Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling Knowledge OrganiserQuick View
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Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling Knowledge Organiser

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A nine page Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Knowledge Organiser. This document is organised into tables which include: definitions, examples and other information on different types of word classes; definitions, rules and examples of tense types; information on changing a words class using affixes; information on subject-verb-object; active and passive voice; subject-verb agreement rules and examples; sentence types, definitions and examples; a generic glossary of terms; punctuation symbols, names, uses and examples; and common mistakes and confusions. A perfect go-to resource for students and teachers. Suitable as a reference guide for primary and secondary education in English. This has been updated to reflect the changes to the grammatical terms now taught at KS2. These grids can be turned into reference posters or used as literacy mats as part of a classroom resource bank. Also a useful resource for newly qualified teachers, or teachers wanting to develop their subject knowledge! Particularly if, like me, you were never taught grammar explicitly at school, and you need to catch up with the Year 6s and 7s!
Macbeth Essay Ingredients - AQA GCSE English LiteratureQuick View
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Macbeth Essay Ingredients - AQA GCSE English Literature

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A helpful guide to the ‘ingredients’ (assessment objectives) needed to access the full range of marks for the study of Macbeth at GCSE English Literature (AQA). This sheet includes an explanation of each assessment objective (AO1, 2, 3 and 4), details on where to include it in an essay, examples of what a candidate might include to cover AO2 (analysis of language, form and structure of the play) and AO3 (contextual factors), and top tips for essay writing. This sheet is ideal for use as a checklist to support students through their early essay writing in Year 10, or a revision resource for students in Year 11.
Literary Terms Revision Posters / Flashcards (126 slides)Quick View
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Literary Terms Revision Posters / Flashcards (126 slides)

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An extensive guide to literary devices/ techniques/ terminology, perfect for helping students to access the marks for Assessment Objective 2 at GCSE English Literature and English Language, and AO1 and AO2 at A-Level English Literature. The resource contains 126 slides of around 200 literary terms/devices, from ‘alliteration’ to ‘zoomorphism.’ These slides are ideal for classroom displays if printed as posters (I am laminating them and hanging them from the ceiling), but can also be turned into revision cards for high ability students to stretch and challenge them. Additionally, they can function as part of a ‘spot the technique’ game - divide them amongst the class and they work in groups to find the techniques in the literature they have studied. One point for every technique found and an extra two points for some thoughtful commentary on its effect in the text. Also a useful resource for newly qualified teachers, or teachers wanting to develop their subject knowledge! (I’m still learning them!)
An Inspector Calls Essay Ingredients - AQA GCSE English LiteratureQuick View
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An Inspector Calls Essay Ingredients - AQA GCSE English Literature

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A helpful guide to the ‘ingredients’ (assessment objectives) needed to access the full range of marks for the study of An Inspector Calls at GCSE English Literature (AQA). This sheet includes an explanation of each assessment objective (AO1, 2, 3 and 4), details on where to include it in an essay, examples of what a candidate might include to cover AO2 (analysis of language, form and structure of the play) and AO3 (contextual factors), and top tips for essay writing. This sheet is ideal for use as a checklist to support students through their early essay writing in Year 10, or a revision resource for students in Year 11.
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An Inspector Calls Revision Tarsia

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A tarsia is a jigsaw puzzle that you solve by matching up sides of small triangles. This building of triangles results in the creation of a bigger shape (in this case a bigger triangle). Tarsias encourage teamwork and problem solving skills. This challenging revision tarsia asks GCSE English Literature students to match An Inspector Calls terminology with quotes/evidence from the text. Suitable for developing students’ knowledge of terminology and for revising key quotes. See below for some suggested activities - this resource could be used as a short starter activity, or as a stimulus for a whole lesson. Teacher note: The tarsia is in its solved form. Cut these up (or ask a helpful tutor group to) before giving them to the students. **Suggested activities: ** Starter: Put your tarsia together in your group/pair (be careful, some quotes might match more than one technique, but there is only one way to put the whole triangle together)! Activity 1: Once you have put your tarsia together, pick three paired quotes/techniques. Write a paragraph analysing each. You must: explain which theme/idea/message in the text it relates to, give the evidence/quote, label the technique, analyse how the use of that technique/language reinforces the writer’s message, and include contextual awareness. Activity 2: When you are finished, join your group/pair again and make your own revision tarsia on any of the following: quotes and techniques (as above), context points and how they influence the text, key quotes and the characters that speak them, or key quotes and the themes they relate to. When you have finished, swap tarsias with another group/pair and solve them.
Jekyll and Hyde Essay Ingredients - AQA GCSE English LiteratureQuick View
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Jekyll and Hyde Essay Ingredients - AQA GCSE English Literature

