This AQA, English Language resource focuses on the text structure question (Q3)found in Paper One. It provides explanation texts to cover subject specific terminology such as focus, flashback, foreshadowing etc, along with quizzes and comprehension activities.
It contains texts, model responses and detailed mark schemes to help students understand how to write a reading response answer for this question. The texts are broken down into paragraph sections to enable a step by step approach.
The explanation texts to explain subject terminology are followed by comprehension tasks to ensure understanding of the terms and there are quizzes to further embed the definitions.
A separate unit is devoted to flashback with a text and an AQA style question.
The unit has proved successful in providing students with the knowledge and language needed to successfully respond to what can be a challenging part of the reading paper!
It is suitable for GCSE, English Language students who struggle to express their ideas using the correct terminology and structure and will be an excellent revision programme in the run up to the exams.
The unit contains resources and lesson plans to teach descriptive writing in a structured and successful way.
It contains picture prompts, a model answer, a five senses analysis sheet, a planning sheet and independent task.
Using the model and analysis sheets, the unit shows students how to be successful writers in the descriptive genre. It has proved highly successful in improving the writing of GCSE students!
The unit contains resources and lesson plans to teach descriptive writing in a structured and successful way.
It contains picture prompts, a model answer, a five senses analysis sheet, a planning sheet and independent task.
Using the model and analysis sheets, the unit shows students how to be successful writers in the descriptive genre. It has proved highly successful in improving the writing of GCSE students!
This bundle includes everything you need to teach students how to plan, structure and write an essay for the English Literature, GCSE examination - An Inspector Calls.
It covers essay themes such as social responsibility, discrimination, the role of women and inequality. There is a key extracts section which includes a selection of quotations related to the question. This is followed by a writing scaffold which students use to structure their essay and model answers.
Follow up essay questions are provided to assess whether students have learnt the required skills.
Each unit is accompanied with either quizzes, glossaries and summaries to reinforce the learning.
A play summary unit is also included in the bundle to provide an overview of the play.
This comprehensive GCSE, English Literature pack is designed to support students of middle to low ability in mastering Charles Dickens’ classic novella, ensuring success in their exams. Whether you are looking for in-depth analysis, revision materials, or creative exercises, this bundle has it all. It is perfect for both classroom use and independent study, offering a structured, engaging approach to the text.
The first pack focuses on unlocking a deeper understanding of A Christmas Carol through model answers, writing frames, and key vocabulary. It is especially beneficial for students with additional needs, providing a structured approach to essay writing and exam preparation. Students will be able to explore critical themes like death, isolation, and poverty while sharpening their skills in literary analysis, textual evidence, and essay structuring. This resource ensures that learners build the confidence needed to tackle exam questions with ease.
The second pack offers a detailed breakdown of each stave in the novella, with fifteen carefully selected extracts accompanied by comprehension questions, language analysis, and critical thinking prompts. These activities are designed to help students of all levels understand Dickens’ use of language and narrative perspective. The resource is ideal for revision, self-study, or boosting classroom discussions, providing an interactive and thought-provoking approach to the novella’s major themes and characters.
The third pack is perfect for students who learn best through hands-on activities, as it includes a drama version of key moments from each stave. This play version helps bring A Christmas Carol to life, allowing students to engage with the text in a dynamic and memorable way. Alongside this, the study guide and vocabulary pack offer a detailed examination of key themes, characters, and quotations, ensuring that even the most complex aspects of the novella are accessible to all learners.
Overall, this bundle is an essential toolkit for GCSE English Literature students studying A Christmas Carol. It provides a structured, supportive, and creative way to explore the novella, helping students to unlock their potential and achieve top marks in their exams.
The pack is ideal for GCSE, English Literature students studying Macbeth and is differentiated for students with additional needs.
It contains model essay gap fill activities based on six essays with key words colour coded and a plan to help students plan independent essays based on extracts from Act One.
It also contains resources to teach Act 1, Scene 2 and Act 2, Scene 1 in an engaging way - ideal for reluctant learners. Each of these packs contains a ‘Gangster’ version of the scene, an illustrated, original scene along with quizzes and comic strips to aid understanding.
I am providing a unit on Key Metaphors in Macbeth for free! (Usually costs £1.89)
These resources are differentiated to support students with additional needs and have proved successful in raising attainment!
The HF Colour Coded method provides students with a visual memory method to become fluent in reading and spelling. Alongside this proven technique, model texts are also provided where students are given opportunity to learn relevant sentence structures to be successful in a given genre.
The booklet explains how to use colours to support dyslexics read and spell both basic and advanced words. Visual memory is strengthened by using colour coded letters and syllables for students to copy and draw. Unlike traditional phonics, the Colour Code Method is fun and creative – students are encouraged to draw words in a style that suits them. However, the method can be use alongside traditional phonics.
