Welcome to "Lit and Lang Learn: Your Ultimate English Education Hub"! My online shop is dedicated to providing comprehensive teaching materials, lesson plans, visual aids, handouts, worksheets, assignments and related teaching resources for English Literature and Language across various English curriculums, including but not limited to Key Stage 3 4 5, GCSE, AS/ A-Level and IB.
Welcome to "Lit and Lang Learn: Your Ultimate English Education Hub"! My online shop is dedicated to providing comprehensive teaching materials, lesson plans, visual aids, handouts, worksheets, assignments and related teaching resources for English Literature and Language across various English curriculums, including but not limited to Key Stage 3 4 5, GCSE, AS/ A-Level and IB.
This resource is handy for all IGCSE and GCSE or other boards that do English Language that ahs papers like Transactional Writing, Non-ficiton Writing, Speech Writing, etc.
Very helpful for pupils and students alike for lesson plans and quick revision strategies.
This handy resource is really helpful for CIE IGCSE English Language Paper 1 Journal Writing and will assist both students and teachers alike to make it a part of a lesson plan or make it a quick revision go-through.
It has examples of the famous mnemonic ISHAMPOO along with attention-grabbing hooks on writing journals
This resource is really handy for students, pupils, private exam takers and teachers or tutors to teach or revise journals and has helpful for a quick recap.
It can be uses for CIE IGCSE 0500 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1 REVISION and has examples for each technique mentioned to get that top score in your journal essay!
This handy resource for both CIE IGCSE English Language students and teachers is the perfect lesson plan for a whole class on journals and for that quick revision to recap journals.
It has sentence starters, GAPSS analysis, annotation of a past paper question and a model response to it.
Besides, it is written and typed on a beautiful journal page as well designed particularly for class teachers who might want to use it as a Powerpoint in their lessons.
This resource is really handy and helpful for students and teachers alike. It has a sample answer for report writing for CIE IGCSE 0500 English Language Paper 1
It also has tops and techniques, steps to write a report, some useful newspaper vocabulary idioms and phrases and other helpful exam tips and techniques
This resource is handy and helpful for almost Year 7 and Year 8 British curriculum students who are taught films, movies and cinemas adapted from literature books.
Students study the elements of Movie Posters and design one themselves after studying it.
The resource is an unannotated set of Prose and Poetry Fiction Extracts. This is an excellent resource for KS2/3/4 GCSE English Literature and Language students that has prose and poetry extracts typed on aesthetic pages that are ready to be printed out and annotated for language features and poetic techniques. This along with the TPCASTT anslysis can be used to annotate the extracts with language features and figurative devices or other linguistic and structural tools. Teachers will also find this extremely helpful as a visual aid along with their usual lesson plans.
It has the following extracts in that order:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling
The Sick Rose by William Blake
Still, I Rise by Maya Angelou
The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
Tyger by William Blake
This 60 Minute Lesson plan revises and gives a recap template of the 8 major word classes such as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjuctions and interjections that can be used as visual aids, lesson plans, worksheets, revision material and print outs.
Also is a bonus powerpoint on other language features such as word choice, sentence structure, imagery, tone and mood, point of view and themes as well as examples of personification, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, hyerpbole, idiom, etc.
Although it is addressed to Year 8, it can be used for Year 6, 7 and 9 as well.
Also take a look at the bumper pack of fiction extracts, both prose and poetry that can be distributed to students in the classroom for annotations of extracts with an addition of a Figurative Language Quiz in the end to conclude the lesson.
A Literary Heritage Text refers to a work of literature that is recognized as being of significant cultural, historical, or artistic value, often forming part of a country’s or culture’s literary canon. These texts are typically regarded as classics and have stood the test of time, contributing to the understanding and appreciation of a language, society, or literary tradition. They are often included in educational curricula due to their enduring themes, language, and insights into the human condition. Examples are “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” by Homer, “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, and “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy.
