English GCSE and English KS3 resources by a lead practitioner. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance.
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English GCSE and English KS3 resources by a lead practitioner. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance.
Leave a review and choose any other single resource for free! Just get in touch at info@englishgcse.co.uk
2 x easy to use reading comprehension packs with three sections of differentiated questions. These activities focus what exactly county lines is, the attractions of joining a gang compared to what the reality is like, where teens can get help and why gang crime is on the increase.
It can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in an English lesson for KS3/4 GCSE comprehension training.
It is interesting, useful, very easy to use and includes an editable word version and a PDF version.
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Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene lesson, fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focuses on Shakespeare’s play and in particular the famous balcony scene (Act 2 Scene 2). We explore in detail the use of language from both Romeo and Juliet as they present themselves to each other. We look at how Romeo takes on the role of a romantic hero whilst Juliet attempts to be more cautious. A fantastic lesson for KS4 students preparing for exams and easily adaptable for KS3 students.
ELEVEN fully differentiated and resourced lessons that help students to develop comparisons between different poems within the Power and Conflict collection (AO3) AND a fantastically detailed knowledge organiser. AO3 is a particularly difficult skill for students of all abilities to develop, but these lessons will certainly help support them as they improve their ability to compare and contrast different poems.
Includes lessons comparing Poppies, War Photographer, Remains, Kamikaze, Charge of the Light Brigade, Bayonet Charge, Exposure and Ozymandias, as well as a model comparative essay, knowledge organiser and EXAM PRACTICE PACK (10 essays, all answers included).
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
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As we study A Midsummer Night’s Dream we look at Act 3 Scene 2 and how Puck’s mistake causes chaos and confusion between Hermia, Helena, Demetrius and Lysander. We analyse key quotes and create analytical paragraphs about how Shakespeare is able to build up tension within the scene. Includes video clips, differentiated activities, models, scaffolds, key quotes, sentence starters and more. Fully differentiated throughout.
Jekyll and Hyde revision session. Looks at key quotes, key themes, key characters are more, Includes a modelled analytical paragraph, an exam question and notes on key characters. A fully differentiated 1 hour revision lesson to prepare students for AQA English Literature Paper 1. Includes a mock exam question and a model analytical paragraph to help supports before their first English exam.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 lesson that focuses on structure - how to start a text, how to finish a text and how to shift between different foci throughout. We look at an extract and how the writer builds a coherent structure, thinking about the impact of changing the focus on the reader. A fully differentiated lesson for KS4 students that focuses on answering Q3 in AQA English Language Paper 1: structure. The lesson is built around the ‘I’m The King of the Castle’ chapter from Susan Hill’s novel that forms part of the AQA reading resource pack for Paper 1. This can be found here: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-87001-RSB.PDF
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
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AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
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An Inspector Calls revision package
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Macbeth revision package
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Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
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AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A lesson that explores how a writer builds tension through establishing character and structure in the first chapter of the text. Students learn about antagonists, cliffhangers, juxtaposition and more as they analyse how tension is maintained throughout the chapter. A fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focuses on the first chapter of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and explores how the writer builds tension throughout. Ideal preparation for KS3 and KS4 students for AQA English Language Paper 1.
Note: Due to copyright reasons, chapter one of The Da Vinci Code is not included.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
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AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
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Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
AQA English Language Paper 1 Q4 lesson that supports students in critically evaluating a text. Q4 is always seen as quite a difficult one for students to approach, but this lesson uses pie charts and graphs to help them see how they can make interpretations around a text and judge a statement in response to the text. A fully differentiated and resourced lesson that helps students to analyse a text in order to answer Q4-style questions. The lesson, ideal for both KS3 and KS4 students preparing for AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A, focuses on a short extract and provides differentiated challenges to suit a wide range of abilities.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
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Animal Farm lesson that focuses on the first half of Chapter 2. A fully resourced and differentiated 1 hour lesson for KS3 and KS4 students based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, specifically Chapter Two. Students analyse key sections of the chapter to develop an understanding of characters, plot and also historical context. Recently revamped and expanded.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
We use Christmas, Santa and the festive season as a stimulus for improving our punctuation and grammar. Includes differentiated worksheets on a number of areas including commas, full stops, capital letters, semicolons, dashes, paragraphs and more! A fantastically detailed and differentiated lesson that can be adapted for other texts and age groups.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
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Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
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KS3 English poetry lesson exploring Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Designed for English KS3 students, we explore key themes and ideas, as well as the use language in order to present ideas around the American Dream and inequality. We begin to think about essay writing and plan out an introduction to an assessment.
