I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
A complete set of resources covering all aspects of teaching the Identity Anthology for CCEA GCSE Unit 2 Literature course.
You won’t need anything else!
Includes:
Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - for students to complete as the poems are being taught - includes space to complete context, poetic techniques and sample Question at the back.
Pdf of Teacher completed Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - all context complete and images of some annotated poems - see separate pdf for all annotated poems - Noteboook file is even more useful
Identity Anthology Student Summaries - blank, to reveal students’ learning - to complete after the teaching of each poem
Identity Anthology of poems - blank, for exams
PowerPoint Identity Poems - Images, Author info, Context, Message, Themes
Handwritten Annotations - in pdf form, Identity Poetry TES; multiple versions of poems dependent on class ability; also available in Notebook form, Identity Poetry TES
Poetry Essay Layout
Word Document of Context Notes
Sample Comparative Essay Titles x18
Completed Comparative Essay Title ideas
Poetic Themes - Ideas for Comparison
PowerPoint -Images and Poem o accompany teaching of Prayer Before Birth
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of Mrs Tischer’s Class
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of I Remember, I Remember
Full Essay - how choices affect identity - Road Not Taken and Invictus
Essay Notes - sense of who you are - Here and Belfast Confetti
2 Different Approaches to How Childhood Affect us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
3 Variations to How Relationships Affect Us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
2 Variations to A Sense of Who We Are - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
A thorough booklet resource which is easily accessible to students and covers a range of poetic techniques, explored through different poetic examples and accompanying activities.
Includes:
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Student Booklet and Teacher Booklet
Two 32 page booklets, providing an introduction and explanation of Media Texts for KS3 pupils using the mnemonic CLIF to assist analysis of the media texts.
This is an accessible introduction to the analysis required at GCSE, aimed at KS3 pupils engaging the knowledge they already possess and have used in cross-curricular work for posters, leaflets etc.
Suitable for KS3 pupils, lower ability GCSE students, or as a quick forerunner to the more indepth study at GCSE.
You may also be interested in our KS3 Non-Fiction Resource - perfect for introducing KS3 students to Unit 1, Task 2 and 4 analysis.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366853
**The GCSE version for Unit 1 Task 4 and 5 can be found here
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12393894
Included:
brief review of Target Audience, with task
Colour - explanation of the psychology of colours, key meanings, info graphics (referenced), tasks to complete, sample analysis of full advert
Layout - explanation of layout and key rules, several tasks to complete
Image - explanation of how we ‘read’ images; logo work, expected images, emotion in images, analysis tasks
Font - explanation of a range of fonts, font types explained with tasks to complete, formatting explained, font matching exercise, IT tasks to complete
Analysis of texts - full text to be analysed, followed by five shorter tasks to be analysed for CLIF.
Student Booklet and Teacher Booklet match page to page, providing possible answers to assist with teaching.
Two booklets covering the character of Candy ‘Of Mice and Men’
Student Booklet - to be completed - 13 pages
Teacher Booklet - with suggested answers - 13 pages
Booklet covers:
Introduction and guidance for how to complete a Character Essay
Sample Paragraph Layout with suggested terminology/phrases
Key words to describe Candy
Key Experiences analysed
Evidence/Quotes - analysed with techniques and explanations
Example paragraphs with clear layout
Area for summarising learning under mnemonic ‘BARSCAP’
FULL BOOKLET with all CHARACTERS will be AVAILABLE SOON
A booklet offering a thorough introduction to the poems of Seamus Heaney.
Includes:
Blackberry-Picking
Death of a Naturalist
Mid-Term Break
Digging
Follower
Clearances 5
Clearances 3
In the last minutes
A student booklet 25 pages offering an introduction and development of the techniques looked for in both Unit 1 and Unit 4 of the GCSE Language exams.
Accompanied by Teacher booklet 25 pages offering possible answers to assist the teaching of the topic.
Perfect for KS3 student, lower ability GCSE, or as an introduction to Reading Non-Fiction at either Key Stage.
A full range of persuasive language techniques are studied, and used in real contexts, developing the student’s ability to articulate impact in a structured paragraph.
