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
Edexcel English Language Paper 2 Section B resource. A fantastically detailed Edexcel English Language Paper 2 Section B or Transactional Writing knowledge organiser / revision mat that includes a step by step approach to non-fiction writing questions (Q8/9), purposes, audiences, forms, types of writing, sentence starters, key vocabulary, understanding structure and structural features, using punctuation, reflecting on spelling and punctuation, a detailed approach to evaluating texts, genre, beginnings, endings, tone, pace and more.
Fantastic revision materials for GCSE students for AQA English Language Paper 2 students. The resource includes an editable PowerPoint AND a PDF file to make things easier to print out onto A3 or A4 paper.
Myths and Legends KS3 English introduction lesson that looks at archetypes and character types in Robin Hood. Students find out about how we define both myths and legends, study the story of Robin Hood and use this to reflect on what different types of character are included and why. Useful for looking at genre, character and moving KS3 students towards English Language exams at GCSE.
Useful preparation for both Section A and Question 5 of GCSE English Language exams, but designed for KS3 students. Includes teacher and student notes.
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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
May 2023 An Inspector Calls model answer on what life is like for women - this model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Edwardian and post-war British society, how and why Priestley presents the female characters and what life was like for them throughout the play to convey his messages about politics in Britain after the conclusion of the Second World War.
TWENTY fully resourced hour long lessons to prepare students for Section B or Question 5 of the AQA English Language Paper 1 exam, but easily adaptable for other specifications.
The lessons provide students with modelled examples, mark scheme analysis, visual stimuli, sentence starters and differentiated activities to prepare them for writing their own pieces in exam conditions.
Descriptive Writing Introduction
Descriptive Writing - Zooming in
Sentence Types
Building Tone
Using Colour
Dashes, Semicolons and Colons
Past and Present Tenses
Language Techniques
Sentence Openers
Sentence Openers (Lower ability)
The Middle of Narratives (Structure)
Descriptive Writing Examples and Analysis
Descriptive Writing Practice
Improving Descriptive Writing Review
Understanding Genre
Understanding Character Through Description
Narrative Writing - Narrators and Perspectives
Endings to Narratives and Descriptions
Exam Practice Pack
FULL scheme of work
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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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A Gothic themed escape room around Gothic fiction lesson that helps students to reflect on their learning around themes, characters, settings, plots, structure, language, context and more. Very useful at the end of term, students work in escape room crews to get out of Dracula’s castle. Includes engaging puzzles and mysteries that actually help students to develop their knowledge, understanding and evaluation of key Gothic concepts. Designed by an English specialist. A really useful lesson for both KS3 and KS4 students at the end of term.
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Macbeth - Ten AQA English Literature Paper 1 exam style questions. Unlike other resources, this pack includes indicative content for each AO for EVERY question (over 24 pages of notes in total!) Additionally, student-friendly AOs are provided so students can actually access assessment objectives, and a self-reflection sheet is included that allows students to meaningfully reflect on their essays. Every a teacher and student could need to revise the Shakespeare element of the exam. Very useful Macbeth exam practice questions, too!
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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
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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
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Macbeth whole scheme package
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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
A fantastically detailed AQA English Language Paper 2 Section B or Question 5 knowledge organiser / revision mat that includes a step by step approach to non-fiction writing questions (Q5), purposes, audiences, forms, types of writing, sentence starters, key vocabulary, understanding structure and structural features, using punctuation, reflecting on spelling and punctuation, a detailed approach to evaluating texts, genre, beginnings, endings, tone, pace and more. A4 VERSION INCLUDED AS PART OF THE PACK FOR EASE OF PRINTING. Fantastic revision materials for GCSE students for AQA English Language Paper 2 students. The resource includes an editable PowerPoint AND a PDF file to make things easier to print out onto A3 paper.
UPDATE: Now includes a five page A4 version for ease of printing OR to use as revision flash cards!
Escape the Birlings’ house! We’ve put together this detailed English lesson that introduces or re-introduces language, structure, stagecraft and genre.
Students work in groups to escape the home of the Birling family and have to solve numerous puzzles and activities in order to get out.
Using an adventure story theme, this is a brilliant introduction lesson for studying William Shakespeare or first lesson back for all English students whether KS3 or KS4. It is also perfect for the end of term or end of year.
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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
AQA English Language Paper 1 revision lesson on Q4. We explore a fiction text on rugby and its impact on the narrator, and look in detail at the skills and timing needed for the evaluation question (Question 4) of the exam for the 2024 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets, differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, revision tips, timings, success criteria and more, as well as a model answer.
A really useful way of revising these questions in time for the Paper 1 exam in May 2024.
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AQA English Language Paper 2 revision lesson on Q1 and Q2. We explore two non-fictions text on travel and look in detail at the skills and timing needed for these opening questions of the exam for the 2024 summer.
The lesson includes a worksheet (printer symbol), differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, revision tips, timings, success criteria and more.
A really useful way of revising these questions in time for the Paper 2 exam in June 2024.
Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes is a brilliant poem but quite tough to teach. This detailed lesson goes through each section of the poem carefully, helping students to gain an understanding of its key themes and language features and allows them to build up their own independent interpretations. The pack also includes an older version of the lesson with different activities that could also be adapted for your students. One student I taught this lesson to said it was the “most I’ve ever learnt in an English lesson!” So take his word for it!
