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 one of several lessons that I have uploaded for Year 7 pupils with a generic theme of 'Place Poetry' running through them. All are ready to teach as standalone lessons. This particular lesson covers the use of imagery in the poem 'Sometimes When It rains'
Lesson Starter Apostrophes
This is a simple task that reminds pupils of how to use apostrophes; it then has some tasks to complete. Use with mini whiteboards for whole class AFL - on PP to be added to any lesson.
Analysing a Book cover answer sheet
This is a worksheet that asks questions about the cover of books for pupils to fill in. Learning Intention is that pupils will decipher the messages on the cover.
This is a full unit of work, designed to use after students have sat the PPE / Mock exam that Cambridge provide free of charge on their website (although I have uploaded it with the lessons for ease). This exemplar exam is produced for the new 2015 / 2016 specification and uses the new format for the core paper. Cambridge have produced it to support schools using their exam this year. These lessons are completely new resources; produced entirely by me and not available anywhere else to purchase.
The idea of the scheme is that you give the exam to the students, let the pupils sit it and then don't mark it but actually go through it with the students and teach them how it would be marked and how they should have approached it - a little bit like a 'walking talking mock style' but after the fact. "This is what you should have done".
By teaching these 5 lessons you help them to understand why they receive the marks that they will and what they could have done to improve. The lessons are designed to boost pupils up to band 1, regardless of where the starting point may have been and should demonstrate ample progress and reflection time for students.
Each lesson is a self contained powerpoint with the resources attached at the end of it, so that they can be printed out easily.
lesson 1 starts with questions 1a to 1c and recaps vocabulary with cooperative learning techniques and a competition; helping to boost pupils understanding in preparation for lesson 2 and 3.
Lesson 2 covers the techniques and ways to tackle 1c to 1f. There are pictures of student answers for students to mark and explain why the students did or did not get full marks.
lesson 3 is dedicated to the tricky 1g and explains how pupils should tackle it, using the mark scheme explicitly and example answers.
Lesson 4 tackles question 2, explaining how students should avoid the pitfalls that they sometimes fall into.
Lesson 5 goes over the simplest way that pupils should have tackled question 3 and asks them to reflect on all that they have learnt in the week then to write to the teacher with how they could improve now and what they still need to learn.
Each lesson allows pupils the opportunity of a 'redo'; with the scaffolding of the mark scheme and their original answer in front of them - hence the demonstration of progress.
This is a completely original, never seen before resource, as it has been created by myself. I have used the GCSE criteria from both AQA and Edexcel to create a 1-9 style APP grid to help pupils to see what they need to do at each grade band in order to meet the criteria for each assessment objective for the new style GCSE paper 1, pre 1914 task.
The bandings are based on where the skills would fall on old A*-C but ramped up for vigour, using the new terminology. You'll see when you look at the sheet.
The question is styled on an AQA style question and is original - not the current AQA SAMs that are out there - so this gives you something new to work with.
Not only that, the lesson then teaches students HOW to write an answer to a question that focusses on language and structure, naming the techniques.
If you're struggling to teach the new GCSEs, the format of this lesson and the resources with it, will really help you!
The whole resource is the assessment, marking sheet, full lesson and all of the lesson resources.
The next lesson will be to give pupils their books back and get them to attempt to continue marking - after you have marked their work!
Watch them make progress!
This can be used alongside my other resources for the poem Elegy by Tichbourne. It uses all of the opposite ideas in the poem to create a starter where pupils need to match the ideas to become familiar with the poem before reading it.
This is a full lesson PP on the prologue to Romeo and Juliet - used predominantly for the old specification, it can easily be changed to update to the new with a new mark scheme.
Full lesson PP on Religion in Renaissance period
This is a full lesson PP. It’s only a starting point as I used it when I was unqualified some years ago but gives some basic information and can be adapted
This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd.
This is a planning sheet to help pupils to collate ideas for acting out the chosen scene.
This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd.
This particular sheet helps pupils to plan the advise that they wuld give to Macbeth, if they were the Director.
This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed for teaching descriptive skills for year 7 pupils trying to hit level 4 criteria.
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 about gathering the news.
The Monkey's Paw - Full lesson PP Lesson
This is one lesson of 8 separate Powerpoints that compile a Key Stage 3 scheme of work that leads to an assessment that can be leveled on The Monkey's Paw. All of the lessons have been uploaded separately under the same title as above.
This is a series of lessons that I've created for the AQA specification Controlled assessment on Writing. Pupils take apart a series of written texts about Manchester and then try to create their own written piece about the city. The last few lessons and resources are uploaded here in one place so that you can teach them together or separately. The others will be uploaded under the same heading if you want to teach the scheme.
This is a series of lessons that I've used with year 9 based on the scene from a film task for AQA. It wasn&'t actually submitted as controlled assessment as it is part of building pupils up ready to sit CA in year 10 and 11.
