Welcome Everyone! This shop has been created to bring you all quality resources, that you can adapt for your own lessons. Please let me know if you have any questions about the resources!
Welcome Everyone! This shop has been created to bring you all quality resources, that you can adapt for your own lessons. Please let me know if you have any questions about the resources!
This resource has been created for the City and Guilds specification for Functional Skills English: Entry 3. The skills assessed in this resource includes:
Identify, understand and extract the main points and ideas in and from texts
Identify different purposes of straightforward texts
Use effective strategies to find the meaning of words (e.g. dictionary, working out meaning from context; using knowledge of different word types)
Understand organisational features and use them to locate relevant information (e.g. contents, index, menus, tabs and links).
This lesson has been constructed for learners at the lower end of Entry 3 and provides some Level 1 questions.
This resource has been tailored with a stronger focus on Functional Skills English: Entry Level 3.
This resource has been created for a one hour lesson with Entry 3 learners.
This resource has been created to promote memory recall and stress relief for before and during a student’s GCSE English Language exam.
The lesson consists of:
Actions to take on the weeks leading up to the exam
The importance of attending the exam
AQA expectations
Question breakdown
How to edit and proofread responses to Section A: Reading
This resource was created for learners who struggle with anxiety and low level learners with a target grade of 1-4.
This resource has been created to build confidence in learners’ abilities to identify structural devices and respond to Paper 1: Q3 in AQA GCSE English Language exam.
This lesson focuses on responding to Q3 using PEE paragraphs and reflecting on their answer using the mark scheme provided.
This bundle caters for low level learners who struggle with Section A (Reading) in the 8700 AQA GCSE English Language qualification.
All of the resources are aimed for target grades between 3-5.
How to use:
GCSE English Checklist - To see where your learners currently are and which questions and skills they struggle with.
Reading texts:
Gone Girl - Best for Q2 and Q4
Rebecca - Best for Q2 and Q4
The Maze Runner - Best for Q2 and Q3
Reacher - Best for Q3
This resource can also be used as a revision tool for learners wanting additional material to revise remotely.
This bundle focuses on creative writing in the 8700 AQA GCSE English Language: Section B exam papers. This bundle includes:
Narrative Writing lesson.
This lesson provides learners with a greater understanding of narrative hooks, plot and how to build suspense.
Editing and proofreading lesson.
This focuses on improving a learners editing and proofreading skills. Editing skills have a focus around improving content and organisation marks, whilst proofreading focuses on improving technical accuaracy marks.
x2 Descriptive Writing lessons.
1 lesson focuses on creative writing for low level learners. This is ideal for any learners that struggle using their creativity.
1 lesson focuses more on using structural devices in a piece of descriptive writing. This may be better focused for learners wanting to achieve a grade 4 or higher.
Article Writing lesson.
This lesson focuses on how to write an effective article. The lesson discusses the format of an article and what language features and structural devices are effective for this writing style.
GCSE English Checklist is also included to allow your students to keep track of their progress on their writing skills. This checklist can also be used to reflect on their reading skills also.
Each resource provides you with 1 hour 30 minutes of writing activities. Overall there are 6 hours worth of writing activities available.
This resource was created for challenging learners that have a target grade between 3-5.
Each lesson can be adapted for future lessons and can be changed in difficulty for a variety of learning abilities.
This bundle has been created with both teachers and students in mind, who wish to improve their descriptive writing skills for their AQA GCSE English Language exam. This bundle includes:
Descriptive Writing for Low Level Learners
This lesson provides descriptive tasks for learner who often struggle to use their imagination to write creatively. The focus of this lesson is to generate ideas to a descriptive task.
Creating Structure in Descriptive Writing
This lesson focuses on using structural devices within a piece of writing. The lesson looks at including structure as part of the planning process for Section B. This lesson has been created for learners wanting to achieve a grade 4 or higher.
Editing and Proofreading
This lesson focuses around the difference between proofreading and editing and how effective each element can be when learners have time to revise their writing.
Student Checklist has also been included to help learners keep track of their writing progress. This can also be applied to their reading skills also.