, to help students develop their skills in analyzing texts and constructing well-developed answers. The two extracts are about experiences of avalanches, one in the 1800s and another contemporary. The materials guide students through understanding how writers use language, structure, and setting to create meaning, with specific emphasis on autobiographical texts. Additionally, for the writing section the resources offer detailed sentence frames and writing prompts, making them suitable for students who may benefit from extra support in breaking down tasks and building confidence in their writing. The package includes sample responses to key exam questions using the scaffolds. These resources are perfect for helping students with additional needs master the skills required for creative reading and writing in the AQA curriculum.

These resources are tailored to support teachers preparing students for the AQA, GCSE English Language exam, with a particular focus on Paper 1. They are suitable for students with additional needs such as dyslexia and autism because they include scaffolds to write their response. This is an effective way to prepare students to write answers independently. As well as a practice paper, the unit provides writing scaffolds, model paragraphs and structured responses, to help students develop their skills in analyzing texts and constructing well-developed answers. The materials guide students through understanding how writers use language, structure, and setting to create meaning, with specific emphasis on psychological fiction. Additionally, for the writing section the resources offer detailed sentence frames and writing prompts, making them suitable for students who may benefit from extra support in breaking down tasks and building confidence in their writing. The package includes sample responses to key exam questions using the scaffolds. These resources are perfect for helping students with additional needs master the skills required for creative reading and writing in the AQA curriculum

This dyslexia friendly, Year 6 SATS resource is designed to help students with additional needs familiarise themselves with the SATS Reading Paper. It contains three texts along with activities to help students read and understand the type of texts they will encounter in the exam. Key Features: Spelling and Vocabulary Development: Students will learn to spell complex words through a syllable-based color-coding system, making challenging vocabulary accessible and memorable. This approach not only improves spelling but also boosts pronunciation and fluency. Meaning Exploration: Each text is accompanied by a vocabulary section, encouraging students to tick unfamiliar words and engage in dictionary skills or discussions with peers and adults. This deepens their understanding of language and fosters a love for words. Fluency Practice: With timed reading exercises, students can track their reading speed and accuracy, promoting fluency and confidence. Multiple readings encourage improvement, allowing students to see their progress over time. Engaging Texts: Featuring three captivating extracts - The Majestic Blue Whale, Against the Ramp, and Whispers of the Hive - students will be immersed in diverse topics that inspire curiosity and discussion. These texts are designed to resonate with students, sparking their imagination and enhancing comprehension skills. SATS Style Questions: Prepare your students for assessments with shorter questions that mimic the SATS format. Students can collaborate in pairs to tackle comprehension questions, reinforcing their understanding while building teamwork skills. An additional SATS tips text is provided to share with the students prior to the exam. Equip your students with the tools they need to excel in reading while fostering a passion for literature. Our resource is not just a tool; it’s a pathway to building lifelong learners who are confident in their reading abilities.

This comprehensive resource on Chapter One is designed to help GCSE English Literature teachers guide students through the key themes, characters, and plot of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter One using drama and discussion activities. It is particularly suited to students who find reading challenging. What’s Included: Speaking and Listening Tasks: Students explore essential themes like duality, reputation, and social responsibility through targeted speaking and listening questions. These activities encourage discussion, helping students to articulate their thoughts on Victorian values, morality, and the nature of evil as portrayed in Jekyll and Hyde. Drama Activities and Play-Script: A play-script based on Chapter 1, The Story of the Door, allows students to perform key scenes. This hands-on approach deepens their understanding of the novella by actively engaging with the characters and narrative. Role-playing the interactions between Mr. Utterson, Mr. Hyde, and Mr. Enfield provides insight into the novel’s tension and atmosphere. Character Analysis and Themes: Through activities like tableau, role on the wall, and conscience alley, students explore characters’ psychological depth and internal conflicts, while also reflecting on important themes such as secrecy, urban isolation, and morality. Monologue Writing and Performance: Students write internal monologues from the perspectives of major characters like Mr. Utterson, Mr. Enfield, or Mr. Hyde. This writing exercise encourages students to delve into character motivations, moral dilemmas, and thematic concerns, followed by a performance to bring these reflections to life. Glossary and Key Vocabulary: A glossary of challenging words from the text ensures that students can engage with the language and understand the novella’s more complex vocabulary, facilitating deeper comprehension. A reading activity is included to improve fluency and pronunciation when reading passages from Chapter One. Learning Outcomes: Deep Understanding of Themes: Students will develop a nuanced understanding of the novel’s themes, such as duality, reputation, and evil. Character Insight: Through drama and monologue writing, students will gain a deeper emotional and intellectual connection to the characters. Speaking, Listening, and Writing Skills: These activities promote critical thinking, discussion, and extended writing, preparing students for GCSE exam success. This resource offers an interactive and creative way for students to explore Jekyll and Hyde, making complex themes and characters accessible through drama and collaborative learning.

