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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 for low level learners with a target grade of 2-4. The lesson has been created to follow the 8700 AQA GCSE English Language specifications. This lesson will last for 1 hour 30 minutes.
Within this resource learner will:
Recall simple word classes such as adjectives and adverbs.
Learn the difference between descriptive and narrative writing.
Be able to use the grid method when creating a piece of descriptive writing.
Sentence starters have been included to stretch and challenge some learners. Resource also includes videos about creative writing.
This resource has been created using AO5 and AO6 from the 8700 AQA GCSE English Language criteria.
This resource has been created for the 8700 AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2.
This resource has been created to help low level learners with structuring an article. This resource is therefore ideal for learners with a target grade of 4-5.
At the beginning of the resource there is a recap session that looks at the use and the effect of several punctuation marks.
At the end of the resource, learners are given an editing task to improve their writing further.
This resource can be adapted to a variety of learning differences and can be adapted if needed.
This resource should is expected to last 1 hour 30 minutes.
This resource provides 4 different texts that have been created for Functional Skills English Level 1. This resource may also be used to stretch learners on
Entry 3 Functional Skills English. This resource fully supports the City and Guilds awarding body, including both the Reforms and the Legacy papers.
This resource is mainly used to discuss the main purposes of a text/text types/organisational features/information retrieval.
This resource has been created following the AQA 8700 GCSE English Language Paper 2 criteria.
The lesson focuses on both AO2 and AO3.
The lesson focuses around food trends from the 20th and 21st Century.
The aim for this lesson is to increase a learner’s confidence in identifying language features in a non-fiction text. By the end of the resource, learners should be able to identify and comment on how language features achieve effects and influence readers.
This resource was created for low level to mid level learners, with a target grade between 4-6.
The resource can be tailored for a higher level and can also provide a good subject for article writing as a revision activity.
This resource has been created for the 8700 AQA GCSE English Language qualification, with a focus on Paper 1.
The Assessment Objectives used within this resource include: AO1, AO2 and AO4.
This resource includes:
Rebecca extract by Daphne Du Maurier
Exam style questions suited to the AQA awarding body
In-depth focus on Language Features and Structural Devices
Essay writing skills in response to Q2, Q3 and Q4.
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Starter activity includes awordle task, used to help learners recap Strucutral Devices that could be useful to the unseen text.
This resource can be used as a lesson and can take 1 hour 30 mins to 3 hours to complete, depending on the depth you wish to use the resource.
This resource can be used as a complete lesson or can be tailored as a revision tool.
This resource is tailored forlow level learners who wish to achieve a grade 4-5 in GCSE English Language. The resource itself can also be upscaled for a higher level if needed.
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 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.
Both articles focus on mental and physical health. These texts have been created for the compare and contrast questions in City and Guilds Functional Skills English, Levels 1-2. These texts can be used separately for level 1 or together for level 2.
These articles help learners identify language features, purpose of a text and audience.
Please note that the physical health article focuses on a wheelchair users health and helps interesting topics to unfold with British Values.
This lesson has been created for AQA 8700 GCSE English Language: Paper 2. The main focus of this lesson is around the effects of language features and how to apply this using PEE paragraphs.
Elements of the lesson can be adapted into classroom activities either completed in groups or as a whole class.
This lesson has been created for learners with a target grade between a grade 2-4 .
This lesson looks at the Jay Rayner practice paper in relation to education.
This lesson was originally created for a 90 minute lesson.
This lesson has been created using the 8700 AQA GCSE English Language specification.
This resource uses John Grisham’s Skipping Christmas and encourages class discussion around Christmas as a holiday.
The lesson includes:
Source extract with highlighted language techniques
Powerpoint to use for your lessons that will last 1 hour 30 minutes
videos of Christmas with the Kranks to highlight the characters within the extract.
Borderline sample responses in relation to the extract.
This resource can also be used to compare Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This resource can be adapted for learners needs, however the material is currently aimed for low level learners with a target grade of a 4.
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 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 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.
This resource follows the AQA 8700 GCSE English Language Paper 1 specifications.
This lesson has been created to improve a students understanding of AO2- Language techniques and their effects.
This resource includes:
Source extract and link to the full novel to encourage learners reading skills.
Q2 and Q3 exam style questions with answers
PowerPoint lesson that focuses on Q2
This resource can be amended to suit your needs, however the work provided is for learners with a target grade 3-5.