Fun, engaging and hassle-free resources for secondary English and Drama. Developed by a lead practitioner and AQA examiner, you can be sure all resources are geared towards the latest specifications.
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Fun, engaging and hassle-free resources for secondary English and Drama. Developed by a lead practitioner and AQA examiner, you can be sure all resources are geared towards the latest specifications.
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Here is everything you need to teach Act 4 of Macbeth. Specifically written for the new spec AQA English Literature GCSE but equally applicable to other exam boards.
This scheme contains full lessons for each and every scene of Act 4, with each lesson containing a range of interesting and engaging activities to develop and deepen your students’ understanding of the text.
The scheme contains differentiated success criteria and tasks, full analysis for all scenes and teacher notes to guide you through the teaching of the lesson. Homework tasks are also included with the scheme. The lessons will require little to no adaptation and all the resources you need are included.
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Here is everything you need to teach Act 5 of Macbeth. Specifically written for the new spec AQA English Literature GCSE but equally applicable to other exam boards. The complete scheme of work for the entire play can be found here.
This scheme contains full lessons for each and every scene of Act 5, with each lesson containing a range of interesting and engaging activities to develop and deepen your students’ understanding of the text.
The scheme contains differentiated success criteria and tasks, full analysis for all scenes and teacher notes to guide you through the teaching of the lesson. Homework tasks are also included with the scheme. The lessons will require little to no adaptation and all the resources you need are included.
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Here I have a lesson/mini scheme on monologues. Though considered a necessary evil by many, I think they are a great way for students to break through the 'wall' in terms of lacking confidence and conviction. Once they have successfully completed a monologue, they should find that any issues around nerves and confidence are much improved.
There are six monologues for students to perform (so each can be done over six lesson or you can give different groups different monologues, it's up to you). There is also a lesson powerpoint to coach students through preparing for, performing and evaluating their monologues.
The monologues are my own creation and cover a variety of different themes and ideas. They have been deliberately crafted in order to present complex characters which challenge the performer to demonstrate a wide range of emotions. They are also relatively short, meaning your students shouldn't have too much bother learning lines. Most can be performed by either gender.
They have worked incredibly well with my groups and I'm glad I introduced these lessons early in year 10. Little/no adaptation is required.
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Developed specifically for the new 9-1 AQA GCSE English Literature specification (yet equally suitable for other examination boards), here is a detailed comprehension work book for Chapter 9 - ‘Dr Lanyon’s Narrative’ of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’.
This is basically a mini scheme/unit of work in a booklet and would work brilliantly as either revision for your students, independent study work for cover, tutoring and home schooling, or for students to actively read the text and consolidate their understanding as they read.
Huge range of comprehension questions exploring plot, character, themes, context and writer’s messages and intentions. Questions are in chronological order (in line with events from the text) so very easy to follow and is an ideal teaching tool to ensure students are actively reading and engaging with the text.
Ideal preparation for the AQA English Literature qualification as all the Assessment Objectives are covered. Covers everything they need to know for the chapter really. Due to the challenging nature of the source text, I’d say this is more geared towards middle and higher ability students.
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Complete schemes of work for the writing sections of papers 1 and 2 of the English Language GCSE qualification. Concise, skills driven lessons to boost your student’s skills in a number of key areas.20+ hours worth of lesson content.
Everything you need to teach these papers is here. Fully resourced and ready to go. Additional freebies thrown in:
* 40 worksheets for papers 1 and 2 (writing tasks worded in the AQA language format with guidance)
* 150 sensational starters for English
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This is a lively and engaging resource developing students’ word choices and general vocabulary skills. Ideal in preparing students for GCSE English Language Paper 1, Section B. The full scheme of work is available to purchase for just £5. Click this link to check it out!
A range of activities designed to develop your pupils’ vocabulary use and to also get them into positive habits of editing and improving vocabulary after having ‘finished’. This has been designed with the new AQA Language Paper 1 specification in mind, which places heavy emphasis on making effective vocabulary choices in the writing, but is equally useful for KS3 teaching and for other major GCSE exam boards.
