These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
This is a GCSE booster session for the more able students that will take approximately 2 1/2 hours to deliver (2 if some of the work is given as flip learning - i.e the first tasks). It is a full powerpoint that uses all of the techniques that AQA are suggesting will help candidates to get to the 8s and 9s. It is set up, ready to be delivered and the resource booklet is also included at the end of the ppt.
Aswith all of my sessions, tasks and instructions are clear and embedded so that it can be delivered as it stands.
This is the first in a series of booster sessions that is targeting the more able and the others will rely on the techniques shown in this one for them to be successful.
The session delivers exam technique and how to write the exam style question - it does not reteach content at all. There are WAGOLLs throughout an the focus is on a critical style of writing, references and what subject terminology is. This session could also be adapted to train teachers who are teaching top sets in GCSE Lit.
Success Criteria:
To know the criteria for level 6 responses (Grade 8 and 9).
To understand what ‘going in and out’ of the extract means.
To know how to analyse key words / phrases to Grade 8 / 9 standard.
To understand the difference between quotes and references.
To understand what subject terminology is.
To better understand what a critical writing style is.
This is one of several revision lessons that I created for the novel, in readiness for the AQA lit exam last summer. This one covers the characetr of Curley.
This is a series of lessons to help prepare students for the AQA Lit question on An Inspector Calls (new spec 2017 exam). All lessons presume that the play has been read and studied and these are purely to help revise key themes and to detail to students exactly how they need to write a response - pitched at that is from Grade 4 to Grade 9 - there are two sets of lessons and they are differentiated.
The first ppt. picks out key themes and encourages a framework for students to revise the key themes in the play on their own or by themselves. i.e they skim read looking for quotes.
The other ppt.s (differentiated versions - one is 4-7; the other is 5-9) show students how to write effectively about the play whilst hitting the mark scheme. Students are given copies of the generic AQA mark scheme that they break down and use to help them to understand how to succeed. They also mark sample answers / WAGOLLs for success against the markscheme to help their understanding of how to write their own.
There are example answers - never seen before, created by me with a formula for how to write responses to highest grades.
Best to teach the Revision lesson, followed by the TEE lesson, then let students answer the exam style question. In the next two lessons, then reteach HOW to shape and answer and introduce MAD (Make a Difference) Time - showing and reminding students exactly what they should have done. Also included is a really useful quote sheet for AIC to help students to learn key quotes.
This is a lesson that tests pupils knowledge and understanding of all of the different types of techniques - great for an end of term English fun 'test'.
A few slides that can be copied and pasted into any full lesson powerpoint in order to build a language starter that deals with how a paragraph should be structured and when a new paragraph used. Ofsted's clear focus on literacy make these an important part your lesson.
This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification.
This is a worksheet on Act 1 with a series of questions to text pupil's undersatnding.
This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. This lesson is one of serveral that create a scheme of lessons about Victorian Crime but all can operate as standalone lessons and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem for ease of finding. This lesson covers a reading assessment thta you can mark with APP grids.
This is a full lesson (but it is likely to span over two) that uses the Edexcel specimen material for the new GCSE Language (2017) with the extract for Little Women - I have uploaded the specimen material for ease with this material.
You can get the students to sit the paper and then go through the lesson with them afterwards, showing them what they should have done OR use the lesson to deconstruct a first go at the paper. This is perfect in preparation for the exam as revision or to introduce the format of the exam to the students.
Identity 6 – persuasive writing
This is a full lesson PP, ready to use, although you will want to update it for your own use - that covers the theme of identity. This lesson has Learning objectives of LO: To be able to identify a range of persuasive writing techniques.
Rime Of the Ancient Mariner full PP lesson
This is one of nine lessons that form the analysis of the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. The lessons are aimed at Key Stage 3 and have a variety of tasks in them to help support pupils in accessing the poem. They culminate in a reading assessment that is uploaded as lesson 9 and can be App'd.
This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is a full lesson PP on revising the themes in the play - prior to the exam.
This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This lesson covers the sinking of the Titanic and gets the pupils to write a report on the sinking with the info. that the lesson provides.
This is a full 1 hour lesson powerpoint that can be used to introduce students to this poem in the AQA Literature anthology. The LO is about helping students to understand the themes within the poem, especially the extended metaphor of the fragility of life. There is a hyperlink embedded in the image on slide 2 which goes to a reading of the poem on Youtube.
Each Stanza of the poem is broken down with questions probed about it that will help pupils to understand the various different layers of meaning.
This is a Key Stage 3 Writing scheme of work that consists of 8 full lesson PowerPoint's and culminates in a writing assessment that mirrors that AQA Language Writer's Viewpoint question for the new specification.
Each lesson uses reading skills to help pupils to investigate a variety of texts and to build up an information bank on the topic of the question - which is about teenagers.
There are no references to levels / assessment within this scheme so any teacher can add their own assessment model or mark with the AQA Exam criteria.
