This is EVERYTHING I have put together for my top set Year 11 to revise for both of their English Language GCSEs. Fifty page booklet includes:
Examples of what the questions look like and frameworks for how to answer
Sample questions
Sample extracts with questions (3 Fiction extracts and 4 Non- Fiction)
Model Answers with marker commentary
Planning sheets for comprehensive responses using tried and tested approaches
Language and structural analysis frameworks focus on integrated language and structural analysis and using multiple perceptions.
Evaluative frameworks focus on where an ‘attempt’ has been made, how and what works well.
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Perfect for preparing your pupils to take part in MUN or an end of HT Mini SOW to develop high tier oracy and debate skills. A mini SOW I created on holding a Model United Nations competition within class. This can last 1-2 weeks. The unit begins with an understanding of Human Rights and why they are important. The unit goes on to teach pupils vocabulary involved in MUN and how to write resolutions as well as how to research your delegation’s country and stance on particular issues.
Scheme comes with overview of journey of HR
How to use preamabulatory clauses
Handbook of order of events and specific terminology used at delegations
How to write a resolution
Researching your country
certificates for taking part.
6 lessons, chronologically ordered, labelled and matched to resources;
6 lessons on Question 6;
6 different extracts
scaffolded with explicit instruction;
writing frameworks and planning worksheets for essay questions.
This is a tried and tested scaffold for answering Edexcel GCSE English Literature for the evaluative question on ideas, themes and characters.
The resource is a scaffold for extended writing with a model answer and prompt questions down the side.
The resource aims to make responses more critical through addressing Where a theme is indicative, How it is presented and Why the author chooses to include this detail, ie how does it develop characterisation, change or drive the plot and link to other themes within the text. This can be used for Shakespeare play, 20th Century play and 19th century novella (just without the context bit)
Tell Tale Heart
Full lesson complete with resources and scaffolds for ntroducing analysing structural features within a an extract includes:
Literacy starter
Notes on structure
Gap fill for knowledge consolidation
short extract of sentence types and questions
Extract and notes
scaffold for writing an analysis of structural features in Tell Tale Heart
Heavily scaffolded for low ability, EAL class, however, appropriate for introducing Socratic Circle debate to class too. Comes with an article for motivation, peer feedback forms for coaching each other and the lesson pp which is heavily scaffolded.
This was the last observation of my ITT year and I received Outstanding for it!
A 12 page reading booklet with challenges to engage students with reading for over the Summer Holidays, I am currently using this with year 7 and incoming Year so so as to set the expectation of a reading culture before our new pupils arrive.
Ideal for sending out to incoming Year 7 to welcome them to the school too!
Differentiated lesson planning an answer to the thematic AIC question, including step by step guide, writing framework to support struggling pupils and planning sheet which uses ‘where? how? why? context?’ model to answer the question.
Includes planning resource which can be used on its own once pupils are comfortable, printed as A3.
The lesson can be used over and over again by changing the essay question as this is formulaic.
Also included homework Nandos menu which can be printed out.
I taught using this style to 11ab1, however, writing framework and step by step guide makes accessible for lower ability pupils too.
This is a booklet of 4 lessons based on the short story ‘The Landlady’ designed for independent study.
This week’s learning embeds opportunities for comprehension, retrieval of information and quotations, tests knowledge of language techniques and word classes.
Where there are extended written responses required, model answers are attached.
Answers to comprehension and retrieval of information questions at the end of each lesson in green.
Chronologically orderered and labelled lessons and resources:
10 different extracts;
5 lessons on 7a;
4 lessons on 7b;
scaffolded with explicit instruction;
writing frameworks and planning worksheets for essay questions.
I have put this booklet together for our week long Summer School. The 36 page booklet includes:
a welcome page that you can add pictures of your staff to.
a timetable page for you to adapt to your summer school
a school map that you will need to adapt
a growth mindset star/quiz for pupils to reflect on their life before summer school with spaces for pupils to reflect on the positive and what needs to be developed and 3 targets. (This is repeated at the end to highlight growth during Summer School)
-5 days of reflections with words of the day and a section at the bottom for parents to sign off on to say that they have had a dialogue about their day and to encourage school-parent relationships. Each reflective day is meaningful, has prompts, questions and pictures and can be done in 10 mins if the day is busy.
a careers future section which matches the presentation- this is about the future- pupils pick a job from the list and both the PP and the booklet show pupils how to work out taxes and bills. They then work out the lifestyle they would be able to afford. This is meant to teach them about ‘the real world’- I recommend that this workshop would take 1 hour.
riddles for a treasure hunt which will it for any school- you will just have to remove my pictures for the classrooms to use your own- but you could just take them out altogether as pictures aren’t necessary.
a summer reading challenge for pupils to complete when they leave your sumer school with 6 challenges to encourage pupils to read.
Lessons ordered chronologically with resources for low ability and high ability- all clearly labelled;
5 different extracts;
first 9 lessons cover word classes, language techniques, identifying and commenting on rhetoric, identifying and commenting on structural technique and identifying evidence to support a given point;
6 lessons on Question 3 (language and structural analysis AO2);