Would work well as a standalone writing/literacy lesson or as part of the paper 1 writing scheme of work of which this is a part.
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Here I have the second volume of the 'Sensational Starters' series which aims to give teachers a huge bank of starters that they can use with all of their classes.
50 slides, with each slide providing a different starter task for your classes. Ideal as bell ringer/ entrance tasks. It's as simple as that!
This edition focuses on reading skills; with a huge bank of starters developing the following aspects of reading:
Basic Inferences
Layered Inferences
Using evidence to support points
Inferring from images
Inferring from quotations
Exploring key words within quotations
Identifying word classes
Commenting on the effect of word classes
Understanding the writer's messages/viewpoints
Understanding the writer's world (context)
Responding critically to a text
Would suit Key stages 3, 4 and even 5. Ideal Language GCSE preparation tasks for Paper 1 and 2; great for general skill building too! The tasks suit a wide range of abilities and can be easily tweaked if required. This would be an ideal resource for a whole school literacy drive too.
Perfect toolkit and inspiration for any teacher. Ready to roll. Enjoy!
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An ideal solution to ensure your students can work from home independently and effectively in this critical run up to the exams.
Here is the complete collection of comprehension booklets foe Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’.
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7 action packed booklets full of an exciting range of activities. Each booklet will allow your students to master all the key assessment objectives for their AQA 9-1 English Literature exam (though equally useful for other exam boards). Here you have all you need to teach this important set text.
Would work as a scheme of work, independent study work or revision before the exam. See individual resources for further information.
Ready to go - no adaptation required. Feedback welcomed and appreciated!
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This scheme of work equips your students with a range of skills to tackle the writing section of their English Language Paper 2 exam. Tailored to the latest 9-1 specifications.
All lessons are packed with fun and engaging activities, as well as being visually appealing. Each ‘lesson’ is packed with activities that are more likely to take a couple of lessons than just one.
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An ideal solution to ensure your students can work from home independently and effectively in this critical run up to the exams.
Everything you could possibly want or need to teach and revise for Jekyll and Hyde as part of the 19th Century Texts component of the AQA English Literature GCSE exam. A complete scheme of work and plenty more besides! 60%+ saving through buying the bundled resources.
Further information on each of the resources can be found by clicking on their links. Here is a broad breakdown:
Comprehension booklets for all chapters for students to study and explore the text as they read (essentially a scheme of work). These booklets are a priceless teaching tool as they allow you to actively teach the novel, with students exploring key characters, themes, plot developments and context after every chapter. This is ideal as a low maintenance way of teaching the text, requiring little adaptation and allowing your students to explore the text independently. Also ideal for tutors/home schooling.
Revision guide is provided once they have finished or to return back to the text in the run up to the exam.
Exam practice and questions booklet is provided to further aid revision and exam strategy in the run up to the exam. Students become confident answering exam style questions from different points in the text.
Cue cards provided to enable your students to memorise key quotes and ideas.
Everything is ready to roll. Little to no adaptation required. If you like low maintenance teaching you will love this! Buy in confidence from a TES recommended author.
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Huge range of revision activities based around J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls. Fully prepare students for the AQA paper 2 English Literature 9-1 GCSE exam with this exciting and varied range of activities.
Each slide is a stand-alone activity designed to improve students’ awareness of character, plot, themes, key subject terminology, context, writer’s intentions and those all important quotes! The PowerPoint covers all the assessment objectives for all the major exam boards, but was created specifically with AQA in mind.
Many of the activities make ideal starters, and plenaries, whilst some of the more extensive tasks can take a whole lesson. Ideal in the run up to the exam!
I’ve tried to approach the text from lots of different angles to keep it feeling ‘fresh’ for you and your students. Many of the acitivites aim to stretch and challenge students, introducing them to new concepts and ideas I created this with the AQA spec in mind but am sure it’s equally applicable to other exam boards.
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Everything you need to teach Act 1 Scene 4 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This is also available as part of a complete scheme of work whereby a considerable saving can be made; further details can be found here.
The lessons have been created specifically for teaching at GCSE level, and cover the key assessment objectives for AQA: understanding of the text, language and structure, context/themes/author intent (although equally applicable to other exam boards).
