Two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘A Wife in London’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Philip Larkin’s ‘Afternoons’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘Excerpt from The Prelude’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

A revision lesson (or lessons if you want to do more with the initial card revision activity) for the Eduqas poetry anthology question for GCSE English Literature. Students will use the enclosed resources to briefly revise the poems from the cluster before identifying the four or five key poems they should revise for the examination. This encourages analytical and evaluative connections. This is best used once the students know the poems well and understand the requirements of this question. Included: Blank revision cards for a starter activity which can be extended into a whole lesson activity (with one card modelled) Poem linking and choice grid with ten example exam questions Lesson PowerPoint with 17 slides Lesson plan with guidance as to how to adapt this activity across two lessons Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922

A grid template which allows students to make links between the 18 poems from the Eduqas poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures. Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922

A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Eduqas poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922

Two detailed lessons exploring John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Emily Dickinson’s ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring William Blake’s ‘London’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring William Blake’s ‘London’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring William Blake’s ‘London’ from the Power and Conflict Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Robert Browning’s ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Edward Thomas’ ‘Adlestrop’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘Where the Picnic was’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 74 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of child language acquisition (speech) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used for any exam board. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 10), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered: Pre-verbal stages of CLA including reduplicated, variegated and jargon babbling Lexical and grammatical stages of CLA Nelson – Categories of first words (1973) Reduplication/ diminuitives/ addition/ substitution/ assimilation/ deletion/ consonant cluster reduction Gestalt expressions/ content and function words Noun bias –Bloom (2001) Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and Universal Grammar –Chomsky (1965) Virtuous errors/overextension/Underextension ‘Fis’ Phenomenon –Berko and Brown (1960) The Wug Test –Berko Gleason (1958) Pivot Schema –Braine (1973) Semantic Development –Brown (1973) The Acquisition of the System of Negation in Children’s Speech and Stages of Pronoun Acquisition –Bellugi (1967) Formation of questions –Brown (1968) Behaviourism –Skinner (1957) Social Learning Theory –Bandura (1977) A usage-based approach to learning language –Ibbotson (2009) Stages of Cognitive Development –Piaget (1936) Learning as a social process –Vygotsky (1930) Criticisms of Piaget’s Theory – Repacholi and Gopnik (1997) and Lewis and Ramsay (2004) Social Interactionism and LASS – Bruner (1983) Functions of Children’s Language – Halliday (1975) Functions of Children’s Language – Dore (1975) How a lack of social interactionism affects language learning – Pinker (1994) and Kuhl (2010) Child Directed Speech and its features The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.

This planning and revision document can be used to revise William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Simply print off copies (preferably in A3) and have students complete the boxes. The first question has been completed for them. It was made for the Edexcel specification, however it could easily be adapted for any other examination board.

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Emigrée’ by Carol Rumens from the Power and Conflict Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Émigrée’ by Carol Rumens from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!