English teacher for the last decade; huge passion for teaching and creating interactive resources that lead to better engagement, better outcomes and better classroom environment! Have a look through my items for sale!
English teacher for the last decade; huge passion for teaching and creating interactive resources that lead to better engagement, better outcomes and better classroom environment! Have a look through my items for sale!
This resource was designed for my GCSE class but I've used it with a number of groups. It's been absolutely fab! If you've seen my Donald Trump lesson, it takes a similar route through the lesson:
- First of all, features of persuade and argue are outlined
- A couple of quick leaflets/posters are discussed (from dog charities) in order to allow some Q+A on students' understanding of the techniques
- Students watch the Emma Watson video along with the transcript (attached)
- The teacher has the annotated copy (attached) and can either keep stopping the video or allow students to annotate it themselves depending on students' proficiency
- A model annotation is on the following slide so students can see an example of what a good one looks like
- Students are introduced to the essay. A model paragraph is displayed
- Students reflect using a peer marking/self assessment grid (attached)
This took my class two hours but if you make the dog charity activities written, there is a week's work here.
This is a resource that I put on a whole-school display for students to reflect on their revision. I also asked form tutors to discuss revision strategies with their students in order to ensure students were not wasting their time making lots of notes that didn’t really help them.
This resource is perfect for students to stick in their books, discuss with their form tutors, include on a whole-school display or simply give to students to get them thinking about how they revise.
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A half term's worth of lessons for a two/three hour-per-week class. Three sets of PowerPoints, annotated examples, models and success criteria.
My suggested route through teaching:
- Trump on immigration
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
- Nicola Sturgeon on the referendum
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
- Emma Watson on gender equality
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
Bonus Lesson: Trump's plans to leave the Paris agreement (climate change).
Bonus Lesson: Hung Parliament!
Once those 12 lessons are over, students can be assessed on their writing by creating a speech using some of the language techniques they have studied. Options I gave:
- Feminism/Gender Equality
- In/Out Europe
- Referendum
- Banning Trump from the UK
All four lessons are really well themed and some include video resources too! They look at a whole range of language features, techniques and stylistic devices that are unique to each speaker.
All come with fully annotated speeches, examples of essay paragraphs and clear success criteria for students to follow.
A UCAS personal statement worksheet to prompt students to consider the course they want to study and how to prove their eligibility on their personal statement.
See my other resource which contains a fab PowerPoint to accompany!
A quick three-step guide to restorative justice conversations with students that asks them to reflect on their behaviour and plan for subsequent positive behaviour in the classroom.
A second sheet allows either them or the teacher/mentor to make notes.
I made this resource to decorate my classroom with. They are posters that can be displayed around the room to help students remember to use a variety of punctuation in their work. Each poster is themed in the same way so students know where to look for the information and they are not too heavy with information so are suited to a range of students.
1. Apostrophe
2. Colon
3. Semi-Colon
4. Commas
5. Full Stops
I have included sentence types posters too:
1. Simple Sentences
2. Compound Sentences
3. Complex Sentences
I have included several posters which help students to vary their sentences:
1. Adverb start
2. 'ing' start
3. 'ed' start
4. Relative clause
5. One word sentence start
I have also included commonly-made errors to remind my students to be mindful of ensuring they are proof reading their work for literacy errors.
1. Comma splicing
2. Fused Sentences
I have also attached the template if you want to adapt them or make additional ones suited to your class.
Have a look through the previews for these files.
- 16 literacy posters
- Prompt Sheets
- Comprehensive Revision Guide
- Language Analysis Lesson on Trump's immigration policy
- Unseen Poetry Literature Lesson with desk mat
- Various other resources
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The poster outlines the importance of skills in:
- Listening
- Communicating
- Organising
- Investigating
- Mastering
- Being resilient
- Being co-operative
- Being respectful
- Being creative
Here are two sessions that I created for the whole-school as part of an SMSC/PSHE fortnight. Both sessions have a Growth Mindset focus, video resources and a fab Poster/Display that I created to display around school.
The poster has a focus on the following skills:
- Listening
- Communicating
- Organising
- Investigating
- Mastering
- Being resilient
- Being co-operative
- Being respectful
- Being creative
Both sessions worked really well with students in Key Stage 3 and 4 and are ready to go without needing to print anything/resource anything extra. These sessions can be taught by non-specialists and each contain one activity for students.
I hope you find them useful!
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Two engaging sessions on Growth Mindset and a professionally created display poster that will blow up to A1 size if required.
Both sessions explore the term 'Growth Mindset' and look at the principles of the theory. Students investigate how they can be more resilient through developing their own Growth Mindset.
A bonus British Values SMSC/PSHE lesson has been thrown in too - as have some great additional posters.
If you’re like me, you’ve already used all of the previous and specimen papers!
I decided to create these resources as I wanted to give my students something they’d never seen before and wouldn’t have been able to access online.
They look a long time to put together and make identical to the AQA papers!
Hopefully you find them as useful as I did.
(You will also get the template so can make your own exam papers in the future!)