Differentiated outcomes and tasks allow you to reach all learners, although I would recommend the lessons specifically for middle to higher ability students. Throughout the scheme, students are encouraged to make notes and annotate the text, as this will be a valuable revision tool when preparing for exams.
Teacher notes are provided to help explain and guide you through all phases of the lesson, with a range of interesting and engaging tasks for you to choose from. Importantly, full analysis is provided for all the tasks set, to enable you to lead interesting and engaging discussions which will deepen the students’ appreciation of the text. Strictly speaking, there is probably a lot more here than you would fit into a 1 hour lesson, so you may wish to spread this over a couple of lessons, or perhaps be a little selective with the tasks you wish to do.
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This is a 28 page, fully loaded revision, study and comprehension resource for George Orwell’s Animal Farm. This has been written with the latest AQA (9-1) English Literature GCSE specification in mind, but I’m sure this would work equally well with other exam boards.
I’ve tried to make this revision guide as active as possible, so there are lots of activities and tasks for students to do as they work through the booklet. There’s a good balance of information and engaging tasks for students to work through.
Contents run as follows:
Visual summary of plot
Storyboard activity for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory
Exploring the significance/symbolism of names in the novel (activity and analysis provided)
Context (students explore key figures from the Russian revolution as well as make connections between events from history and events in the novel)
Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance (quotes are broken down chapter by chapter)
Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the novel
Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided
Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and theoretical ideas that will deepen their understanding of the novel as well as impress examiners
Exam questions - 10 exam questions worded and structured in the same way you will expect to find them on the new 9-1 literature paper
Exam Techniques - Hints and tips on how to maximise performance in the exam.
Ready to roll, everything a student needs to revise for the exam and boost their confidence in the run up to the exam. Little/no adaptation required. Suitable for a range of abilities. Enjoy!
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Homophones!
I'm often gobsmacked to find even my year 11 GCSE classes struggle with there/their/they're and through experience, I've learned that it's not that they don't know the correct homophone, they just simply don't revise them enough to have 'sharp skills' in this respect.
These lessons are designed to address this area of weakness we often find in our students. You can do a single round as a starter or you may wish to build a couple of lessons around the whole scheme.
Contents as follows:
Homophone blast 1 - Round 1 'There/they're/their'. Round 2 'Your/you're'
Homphone blast 2 - Round 1 'Were/where/we're'. Round 2 'To/two/too'
Homophone blast 3 - Round 1 - Students circle the correct homophone in the sentence. Round 2 - Same as round 1 but more advanced homophones.
Homophone blast test - A list of homophones whereby students need to create sentences out of the homophone words
Answers PPT - Goes through each blast round by round, providing answers so that the whole thing can be peer-assessed
Ready to roll, no adaptation required. Suitable for all age ranges really. Worksheets are easy to follow and ready to print out. Ideal as standalone/cover lessons too.
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20 worksheets each with a unique AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 style writing task. Ideal to set as HW and designed to be really quick and easy to mark.
The worksheets are worded/presented in the way you would expect to find an AQA English Language writing question (equally suitable for other exam boards).
They also contain lots of prompts and interactive questions to encourage students to use a wide range of skills as they are writing. That way, as you continue to set different questions, good writing skills will become habitual.
Most importantly, marking the work is really easy. Simply circle the effort level and highlight a target from the target bank. Diagnostic marking without even having to write a single word!
Ideal to set as homework, as part of a scheme of work, or simply some inspiration for some AQA style worded writing tasks.
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This is a 31 page, fully loaded revision, study and comprehension resource for Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. This has been written with the latest AQA (9-1) English Literature specification in mind, but I’m sure this would work equally well with other exam boards and would also work nicely with the drama specifications such as OCR (I’ve thrown in an OCR GCSE revision mat to accompany the guide so that it works for drama too).
I’ve tried to make this revision guide as active as possible, so there are lots of activities and tasks for students to do as they work through the booklet. There’s a good balance of information and engaging tasks for students to work through.
