I am a second in department currently responsible for Key Stage 3. As a result of this I have been creating in depth booklets which provide detailed units of work for my teachers. These booklets provide all the extracts/worksheets a teacher needs for a unit of work. I offer these at £3 a booklet and then have created bundles at 30% off with 3 booklets costing only £6.30.
I also have a lot of GCSE AQA revision materials, most of which are offered freely.
I am a second in department currently responsible for Key Stage 3. As a result of this I have been creating in depth booklets which provide detailed units of work for my teachers. These booklets provide all the extracts/worksheets a teacher needs for a unit of work. I offer these at £3 a booklet and then have created bundles at 30% off with 3 booklets costing only £6.30.
I also have a lot of GCSE AQA revision materials, most of which are offered freely.
This booklet and powerpoint were created for a revision session for my Y13 class. There is a 16 page booklet (word document and PDF) and a 12 slide PPT (editable PPT and PDF). Note there are a range of fonts used so the editable ones may come up funny.
The plan for the session is pasted below so you get an idea of what is included:
The crime genre – a timeline (two articles and then students map timeline)
Detectives and criminals (students watch three short clips to discuss archetypes of these characters)
Criminal settings (students discuss settings, read an article, analyse some mini setting descriptions)
Example extract – plan!
Example paragraph - mark!
Applying key phrases
Extracts for discussion
This booklet also contains three new unseen crime extracts.
A word cloud for each poem in the cluster in a shape which links to the poem in some way. A good revision tool, display opportunity, diction discusser - a versatile resource. Enjoy!
This unit is designed to create a (roughly) chronological journey through heroes and villains, from the mythical Medusa through to the modern day Olympic heroes, the unit asks pupils to justify what makes a hero or villain, and why. Each week has a text focus and exposes pupils to a wide range of English skills with a focus on both reading and writing, and many opportunities for speaking and listening through group work. There is a focus on analysing language through close interpretations of quotes. There are also multiple opportunities for assessment.
NB: TEACHES Nettles, Praise Song, Brothers and Sister Maude\n\nThis poetry overview focuses on the AQA English Literature Unit 2: Poetry Across Time. It introduces the students to the general ideas in the poems and allows the teacher to assess the pupil’s general skills in a formative way. The series focuses on the skill of comparing poems needed in the exam. The lessons teach the poems Nettles, Praise Song For My Mother, Brothers and Sister Maude and pupils begin to compare the poems
As it says in the title - a shaped wordcloud for all of the poems in the relationships cluster. Can be resized - to print for display they work better on A3.
Instructions are on the sheet for pupils. A choice based homework task to set at the beginning of a half term, allowing pupils to choose their own task each week. Focused on skills of researching, creativity and reading and writing. A word document so that it can be edited to suit different topics and tasks can be altered slightly.
This resource contains 6 short extracts which can be categorised as ‘Crime Writing’, They offer a range of crimes from murder and theft, stalking and thoughtcrime as well as crime from the state.
This is designed for the AQA A Level English Literature B, Paper 2 task on crime writing. The idea is that students must try and identify the crime within the extract, and then pick out any other aspects of crime they might identify,
The 6 extracts are at times 1 or 2 paragraphs, and all 6 fit on one A4 page.
There are three extracts here which look at traveling to various places over winter (Geneva, Ireland, and Portugal). This is followed by four reading tasks and three writing tasks. This was originally set as cover work and can be completed independently, and is at least three lessons of work. It was created for year 8 but is appropriate across Key Stage 3. Furthermore, students would not have needed to study travel writing in order to complete this work. Both the .pdf and word document are included in the download.
The tasks are:
Simple list four things tasks (information retrieval)
A grid asking students to extract information (quotation retrieval)
A comparison task looking at how the holidays are different
An opinion task which gets students to explain where they would rather spend their Christmas.
The writing tasks are varied between using the images to complete a descriptive piece, writing their own blog on Christmas in their hometown or a persuasive speech explaining where they want to spend their Christmas.
A simple and easy stand-alone resource.
There are three extracts here from the opening of the first three Alex Rider novels (Stormbreaker, Point Blanc and Skeleton Key). This is followed by four reading tasks and three writing tasks. This was originally set as cover work and can be completed independently, and is at least three lessons of work. It was created for year 8 but is appropriate across Key Stage 3. Furthermore, students would not have needed to study creative writing in order to complete this work. Both the .pdf and word document are included in the download.
The tasks are:
Simple list four things tasks (information retrieval)
A grid asking getting students to consider the start, middle and end of the extract (structure analysis)
Students are asked to explain the mood/atmosphere in each source and identify quotations as evidence (quotation retrieval)
An opinion task which gives students statements on each source which they have to explain whether they agree or not (evaluation).
The writing tasks are varied between writing the opening of the own spy novel, rewriting an extract from a new perspective or continuing one of the extracts.
A simple and easy stand-alone resource. The sheet is a back to back sheet of A4 which can be folded into a mini A5 booklet for students to store in exercise books
There are three extracts here from three Roald Dahl books (Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and Danny the Champion). This is followed by five reading tasks and five writing tasks. This was originally set as cover work and can be completed independently, and is at least three lessons of work. It was created for KS3 but would still be appropriate at KS4 as it uses AQA Lanuguage Paper style tasks. Furthermore, students would not have needed to study Roald Dahl in order to complete this work.
