I create resources for all year groups at secondary level English. I also create study vlogs available on my YouTube channel if you search for Sophie Toovey. My podcast, Teach me Lit, is aimed at helping students revise for GCSE and A Level literature exams. You can find it on Spotify, Google podcasts and Podbean.
I create resources for all year groups at secondary level English. I also create study vlogs available on my YouTube channel if you search for Sophie Toovey. My podcast, Teach me Lit, is aimed at helping students revise for GCSE and A Level literature exams. You can find it on Spotify, Google podcasts and Podbean.
I created practice GCSE reading and writing tasks using two contrasting articles: the Coddling of the American Dog and a web page from Dogs Trust. The article is funny and looks at how much money is in the pet industry in America today, and there are retrieval questions, vocabulary development, explain questions and a ‘how’ question. Includes mark scheme with specific answers from the text, but also marking bands from WJEC. There is a compare question and also a writing task to advise a friend who is considering buying a dog.
This lesson asks students to use verbal reasoning to clarify unknown vocabulary, then gives three ‘explain’ GCSE reading style questions. There is also an accompanying writing task ‘is Britain a class-divided society?’.
This is a set of resources for teaching Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ for English Literature GCSE. I teach WJEC specification. The students are preparing for an exam with an extract task and an essay which has to refer to context. This bundle includes a starter PPT for introducing the novel and basic context (What’s a girl to do?), looking at what life was like for girls in Austen’s day, and outlining the main characters and starting Chapter 1. See https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/what-was-life-like-for-girls-in-jane-austen-s-time/ for an accompanying podcast. There is a PPT for introducing Collins and Wickham in Chapter 15, and then another PPT to introduce essay writing, with a model essay on the theme of marriage and an essay plan for a question about how the novel shows ‘the plight of women’. See https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/the-plight-of-women-in-austens-pride-prejudice/ for an accompanying podcast. There are PPTs for looking at Elizabeth’s visit to Hunsford, including an extract task on Darcy’s proposal in Chapter 34, and her visit to Pemberley. There is a PPT about Lydia’s elopement to help students understand what Lydia has done wrong. See https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/what-s-wrong-with-lydia-and-wickham-in-pride-and-prejudice/ for an accompanying podcast. Finally, I’ve also included a PPT with DIRT tasks for after a mock exam, although you could use them in any context eg. turning an A grade paragraph into an A*.
This was designed for Y7-8 for Black History Month. The PPT contains several lessons of work, introducing Windrush with poetry and an inference square, and a homework research project, and then using sources on the Mangrove 9 to answer comprehension questions then complete a synthesis extended reading response. These resources were compiled from online sources.
This is designed for Year 7 students reading ‘When Secrets Set Sail’ by Sita Brahmachari. There are comprehension questions, homework research tasks, and an extended reading response task looking at the relationship between Usha and Imtiaz. There is also a class discussion on the idea of reparations. This was written for Black History Month and can be used to help improve diversity in the curriculum.
A revision podcast discussing why dreams are so significant in John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ for GCSE English Literature students.
Search for Teach me Lit podcast on Spotify or Google podcasts or use the link below to stream via Podbean:
https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/dreams-in-of-mice-and-men/
A Powerpoint to give tools for students to revise for an extract response in any novel or text. Suits GCSE/ AS Level English Lit.
I have also made a Study Vlog video to go with this.
PPTs to work through the whole of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, looking at summarising the events in chapters, selected extracts for analysis, essay questions, critics and historical context.
This study vlog works through a strategy for how to read a poem to give students tools for independent study. It uses Owen Sheers’ poem ‘The Hill Fort’ as a model example.
Can be used for reflection on the learning of a unit, and also for ongoing skills-based reflection for writing, reading, oracy and attitude to learning.
