Standardized Test Tips including question styles and what the test writer wants you to do.

Ideal for after a mock exam, this should save hours on marking!

This lesson introduces a task for pupils in year 9 to practisse timed writing.

This really isn't much at all - it&'s just a slide to have up on adisplay during controlled assesment that reminds pupils of the rules and regulations.

I have this displayed as a poster in my teaching room - but can be picked up too and put into any lesson as a reminder for complex sentence teaching.

I used this with my year 11 group to prep them for the Lit exam.

This is one of a series of lessons that I have created on the character of Havisham. We use the character for an AQA Speaking and Listening Activity and create a Jeremy Kyle style adaptation. This one allows the pupils to watch the BBC adaptation and take notes.

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 Part B of the novel.

This is a full lesson aimed at Ks3 level 3 writers - trying to secure homophones and sentence structures with cooperative learning structures.

I created this to help pupils think of ideas for the 2012 / 2013 English submissions.

This is a full lesson PP taken from a series that gets pupils to explore their favouritte books. It's the first lesson in the series and has a heavy focus on homophones and their correct use. Aimed at Level 3 readers and writers - boosting to level 4. Obs are:\nTo know what a homophone is\nTo be able to recognise different homophones\nTo be able to accurately apply them in sentences.

Full lesson PP structuring Speaking and Listening\nThis is a full lesson PP with hyperlinks to a BBC Bitesize clip that structures a speaking and listening activity for GCSE pupils on what 5 items should go into a time capsule.

Non Fiction Writing – Travel Writing Texts.This lesson is on non-fiction texts and analysis for 6th Grade students. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach; although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson co

Thsi PP goes over the generic advice that students need prior to going into controlled conditions for English assessment - based on AQA guidelines.

I upload this onto www.vistaprint.com to make use of their free small banner and get it sent to school. Great for a massive punctuation display!

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.

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 full unit of reading lessons that are based on the KS2/3 Glossary for the new national curriculum. The premise of each lesson is that a child's independent reading time is structured around revision of key grammar terminology from the glossary. The unit starts with a taught lesson about engaging with reading and why reading is like a journey. Lesson 2 then introduces the idea of engaging with reading and reading for pleasure. Lesson 3 introduces the term 'connotations', explaining what it means and, as children read independently through the lesson, with a book of their choice, they record three key words that have strong connotations and explain the effect of these in their reading journal. Lesson 4 introduces / revises nouns and follows the same pattern. Lesson 5 does the same with adjectives Lesson 6 with word families. Lesson 7 is a lesson that allows pupils to take one of the topics and teach the other members of the class all about that topic. Each lesson has literacy, numeracy, cooperative learning and a large focus on independent reading time in it. There is a teacher record sheet for every pupil for each teacher to record what pupils are reading in every lesson and for teachers to make notes of reading conversations that they have been holding with pupils. There is also a full scheme of work overview that ties into the new national curriculum. Every lesson has specific steps and could be delivered as a cover lesson very easily!

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: To understand the context and subject matter of London. There is an extensive resource sheet with this that covers the context of the poem; students are expected to read the sheet as their entry activity and then there is a whole class whiteboard quiz to check their understanding and initiate discussion. Students can then read the poem with the context in mind and see how this influences the meaning.

This is a tutorial with templates and resources on how to teach unseen poetry using a giant Jenga. The idea is that pupils come up and collect bricks and the bricks have numbers - each number relates to a quote from the poem, with a series of questions. This resource contains: The Tutorial - on how to engage all pupils with each quote; The Jenga template with hyperlinks to each brick number - each of these slides can be changed so it can be used again and again; A Writing Ladder with a model answer. The WL does not relate to any grades - it is about getting students to use the process of going up and down it. A Model answer; All of this tutorial is set up for Roald Dahl's poem 'Television', so this can be used to teach the poem to students. Students do get genuinely engaged with both the random use of Jenga and then trying to guess what the text is.