For years I have been producing high quality PowerPoints to use with my English classes. I have always shared them around my department and now am offering them to you. For a very small fee, you can access these resources to hopefully help you plan or to inspire new lessons. I hope you and your students enjoy them.
For years I have been producing high quality PowerPoints to use with my English classes. I have always shared them around my department and now am offering them to you. For a very small fee, you can access these resources to hopefully help you plan or to inspire new lessons. I hope you and your students enjoy them.
A worksheet to help students understand when to use full stops correctly. The worksheet allows pupils to clearly see when full stops are needed, be able to split up sentences, correct comma splicing and complete incomplete sentence fragments.
This resource is a 51 slide PPT to help students write an exposition/expository essay in line with the new WJEC English Language GCSE. The PPT explains clearly what an expository essay is, how to plan one effectively, how to write a good introduction, how to write excellent expository paragraphs and how to structure points with sophistication. It also contains proofreading tasks in line with the new GCSE, vocabulary extension exercises, examples of good and bad introductions and main paragraph examples. Perfect to help KS3 pupils prepare for KS4 or for KS4 students to practise their skills. The PPT focuses on an essay on War but also shows examples of an essay on Money and an essay on Footballers.
A writing frame to help Year 7 students write a speech persuading their class to stop buying battery farmed produce. Success Criteria is also included.
A challenging NRT practice paper for Year 8 students on the theme of travel. It contains a range of questions to help prepare for the National Reading Tests but also for the new WJEC GCSE English Language qualification. Question include sequencing, words in context, access search and retrieve and verbal reasoning. An answer sheet is also included to help peer assess and reduce workload.
A writing frame to help students write a speech/presentation about a hobby of their choice. Great to get Year 7 doing presentations early on in the year.
A PowerPoint presentation asking pupils to consider the conventions of leaflets. Persuasive techniques are explored and leads to a group task where pupils are handed useless items and they have to try and sell them to the class using persuasive techniques. There is an example provided to model a good answer. The PP leads to an essay style task about a real world leaflet and then an opportunity to design their own theme park and to create a leaflet to persuade customers to visit. Great for a KS3 class studying leaflets/persuasive writing.
A master class on how to use commas in all their variations. From lists and multiple adjective usage to splitting up the subordinate clause from the main clause in complex sentences. Designed to make commas as clear and simple as possible. Great to remind GCSE English students before an exam or to improve the literacy of KS3 students. Contains examples, definitions, tasks and answers.
An ‘EXCELLENT’ full lesson teaching how to write the perfect exposition essay introduction. The PowerPoint is exceptionally well made, visually attractive and leads to outstanding results. The lesson teaches a three step formula to create a perfect introduction and helps all students produce an outstanding first paragraph. It also teaches a clear five step planning method. The resource contains example paragraphs line-by-line, timers, peer-assessment opportunities and a kinesthetic plenary. This lesson has been judged as ‘excellent’ and is perfect for an observation lesson.
This is a National Reading Test designed to prepare Year 7 students. It is based on two texts: one about Levi Roots and another about Peter Jones. The NRT is direct preparation for WJEC English Language GCSE with 'words in context', 'sequencing' and 'access, search and retrieve'. An answer sheet is included to make peer assessment an effective option that will help reduce workload for the teacher.
A National Reading Test practice paper based on a letter of invitation for an Open Evening at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It will help students to complete questions in the style of the NRT. It has search and retrieve questions, sequencing, word definition and vocabulary in context questions. It is also excellent for preparation at KS3 for the new WJEC English Language qualification. It is designed to be challenging for Year 7 pupils.
A cut-out activity that creates a timeline of key points from Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. The points explain the important details and makes inferences for the students. Students cut out the boxes, place them in the order they appear in Stave 3, stick them onto a timeline as a revision resource then add any key quotes to the boxes. Ideal for Year 11 GCSE students, especially those stdyin WJEC English Literature.
A sheet designed to show the difference between a good introduction and a weak one. It uses Larkin's 'An Arundel Tomb' to show how to write a good introduction and Duffy's 'Havisham' to show how to embed quotations. The sheet is designed for Section A of the WJEC English Literature A Level.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Send No Money' by Philip Larkin. It contains an overarching synopsis to the poem, detailed commentary focusing on specific details and the poem itself. Perfect for revision, catch up for those who may have missed the poem or a way of getting students to engage with the poem away from the classroom. Designed for WJEC English Literature AS Level.
A full analysis of ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron. The PowerPoint explains the important contextual information needed to be known to access the poem as well as line by line analysis of the poem. Literary and Linguistic terminology is clearly labelled and gives students everything they need to adopt a forensic knowledge of the poem. The resource is created specifically for WJEC AS English Literature and Language.
A PowerPoint presentation making speech marks as easy as possible. Contains a starter looking for increasing volume verbs for said, an easy step by step guide to using direct speech punctuation and a full task where they can demonstrate understanding. A peer assessment slide is included.
A worksheet teaching how to use the apostrophe of possession (or of belonging to make it easier). The worksheet allows pupils to add the apostrophes when changing sentences and a task linking items to those who own them using pictures as aids. An extension task at the end allows pupils to create the own sentences using some words that own something. Excellent for KS3 and for KS2.
A worksheet teaching the difference between there, their and they're. On the back of the sheet, are and our are taught. The sheet contains the definitions, task to check understanding and an extension activity.
The Ghost of Christmas Present - A Christmas Carol. A Point, Evidence and Explanation grid used to help students identify points to make in the WJEC English Literature exam. The 'Point' column is filled, page numbers given so students can find evidence and an explanation column to allow pupils to analyse details. The resource can be used in lessons or as a high quality homework.
