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.
The Ghost of Christmas Past - 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.
2 documents. A Learning Objectives (WILF) sheet outlining what is expected from the essay. The second document is an easy to use essay plan for KS3 pupils to follow and produce a strong essay. The essay plan follows a cloze activity format but allows pupils to select their own evidence and to analyse language. Excellent for KS3 classes.
A PowerPoint lesson on writing scripts centering around a conversation between a complaining customer and a checkout cashier who does not care. Great fun for KS3 English lessons.
A PowerPoint designed to teach how to plan and write a review for the WJEC English Language Unit 2 Section B exam. It shows lots of places and items that are reviewed, from films to hairbrushes and shows the layout of a review. It also explains how to plan a review and an example of a review of Skyfall split into paragraphs. Designed for C/D borderline KS4 but would also be useful to KS3 classes.
A PowerPoint recapping how to use semi colons and colons. It is a single lesson designed to make usage as clear as possible. Great for KS3 or 4 English Language or Literacy lessons. Contains explanation of how to use them, examples, a task for each and shows incorrect usage too.
This is a PowerPoint design to make simple, compound and complex sentences as simple as possible. It begins simply with what makes up a simple sentence (Subject and verb phrase), then looks at creating compound sentences from two main clauses and a connective, then shows what a subordinate clause is and how to use commas to separate the main clause from the subordinate clause. Perfect to use with KS3 or KS4 classes. Can even be used at KS2. Fits into English language lessons or Literacy lessons.
11 very high quality worksheets for Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak. This unit of work is designed for lower ability KS4 classes to help prepare them for the NEW WJEC English Language exam (2016). Worksheets include proofreading and editing practice based on myths including vampires and werewolves, a planning sheet for creating a leaflet based on the circus, a plan for a persuasive speech, differentiated letter templates for a persuasive letter to the council, a sheet about leaflet writing structure in exams, persuasive techniques cutout activity, and a very well designed assessment objective sheets. Ideal for lower ability KS4 classes and KS3 classes studying the class. Excellent preparation for new WJEC English.
3 documents to help students write a review of David Walliams' Gangsta Granny. The first sheet is a learning objectives or WILF sheet to show what is expected of the task. The second is a paragraph plan to help students write their review. The third sheet is a differentiated version of the template with sentences to help. Excellent for KS2 and KS3 classes to help prepare for KS4 review writing. Can also be used with low ability KS4 classes.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Toads Revisited' 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.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'The Importance of Elsewhere' 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.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Nothing To Be Said' 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.
An introduction to Carol Ann Duffy's 'Mean Time'. Designed for the new WJEC English Literature AS Level, this is a PowerPoint designed to get students thinking of the title and themes, and also shows them an analysis of 'Valentine' with annotations, sets homework and gives some more poems to analyse in groups.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Days' by Philip Larkin. It contains an overarching synopsis to the poem, detailed commentary focusing on specific details. 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.
This is an example of a 'Description' for the new WJEC English Language GCSE - Unit 2 Section B. Because the difference between a 'description' and 'narration' is difficult to gauge with the new definitions given, I wrote this piece so students could see a model. It has helped my students to realise the difference and to give them a model to aspire towards.
11 practice National Reading Tests for KS3 English. They are designed to be challenging tests to help students improve their test performances as well as improve key reading skills for the new WJEC English Language GCSE.
A narrative writing example for the new WJEC Unit 2 Section B English Language GCSE. Excellent to use for answering a 'How does the writer ...' question and to show what students need to aspire towards in their own response.
An A3 annotated copy of 'Drunk' by Carol Ann Duffy. It covers all comments on the writer's techniques and comments as well as a comprehensive overview of the poem. This is very useful to help cover all poems in the anthologies without taking too much time, revision materials or to help students catch up with poems missed in class.
A 40 page workbook using A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens to practise WJEC English Language skills. This booklet contains Language Unit 2 proofreading exercises on the context of ACC, sequencing questions using events from the text, 'What impressions ...' questions using an extract from ACC, 'How does the writer ...' questions which help both Language and Literature examinations, 'Compare and contrast' questions, 'access, search and retrieve' questions and a list of possible character and theme questions. The resource was created because schools are not focusing so heavily on English Literature because of it no longer is used for schools' L2+. Using the Literature text to work on Language skills is an excellent way of addressing both examinations. This is an excellent workbook for lessons, homework or for catch up or tutoring sessions.
A large variety of high quality resources to help deliver and revise for WJEC English Literature. They include PEE grids on the ghosts and characters, context sheets, revision notes with key quotations, a timeline activity and key notes on staves.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Take One Home for the Kiddies' 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.