The tasks are:
Reading the extracts provided
Simple list four things tasks (information retrieval)
A grid asking getting students to consider the start, middle and end of the extract (structure analysis)
A task looking at narrative perspective asking students to find evidence of how the narrator communicates with the reader.
An opinion task which gives students statements on each source which they have to explain whether they agree or not (evaluation).
The writing tasks are varied between writing the opening of their own story with a simal narrator, a story from the POV of an insect, a story from a teacher’s perspective etc.
A simple and easy stand-alone resource. The sheet is a back to back sheet of A4 which can be folded into a mini A5 booklet for students to store easily in exercise books- it also requires minimal photocopying!
There are three extracts here from three Sherlock Holmes stories (A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four and The Speckled Band). This is followed by five reading tasks and six writing tasks. This was originally set as cover work and can be completed independently, and is at least three lessons of work. It was created for KS3 but would still be appropriate at KS4 as it uses AQA Lanuguage Paper style tasks. Furthermore, students would not have needed to study Sherlock Holmes in order to complete this work.
The tasks are:
Reading the extracts provided
Simple list four things tasks (information retrieval)
A grid asking getting students to consider the start, middle and end of the extract (structure analysis)
Students are asked to explain the create a factfile about Sherlock Holmes’ character, collecting a range of quotations as evidence.
An opinion task which gives students statements on each source which they have to explain whether they agree or not (evaluation).
The writing tasks are varied between writing the opening of the own detective stories, writing from Holmes’ perspective, a review on the extracts, a non-fiction article on the modern police force.
A simple and easy stand-alone resource. The sheet is a back to back sheet of A4 which can be folded into a mini A5 booklet for students to store easily in exercise books- it also requires minimal photocopying!
There are three sources here which are all opinion articles on the relationship between teenagers and social media. This is followed by four reading tasks and three writing tasks. This was designed as cover work and can be completed independently, and is at least three lessons of work. It was created for year 8 but is appropriate across Key Stage 3. Furthermore, students would not have needed to study viewpoint writing in order to complete this work.
The tasks are:
Simple list four statistics/anecdotes/opinions tasks (information retrieval)
A grid asking students to explain similarities and differences (comparison)
A task asking students to simplify the viewpoint and retrieve quotations (summary)
An opinion task which gets students to explain which article is the most effective in persuading the reader (analysis)
The writing tasks are varied between using one of the articles style/structure to give their viewpoint on a new topic, a separate viewpoint writing task, writing the opposite of the article’s viewpoint.
A simple stand-alone resource requiring nothing but printing. The sheet is a back to back sheet of A4 which can be folded into a mini A5 booklet for students to store in exercise books.
There are three extracts here from three Charles Dickens novels (*Oliver Twist, *). This is followed by five reading tasks and six writing tasks. This was originally set as cover work and can be completed independently, and is at least three lessons of work. It was created for KS3 but would still be appropriate at KS4 as it uses AQA Lanuguage Paper style tasks. Furthermore, students would not have needed to study Charles Dickens in order to complete this work.
The tasks are:
Reading the extracts provided
Simple list four things tasks (information retrieval)
A grid asking getting students to pick out information and make suggestions about the speech, appearance and behaviour of the upper class people.
Students are asked to write a paragraph about the presentation of the poor characters in each extract.
A task where students must use the extracts to explain what they think Dickens’ view was of the poor and how they were treated.
The writing tasks are varied between non-fiction tasks asking students to write artiles on the homeless, a speech on their attitude to education, a description of a rich house etc.
A simple and easy stand-alone resource. The sheet is a back to back sheet of A4 which can be folded into a mini A5 booklet for students to store easily in exercise books- it also requires minimal photocopying!
This Powerpoint was originally created to accompany a Travel writing unit in Year 8, although it could be used for any year group. There are 34 high quality images from a variety of locations across the globe. For the majority of the images the location is included in the notes on the Powerpoint.
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 2. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The two sources (with line numbers, on one page)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
The extracts are:
An 1835 article from The Evening Chronicle by Charles Dickens.
The opening extract from Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (1995).
Please note this mock paper is now available with indicative content for £3.50 here: Fire Colour One+ Markscheme
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 1. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The extract (with line numbers, on one page)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
The extract is taken from a book published in 2015, ‘Fire Colour One’.
Please note: this paper is also available as part of a bundle with 2 other papers with a discount.
Please note this mock paper is now available with indicative content for £3.50 here: Eagle Strike + Markscheme
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 1. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The extract (with line numbers, on one page)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
The extract is taken from a book published in 2003, ‘Eagle Strike’.
Please note: this paper is also available as part of a bundle with 2 other papers with a discount.
Please note this mock paper is now available with indicative content for £3.50 here: Call of the Wild+ Markscheme
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 1. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The extract (with line numbers, on one page)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
The extract is taken from a book published in 1903, ‘The Call of the Wild’.
Please note: this paper is also available as part of a bundle with 2 other papers with a discount.
A mock exam for AQA English Language GCSE - Paper 2. It is to the exact specification of the full paper. Included in the purchase is:
The two sources (with line numbers, on one page)
A shortened version of the questions - all five on one page (see image).
A full, AQA style, exam booklet. This contains all of the questions with the correct layout (as per the AQA exam) and the correct number of pages.
The extract s are:
The article ‘It isn’t about punishment from The Guardian. (2008)
The extract from Social Investigation/ Journalism- How the Poor Live. (1883)