This resource considers both the choice of persuasive technique and the impact it has on the reader, using written and visual examples.
You may also be interested in our similar KS3 introduction student and teacher booklets for Media Texts using CLIF - a useful introduction to Unit 1, Task 5.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12492445
Or our indepth GCSE student booklet, teacher notes and teaching PowerPoint for Unit 1, Tasks 4 + 5
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12393894
Included here:
Formal and Informal
Personal and impersonal
Direct appeal
Endorsements
Figurative language
Puns
Humour and Hyperbole
Facts and Statistics
Lists, clusters, rule of 3
Repetition
Alliteration
Also available as part of Unit 4 Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-ccea-unit-4-exam-task-2-comparing-texts-12446799
A complete pupil booklet, with accompanying teacher answer booklet to teach Unit 4, Tasks 3 and 4, Reading Non-Fiction
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Provides:
Comprehensive and developed list of writer’s craft techniques
Paragraph layout advice - suggested by CCEA, built upon by writer
Non-Fiction example articles adapted from Non-Fiction Past Papers, pre 2017 spec, made suitable for new Task 3 and Task 4
Sample tasks to accompany example articles, guide students to make pertinent comments
Tasks could be used as practice or for mocks.
Teacher booklet offers some example answers, and sample paragraphs to be built upon
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work. All Student work is answered int he teacher booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for all tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Teaching and Guidance notes for Controlled Assessment for CCEA GCSE to accompany the teaching of ‘Macbeth’
Teaching Notes
PP - Images
PP - Paragraph scaffold and example
Guided Planning Document
**Teaching notes include: **
Stereotypical life of a Jacobean woman
Shakespeare’s intentions
Typical audience reaction
Key Words/phrases
Lady Macbeth - general overview and specific notes
PowerPoint - Images included - to prompt discussion about the presentation of Lady Macbeth and the witches
PowerPoint - includes key points to make about Lady Macbeth, key context points, paragraph layout and paragraph example.
Document - guided planning - essay title and eight boxes to complete - guidance for students to bring their knowledge together.
A visually appealing and easily accessible booklet, this pupil resource covers all areas of MIA, creating a perfect introduction and foundation for progress into GCSE Moving Image Arts.
Instruction is given, and complimented with film extracts and activities to complete.
A PowerPoint to aid teaching is also provided.
Areas covered:
Roles of responsibility
Genre
Camera technique
Sound
Lighting
Mise-en-scène
Answer Book provided
This resource contains a lengthy Powerpoint which covers a full range of techniques which should be considered when writing creatively.
The Powerpoint ends with an assessment title, and the success criteria to accompany it.
Although aimed at KS3, this is also useful for weaker KS4 students, or as starters/refreshers at KS4.
The Powerpoint offers:
Eight ten-minute activities to stimulate creative thought
Two slides focussing on verb synonyms in order to up level writing
Six slides looking at connotation, and the consideration that must be taken of our choices
A quick look at onomatopoeia and the implication of choosing animal sounds
Two ‘Picture the Scene’ examples encouraging the use of the studied techniques
Quick looks at: adverbs, boring sentences, syntax arrangement, avoidance of ‘got’, good openers and ‘improve the examples’ opportunity
Assessment title and success criteria.
An easily accessible booklet designed to introduce junior KS3 classes to the idea of the Media and how it persuades and manipulates the target audience.
The resource looks at how we ‘manipulate’ each other, takes account of the first six persuasive techniques and teaches pupils to identify these devices in example articles. Activities throughout include: facts and opinions, font, colour, slogans and language tricks. The booklet ends with a fun persuasive activity to complete.
A fun way to introduce poetic techniques, and a chance to form different types of poems.
Aimed at junior KS3, this is an upbeat introduction to poetic techniques and poetic form, covering simile to onomatopoeia, shape poems to noise poems.
Comprehension questions based on the fantastic resource ‘My Story’ – a compilation of poignant stories, all written by N. Irish authors. This resource contains transcripts of the real life stories aired on BBC Radio Ulster some years ago. Compilations of the transcripts were sold in paperback over a decade ago, but unfortunately they are no longer in print and not stocked anywhere.
