GCSE English Language Writing Planning (WJEC) is a resource to support learners with preparation for the writing section of Unit 3. It is particularly useful as a revision activity for learners at the C-D borderline. There are four separate writing tasks included in this resource, three sheets per task. Sheet 1 - a blank worksheet with the writing task at the top for learners to fill in Sheet 2 - scaffolding with general advice on planning Sheet 3 - an exemplar essay plan for the task There are two ‘persuade’ tasks and two ‘argue’ tasks. The genres covered include: article speech formal letter If you find this resource useful, you may want to look at the other GCSE English Language (WJEC) resources in my shop: Revision Pack - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-exam-revision-pack-wjec-12969501 Writing Support for C/D Borderline Learners - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-writing-tips-and-tricks-wjec-12969667 Reading Skills Card Sort - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-reading-skills-wjec-12979433 Individual Presentation Preparation Booklet - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-irp-booklet-wjec-12970177

The Paralympics 2024 Literacy Activities This editable PowerPoint contains 20 literacy-based activities based on the Paralympics 2024. These make perfect starter activities or form time tasks. Slides have a simple colour scheme so that they can be printed at a lower cost if hard copies are needed. As well as being enjoyable and competitive, these activities will encourage learners to apply their knowledge of the alphabet, vowels, consonants and languages. Activities include: placing words into alphabetical order matching terms to different languages anagrams identifying missing vowels/consonants word grids creating their own words There is also an Olympics 2024 Literacy Activities resource available - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13036737

Christmas 2024 Advent Calendar of English Literacy Activities Keep your students focused and on-task with this English Literacy Activities Advent Calendar. We all know that students find it harder to focus in the build-up to the Christmas holidays, so why not give them something festive to keep them occupied? This advent calendar has a literacy-based activity for each school day in December. With only minimal writing, students will complete activities that feel fun, but that also encourage them to think about words, spelling, vowels, consonants, and to apply their speaking, listening and reasoning skills. There are numerous different types of activity across the different days, so there is something for every learner here. These tasks are versatile and can be used as starters, treat tasks to end lessons, or even as a mid-way break during a lesson where focus is particularly hard to find! Examples of activities include: placing festive words in alphabetical order deciphering Christmas anagrams discussing the ideal Christmas dinner options visualising based on what they hear There is no prep required. Just load up the PowerPoint before the session and the day’s hyperlink will take you to the relevant activity. And if you need to get back to the main page, just click on the date icon in the corner. Create a sense of community. This advent calendar can create a sense of community within class or, better yet, across a whole year/school if every student starts their day with the same festive activity. NB: for anyone who purchased the 2023 version, activities are the same but hyperlinks have been updated

‘An Inspector Calls’ revision worksheets includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after studying the play. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters considering mood and atmosphere thinking critically of characters and their personality traits £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p!

Heroes by Robert Cormier Narrative Overivew is a four page account of the novel. This is particularly useful to give to GCSE English Literature students prior to reading the text, to provide them with an overview of key characters and events. This is also helpful during the revision stage when students can get confused about the order in which events appear in the text as the narrative isn’t linear.

The Merchant’s Tale (Chaucer) annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts: 33-54: presentation of January 318-341: presentation of marriage 611-638: presentation of January 948-972: presentation of January 1108-1133: presentation of January and May If you haven’t seen it already, there’s also a free annotated extract available - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13030820

A Valentine’s Day Colour by Number worksheet, including answer key. This worksheet is designed to help learners practise the key homophones there/their/they’re and to/too/two. This resource is suitable for pupils in primary, but could range beyond that depending on ability. It will take about 30 minutes to complete. In this task, pupils will select the correct use of the homophone to complete each sentence. Correct answers will provide a key to use to colour in the image. The image is suited to a Valentine’s Day activity. An answer key for staff is included for both elements of the worksheet.

An Inspector Calls Narrative Overivew is a three page account of the play. This is particularly useful to give to GCSE English Literature learners prior to reading the text, to provide them with an overview of key characters and events. This is also helpful during the revision stage to ensure that learners remember in which order the characters are questioned, which can become a point of confusion.

Inference Worksheets 1 - Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows These worksheets support learners in developing the skills of reading for meaning and making inferences. The teacher guide at the start helps you navigate through a series of activities that support learners in understanding a text. Each text will take approximately an hour to complete. These work particularly well with small groups of 3-6 learners but can be used 1-1 or with larger groups. These activities help learners to practise: making connections with current knowledge visualising questioning word meaning explaining subtext empathy prioritising summarising The two texts in this pack are extracts from Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows. Also available in my shop are: Inference Worksheets 2: Treasure Island & The Secret Garden Inference Worksheets 3: A Christmas Carol & The Wizard of Oz A bundle offer including all six extracts