Contents run as follows:
* Visual summary of plot
* Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory
* Exploring the form and structure of the play
* Context (students explore key contextual issues and make connections between events from history and events in the play)
* Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down act by act
* Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the play
* Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided
* Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their conceptual understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.
* Exam questions - 5 exam questions worded and structured in the same way you will expect to find them on the new 9-1 literature paper
*Exam Techniques - Hints and tips on how to maximise performance in the exam.
Ideal for all teachers as there are very few past papers for the new specification; this covers all the assessment objectives they will need to cover. Definitely a grade saving resource that enables students to fully prepare for the exam.
Ready to roll, everything a student needs to revise for the exam and boost their confidence in the run up to the exam. Little/no adaptation required. Suitable for a range of abilities.
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Everything you need to teach Act 2 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This lesson also includes a handy Act 1 revision worksheet free of charge (can be set as homework). This is also available as part of a complete scheme of work whereby a considerable saving can be made; further details can be found here.
The lessons have been created specifically for teaching at GCSE level, and cover the key assessment objectives for AQA: understanding of the text, language and structure, context/themes/author intent (although equally applicable to other exam boards).
Differentiated outcomes and tasks allow you to reach all learners, although I would recommend the lessons specifically for middle to higher ability students. Throughout the scheme, students are encouraged to make notes and annotate the text, as this will be a valuable revision tool when preparing for exams.
Teacher notes are provided on the PowerPoint to help explain and guide you through all phases of the lesson, with a range of interesting and engaging tasks for you to choose from. Importantly, full analysis is provided for all the tasks set, to enable you to lead interesting and engaging discussions which will deepen the students’ appreciation of the text. Strictly speaking, there is probably a lot more here than you would fit into a 1 hour lesson, so you may wish to spread this over a couple of lessons, or perhaps be a little selective with the tasks you wish to do.
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Are you dreading marking those assessments or mock exams? Do you wish your students took more ownership of their work and the improvements they make? This marking system has been designed specifically to solve these very problems!
This system takes the very time consuming and complex form of marking and simplifies it down not only saving you time, but giving your students detailed diagnostic feedback in the process. Designed specifically for AQA but would work equally well with other exam boards with some minor tweaks.
In a nutshell:
Using the marking grids, you award marks for each question, highlight strengths in green and targets in orange
The marking grids provide a detailed bank of comments for each question, allowing you to give diagnostic feedback for each and every question, tailored to that student’s performance
The accompanying powerpoint talks your students through the marking grid, explaining how it works
Your students then spend a couple of lessons going over their work and making the necessary improvements
Help sheets are provided for each and every question to help you avoid a million questions and to enable your students to improve their work independently.
This is guaranteed to save you hours of work and is fully editable/adaptable if you wish to change anything.
Everything you need to win the war against mock exams!
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A fantastic collection of visually stunning display posters guaranteed to light up your classroom!
Using quotations from Animal Farm, this collection of 25 display posters combines striking images with beautiful fonts to create memorable visual prompts for your students. Ideal in any GCSE English classroom.
In the age of closed book exams, these will not only look great, but help your students revise quotations during each and every lesson.
I have also included the PPT files, so that you can print using the ‘2 slides per page’ option and print them off for your students to use as revision cue cards!
Most of the key quotations are included here, covering all the chapters and key characters from the novella.
The PPT preview is problematic on TES, but they download absolutely fine when purchased. I’ve also included the PDF version for added peace of mind. Why not check out the free trial before you buy?
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I was finding that in many of my drama groups, certain students would inevitably end up fulfilling the same roles within their groups. For example, there would always be a natural leader emerge who would boss everyone around, and others who were happy to be passengers.
This handy little resource shakes things up a bit and makes sure that all members of the group are fully involved and invested in the devising process. It's also a great differentiation strategy in mixed ability groups as you can group students and define roles based on your preferences/rationale. When I was observed for my appraisal, the cards allowed me to show that I had challenged students to step outside of their comfort zone and explore a role they had not previously fulfilled within a group. It's amazing what the students can do when you set them a challenge!
These are great to get laminated and you can fill the names in with a whiteboard marker. They can equally just be printed out and written on normally.
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