I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
This handy resource breaks down what you need to do for each question. Laminate this so students can grab them when they answer questions as this will boost their independence and focus them on the specific points they need to remember.
Question: How does Scrooge change throughout the novella?
If you are teaching GCSE Lit A Christmas Carol and need more extracts and questions, here is an extract on the novella with an exam question for year 11 students to practice their skills. Spend ten minutes of the lesson annotating the extract and then consider the wider novella. Then get the students to answer the question in exam conditions, or collaborative to support each other.
A fab resource that can be laminated and placed on tables to support students when writing. This considers the five ways you can vary your sentences to make writing more engaging and imaginative for readers.
Three fully differentiated lessons that focus on the character of the Witches in the play. The lessons are exam focused for year 11 and use bronze, silver and gold to challenge all learners.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
An engaging article to hook your students and to get them to think about tone, humour and the development of ideas for this transactional writing task. It is differentiated using bronze, silver, gold so students have clear level of challenge when they are evaluating the article.
Students need to know the importance of why Dickens wrote a novella and why he used the traditional form of a ghost story. This handy worksheet offers three tasks, which allow them to improve their knowledge of this to use for their examination responses.
A GCSE exam question for students to revise for their GCSE Literature examination. Focus on annotating the extract for 5 minutes (making sure students use subject terminology) then consider the question with regards to the whole play. The students can either write collaboratively, or in exam conditions after the teacher has modelled how to write one point on the board.
A GCSE exam question for students to revise for their GCSE Literature examination. Focus on annotating the extract for 5 minutes (making sure students use subject terminology) then consider the question with regards to the whole play. The students can either write collaboratively, or in exam conditions after the teacher has modelled how to write one point on the board.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
There are three revision lessons for Macbeth that are fully differentiated with bronze, silver, gold tasks, including ‘challenge’ tasks to stretch the most able. The lessons include model answers, bell tasks, learning objectives, key quotes, opportunities for self/peer assessment and plenaries to conclude the lessons. I have used these in the run up to the exam as each lesson leads carefully to a GCSE exam style question, which the students will be able to answer having completed the starter activities and other learning activities which provide them with the information to plan and write their own responses. These worked very well with my own year 11 classes as they found them very useful in developing the length and quality of their exam responses.
A colour coded grid of retention questions for Dickens ACC that helps to ensure secure understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and key quotes.
A differentiated set of lessons designed to get students to consider the meaning of the poem, why Emily Dickinson wrote the poem and allows for opportunities for students to comment on language and structure (AO2) needed for their literature examinations.
A fully differentiated set of lessons that has the LOs running on every slide. The lessons use bronze, silver and gold tasks to challenge all learners and gives opportunities for students to develop their transactional writing skills, much needed for the Language examination for every exam board.
A set of lessons that help develop students' speech writing skills for their GCSE English language examination. They include bell tasks/starters, main and development and a plenary. These three lessons also include a mini assessment. The LOs are on each slide to be referred throughout the lessons and they are differentiated.
A fully differentiated lesson for the unseen poems used for the EDUQAS WJEC examination in 2015. This is a fantastic lesson to get students to consider how to compare two poems and what they should consider.