Includes differentiated activities, engaging activities and extensive teacher and student notes.
Perfect GCSE English Literature preparation for KS3 English students and for unseen poetry, poetry anthology preparation and more.
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This lesson forms part of our KS3 Complete Pack. Find out more here.
AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Revise AQA English Language Paper 1 through an engaging ‘escape room’ lesson! It is filled with codes, puzzles and activities to get students to revise terminology and skills as they work in groups or ‘escape crews’ to get out of the locked setting! Includes answers for every mystery and puzzle (see the notes attached in the PowerPoint) and is a brilliant way to help students in their revision for AQA English Language Paper 1 - but can easily be tweaked for other exam boards too including OCR,WJEC, EDUQAS, Edexcel and so on.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
Revise AQA English Language Paper 2 through an engaging ‘escape room’ lesson! It is filled with codes, puzzles and activities to get students to revise terminology and skills as they work in groups or ‘escape crews’ to get out of the locked setting! Includes answers for every mystery and puzzle (see the notes attached in the PowerPoint) and is a brilliant way to help students in their revision for AQA English Language Paper 2 - but can easily be tweaked for other exam boards too including OCR,WJEC, EDUQAS, Edexcel and so on.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
Edexcel English Language Paper 1 Walkthrough. Includes: 1 hr well differentiated PP, a mock exam-style paper based on GCSE English Language Paper 1 specimen papers and possible answers paper, for both the teacher and student to use in their self assessment tasks.
Could do over 2 lessons, a ‘mock mock’ to aid preparation for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 Section A.
The questions focus on the Birdsong extract provided in this GCSE English Language reading resource. You can find this here: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-87001-RSB.PDF
Questions can be completed in timed conditions (with approximate times provided in the resources) to improve students’ abilities to work in exam conditions.
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2020 Unseen Poetry model answer for BOTH questions on I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca and The sun has burst the sky by Jenny Joseph.
This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2 (2023 onwards) or Paper 1 (2022 and before). Includes two answers that weaves together language and structure analysis, relevant comparisons how and why the two writers present their poems in relation to caring for others.
2022 Jekyll and Hyde model answer on Jekyll as a mysterious character. This model essay or answer is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Victorian society, how Jekyll is presented, and the mystery around him is in turn used by Stevenson to communicate messages on morality and humanity.
Revise Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 1 Question 7/8 or Section B with this mammoth 46 slide revision and exam practice pack!
Contains:
Revision guide for students OR resources that could be used for revision lessons for teachers
Modelled examples included that cover writing to argue and writing to explain, as well as letters and magazine articles
Step-by-step guides to writing for all purposes, audience and forms or types
Self-reflection sheets for students to reflect on their own writing
The perfect exam practice questions and revision pack for Edexcel English Language 2.0 Paper 1 Section B, but easily adaptable for other exam boards.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
KS3 English - over 250 English report comments to help complete secondary English reports. An extensive bank of statements that will help you create individual and differentiated paragraphs for each student. They are divided up into:
Effort
Reading
Writing
Speaking and Listening
There are enough comments to create tailored paragraphs for a whole class. They cover a wide range of skills and knowledge and the documents are fully editable so you can quickly personalise them for your students.
Includes comments on:
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Narrative Writing
Creative Writing
Descriptive Writing
Analysing texts
Summary skills
Evaluation
Analysis
Language analysis
Information retrieval
Reading for pleasure
Perfect for KS4 and adaptable for KS4/GCSE students.
They are differentiated in three categories: lower ability, middle ability and high ability, as well as being in boy, girl and gender neutral versions so you won’t need to spend time adjusting the pronouns and vocabulary throughout.
Perfect for ECTs
Differentiated by LA, MA and HA
Includes strengths and areas to improve
Boy, girl and gender neutral/non-binary versions included
2024 Jekyll and Hyde model answer on Stevenson building an atmosphere of fear and danger. This model essay or answer is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Victorian society, how atmospheres or moods are created and used by Stevenson to communicate messages on morality and humanity.
Unseen Poetry 2025 revision for English Literature Paper 2 revision lesson on structure and form and how these tie into messages and ideas within the poem. We explore the organisation and order of the the stanzas, including rhyme, caesuras, enjambment, form, quatrains and more. We make links between structure, form and messages/ideas, helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2025 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets (printer symbol), differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising poetry in time for the Paper 2 exam in May 2025.
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