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A helpful guide to the ‘ingredients’ (assessment objectives) needed to access the full range of marks for the study of The Strenge Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at GCSE English Literature (AQA). This sheet includes an explanation of each assessment objective (AO1, 2, and 3), details on where to include it in an essay, examples of what a candidate might include to cover AO2 (analysis of language, form and structure of the novel) and AO3 (contextual factors), and top tips for essay writing. This sheet is ideal for use as a checklist to support students through their early essay writing in Year 10, or a revision resource for students in Year 11.
Macbeth Revision Tarsia - English Literature GCSEQuick View
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Macbeth Revision Tarsia - English Literature GCSE

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A tarsia is a jigsaw puzzle that you solve by matching up sides of small triangles. This building of triangles results in the creation of a bigger shape (in this case a bigger triangle). Tarsias encourage teamwork and problem solving skills. This challenging revision tarsia asks GCSE English Literature students to match the Macbeth terminology with quotes/evidence from the text. Suitable for developing students’ knowledge of terminology and for revising key quotes. See below for some suggested activities - this resource could be used as a short starter activity, or as a stimulus for a whole lesson. Teacher note: The tarsia is in its solved form. Cut these up (or ask a helpful tutor group to) before giving them to the students. **Suggested activities: ** Starter: Put your tarsia together in your group/pair (be careful, some quotes might match more than one technique, but there is only one way to put the whole triangle together)! Activity 1: Once you have put your tarsia together, pick three paired quotes/techniques. Write a paragraph analysing each. You must: explain which theme/idea/message in the text it relates to, give the evidence/quote, label the technique, analyse how the use of that technique/language reinforces the writer’s message, and include contextual awareness. Activity 2: When you are finished, join your group/pair again and make your own revision tarsia on any of the following: quotes and techniques (as above), context points and how they influence the text, key quotes and the characters that speak them, or key quotes and the themes they relate to. When you have finished, swap tarsias with another group/pair and solve them.
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High Rise Mystery Unit KS3

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**Full unit on the novel High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson ** Aimed at Year 7 6 weeks worth of lessons (3 lessons a week,18 lessons in total) Includes a homework menu Includes summaries for each of the 62 chapters in case there is not enough time in the term to read the whole text Unit Aims We will use the detective novel, High Rise Mystery We will read for pleasure We will unpick the plot with all its twists and turns We will look at structural techniques a writer uses (such as paratexts and epistolary form), how they help shape the plot and their effect on the reader We will ‘zoom in’ on the language choices a writer makes, considering how they help us picture the characters/events/locations and how they make us feel We will listen to the author’s top tips and use our understanding to write independently and creatively We will complete a weekly homework from a menu that offers reading, writing and creative choices
Marking Codes: Save Time Marking!Quick View
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Marking Codes: Save Time Marking!

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These codes have been created from collating all the class feedback I’ve given over a number of years that I’ve kept in a folder when making feedback lessons. It has taken a lot of time to collate and organise the years of feedback, but it has saved an incredible amount of time in marking since! There is a feedback code for each question of the English GCSE papers. Suitable for use in DIRT Time (Directed improvement and reflection time) and feedback lessons Created for the AQA English Literature and Language style questions Codes for each question of the papers for both GCSEs Suitable for KS3 and KS4 – choose the marking code that most closely resembles the task Adapt the document to your own needs, editing where necessary (I rarely need to do this – the codes seem to cover most feedback I want to give) Great for new teachers Great for GCSE mock-marking and KS3 end-of-year/unit assessments Teacher-friendly: Saves time marking (you no longer have to write the same feedback for a number of students) Saves time planning (slides can be copied, pasted and highlighted and/or adapted for feedback lessons, rather than creating slides from scratch) Easy to record student targets and areas of strength in teacher-markbook. Easy to see patterns and trends in feedback to ensure teaching is focused on class’s areas of weakness. Student-friendly: Students write down feedback themselves which forces them to read it! No more ignored marking! Clear strategies and next steps for students.
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Mark Schemes with Individual Grade Boundaries

