This is a collection of resources for colleagues teaching the AQA Step Up to English course. Both teaching units come with well-presented teaching PPTs and all student resources. Creative Writing Unit This highly engaging and enjoyable unit of work is designed to help Step Up to English students prepare for the AQA Component 2 writing section with a particular focus on narrative writing. It supports students in actively exploring and enjoying narrative extracts, looking at models from a range of literature and identifying successful features before moving to composing their own creative responses in the style of the writing assessment. Grammar and Punctuation Starters This resource was designed as a series of starters for my Step Up to English group. It focuses on sentences structure and punctuation and provides opportunities for students to apply new skills. It takes a visual approach to teaching simple, compound and complex sentences and provides texts and writing activities which help provide a context rather than the more traditional method of writing out individual sentences. As well as sentence structure, it covers punctuation including use of commas and punctuating direct speech. I have also added a set of Step Up creative writing tasks and a CPD unit on how to teach creative writing for Entry Level English. More Step Up to English Resources Complete courses and individual teaching units on all component 1 and 2 topics are available. They include teaching PPTs, all student resources and a set of detailed teacher’s notes and can be found at: RoseandMay’s TES English Classroom Resources New individual units: AQA Step Up to English: Component 1 STYLE Unit AQA Step Up to English: Component 2 CRIME Unit New Complete Course AQA Step Up to English: Complete Course (Leisure, Crime and Style Units)

This bundle includes three units for the AQA English Language GCSE designed for a mid-high ability group. They are: a. Narrative and Descriptive Writing Unit b. Paper 2 Unit - Mountaineering c. Spoken Language Endorsement Unit for NEA All units come with a well-presented teaching PPT, all resources for students and a detailed set of teacher’s notes from my own experience of delivering these units.

This resource bundle for teachers of Cambridge IGCSE First Language English includes the following: Narrative and Descriptive Writing Unit This highly engaging unit of work is designed to help prepare students for the Cambridge IGCSE First Language English 0500 with particular focus on building skills in descriptive and narrative writing within the context of gothic fiction. This style of creative response is relevant to Cambridge IGCSE Paper 2 Section B Composition where students are given a choice of descriptive and narrative tasks or Component 3 Coursework Portfolio assignment 2 ‘writing to describe’ and assignment 3 ‘writing to narrate’. Speaking and Listening Teaching Unit This unit prepares students for their Cambridge IGCSE Speaking and Listening test (individual talk and conversation) on a specific topic agreed with their teacher. It guides students through the whole process by looking at aspects of effective talks such as openings, rhetorical devices, endings, use of cue cards to structure a talk and responding to questions. Strategies include exploring good examples of talks as well opportunities to try out a variety of techniques to help make their own talks lively and engaging . Student Home Learning Guide This student-friendly guide is designed to support students in developing their skills in preparation for the Cambridge First Language English IGCSE Paper 2 Section B: Composition exam. It is intended for use at home and includes lots of interactive and practical tasks to help them embed the key skills required at this level. It includes a work booklet as well as accompanying resources in Word and PDF formats including planning frames, narrative extracts and creative writing tasks for exam practice. It will be invaluable for teachers who wish to set revision tasks for their classes or for parents who wish to support with exam preparation.

This teaching bundle contains three highly engaging units of work, all of which include very well presented teaching PPTs, all student resources ready to print and a set of detailed teacher’s notes. Each unit is mapped to the Junior Cycle Learning Outcomes. They are: Teaching Imaginative Writing Unit Oral Communication Unit for the Classroom-based Assessment Reading and Writing Non-fiction Unit - Mountaineering

This teaching bundle includes a highly engaging and enjoyable unit on narrative and descriptive writing as well as a series of starter lessons on grammar and punctuation which can be delivered in 10-15 minute starter activities at the beginning of each lesson. They are ideal for Grade 7-8 students. The teaching units come with well-presented teaching PPTs as well as all resources for students and detailed sets of teacher notes based on my own experience of delivering them. Also included is a self-study professional development unit on how to teach creative writing. Both teaching resources are also available as separate units. I hope you enjoy teaching them.