A music glossary for classical and romantic music techniques with 3 levels of differentiation.
A music glossary for twentieth century music technique with 3 levels of differentiation.
Suitable for cover work or as homework to revise for a listening test.
6 worksheets to support the teaching of descriptive writing about WW1 trench warfare.
To prepare KS2 and 3 students for the AQA GCSE exam on creative writing, the writing is inspired by a specific image.
The worksheets cover figurative language, sensuous descriptions, planning and model examples.
5 unseen war poems. This double sided A3 worksheet is ideal to set as cover work.
It includes 5 poems differentiated by difficulty and instructions for 4 lessons.
I created this when I knew I was going to be off for a week.
Differentiated resources for a short project (2-4 weeks) based on James Bond Themes. They are all in the same key with and without notes. Some tablature themes have also been provided. The task for students is to create a James Bond Theme arrangement using multiple themes and creating rhythms to match this. The powerpoint includes differentiated success criteria for individual practise and group arrangement.
Sibelius files are also available.
Resources which enable students to create an ensemble performance of My Heart Will Go On.
Parts include keyboard, vocals, guitar melody, bass line and ukulele chords (with and without note names). A Sibelius file is also provided and a platinum piano part (2 hands with broken chord left hand) is also provided.
Students look at the actual survivors the Titanic, many of which have interesting names, and must produce a vocal performance based around ostinati and texture.
A worksheet of survivors and their lifeboat is provided, as well as a powerpoint to describe differentiated tasks and texture definitions.
A worksheet to encourage students to think in an allegorical way to introduce the themes in Animal Farm by George Orwell. Using characters in a typical school, they consider which animal would best represent each of the stock school characters. They then write a short story in which the animal students take over the running of the animal school.
A 10 week scheme of work which includes performance of film motifs, arrangements of well known film themes and a composition project.
All lessons are differentiated and tasks are provided on powerpoints with push you thinking ideas.
Resources are provided for each lesson and a Sibelius file is also given for all music clips. All notation is given with and without note names and tab is also provided for some motifs.
A helpsheet containing 10 generic ways that students can improve their sentences in a second draft of a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Ideal for Key Stage 2/3 or for low ability students at Key Stage 4. Examples are included.
The 10 strategies are differentiated in order of difficulty and are designed to help students in a mixed ability class to respond to feedback on narrative writing by selecting the methods to help them improve.
A wide range comprehension questions on each Stave of the novella with differentiation to help you find the right level of difficulty for your classes. The previews should give you an idea about the quality and relevance of the questioning. I recommend collating together to make a text book for students to work through.
Worksheet and PowerPoint for analysing Shelter’s word choice and extending explanations on Shelter’s character. There is also an intro activity based on the covers of the book and an activity to encourage students to come up with two alternative interpretations.
A lesson to guide students on how to write a film review of Stone Cold by Robert Swindells.
The writing frame on the PowerPoint is differentiated which works well as a carousel activity so that students can write up the review first in a group before working independently.
There is also a graphic organiser to help students plan their film review.
As I am sure you are aware, the film is available on youtube.
A famous extract from Chapter 2 of Oliver Twist with an exam style question and a writing frame to help students explore the extract. Ideal to use with Key Stage 3 to prepare them for Key Stage 4.
A collection of continually updated PowerPoints, writing frames, model essays, revision grids, planning sheets, guided annotations and comprehension worksheets on the poems from the ‘Power and Conflict’ section of the AQA anthology. There are also various resources examining how best to structure discriminating comparisons.
I do have other power and conflict resources available:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301
Model answers:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-grade-9-model-essays-12213236
Revision cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
Planning sheet and writing frame to guide students through how to answer a GCSE style exam question on the theme of family in A Christmas Carol (GCSE 1-9).
I created this for a cover lesson on Act 2 Scene 3 of Macbeth.
Students must read each extract from the scene and write a PEE paragraph explaining how each character reacts to news of Duncan’s death.
A growing collection of resources on Oliver Twist.
Includes a close focus on Chapter 2 (workhouse and Fagin) and Chapter 48 (Nancy’s death) with exam style activities.
20 premium resources created specifically for the GCSE examination on A Christmas Carol. This is a bundle full of lessons and resources that I have consistently developed and improved over the past 7 years based on student and teacher feedback.
Includes:
10 grade 9 model answers
Multiple exam style questions
25 extract revision booklet
19th century context resources
Bob Cratchit analysis and response
Fred lesson
Scrooge’s transformation lesson
Scrooge in Stave 1 analysis
Theme revision cards
Analysis of the ghosts
Generic and specific writing frames
Analysis of Christmas in Stave 3
Comprehension questions on each Stave
Lessons and activities on Stave 2
Analysis of Ignorance and Want extract
Knowledge organiser quotation revision sheets
Revision lesson of big ideas
Revision sheet and task based on 50 key quotations
100 question knowledge quiz
Plus a lot more. Check out all the previews!