English: Supporting struggling students

Strategies, guides and activity ideas to support secondary examination students as they develop their reading and writing skills

Tes Resources Team

Teacher supporting struggling KS4 secondary English Students with resources

Help lower attaining students build confidence and develop their written skills with these popular tools, strategies and activity ideas

With a new term underway, it's the perfect time to continue to build your lower attaining learners' confidence and encourage them to recall and revise key strategies, in preparation for assessments. From writing and exam skills booklets, to knowledge organisers and structure strips, we have brought together a selection of materials you could introduce to your students.

Booklets

English Home Learning Packs KS3
Sarah Graham

English Home Learning Packs KS3

FREE
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Here are two 30+ page English work packs I made for my SEMH Y8 and Y9 students who are self-isolating. It has sections on SPaG, reading and writing, with an extras section at the back with some fun creative tasks. They will easily suit upper KS2 though. They might look a bit wonky in the preview...
AQA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE support booklet
mariaprior

AQA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE support booklet

£1.00
(0)
A complete support guide for AQA GCSE English language. Designed to scaffold students in a highly structured and formulaic way, to a Grade 4 or 5 pass at GCSE. It demystifies questions, provides techniques, writing templates and model answers. Invaluable for lower ability, EAL or re-sit students....
AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5: Creative Writing Booklet
laurajholder

AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5: Creative Writing Booklet

£3.00
(6)
You are purchasing a 16 page booklet which takes students through the skills and structure of the P1Q5 task. You will recieve the .pdf and .doc files (please note because of the fonts used the word document may change from the pdf.) This was used for a 3 hour revision writing workshop. The PowerPoin...

Structure strips

STRUCTURE STRIP
Shamima A

STRUCTURE STRIP

FREE
(5)
This structure strip was created for KS4 GCSE Literature based essays. Can be used with any text/play and allows students to understand the Assessment Objectives clearly.
Poetry comparison structure strips
redwoodperformance

Poetry comparison structure strips

£2.00
(0)
A set of three poetry comparison structure strips to help ensure students hit all aspects of the mark scheme in their response. Simply stick them in the margin and set students off on a question and encourage them to use the strip to remind them of the importance of covering all parts of the questi...

Knowledge organisers

English Literature Knowledge Organiser/ Writing Mats (AQA)
Georgina O'Toole

English Literature Knowledge Organiser/ Writing Mats (AQA)

FREE
(24)
These knowledge organisers provide a quick guide for pupils to help them write effective answers for AQA English Literature paper 1 and paper 2 with poetry on one side and fiction on the other. Keep them on your classroom desks to use as writing mats, or give them to students to revise from. Each on...
AQA English Language Paper 1 Knowledge Organiser
EnglishGCSEcouk

AQA English Language Paper 1 Knowledge Organiser

£3.00
(3)
A fantastically detailed AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A knowledge organiser / revision mat that includes a step by step approach to all four Section A questions (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4), scaffolded answers, sentence starters, key vocabulary, language feature analysis, structural feature analysis, a ...
Unseen Poetry Knowledge Organiser
EnglishGCSEcouk

Unseen Poetry Knowledge Organiser

£3.00
(2)
A fantastically detailed unseen poetry knowledge organiser / revision mat that includes a step by step approach to both AQA English Literature Paper 2 unseen poetry questions, language analysis, structure and form analysis, and key content information, as well as detailed info on meter, language, rh...