Aimed at students who struggle to write GCSE, English Literature essays, this short unit provides an essay scaffold and model essay on the importance of setting in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. An essay prompt and extract, taken from Chapter Eight, is provided which focuses on a description of Victorian London. The question requires comparison with the wider novella. To support students with this task, an essay scaffold is included. It provides paragraph and sentence openers to help structure their ideas and analysis. After writing their own response, students read a model essay based on this scaffold. They can compare their own work with this piece of writing. To assist with vocabulary, students can use an adjective sheet to write sentences about Victorian London. The resource is invaluable in demonstrating the features of a successful essay and will give them the confidence to write their own response!

Metaphors in Shakespeare’s texts can be difficult for students to understand. This unit explains some of the key metaphors used in Macbeth and prepares students for their GCSE, English Literature exam. The unit includes a booklet to explain the key metaphors in depth and provides context to the quotations. To help students with additional needs, vocabulary lists are provided. The student can use these to identify meaning, and learn how to read/spell them. There is a key quotation list provided separately. Students can use this to learn them by rote. Finally, there is an assessment section using a short extract that includes one of the metaphors. This is accompanied with a marking rubric and sample answer.

This GCSE, English Language, writing unit is based on an persuasive task about why they should choose a charity fund raiser. It contains a model answer, a spelling activity, a speaking and listening task and a grammar component. The unit has been successfully used to raise the attainment of students who struggle to move into the Grade 4 and 5 bracket. Once the student has completed the tasks there are two independent writing activities to assess the understanding of the components of GCSE, persuasive writing. It is ideal for SENCOs, teachers and English language coordinators. It offers excellent value and the unit should provide three to four lessons of content.

This is an invaluable resource for SEN students who are studying Macbeth for GCSE English Literature. Using techniques aimed at students with speech and language issues, the picture book provides prompts for students to engage with the text. The pictures capture the visual and symbolic elements of the play and can be used to discuss key themes and language presented in Act One of the GCSE text. Each picture is imaginative and visually striking which will engage students who struggle with Shakespearean language and do not enjoy the play. The pictures are accompanied with a caption aimed to scaffold their response to the play and lead them to using more literary and academic language. At the end of the picture section, there are some ideas how to use questions to gain more understanding and how to develop language. This resource is ideal for students with additional needs such as dyslexia, ADHD and AS. It can be used as a way to begin a lesson or to support students who require small group or individual support. SENCOs, Teaching Assistants and teachers who support students with additional needs will benefit from the resource. It will help them succeed in responding to Macbeth and improve their performance in the English Literature, GCSE exam.