The method is ideal for students who struggle with phonics and provides a method that will improve engagement and progress. It is based on research into the reasons dyslexics struggle and how visual information supports them. The booklets are also suitable for students with additional needs who struggle to read and write.
Alongside the explanation booklet, you will receive free workbooks that use the colour code method based on the phonics programme!
Committed to providing dyslexia friendly resources using creative and innovative techniques, I provide a range of reading and writing booklets and courses for all ages.
This comprehensive, GCSE, English Literature study guide is specifically designed to support dyslexic learners and learners with additional needs in their study of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” Aimed at enhancing understanding and accessibility for their GCSE, English Literature course , this resource ensures that all students, regardless of their reading challenges, can navigate and appreciate the complexities of the text.
Tailored to accommodate the unique learning needs of dyslexic students, the guide employs a pale yellow background, dyslexia friendly fonts with key words highlighted, simplified language, and structured formats to facilitate comprehension.
It includes an in depth plot summary, character overview with visuals , themes and discussion questions and key vocabulary - each word/phrase divided into syllables.
Ten carefully crafted booklets break down the novel into manageable sections, each focusing on key extracts to maintain the narrative’s essence while easing the reading load.
Carefully selected key extracts from each chapter are provided. Comprehension questions follow each extract, designed to reinforce understanding and critical thinking, allowing students to engage deeply with the text at their own pace.
This differentiated study guide for “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” is an invaluable tool for educators seeking to provide an inclusive and effective learning experience for dyslexic students, ensuring that all learners have the opportunity to succeed in their GCSE course and enjoy this timeless literary work.
The pack aims to support dyslexic students in improving their Discussion Writing.
It contains an outline of the lessons, a series of unique, visual spelling activities, a visual sentence activity and a model text. The unit finishes with an independent writing task.
The use of the copy - cover - spell technique has proved ineffective for dyslexic students. Instead, I have developed a unique approach to spelling that involves drawing and colouring the words and using colours to demarcate syllables. It is a simple, yet powerful approach.
Often dyslexic students struggle to structure sentences in writing due to memory processing issues. The pack contains a visual, sentence sorting activity.
Finally, there is a model text included so that students can see the key words and sentences in context.
The unit is a sure way to support dyslexic students!
This comprehensive GCSE, English Literature pack is full of useful A Christmas Carol resources, particularly useful for SEN and ESL students.
There are creative activities for every stave which require students to write diaries and letters, perform drama activities answer quizzes/comprehensions and many more. There are numerous key quotation activities to help memorise quotations for the exam, as well as examples of PEEL paragraphs and topic sentences.
This pack will provide everything you need to teach the novella to SEN and ESL students!
The bundle includes a range of GCSE, English Language Writing materials. It includes model answers, spelling activities, key vocabulary, engaging images, plans, independent writing activities and marking rubrics.
Although aimed at the AQA writing papers, the bundle will support all the GCSE exam boards. It includes materials to support:
descriptive writing
persuasive/argumentative writing
creative writing
Each unit is structured in an easy to follow format based on model texts. They are useful for students with additional needs who need explicit language support to achieve a higher grade in their GCSE, English Language writing.
They have been proven to raise attainment because of the strategies used, namely grammar in context and modeling.
The value for money bundle offers weeks of writing support and is beneficial for teachers, English coordinators, teaching assistants and SENDCOs!
Suitable for GCSE students who struggle with sentence structure and grammatical expression, this English Language Course - suitable for all exam boards - teaches the sentence types needed to write a range of genres. It supports the GCSE Writing Questions - Narrative/Descriptive and Persuasive/Argumentative.
Using cause and effect conjunctions and phrases, The Grammar in Context Unit (Persuasive and Argumentative), provides a range of cause and effect sentence openers such as, SINCE, DUE TO, AS A RESULT and WHEN. It has exercises to practice these sentence types using different contexts for writing at GCSE. There is a Speaking and Listening prompt series of questions to support this.
For narrative, the second unit presents sentence openers that make a descriptive text successful. Students are provided with an opportunity to write using sentence openers that focus on location, mood or action. Alongside this there is an assessment using engaging visual storystrips.
The unit is an effective and research based way of explicitly teach sentence structure across a range of genres typically assessed at GCSE. It is a useful resource for SENCOs, English Teachers and Teaching Assistants. It can be used as a standalone course or as part of lessons on GCSE English writing.
Invaluable to teaching the skills required to succeed in the English Language Reading paper and English Literature GCSE, this course explicitly teaches the sentence types needed to write an effective paragraph.
