This is a full unit of work that: Guides a full class reading of the text Embeds language analysis throughout Embeds examplar paragraphs and practise of analytical and critical writing throughout Covers the historical period at the outset so that it can be constantly referred to Really helps students to understand the text and how to take a text apart, so builds the skills that KS3 students need for GCSE. I have uploaded PDFs of this material for free on the TES and they can all be found on these links below so, if you’re happy with them as PDFs and / or would like to look at the quality fo the resource, please do locate the free versions. You will see that they have all been highly rated by colleagues. However, all of the resources here are fully editable powerpoints, so that they can be adapted and differentiated as you require. Links to PDFs: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-full-scheme-lessons-1-5-6310423 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-full-scheme-lessons-6-14-6310426 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-full-scheme-lessons-15-6310428

This is a series of 4 lessons put together to help students to understand how to perform at level 4 in the reading section of AQA GCSE Language Paper 1. Taught to students with Grade 6 targets, these lessons are pitched with the minimum expectation of achieving Grade 5 but they are differentiated upwards to ensure that the top level criteria (level 4 for 8/9) is introduced and deconstructed. There are stretch and challenge tasks in each lesson as well as specific differentiation strategies to secure scaffolding for students that need in-class intervention. All of the resources for each lesson are on the last slides of the ppt.

This is a full lesson on ppt. that has been put together to help students to understand how to achieve the 8 or 9 grade in English Lit. Using the ‘Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman’ question from AQA, this lesson deconstructs specifically how students can use the extract to go ‘in and out’ of the text, referencing everything that would be critical to a grade 8/9 response. Success criteria: To know the criteria for level 6 responses. 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. All of the resources are at the end of the ppt.

This is a 47 slide powerpoint that breaks down the whole of the reading section for AQA GCSE Language Paper 2 section A, and guides students through a series of activities that show them how to tackle to the paper. It can be used for a revision booster session before the exam or taken apart and split into several lessons. All resources are at the end of the ppt. This is pitched to help students to move to Grade 4/5 criteria.

This is a 64 slide powerpoint that breaks down the whole of GCSE Language Paper 1 section A, and guides students through a series of activities that show them how to tackle to the paper. It can be used for a revision booster session before the exam or taken apart and split into several lessons. All resources are at the end of the ppt. This is pitched to help students move from lower grades into solid grade 5.

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.

In brief, this resource is a full assessment system that can be used both in English and other subjects (literacy across the curriculum) in order to assess the writing grades of students and to help them to diagnose their own areas for development, as well as setting targets for improving writing skills. This is not available anywhere else other than on the TES This system is all my own work and I have created the grade descriptors from scratch, using: The GCSE descriptors or writing from AQA and Edexcel combined – therefore, they are as generic as they can be and are not board specific. My own extensive experience of English teaching and exam marking. Basically, I have broken down each grade from 1-9 and matched them to the skills that pupils should need in order to achieve the grade (as a best fit). This has been done by calculating how old GCSE grades (A*-G) correlate against 1-9 and benchmarking a low C at the Grade 4. Obviously, there will be variation of grades at the end of the GCSE year for year 11, as they are set on a national curve BUT these resources lay the foundations for assessment in KS3 and to ensure that teachers within a school or department can benchmark and describe what they expect each grade to look like and what students need to be able to do to hit a grade in writing. Therefore offering complete consistency and clarity for students and teachers within a school. The resource includes: Grade descriptors for writing for 1-9 9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for both AO4 and AO5 9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for punctuation only, so that teachers can break down the focus if they want to A training PowerPoint for all staff that allows the lead to deliver a fully interactive session All resources for that session A training PowerPoint for the English dept. that allows the lead to deliver a full explanation of how to use the materials All resources for that session This resource is all ready for you to start working with as soon as you download it.

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 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 one powerpoint that covers all 4 questions on the reading section for GCSE Language (AQA). There is also a tiny section on descriptive writing. It is created in the walking / talking mock style so that the teacher can guide students through each question and how to answer it. There are model answers, model annotations on custom animation (so that they can be revealed and they are set up to answer questions), and sections that are set up for students to complete their own answers. Techniques are suggested for students to use for each question; including models of evaluative statements for question 4. Perfect for a ful last minute revision session that you wont need to plan but, equally, the ppt. can be broken down into separate lessons that show students how to tackle each question. The mark schemes used only cover level 3 and 4 skills as the ppt. is designed to help students hit at least grade 4. All resources are at the end of the ppt.

These are two lessons designed to help students to understand the poem and then how to write about it. The first lesson begins with a mini-whiteboard quiz, in which students are encouraged to name and identify techniques within certain lines of the poem. This then leads to students trying to break down the poem, into MILES - Meaning, Images, Language techniques / use, Emphasis / Emotion and Tone, Structure. Using an example of how to do this, students are then led to use annotation to create TEE paragraphs about the poem.

This is an assessment for students to complete on the new AQA GCSE Literature (2017) comparative anthology question. The question sheet (which is included), sets the following assessment: In Remains, Armitage presents how people are affected by war. Compare how Armitage presents how people are affected by war to how any other poet presents the same theme. This is a 'made up' question that is marked using the teacher's knowledge as indicative comment, as well as the standard poetry mark-scheme from the AQA SAMs - meaning a level can be assigned but not a grade (unless a school is using PiXL spreadsheets or has a different system). After the teacher has marked the assessments, the two lessons can then be used to help students to understand HOW to improve answers.

These are two full 1 hour lesson powerpoints that can be used to introduce students to this poem in the AQA Literature anthology. The LOs are: To understand the context of a poem and, for the second, To understand how to make progress when analysing and comparing poems. The first lesson features a poetry quiz using the ppt. template for WWTBAM that the whole class can play with mini whiteboards so that you can check understanding if techniques before delving into the poem. Lesson 1 then looks at the context of the poem, with a video from Youtube - the image has the hyperlink in it so this can be clicked on to find the clip from the documentary. Lesson 2 then breaks down key images with the whole class, in order to lead students into being able to write up their analysis. Resource sheets are also included in the download.

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 be able to identify techniques in Charge of The Light Brigade The lesson starts with a matching exercise on techniques and definitions that students can then us to hep them in finding the techniques in the poem and writing about the impact. n.b. The middle part of this lesson has been adapted from another sharer's resource so I am crediting them here.

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 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 work, that consists of 15 lesson powerpoints, complete with all resources. Created initially with new questions for 1,2,and 3 that have never been seen elsewhere (not SAMs) and then utilising the Edexcel SAMs, showing students how to attempt each question, allowing them to practise and using mark schemes for peer / self evaluation. There are useful techniques provided for each and every question, including time management. The unit has been taught successfully and adapted accordingly. Obviously any teacher will need to adapt lessons in line with what they manage to cover in any given lesson but each ppt. is designed for a full one hour lesson. All of the questions are fully covered and deconstructed so that the teacher can guide students through what they need to do - including the writing section. After this unit, students will be fully prepared to attempt a full paper so that you can diagnose areas for development.

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.

These are three lessons that have been used to introduce the Pre1914 literature texts for the new Edexcel Literature GCSE. Using cooperative learning techniques, students work together to create a timeline of literature that starts with the birth of Jane Austen in 1775 and ends in 1901 at the end of thee Victorian era. Through a series of tasks, students investigate the time period in order to help inform them about the different times, introducing the Romantic Period and the Byronic hero that appears in many of the novels of the time.

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.