Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from November 2019 (Silent Land by Graham Joyce). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Full 6-8 week scheme to support full reading of ‘Lord of the Flies’. Originally designed for high ability Year 8. Includes reading questions, understanding and analysis tasks as well as many group activities to build independent responses to the novel.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from November 2020 (The Silk Factory by Judith Allnatt). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2020 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen texts. Questions 1-4 only for extracts from ‘Touching the Void’ and ‘Climbing the Meije’.

Presentation on context for Great Expectations. What influenced and inspired the novel? Covers relevant parts of Dickens' life as well as historical events and social change.

Mock Edexcel English Language GCSE Paper 2 on the subject of private schools, for revision or practise. All questions. Text 2 is subject to copyright so I include a link only. You will require chapter 3, Prison of Privilege, and can edit as you require.

Context presentation on An Inspector Calls including historical events, social change, the writer's own life and genre and literary influences, as well as how to use context and why it is important.

Introductory lesson to how fact and opinion is used to persuade or argue in non-fiction or transactional writing. Activities include debate and analysis of news article. Adapt as you need.

Lesson on what context is, context for Macbeth covering politics, religion, other works and the monarchy, as well as why context is important.

Lesson on John Agard's Flag. Includes link to the poet reading the poem, models close analysis and includes worksheets for groups to do the same on each stanza. Also models a PEE response paragraph with challenges.

Can be used for homework or to keep track as they learn - persuasive devices with space to write definition and an example to refer back to

Mock AQA English Language Paper 1 for exam practise and revision. Based on an edited extract from H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau and featuring all questions from 1 to 5. To be used in conjunction with AQA mark scheme.

Mock AQA English Language GCSE practise Paper 2 on the subject of feminism and the suffragettes (article from The Guardian on the Women's Equality Party and original letter from suffragette Millicent Fawcett). All questions, 1-5, included to correspond with the original AQA mark scheme.

Powerpoint resource for revising requirements for Edexcel English Language Paper 2. Not in depth but goes through tips and requirements for each question.

Start of teaching how genre influences creative writing. Put into practice through attached resource provided 5 different book covers with analysis questions teaching students about signifiers and connotations. Contains challenge and differentiation opportunities and timers that students love. Suitable for KS3.

This is ideal for Year 9 or Year 10 and contains a first introduction to Shakespeare all the way through to writing GCSE level responses. It is designed for AQA but could easily be adapted. There is a great balance of activities building in language analysis and understanding or characters, themes and context. 21 lessons to cover a full half term with room to be flexible. All resources mentioned are included.

Mock questions (a) and (b) for Romeo and Juliet, current Edexcel style.

Revision presentation on tips and how to answer AQA English Language Paper 2. Not in depth, review/reminder only.

Powerpoint revising the requirements for AQA English Language Paper 1. Not intended as an in depth introduction but only as a reminder to get a holistic sense of what skills are needed to complete the paper as a whole.

Model answers, with guidance, for OCR English Language Paper 1 specimen assessment material (Frederick Douglass and President Obama on Nelson Mandela. Provides exemplars for questions 1-4 with guidance showing how to interpret the marks scheme into something that students can replicate.