(GCSE 1hr PP with differentiated tasks, New Spec)
Focuses on Ted Hughes’ Bayonet Charge - part of the Power and Conflict bundle
For AQA Paper 2 Literature New Spec
Complete 1 hour, well differentiated lesson with worksheets
Suitable for KS4 or adaptable for KS3
Different level tasks for MA,LA or Core
Designed to fit Ofsted criteria for’ Good’ or above
June 2019 paper on ghosts in A Christmas Carol - this model essay or answer is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 1. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into the theme of ghosts and spirits, including Marley’s Ghost, The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
Please note that due to copyright restrictions, the actual question is not included in this resource, but it is available from the AQA website.
Our Day Out by Willy Russell complete scheme of work for KS3 English students that focuses on English Literature reading skills and literary analysis, useful in preparing students for GCSE English Literature exams, including on the modern text and modern drama.
Currently includes:
Our Day Out introduction lesson
Language analysis - Mrs Kay
Our Day Out context resources
Perspectives and attitudes lesson
Comparing characters, stage directions
Briggs changes and the zoo
Briggs language analysis and conversation with Mrs Kay
Mrs Kay lesson on the students’ futures and context
Tension lesson around Scene 35 (Carol and the cliff)
Ending lesson that explores different ways of ending a play
Structure across the play lesson
Themes revision lesson
13 and 14) Model essay and assessment preparation
Homework pack for six weeks with differentiated activities
Escape room for revision
Creative writing resources
Scheme of work document
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section B Question 5 walkthrough pack for the June 2023 paper.
Includes:
Activities for planning and writing the speech, writing to argue, writing for the specific audience (local council meeting)
A complete model answer for the June 2023 question
Advice and models for planning non-fiction writing
Exam walkthrough tasks
Exam tips and advice
Please note that the papers/sources are not included in this pack due to copyright restrictions.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
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AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
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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
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Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls - a detailed lesson on the final scene of the play AFTER Inspector Goole has left. The lesson looks at how Sheila Birling, Eric Birling, Arthur Birling, Sybil Birling and Gerald Croft react to the Inspector once he has left and how they interact with each other. We reflect on the type of ending JB Priestley provides us with and make our own interpretations about the final plot twist, plus evaluate what kind of impact Priestley was hoping to have on us as an audience. A really
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Escape Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre! We’ve put together this detailed English lesson that introduces or re-introduces language, structure, stagecraft and genre.
Students work in groups to escape The Globe Theatre and have to solve numerous puzzles and activities in order to get out.
Using an adventure story theme, this is a brilliant introduction lesson for studying William Shakespeare or first lesson back for all English students whether KS3 or KS4. It is also perfect for the end of term or end of year.
Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
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Myths and Legends English KS3 complete lessons pack that includes 19+ resource packs, all with differentiated activities, worksheets, video clips, engaging approaches to language, structure, organisation, vocabulary, characters, genre, language analysis, settings and many more aspects of narrative writing and descriptive writing and language analysis.
Includes:
Myths and Legends introduction lesson that looks at characters
Robin Hood extract language analysis lesson
Monsters and descriptive writing
Boudica lesson on legend key themes
Minotaur lesson looking at improving vocabulary for descriptive writing
Icarus and Daedalus lesson on language analysis
Settings lesson that explores building description for atmosphere and tone
Odysseus and Cyclops lesson on using evidence in analytical paragraphs
Structure lesson exploring the 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey
Aborigine stories and Dreamtime language analysis lesson
Hindu story, empathy and sympathy lesson
Commas and punctuation recap lesson
Knowledge organiser
Six weeks’ worth of homework activities
Beginning and ending narratives
Assessment planning
Spoken Language lesson
Assessment review lesson
Escape room for recapping and revision
Scheme of work document
Includes differentiated activities, engaging activities, worksheets, scaffolds, models and examples, perfect for KS3 English and those students approaching English Language Paper 1.
A Christmas Carol 2024 revision for English Literature Paper 1 revision lesson on themes, characters and messages. We explore some of the key themes in the five staves of Charles Dickens’ novel and consider how they tie in to the messages Dickens wanted to convey to his readers, helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2024 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets (printer symbol), differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising this novel in time for the Paper 1 exam in May 2024.
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Power and Conflict Poetry 2024 revision for English Literature Paper 2 revision lesson on comparing two anthology poems and exploring how their messages are similar and different and WHY.
We explore London by William Blake and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, around the theme of anger, analysing how the key messages and attitudes on this theme are similar or different, working as a template for students to compare messages around key themes for other poems, in turn helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2024 summer.
Additionally, we also explore the messages of Checking Out Me History by John Agard and Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes.
The lesson includes 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 2024.
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A fully differentiated and resourced An Inspector Calls lesson that focuses on Gerald and Sheila’s conversation before he is interviewed by the Inspector and how he perceives Sheila when she is speaking to him and after when the Inspector comes back at the end of Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2. Ideal preparation for KS3 and KS4 students preparing for their AQA GCSE English Literature exams.
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Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
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Or check out some Citizenship, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources