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High quality and varied English teaching resources, from KS3 to A level. I've got single and pack resources which cover language and literature from KS3 to IGCSE, AQA GCSE and A level Literature and Language. Thanks for stopping by.
High quality and varied English teaching resources, from KS3 to A level. I've got single and pack resources which cover language and literature from KS3 to IGCSE, AQA GCSE and A level Literature and Language. Thanks for stopping by.
A HUGE BUNDLE! Contains a top-selling revision pack for ‘Macbeth’ which cross refers ideas and quotations across the play, a key skill required by most boards. Also included are notes on Act V, a sample student answer on guilt in the soliloquies, a great trio of resources for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ which focus on themes, key scenes and characters, two focussed handouts for chapters six and nine of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’, plus a full revision pack for ‘An Inspector Calls’, total bargain bundle.
Language and gender…do men and women have different genderlects?
What linguistic features can be seen in male and female conversation…if any?
What does the research say?
These two HUGE resources cover the whole unit… the 47 page unit covers all the main areas of structural, theoretical and spoken variation and addresses some examples of gender bias within written texts, while the second resource covers gender bias in more depth, using fun and colourful resources, taken from horoscopes, problem pages, marriage guides, romance novels and news stories.
This is a great value bundle with three slideshows and over four separate documents on top, offering many hours of teaching.
There are two informative slideshows which define what the Gothic genre is and provide many useful terms, quotations, images and focus task opportunities.
Slideshow one is aimed at younger students, mainly years eight and nines, or as a quick contextual background starter for GCSE texts with a Gothic backdrop.
Slideshow two ha more details and is targeted at older students, year 11-13.
Useful reference grid for many types of suspense, with full definitions AND suggestions for the effects they create. Ideal resource for helping students analyse Gothic writing. Also shows them new techniques they can apply in their own compositions.
A substantial narrative writing pack which consists of many resources to help students write in a structured narrative, story-telling style, master more technical skills and confidence. The pack has a task based on a haunted house, and ideally, students write this ‘spine-chilling tale’ at the end of the unit, after they have worked through the resources. You may like to laminate images of scary scenes from the haunted house, alongside other Gothic images, to stimulate their imaginations…plus you can use the resources again.
An entire study pack which focuses on over five key soliloquies
Act Five worksheet
Shakespeare quotations for displays and start activities
A level 9 student response to essay task on guilt.
Glossary of 40 poetic terms, with examples and definitions
A very thorough detailed booklet on ‘Songs of Ourselves’, with background context and focus questions on every poem
Handy terminology revision: supporting activity on similes in an unseen Ted Hughes poem.
A mega detailed analysis of 23 scenes
A detailed revision test on ACT V which really stretches them
A great sample essay answer on guilt
Supporting contextual background on Shakespeare
Handy and colourful quotation flyers for your classroom displays
This is a great slideshow with lots of tasks and interesting background material to help introduce GCSE students to the contextual background of Romantic poetry. You could also deliver this at the end of year nine as a stand-alone unit. There are over 14 slides which explain what the poetic movement was, the concerns voiced by Blake, what the 'Fall' was and how Romantics wanted to redeem it and, finally, links on to a study of 'The Prelude'. The poem section is covered in the last part of the resource to enable students to analyse the section using their new-found contextual knowledge of Romanticism, This resource could be adapted to be used with older or younger students, but is ideal fr GCSE students, particularly those studying the AQA anthology, which includes the extract from Wordsworth's poem.
This bundle pulls together a lot of tried and tested resources, including:
Punctuation learning mat to improve written accuracy - ideal to laminate
Handy scheme on narrative and descriptive writing skills
Full pack on key features of narrative writing, including a large 12 slide slideshow, plus a great image grid writing activity with a horror theme
A fantastic and fun to use story writing grid based on the theme of a fairground - very flexible and popular, ideal for shy writers, as a full class paired activity or even practice timed descriptive writing task.
Even better, a lot of these resources can be adapted for younger or older students. In the main, they are aimed at GCSE learners, although the fairground grid works with all ages.(don't forget to buy your dice!)
Fun and varied selection of files to enrich the students' knowledge of Shakespeare, including:
A full 14 slide overview of Shakespeare's life, context, times and language, with lots of facts and images to interest the students
A handy guide to Shakespearean grammar, ideal for role play work.
Helpful ‘Odd One Out ‘activity for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', differentiates really well across rhe ability range and easily adaptable for other popular school Shakespeare set texts.