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English Language and Literature Mark Schemes A booklet for all the mark schemes for AQA-style English GCSE questions. This was initially created when we moved away from the old National Curriculum Levels at KS3 and is used to mark work at KS3 and KS4 to ensure that the skills students are developing all build towards the ultimate goal. Each mark scheme has the breakdown of marks into bands based on the most recent years grade boundaries (2019 in this case because of the disruptions to assessment). Every year, I edit the numbers and print a new set of mark schemes based on the most recent grade boundaries. Includes Word Document to adapt each year for new grade boundaries and PDF for ease of printing in booklet form
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Performance Poetry: Mini Unit

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4 week mini-unit aimed at Year 9, consisting of 8 lessons in total. English Language Assessment Objectives Reading and analysis skills (AO2 analysis of language structure and form) Writing creatively (AO5, 6) Performance, speaking and listening (AO7, 8, 9) Weekly homework The lessons are thematic, organised around the following ideas: Family and relationships Society: its problems and solutions Home and who we live there with Beyond myself Featuring performance poets: Daniel Beaty Hollie McNish Akala Harry Baker Francesca Beard George the Poet Kae Tempest
Jekyll and Hyde Revision TarsiaQuick View
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Jekyll and Hyde Revision Tarsia

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A tarsia is a jigsaw puzzle that you solve by matching up sides of small triangles. This building of triangles results in the creation of a bigger shape (in this case a bigger triangle). Tarsias encourage teamwork and problem solving skills. This challenging revision tarsia asks GCSE English Literature students to match the Jekyll and Hyde terminology with quotes/evidence from the text. Suitable for developing students’ knowledge of terminology and for revising key quotes. See below for some suggested activities - this resource could be used as a short starter activity, or as a stimulus for a whole lesson. Teacher note: The tarsia is in its solved form. Cut these up (or ask a helpful tutor group to) before giving them to the students. **Suggested activities: ** Starter: Put your tarsia together in your group/pair (be careful, some quotes might match more than one technique, but there is only one way to put the whole triangle together)! Activity 1: Once you have put your tarsia together, pick three paired quotes/techniques. Write a paragraph analysing each. You must: explain which theme/idea/message in the text it relates to, give the evidence/quote, label the technique, analyse how the use of that technique/language reinforces the writer’s message, and include contextual awareness. Activity 2: When you are finished, join your group/pair again and make your own revision tarsia on any of the following: quotes and techniques (as above), context points and how they influence the text, key quotes and the characters that speak them, or key quotes and the themes they relate to. When you have finished, swap tarsias with another group/pair and solve them.
Assessment Tools for EnglishQuick View
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Assessment Tools for English

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Bundle includes: my mark schemes adapted from AQA’s Literature and Language mark schemes with the grade boundaries alongside each mark/level, all in one easy-printable booklet to use for all marking in English (KS3 and 4). my marking codes slides which have been created from collating all the class feedback I’ve given since the GCSE changes in 2017. There is feedback for each AQA style question and I use these for feedback for KS3 and 4. MARK SCHEMES: English Language and Literature Mark Schemes A booklet for all the mark schemes for AQA-style English GCSE questions. This was initially created when we moved away from the old National Curriculum Levels at KS3 and is used to mark work at KS3 and KS4 to ensure that the skills students are developing all build towards the ultimate goal. Each mark scheme has the breakdown of marks into bands based on the most recent years grade boundaries (2019 in this case because of the disruptions to assessment). Every year, I edit the numbers and print a new set of mark schemes based on the most recent grade boundaries. Includes Word Document to adapt each year for new grade boundaries and PDF for ease of printing in booklet form MARKING CODES: These codes have been created from collating all the class feedback I’ve given over a number of years that I’ve kept in a folder when making feedback lessons. It has taken a lot of time to collate and organise the years of feedback, but it has saved an incredible amount of time in marking since! There is a feedback code for each question of the English GCSE papers. Suitable for use in DIRT Time (Directed improvement and reflection time) and feedback lessons Created for the AQA English Literature and Language style questions Codes for each question of the papers for both GCSEs Suitable for KS3 and KS4 – choose the marking code that most closely resembles the task Adapt the document to your own needs, editing where necessary (I rarely need to do this – the codes seem to cover most feedback I want to give) Great for new teachers Great for GCSE mock-marking and KS3 end-of-year/unit assessments Teacher-friendly: Saves time marking (you no longer have to write the same feedback for a number of students) Saves time planning (slides can be copied, pasted and highlighted and/or adapted for feedback lessons, rather than creating slides from scratch) Easy to record student targets and areas of strength in teacher-markbook. Easy to see patterns and trends in feedback to ensure teaching is focused on class’s areas of weakness. Student-friendly: Students write down feedback themselves which forces them to read it! No more ignored marking! Clear strategies and next steps for students.
Literature Essay Ingredients and Revision TarsiasQuick View
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Literature Essay Ingredients and Revision Tarsias