World Oceans Day Literacy Activities This editable PowerPoint contains 20 literacy-based activities for World Oceans Day. These make perfect starter activities or form time tasks. Slides have a simple colour scheme so that they can be printed at a lower cost if hard copies are needed. As well as being enjoyable and competitive, these activities will encourage learners to apply their knowledge of the alphabet, vowels, consonants and languages. Activities include: placing words into alphabetical order matching terms to different languages anagrams identifying missing vowels/consonants word grids creating their own words

This ‘Heroes’ by Robert Cormier unit of work and PowerPoint is tailored towards teaching GCSE English Literature Unit 2 (WJEC). It has been trialled successfully in a classroom with learners with A*-D targets. The unit of work contains tasks that deal with different sections of the novel, and encourage learners to think about character, theme and language analysis. The structure of the unit accounts for time spent on each section, main learning activities, key vocabulary and the corresponding PowerPoint task. (There is also a suggested whole text question activity at the end). The editable PowerPoint includes 17 main activities that encourage learners to analyse different sections of the text. This is sold as an editable resource so that you can amend as needed for your classes, and so that you can incorporate appropriate exam practice as and when it is needed. (Page references are for the Penguin edition). You may also find these resources useful: Narrative summary:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-by-robert-cormier-narrative-overview-12970174 Essay structures: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-robert-cormier-essay-structures-12973423 A range of ‘An Inspector Calls’ tasks is also available if that is the second text you are studying with your learners in preparation for Unit 2.

‘King Lear Revision PowerPoint’ provides a range of activities to help learners target the following areas: narrative recall characters and relationships themes quotation language/terminology This has been trialled successfully with an A2 group completing the WJEC GCE English Literature Unit 4 exam. Activities include: answering key questions filling in blank spaces in key quotations identifying types of language that can be discussed in whole text question responses matching terminology to definitions linking quotations to characters and/or themes This has been uploaded as an editable PowerPoint so that it can be modified/edited/added to for the needs of the learners in your settings.

Halloween Word Games & Activities Pack for High School Keep your students engaged this Halloween with these short, seasonal literacy activities. This pack includes 10 no-prep English word activities with a seasonal twist to keep students focused. With only printing required, you can have students on-task within seconds of walking through the door. Four different seasonal activity types are included. Wordsearches, word grids, anagrams and a colour-by-number. Students will enjoy these activities that will feel like a Halloween reward but in reality gently encourage them to think about consonants, vowels, spelling and language features: trick or treat! They make great individual activities but can also be used as group/challenge task. Students love competition: why not set an activity a day and build up points towards the end of the week? Or why not have them as reward tasks for early finishers? There are different levels of challenge across the different types of activity so there’s something for every learner here, whatever their ability. You will get: three wordsearches three sheets of anagrams three word grid activities one colour-by-number activity This resource is perfect for your regular English class and is one I use as starter activities in the build-up to Halloween. This then leaves the colour-by-number as a reward once we get closer to the holidays. You could also use it with a form to give them a daily literacy boost in the build up to Halloween: cross-curricular skills…check! Prep is quick and easy. Just print and go! The resource has been designed so that the colours are seasonal but the worksheets are still clear if you have to print in grayscale. And there’s no need to frantically look through wordsearch grids…all answers are included for all activities. You may also like: Halloween Mega-Wordesearch, which turns into a colour-by-number once all words have been found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13125178

King Lear A-Level Quote Revision Game This resource is targeted towards A-Level students in need of key quotes revision. It is a great way to get students revising whilst making it feel like a game. There are 32 cards included, each containing a quote, act and character. A student will read the quote on their card, and students must identify whether the character on their card said this quote. They must also identify whether the character said it in the act specified on their card. Full instructions are included in the resource, as are all of the answers on a separate teacher sheet. There are also suggestions for differentiation, including making the game more or less challenging, as needed. If you found this resource helpful, you may also like: King Lear Exemplar Annotated Extracts - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-lear-a-level-extract-analysis-13018351 King Lear Revision Bundle - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-lear-a-level-revision-bundle-13019013

Creative Writing Prompt Cards | Upper Primary School-Lower High School These creative writing prompt cards would be useful for upper-primary or lower-high school aged students. There are five categories of cards: main character, setting, season/weather/time, emotion and object. The intention is for students to pick one card from each category and use these to create their own original story. This task can be differentiated up or down, depending on the needs of the students in the class, as outlined on the first page of the resource. If this product is helpful to you, you may also like to have a look at these products in my shop: Punctuation of Speech Activity: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/punctuation-of-speech-peter-pan-worksheet-12979465 Capital Letter Challenge Sheet: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/capital-letters-worksheet-the-secret-garden-12979226 Group Reading Task Sheet Bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/inference-worksheets-12974999

A Christmas Carol annotated extract. This resource will help GCSE English Literature students analyse extracts. There are differentiated versions of the worksheet depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of the worksheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There is another resource available containing five more extracts - one from each stave - to further support extract analysis. [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-annotated-extracts-12933695] There are also revision materials for the text available in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845 - a board game is a brilliant way to encourage revision without it feeling like hard work! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-worksheets-12942672 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-12938348