This resource is designed as a fun and engaging project that also teaches students key writing skills. It involves tasks based around football, creating a fantasy team, the perfect player and commentating. these tasks have a literacy focus. Learning Objectives: LO: To learn more adjectives based on physical abilities. LO: To learn how to use superlatives in explanatory writing. LO: To learn how to include ambitious vocabulary in writing.

Great Expectations. Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1. These lessons use an extract from the opening of Great Expectations to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. The BBC version of Great Expectations is a useful tool to support the teaching of structure and language. Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, pair and group tasks. They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression. The question 4 lessons focus on teaching students how to develop a critical and evaluative response to a statement using a routine that can be applied to any question 4. The question 5 lessons are directs at Higher Ability students, focusing on using complex ideas and extended metaphors in descriptive writing. AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. Select and synthesise evidence from different texts. AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views. AO3: Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts. AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.

The lesson, with accompanying resources is an introduction lesson that sets out rules and expectations, read a news article with a comprehension task and think about their own ambitions for the year.

Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1. These lessons use an extract from Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. The BBC version of Birdsong is a useful tool to support the teaching of structure and language. (Modified Presentation) The sequence of lessons link well to the teaching of the Conflict and Power cluster of poems by exploring the theme of conflict and nature of trench warfare. Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, pair and group tasks. They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression. The question 4 lessons focus on teaching students how to develop a critical and evaluative response to a statement using a routine that can be applied to any question 4. The question 5 lessons are designed to enable students to create interesting and convincing story openings using The Sins of the Mother by Jamil Ahmad as a model text. AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. Select and synthesise evidence from different texts. AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views. AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.

Revision for Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde. Set of chronological images to represent 19 key quotations for the text Jekyll and Hyde. Students to recall key quotation to match the image, which leads well into discussions about patterns of imagery and recurring motifs. 2 AQA exam style questions. Includes slides with a support process for approaching and answering the specific question. One with an exemplar answer. Please review. Feedback is appreciated.

Valuable introduction to poetic features and how to approach analysing poetry. The 5- lesson sequence begins with a recap of poetic features using Simon Armitage's poem 'The Manhunt'. Each lesson consists of a series of tasks that analyse the: Meaning, Imagery, Tone and Structure of the poem.

Complete lesson on analysing Thomas Hardy’s The Ruined Maid. It uses artwork and interactive pair work to explore the purpose of imagery, teaches the different types of imagery, teaches students to identify and analyse these types of imagery in the poem, consolidates / assesses knowledge through a writing task and peer assessment of the clear success criteria. Includes extensions. Engaging lessons, outstanding in lesson observation.

LO: to be able to develop a thoughtful informed personal response by considering contextual factors. Key quotations Character analysis Change in Lady Macbeth Uses video clip Key vocabulary GCSE level Written response Peer assessment Contextual links Complete lesson designed to evaluate the presentation of Lady Macbeth against the contextual expectations of Jacobean society. Aimed to stretch and challenge students to link character and context. Activities recap the characteristics Jacobean women were expected to possess, teach the key vocabulary of conform and subvert, explore the change in Lady Macbeth, use and learn key quotations, writing a personal response and peer assessment. Engaging lesson, outstanding in lesson observation.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 2 scene 2 (Language analysis. Context: The Copernican Theory) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 3 scene 1 (Character analysis) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.

A fully resourced lesson for KS3 and KS4 students to help them develop their descriptive / creative writing skills. Pre-teaches the sophisticated term ‘tabula rasa’ meaning blank canvas and uses an animation to create discussion and then stimulate the creative writing task. Uses peer assessment based on success criteria. Pair and group work align well with SMSC objectives.

This Home Learning Pack for English at KS3 has been designed to provide learning activities during any school closure. It covers: Descriptive writing Writing a playscript Characterisation Showing not Telling Can be used to support students write a wide range of stories, descriptions and scripts.

Two thoroughly planned booklets that teach the key skills of analysing language, making comparisons and forming a critical opinion. Designed using engaging, interesting and inspirational materials based around social justice, the resources draws on the stories of Martin Luther King, Frida Kahlo, Nelson Mandela, Malala and Lebron James to engage and motivate students while teaching fundamental skills. The skills developed apply to a wide range of English qualifications, however directly compliment the AQA English Language Paper 2 mark scheme.

First 5 poems from a full context resource, which summarises key information about the context of each poem from the Poetry Relationships Pearson Edexcel GCSE anthology, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

Revision for Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Set of images to represent 8 key quotations for the characters of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Students to recall key quotation to match the image. 2 AQA exam style questions. Includes slides with guidence for approaching and answering the specific question. Please review. Feedback is appreciated.