There is space for a headline and two columns for the story itself. The word-processed version also has space to insert a picture if needed.

These are student-friendly resources that are intended as a revision helper. There are instructions on the first slides that let students know they need to be proactively analysing these poems in their own time. The resources are intended as an aide memoir for students to simply sort the poems into categories and verbalise how they will compare in the exam. There are several points for AO1 and AO2 to help students compare the poems (aimed at a middle-ability group). Having said that, you are free to adapt as I am including the template. My aim when creating this resource was to give some good prompts for AO1 topic sentences. Enjoy! Printing tip: Look great on A5 but if you can’t print to A5, simply select ‘Print’ in PowerPoint and choose the ‘2 slides per page’ option. Or just print them on A4.

Here is a Paper 2 mock I put together as my class have done all the specimen papers available! Feel free to adapt and change; I have included the original exam paper file so you can make your own after you've used this one.

Perfect for GCSE English Language (any of the specs!) and incredibly engaging. My students thought it was great! A thorough analysis of two speeches by each party leader. Depending on whether you want to walk the students through the annotations (teacher model included) or whether you want to let them work independently, there is probably about three hours’ work here. The lesson starts by reviewing features of persuasive writing, followed by reading two speeches and annotating them. I have created a teacher model for each. Finally, the lesson finishes with students writing a comparative essay (success criteria/model paragraph included). Extremely topical and relevant around the time of an election and beyond! Resources included: -Comprehensive PowerPoint with lots of resources (just print the individual slides) - May Speech annotated - May speech blank - Corbyn speech annotated - Corbyn speech blank

A quick reference guide for students answering the English Language (8700) exam paper. It's an easy read, which includes activities. I printed them out in A5 booklets and they looked absolutely fantastic. Grab a bargain.

I was struggling to find exam papers so decided to make one myself! This is a complete paper for AQA English Language Paper 1 of the 8700 (new) specification. The great thing about this is that you will then have the template to use in the future!

Would work perfectly for other exam boards as well as AQA! I created this wheel in order to give students some kind of autonomy in terms of their essay writing. It outlines what students might say for AO1/2/3 in order to sound sophisticated. In my lesson, students absolutely loved it! They were able to use the wheel to inform their own topic sentences, AO2 analysis and essentially, write an independent essay. Two files: PDF/PPT (same file) so you can edit it if you like!

A two hour session that talks students through the exam paper. All links to mark scheme, insert and exam paper are in the slides.

This document is a two-page help sheet for students, teachers and parents that outlines common errors made in English such as: - Fused sentences - Hanging clauses - Comma splicing ... and many more. I usually give this to students when they are responding to feedback - or I give it to parents at parents' evening so they can help their children at home.

This is a simple slide that I use with my students as a prompt when they are responding to feedback. I have it in front of them so they have a reference and prompt when responding to comments. I usually laminate these and put them on desks - that way, they last the whole year!