This comparison Grid will help students of the British Curriculum compare and contrast two or more Victorian or Literary Heritage Texts using the following parameters:
Overall Structrue
Characters
Setting
Conflict
Themes
Also included is a Visual Aid with examples of Victorian Heritage Texts such as the follows:
Gulliver’s Travels
Ozymandias
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Listeners
Wuthering Heights
Spellbound
A handy visual aid for teachers and a comprehensive 11-page PDF aimed at helping pupils to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in movie extracts and film scipts. This document and analyis template model is written for all major UK curriculums aligned with the National Cuuriculum as well as for IBDP Students analysing movie/film scripts for Paper 1 Commentary Question. It contains the following components:
Steps in analysing film scripts
Genre Analysis
Plot Analysis
Character Analysis
Dialogue Analysis
Theme Analysis
Setting and Atmosphere Analysis
Structure Analysis
Visual Elements
Cinematic Techniques
Also added is a bonus pack of analysis of movie posters suitable for IBDP English Paper 1 Commentary Question 1
A lesson plan for teachers and a comprehensive PDF aimed at helping pupils and teachers to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in extracts from several parts of the novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. These model sample answers are written for all major UK curriculums and contain long sample answers that are also totally exam-style. The PDF has 14 full-length model answers on the novella, adapted and sourced from past papers. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Literature (AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR) for an instant last-minute revision or for an intense past paper response writing throughout the year. Besides, they are all A* and top-notch answers written by an expert.
A lesson plan for teachers and a comprehensive PDF aimed at helping pupils and teachers to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in extracts from several parts of the play, Macbeth by Shakespeare. These model sample answers are written for all major UK curriculums and contain long sample answers that are also totally exam-style. The PDF has 15 full-length model answers on the play, adapted and sourced from past papers. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Literature (AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC, OCR) for an instant last-minute revision or for an intense past paper response writing practice throughout the year. Besides, they are all A* and top-notch answers written by an expert.
This is a Practice Exam Paper: GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing made from scratch.
A lesson plan (including Mock Paper 1, Insert and Mark Scheme) for teachers and 3 comprehensive PDFs aimed at helping students taking GCSE English Language Paper 1 to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in the extract from ‘A Taste of Death’ by P.D. James. The mark scheme is also designed and written for GCSE and is exam-style.
The mock Paper 1 GCSE English Language with the accompanying mark scheme and insert will help students revise Paper 1 for exam practice. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Language for an instant last-minute revision or an intense past paper response writing throughout the year.
These 60 Minute Lesson plans help to revise and give a recap template of the Transformation of Texts and Modern Retelling of stories, an excellent way to teach students the way stories can be converted into other genres such as poems, songs, recounts, comics, reports, lyrics, talks, speeches, diaries, etc. These lesson plans can be used as visual aids, lesson plans, worksheets, revision material and printouts.
Also is a bonus PowerPoint on Macbeth which is a fun and informative way to teach the themes of ambition, love and power. It has been retold from a modern point of view, with Macbeth becoming Mac and Lady Macbeth becoming Lady Mac. The entire tragedy of Macbeth is rewritten from a modern perspective, letting students understand the story or plot in a more engaging and engrossing way.
These English Language lesson plans are addressed to Years 7, 8 and 9.
This poem, ‘Slow Reader’ by Vicki Feaver is not a part of the poetry anthology for IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question.
It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure and an accompanying start to the essay worth 15 marks (taken from a past paper).
This poem, ‘Geography Lesson’ by Brian Patten is not a part of the poetry anthology for IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question.
It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure and an accompanying start to the essay worth 15 marks (taken from a past paper).
This beautiful ancient, archaic vintage-themed GCSE Macbeth Model Answer on violence is a perfect exemplar. It adds to the effectiveness of learning and revision for GCSEs and exam time. Print it out and distribute it to the students in your class or send them an email with its attachment and it is obvious, that students will love it because it is an A* sample response for GCSE. Also, it has two sample responses for the price of one and discusses various literary techniques, drama devices and structural techniques used in the Tragedy of Macbeth. The answers are on the themes of violence, evil and brutality and the extract is from Act 1 Scene 2.
This beautiful ancient, archaic vintage Christmas-themed PDF Model Answer on ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens on the theme of Greed is a perfect exemplar and sample response for GCSE.
It adds to the effectiveness of learning and revision for GCSEs and exam time. Print it out and distribute it to the students in your class or send them an email with its attachment and it is obvious, that students will love it because it is an A* sample response for GCSE. Also, it has a beautiful and elegant format and discusses various literary techniques, drama devices and structural techniques used in ‘A Christmas Carol’. It can be used for all major UK English Literature boards such as AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, etc.
The answers are on the themes of greed, selfishness and apathy and the extract is from Stave 1/Chapter 1.