KS3 Past Paper 2, May 1 2003 Non-Fiction Paper: Mount St Helen’s This resource covers the answers to the above test, a very useful starter for KS3, leading to the ‘Reading Non-Fiction’ section of GCSE English. See My Shop for more KS3 Past Papers The original papers for these KS3 English papers are often gathering dust in storerooms across N. Ireland, but if anyone needs a copy of the original - please contact me.

KS3 Past Paper 2, May 2005 Non-Fiction Paper: Royal Lifeboats This resource covers the answers to the above test, a very useful starter for KS3, leading to the ‘Reading Non-Fiction’ section of GCSE English. See My Shop for more KS3 Past Papers The original papers for these KS3 English papers are often gathering dust in storerooms across N. Ireland, but if anyone needs a copy of the original - please contact me.

KS3 Past Paper 1, May 1 2003 Fiction Paper: Margaret Forster This resource covers the answers to the above test, a very useful starter for KS3, leading to the GCSE English exam. See My Shop for more KS3 Past Papers The original papers for these KS3 English papers are often gathering dust in storerooms across N. Ireland, but if anyone needs a copy of the original - please contact me.

A simple PowerPoint offering a picture and short summary for each scene in each act. All images taken from Google. Suggested use: as a visual aid; to summarise and refer to scenes left unread; as a recap aid.

A PowerPoint covering a full range of activities for the iconic play from Act 1-Act 5. Includes: Background information Interpretation of media Character work Comprehension Question Language anaylsis Persuasive writing The changes occuring The art of performance Letter writing

A comprehensive PowerPoint covering a full range of background detail including Shakespeare’s life and the times he wrote in. Contains both information, student activities for completion and quizzes for quick assessment. Modern adaptions Tudor Times Shakespeare’s Life Tudor Theatre The Globe Shakespeare’s influence

A comprehensive PowerPoint answering the question: Who is to blame for the downfall of Macbeth? Students are guided through a structured and detailed approach for how to formulate their response to the posed question.

A quick visual and written summary of Macbeth’s plot. The 20 boxes here are in chronological order - suggested use is to cut them up and get the student to reorder them themselves.

Five adverts which can be used at KS3 for the study of Media, Adverts and Non-Fiction, or as an introduction to Reading Media Texts, CCEA GCSE Language Paper 1, Questions 4 and 5. Five simple adverts,asking the same questions to encourage the student to look at both the chosen language and presentation. What is this advertising? What is the purpose of the advert? Where did this advert come from? Who is the Target Audience of this advert? How are they being targeted? Explain the layout: picture, slogan, words. Explain the slogan. Explain any other language involved. Discuss the colours. Why are these chosen? Discuss the character – what is she doing and why? What do you think of this advert?

Enjoy my free newspaper samples: 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 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: Two resources: A labelled front page from ‘The Irish News’ A labelled, but deletable front page layout to aid IT work.

Making use of the text ‘Ex-Poser’ by Paul Jennings, this resource carefully and accessibly works through how to answer ten comprehension questions using PEE - the method of Point, Evidence, Explanation. This has proven to be a really useful way to introduce PEE into the classroom and to ensure it is applied correctly.

A simple and interactive way of getting students to focus on FONT and a little bit of COLOUR as a developed choice by creators of media. Perfect introduction to the CLIF aspect of Question 5 in Paper 1 of the GCSE Language exam. Visit My Shop for more helpful aids to understanding the new Language papers and their questions

Simple PowerPoint looking at Point, Evidence, Explanation and how to apply it to a question from ‘Holes’. The burger reference is always very useful in the classroom!

An accessible PowerPoint which makes use of anti-smoking media images to investigate Presentation and Language. Suitable for both KS3 and as an introduction to KS4 Reading Media Texts, this resource covers the basics of Presentation: Colour, Layout and Image (see My Shop for ‘Font’ activities) and Language: Facts, Opinions, Title and Persuasive words and phrases.

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

Enjoy this free sample, part of my fuller Newspaper Unit - which comes with student booklet and teacher answer booklet https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-booklet-unit-12366851 Enjoy my free newspaper samples: Newspaper Frontpage https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspaper-front-page-12366705 Tabloid + Broadsheet PP https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-newspapers-tabloid-broadsheet-frontpage-12366847 Included here: A simple but useful layout of an article for KS2/KS3 students. Complimenting the idea of the 5W layout for articles, each paragraph is labelled with its purpose and then an example of what might be said: Introductory sentence Who What When Where Why Bring it up-to-date

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 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.

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.