Can be used with KS3-KS4 towards GCSE skills for English. Pupils self-assess how confidence they feel about the skills they will eventually need. Great AFL/ Assessment For Learning when starting exam skills with a new class for the first time. Fits with National Curriculum and AQA GCSE Learning Objectives. Two versions - one for year 9 and one for GCSE years.

Peer assessment for the new paper 2 - reading and writing skills. Includes glossary document - do not provide Able and More Able/ Gifted and Talented pupils with this! Differentiation. Pupils assess how confident they feel with the skills needed for the paper. This allows the teacher to spend future lessons addressing the right areas. AFL/ assessment for learning reading and writing skills reading comprehension inference etc.

Whole lesson on Before You Were Mine to fit specifications for the new AQA GCSE anthology on Love and Relationships. Questions designed to test pupils on exam criteria and get them really evaluating and analysing the text. Worksheet to be done before analytical paragraph.

Two lessons on Letters From Yorkshire, a poem in the new AQA anthology on Love and Relationships. Matched to the exam specification, with questions to really get pupils thinking and discussing. Includes a gapfill activity to do before they encounter the poem, to make them really analyse the language the poet is using. Skills: analysing poetry, unseen poetry, close-reading, poetic technique evaluation

Entire lesson on creative writing with prompts, interactive powerpoint (with visual timers with sounds) and fun visuals to engage your class. The worksheet includes a series of criteria which match up to the run-through of the powerpoint, and a graph for them to plan their plot structure. Useful for teaching Section B of the new AQA Paper 1 - Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The exam will give them criteria and/or a picture prompt and ask them to write the opening to a story - this teaches those writing skills.

This lesson is designed to be a one-off, complete lesson for KS3-4 English. The powerpoint is differentiated with examples and higher ability tasks, and contains many visual stimuli for more visual learners. The presentation uses several gifs, which always go down well! The lesson starts with an activity about the origin of the word 'hello', and goes on to analyse Adele's hit song Hello. Learning objectives are clear and shared. Good for teaching approaches to unseen poetry in a fun manner.

Have your department asked you to create a mock for Paper 1? This is a template for both a mock paper and a teaching powerpoint for the new AQA GCSE Paper 1 (Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing). All resources are basically completed for you - all you need to do is input your own sources which fit the spec, and edit the resources using those exemplars. The mock looks just like a real exam paper (use the cover sheet from here http://www.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/gcse/english-language-8700/assess/paper-1-specimen-question-paper to complete the look!) and the powerpoint repeatedly breaks down the key assessed skills and learning objectives fro the paper (many of which are new foci) and reinforces the previous points. Create a source booklet using the template, and then off you go! This could easily form a whole unit of work when used with teaching general reading and writing skills relevant to the paper.

Lesson created for comprehension skills for KS3 and KS4. Fully differentiated resources - worksheet pack includes differentiated choice-based activity, which the three different levels of Word doc correspond to. Can be used to teach the curriculum skills of inferring / deducing / synthesising which are important to the new AQA GCSE. Uses the idea of the Norse God Thor (popularised by Marvel comics and films) to engage pupils, and they have to solve the riddles in a story from Norse Mythology (which I translated). Interactive, engaging, always a success!

Powerpoint, worksheet and poem copies for Before You Were Mine. Made for teaching the AQA Poetry Anthology on Love and Relationships. Questions on the worksheet increase in difficulty - you can differentiate by asking different pupils to start at different points. Language analysis, close-reading, interpretation

Differentiated lesson materials aimed at a class of students ranging from A-D grades. 2 x lesson plans and 2 x lesson powerpoints, and differentiated support resources including definitions of difficult terms. Quotes to give to any struggling pupils while the table-fill task is underway.

Poem in the AQA GCSE Anthology on Love and Relationships. Powerpoint includes starter, main activities, annotation guiding questions to discuss, and plenary based on PEE paragraph writing. Poetry, essay-writing skills, GCSE, close-reading, interpretation

Winter Swans is a poem in the GCSE AQA anthology for Love and Relationships. This lesson is aimed at a mixed ability group, and is differentiated and scaffolded, with a large element of personal choice for the final task. The powerpoint uses visual stimuli to appeal to visual learners. Powerpoint, lesson plan and copy of poem altered to emit the most interesting language - give pupils this first so that they are forced to think about the interesting choices the poet makes. close-reading, poetry, KS4, GCSE

Work for Neutral Tones (GCSE Literature Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology AQA). Close-reading skills, comprehension skills, different perspectives and critical material, essay-writing skills, thinking skills. Worksheet on responses (agree/ disagree) to poem to be done in pairs. Task where pupils replace the emotive words to create a poem with a different mood or tone (higher ability).

Resource created to use with GCSE poem anthology during revision. Students create their own diamante poem using the template on the worksheet. They have to think about structure and themes, and select the most relevant phrases, so it's great for making them really think. As an extension, pupils can read and peer-review others' poems, create a new diamante poem from the same base poem (but flip the mood or atmosphere, for higher ability) or move on to a new base poem and complete the revision activity for the new text.

AS Language resource on features of opinion articles. Planning sheet for first stages of pupils writing their own article.

Resource for A Level language students to practise writing a directed writing task (exam task). Includes info on slang and taboo language, a card sort, powerpoints for two lessons, and two examples of opinion writing on the topic. A planning sheet/ info sheet on features of opinion articles and how to plan them can be found in my other resources.

A lesson designed for Yr 12 English Literature students studying the Byron poem. Plan, worksheet, powerpoint.

2-3 WHOLE LESSONS This resource was created at the end of a GCSE module on An Inspector Calls. The powerpoint covers 2 lessons - the cover sheet can be set as the first lesson without the powerpoint but using the two worksheets (ingredients of genres, who is Inspector Goole). The powerpoint has interactive timers and visual stimuli to appeal to all learners and to keep the lesson at a good pace/ keep pupils engaged, and the starter worksheet should be done as a fast-paced discussion/ competition. The writing part of the unit of work can be set as homework or completed in lesson time - you can either have pupils peer mark, feedback on and rework just 1 paragraph OR an entire short story.

Powerpoint slides to run alongside a 'create your own bucketlist' activity. This could be done individually with a prize for the best list, or collaboratively as a form group. This worked well with a vertical form group with ages from 14-18.

A teaching powerpoint, an original mock paper (with source booklet) I have created and original exemplar answers at different grades (differentiated) I have created using the text Mrs Dalloway, which fits the GCSE English Lang Paper 1 spec for the new AQA paper. Also included - an original mock paper, source booklet, and differentiated exemplar answers at different grades for Lord of the Flies, which also fits the spec. The teaching powerpoint includes advice on the skills needed (close-reading, analysis, inference, etc.), how to approach the paper etc., this powerpoint uses student-friendly language and could be easily adapted for a different text/ mock/ exemplar set. The papers and source booklets have been painstakingly created in order to follow the format of - and print like - actual exam papers. This resource includes the following files: Teaching powerpoint for approaching paper 1 (Mrs Dalloway) Original mock exam paper 1 (Mrs Dalloway) Original mock exam paper 2 (Lord of the Flies) Original source booklet 1 (Mrs Dalloway) Original source booklet 2 (Lord of the Flies) Original differentiated exemplars booklet 1 (Mrs Dalloway) Original differentiated exemplars booklet 1 (Lord of the Flies) AQA cover sheet for papers if set as a mock When used with the reading/writing resources from the website TeachIt for the new Paper 1, this resource forms an entire scheme of work.