Students with dyslexia, ADHD and autism, as well as ESL will benefit from the model sentences and activities. It is also useful for students who need to consolidate the skills.
It is ideal for students who are under-performing due to a lack of the grammatical skills which will enable them to express their ideas. It covers the use of topic sentences, the introduction to the quotation, the analysis of language and the reader response/social context of the text.
There is a FREE assessment with a rubric and model response.
It can be used for GCSE English Language revision classes, SEN interventions or as a unit for class teaching.
SEN and ESL students will be sure to benefit from this effective Reading Response course!
This Paper 2 (AQA), English Language resource provides everything you need to support students in navigating the Paper 2 examination.
With extensive practice papers, students are supported in understanding the structure of this exam. Furthermore, model answer/indicative content accompanies every paper, along with additional guidance.
The quality extracts are based on a range of topics such as farming, gardening, cycling and many more.
The writing section contains questions linked to the subject of the extracts and a model answer is given for each question.
With every practice paper, a booklet on numerous topics is provided. These give additional support on the reading or writing elements of the paper.
This resource will provide support throughout an entire school year and has proved successful in supporting students of all abilities!
This comprehensive bundle for GCSE (AQA) - Paper 1 includes practice papers, detailed, model answers for both reading and writing and guidance.
The practice paper units include practice papers, model answers to show students how to write a reading response and/or detailed guidance on the requirements for each question. These practice paper units also include quizzes and articles to support Paper One mastery.
The writing units offer examples of how to approach the picture prompt question in a step by step manner and supply picture prompts, model answers, plans and sensory analysis sheets.
Every unit is based on the AQA, Assessment Objectives, ensuring that you meet the requirements for language analysis, text structure analysis, information retrieval and writing skills.
This unit offers everything you need to prepare students for Paper One and is ideal preparation for a term’s work or as a revision class.
These GCSE, English Language Courses target the elements need to succeed at GCSE level. It is suitable for SEN and ESL students who are able but lack the language skills needed to progress.
The Reading course includes exercises on the use of topic sentences and other sentence types needed to write a coherent reading response paragraph/essay. It incorporates explanations of the stages and features of a well written paragraph.
The Vocabulary Course is based on the Academic word list which outlines key words used in the kind of texts students will need to read at GCSE level. It will also improve their writing by allowing them to develop the use of academic words. Included are visual prompts and speaking and listening activities to help understand the words.
Designed to develop sentence structure, the Grammar in Context Course outlines sentence types required in narrative, persuasive and argumentative writing.There are speaking and listening activities, visual prompts and opportunities to practice writing in the unit.
Finally, I have included a SATs vocabulary course which you will receive for free. This can be used with SEN and ESL students, or as a useful course for Year 7 students.
The courses are an effective way of helping under achieving students progress. They can delivered as part of lessons, or as interventions.
The bundle includes model answers for GCSE Language writing and a dyslexia-friendly, Macbeth response.
The workbooks include spelling activities using the colour code method, sentence and vocabulary work based on model texts.
The pdf booklets are ideal to support struggling readers and writers and also provide ideas and strategies for teachers to plan their own lessons.
The bundle will save you £10!
Based on the use of model texts, the pack contains model responses for GCSE English Language (Paper 1 - Writing and Paper 2 - Reading and Writing).
It also provides opportunities to analyse the features of the texts and a framework in which to write. Lesson plans are provided for the Paper 1 sessions.
The pack is an invaluable resource for anyone who teaches GCSE, English Language and provide at least two weeks of materials. It is also useful for revision clubs and homework.
Packed with differentiated resources, visuals, model essays, extracts and comprehension questions, this pack will provide everything you need to teach A Christmas Carol and help students of all abilities achieve exam success!
Resources to understand every Stave are included which will reinforce recall of the main events.
Students will learn about the major themes of the novella in an engaging and effective way. They will also learn how to structure successful essays.
The unit is particularly useful for students with additional needs with key vocabulary, phrases and paragraphs provided.
Aimed to support GCSE (AQA), English Language students in mastering Paper One, this bundle provides everything you need to teach this unit!
Full of practice papers, model answers and guidance, the bundle guides students through the skills needed to succeed.
The extracts are typical of the genres used in the examination and the practice papers follow the same structure as the AQA, examination.
For the writing section there are pictures with model answers and guidance so that students can understand how to write descriptive. The units have guidance on how to achieve success in this type of writing. There are also numerous narratives that demonstrate how to structure and write an engaging story.
There are extensive sets of practice papers, sets of model answers and guidance that will support teaching this unit throughout the academic year!
Each unit is accompanied with information booklets on various topics such as evaluating language and creative writing features to reinforce the practice paper and other units.