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Bundle includes 7 resources: 3x ‘Essay Ingredients’ handouts for AQA English Literature texts: An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Three-Step Approach to Poetry handout (including unseen) 3x Revision Tarsias for An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (these can be used as a starter task and/or can form a whole lesson if you follow the activity suggestions on the sheets)
Top Marks Terminology!  Displays/Visual Glossaries/Flash CardsQuick View
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Top Marks Terminology! Displays/Visual Glossaries/Flash Cards

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This bundle is suitable for English teachers to use as classroom displays, glossaries, or flash cards as part of analytical activities. I have these laminated and hanging from my ceiling. It includes: My Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Knowledge Organiser (an extensive document compiling the grammatical terms. Useful for all levels, particularly for GCSE students’ development of word class terminology) My Literary Terms Slides (126 slides of top-marks terminology for KS3, GCSE and A-Level)
Year 9 Non-Fiction Unit (for Paper 2 AQA Lang):  Getting Your Voice HeardQuick View
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Year 9 Non-Fiction Unit (for Paper 2 AQA Lang): Getting Your Voice Heard

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Year 9, Non-fiction: Getting Your Voice Heard This unit of work aims to teach the** five main text types that AQA assess** (essay, letter, article, leaflet, speech), to prepare Year 9 students for paper 2 of their English Language GCSE. They will have the opportunity to read and respond to a wide range of different non-fiction text types, summarise, analyse language, compare, and write their own. Each lesson focuses on a particular text type. The lessons are united by their focus on identity, encouraging students to reflect on different factors of their own identity and use the different forms of writing to ‘get their voices heard’. **Fully resourced unit with 21 lessons which include PowerPoints, extracts and homework. Ready to pick up and teach. ** Themes: gender, personality, class, religion, race, age, experience, place, beliefs and causes. Extracts from: Judith Butler, Cordelia Fine, Susan Cain, Johnathan Swift, Bobby Henderson, Zora Neale Hurston, Cameron Kasky, Alex Shipman, Cathy O’Dowd, Malala Yousafzai, Akala
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Mermaid Myths in Literature

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Gender and The Sirens This KS3 English lesson compares writers viewpoints and perspectives using texts that explore the mermaid myth, with a focus on gender. This is designed as two double lessons but could easily be stretched over a longer period. We look at: Extract from Homer’s Odyssey Hans Christian Anderson’s short story, ‘The Little Mermaid’ Disney’s film, The Little Mermaid Studio Ghibli’s film, Ponyo Rebecca Boroson’s short story, ‘The Roussalka’
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Cinderella Stories Across Different Cultures

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This KS3 lesson is designed as two lessons (both included in this download), but the number of resources mean that it could be adapted across a longer series of lessons. It involves group work which looks at 11 different Cinderella stories from across the world, summarising and comparing, and culminates in independent creative writing. Download is fully resourced with all the texts.
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Three-Step Approach to Poetry

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A simple three-step guide to approaching poetry. Perfect for helping students to analyse poetry in lessons (including GCSE anthology poems). Also a useful technique to memorise for tackling unseen poetry in exams. This resource includes a simple three-step approach, and a detailed table with explanation of the poetry-analysis mnemonic, ‘I Cant Stand Vicious Lemons’ (ICSVL). The ICSVL table includes lists of language and structural techniques that students can look out for in poetry. This resource can be used as a poster, printed for students’ revision, or turned into poetry mats as part of a classroom resources corner. NB. A helpful companion to this is the ‘Literary Terms Revision Posters / Flashcards (126 slides)’ also in my shop - that particular resource contains 126 slides of more in-depth definitions for around 200 literary terms/devices, from ‘alliteration’ to ‘zoomorphism.’