These stories have been included in this resource with full declaration of their ownership being that of the declared author.
Students will read eleven short stories (ten are an A4 page in length, one is slightly longer) and answer questions where they are guided through the use PEE to help delve deeper into the meaning of the narratives.
Resource provides:
Use of ‘Ex-Poser’ by Paul Jennings (free to use from external sources) broken down into separate questions and students are guided through the PEE process in a structured way, helping to consolidate the purpose of PEE and make its use common practice.
A break down of how to write answers in the PEE format
Five stories with answer scaffold provided to aid the answering of one/two questions.
Five stories to enjoy, with one extended question each.
Pupil Booklet designed to introduce and consolidate the choice and use of media techniques.
Excellent starter for KS3, to prepare them for Reading Media Texts at GCSE.
Includes:
Types of media
Target audience
Text conventions
Colour
Font
Formatting
Logo
Pictures - literal and metaphorical
Layout
Slogans
Quotations
Headings and subheadings
Captions
Facts and Opinions
Persuasive devices
Also included - a KS3 exam to be used at the end of the unit to assess learning.
Answer booklet available on request at extra cost
Enjoy my free newspaper samples:
Newspaper Frontpage
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-front-page-12366705
VERY POPULAR: Sample Article written with the 5 W
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-article-example-who-what-when-where-why-12366711
Tabloid + Broadsheet PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspapers-tabloid-broadsheet-frontpage-12366847
A complete and thorough resource, covering all aspects of Newspapers in a usable and student friendly format.
Includes two booklets: one user-friendly** student booklet**, and one **teacher booklet **with answers filled in
Teacher Booklet
Very user friendly and can be put on the board for pupils to copy from
Student Booklet
A single booklet covering everything from the origin of newspapers to tabloid and broadsheets.
Includes:
Background to Newspapers
Types of newspapers - research
Tabloid vs Broadsheet
Types of story- research
The Front Page -activity
Editing - activity
Parts of an article - research and activity
Headlines - techniques and activity
Facts and Opinion - activity
Bias vs Balance - activity
Choice of language - connotation
How to write an article - activities
This resource has been developed for KS3 as a creative way of looking at genre and the fairy tale genre in particular.
Comes with a 34-page Student booklet to complete, and matching 34-page Teacher booklet complete with answers/suggested answers.
Topics covered:
Genre
Narrative Structure
Stereotypes
Theme
Media
Character
Film making roles
Overview
By using the beloved film ‘Shrek’ as a reference point, pupils are encouraged to develop their understanding of genre both visually and in written form. Narrative structure is touched upon in order to develop an understanding of the variety of narratives available, and particularly looking at the idea of the ‘fractured fairytale’. Stereotypes are looked at, specifically to draw attention to the inversion of type integral to the plot line of ‘Shrek’. A range of non-fiction information is also referenced, looking at the idea of ‘Shrek’ as a media product.
A simple PowerPoint offering explanation and analysis of Shakespeare’s language, with tips on how to decifer it.
Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth are both referenced, with original language offered, and their modern translation.
Several exercises requiring translation and explanation are also included.
Enjoy my free newspaper samples:
Newspaper Frontpage
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-front-page-12366705
VERY POPULAR: Sample Article written with the 5 W
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-article-example-who-what-when-where-why-12366711
Or purchase my KS2/KS3 Newspaper booklet
A complete and thorough resource, covering all aspects of Newspapers in a usable and student friendly format, with a booklet for the students, and a matching answered one for the Teacher.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-ks3-newspaper-booklet-unit-12366851
Included here:
A PowerPoint looking at the difference between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, and how the differences are evident in the front page, the headlines and the language used by each.
A variety of front pages are considered – all from the same day – each looking at the same story in their own particular way.
Real life context given to the differing writing styles of real newspapers.
A enjoyable introduction to these three techniques, with accompanying activities to consolidate learning.
Please also find Part 1: Simile, Metaphor, Personification
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366870