This GCSE, Vocabulary course focuses on the academic words needed to succeed in the GSCE, English Language course. It is suitable for GCSE students, often with a good verbal ability, who struggle to express their language using formal language. There is a section focused on targeted words from the Academic Word List. It contains speaking and listening activities, gap fill tasks and an explanation of the body language and facial expression linked with some of the words. This should aid narrative writing. It also contains graphic organisers to analyse key meanings and story examples to help learn key words. There is an assessment to help understand if students have grasped the key vocabulary. Also included are a reading and wordsearch activity and discussion questions. Finally, there are two units to explore how to write about vocabulary in a GCSE examination. I have also added a free vocabulary unit - Reading Response - Analysing Situations! This will provide you with a list of words to analyse situations. The course is excellent for English coordinators, SENCOs and TAs who want to run targeted groups for students who are verbally strong but struggle to use academic language. Since vocabulary is a key component of comprehension and writing, the course has proved successful in helping underachieving GCSE English Language students succeed!

Suitable for GCSE students who struggle with sentence structure and grammatical expression, this English Language Course - suitable for all exam boards - teaches the sentence types needed to write a range of genres. It supports the GCSE Writing Questions - Narrative/Descriptive and Persuasive/Argumentative. Using cause and effect conjunctions and phrases, The Grammar in Context Unit (Persuasive and Argumentative), provides a range of cause and effect sentence openers such as, SINCE, DUE TO, AS A RESULT and WHEN. It has exercises to practice these sentence types using different contexts for writing at GCSE. There is a Speaking and Listening prompt series of questions to support this. For narrative, the second unit presents sentence openers that make a descriptive text successful. Students are provided with an opportunity to write using sentence openers that focus on location, mood or action. Alongside this there is an assessment using engaging visual storystrips. The unit is an effective and research based way of explicitly teach sentence structure across a range of genres typically assessed at GCSE. It is a useful resource for SENCOs, English Teachers and Teaching Assistants. It can be used as a standalone course or as part of lessons on GCSE English writing.

This AQA, English Language resource focuses on the text structure question (Q3)found in Paper One. It provides explanation texts to cover subject specific terminology such as focus, flashback, foreshadowing etc, along with quizzes and comprehension activities. It contains texts, model responses and detailed mark schemes to help students understand how to write a reading response answer for this question. The texts are broken down into paragraph sections to enable a step by step approach. The explanation texts to explain subject terminology are followed by comprehension tasks to ensure understanding of the terms and there are quizzes to further embed the definitions. A separate unit is devoted to flashback with a text and an AQA style question. The unit has proved successful in providing students with the knowledge and language needed to successfully respond to what can be a challenging part of the reading paper! It is suitable for GCSE, English Language students who struggle to express their ideas using the correct terminology and structure and will be an excellent revision programme in the run up to the exams.

With a FREE model, GCSE essay based on Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1, this is an invaluable resource for GCSE English Literature students and the extract question, in particular. The section contains a cloze/gap-fill activity with the key missing words colour-coded for students with reading or spelling difficulties. The gap-fill also provides an opportunity to discuss various aspects of the model essay. At the end of each section there is an independent essay question related to the model answer. This provides a chance to assess the students’ understanding of how to construct an English Literature essay. This model essay will provide instruction in how to write a GCSE ,extract based response and ensure progress!

The KS2 English Unit demonstrates how to use interesting sentence openers to write a successful narrative. It is also useful for KS3 and GCSE English students if they have not used the skills. For students with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD), there is a reading and spelling activity based on key words in the text. Students use colours to aid memory. The reading section consists of model sentences beginning with a prepositional phrase, an ING verb and a ’ show not tell ’ opening. Finally, there is an assessment stage where students are required to use these sentence opener types. The unit has been used to successfuly support students who struggle to write narrative.

This resource focuses on the GCSE (AQA), Reading Paper, Question 2 - Summary Writing. Based on the singer Rihanna, there are two texts which students need to summarise. To support dyslexic students, there is a key word list (colour coded) to support the reading and spelling of the key words. There is also a Venn Diagram, graphic organiser to help structure the response. At the end of the unit, there are two student responses to provide an idea of how to structure a response. The resource is beneficial for students who have reading difficulties, but need to prepare for the GCSE, reading paper.