A good pair of revision packs which cover the lot. Please note that the cover sheet is a separate A4 overview page. You may well want to select what you prefer from each. The cover sheet goes with the 'complete' PDF and the second revision pack looks more at specific revision tasks. The aim is to improve textual understanding and confidence with the play whilst giving students lots to work on.
This PowerPoint covers the whole poem in great textual detail. I have a blank slide of the poem and have then close-annotated a second slide copy of the poem which enables students to add in more key terms and suggested effects. The slideshow covers lots of advanced poetic terms, such as allusion and oxymorons, colurful and allusion. Ideal to use with AQA students as a practice comparison with 'War Photographer', or as a stand alone analysis task for able GCSE or year nines.
Useful selection of the main resources, including:
Detailed Act One questions for students
Revision questions on the play
Useful and funny handout on non-standard dialect and Scouser’ language in the play - a great springboard for discussions about class and society
This activity can fill most of a lesson and consists of students completing the cloze test blanks for similes in a list, using their analytical and discursive skills to make the best choices. Ideal paired activity.
This resource was created with the IGCSE Paper 2 'Writers' Effects' task in mind, I found that my year tens were left cold by the sample past paper texts, so used this extract from the famous horror tale. As it is so well written, the students respond well to it and start to grasp how much detailed analysis is needed in these ten mark tasks. Obviously we then moved on to exam board papers, but thiis is ideal as a starting point. Ideally, if your were a year ten teacher you would use this as a starter, get them thinking about the language, then introduce the AOs for the task. You could then give students allocated quotations to hone their analytical skills upon. This task would also be useful practise for unseen prose analysis and for anyone studying the actual novel in full, so is very flexible, suitable for IGCSE or year nine pre-IGCSE students.
1) A great slideshow lesson with lots of images and colour which focuses on the essay: 'With close reference to his use of language, explain how Richard manipulates and controls his victims.'
2) This file is an ideal way to encourage younger year 8 or 9 students to write paragraphed analysis on a Shakespearean villain.
3) The group tasks encourage students to discuss the language, and there are slides which model suitable language analysis techniques for students to use on their own examples.
4) You can return to the in-depth quotation analysis slides and technical terminology definitions when teaching Macbeth at GCSE; similar skills and techniques appear!
This bundle has a lot of material to help you get your students enthused about Shakespeare's best known villain. It contains three PowerPoints which introduce and contextualise the history of Richard III, explore his use of language, introduce new linguistic techniques and finally leads students up to writing a full essay on his use of language to control others. Also included in the bundle is a great introduction to Shakespeare slideshow which, ideally, starts off the topic, and a handy guide to Shakespearean grammar. Finally, I include the worksheet for a Shakespearean insults tournament, which the kids love as Richard has so many opponents they can script for. This last task is great value as it works well with lots of plays besides this one.
A very thorough set of slides which includes full contextual background on London in the 18th and 19th centuries, useful images to help students visualise the city and a detailed focus section on Wordsworth’s ‘Lines composed upon Westminster Bridge’, including a set of focus work cards. This allows the students to tackle different aspects of the poem in groups. Next, Blake’s ‘London’ is explored, leading to slides which invite the students to compare the two. Full of useful context and suitable for able and average students. Over 16 carefully designed slides here.
This bundle of carefully made poem lessons brings together a great and very detailed set of lesson materials on some great English poems. Three are set at IGCSE. The bundle includes: a thorough analysis of Wordsworth's 'Lines composed upon Westminster Bridge', Blake's 'London', U.A Fanthorpe's 'Not My Best Side' and Carol Anne Duffy's 'Havisham'. All the lessons contain very detailed poem annotations plus supporting contextual background. Ideal for specific course units or as a wider programme of enrichment.
Ideal way to focus students on 'Boy: Tales of Childhood' - 15 plus searching questions on the early childhood and school chapters of his autobiography, designed to test student knowledge. At the end of the slideshow is a useful set of web links to websites, background films and documentaries, which would be ideal starting points for student research.
Nice mix of background information and focussed textual tasks. The pack includes:
1) Overview and introduction slides on the play's main protagonists
2) A second general introduction to Shakespeare slideshow, with interesting images and questions.
3) Fun interactive Q & A 'odd one out' activity which is very stretching as it forces students to think imaginatively and originally, enabling differentiation to take place enjoyably.
4) Very good Romeo tracker sheet, enabling students to map Romeo's changing views of love through the play.
