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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 specimen assessment material 1 (Jamaica Inn). Models for questions 1-4 with annotations showing how to practically interpret the mark scheme.

This is a set of model answers for questions 1-4 of specimen assessment material one for AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2 (Jay Rayner and Henry’s letter) with tips and advice relating to how to meet the mark scheme requirements.

Practice paper for OCR English Language GCSE new specification. This is for Paper 1, non-fiction, and contains all questions and is modelled after the exam board. Sources are an article by Charles Dickens and another from The Guardian on the subject of school and childhood achievement.

Featuring two texts on sailing adventures, one non-fiction and one fiction following OCR guidance. Full paper/all questions based on OCR criteria.

Model answers and tips for Edexcel English Language GCSE Paper 1. Full answers for questions 1-4 with notes on how they match the mark schemes and examiner’s guidance. This matches up with Edexcel’s publicly available first sample assesment material for The Tell Tale Heart, for the new 9-1 GCSE.

Clearly presents a way to tackle the difficulties of evaluation question on the English Language GCSE paper for all exam boards (both 1 & 2/fiction & non-fiction). Goes through ‘what is evaluation?’, what to write about and how to structure a response. Overall, designed to increase understanding and confidence for teachers and students. Contains an exemplar but no activities or texts to practise on, but rather to support other work.

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.

A detailed explanation of how to write a PEE paragraph for language exams. Particularly helpful for low ability to ensure clarity while hitting higher band requirements for the shorter GCSE questions. Includes models.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 June 2018 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can do consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the edited extract of Joanne Harris’ short story from ‘Jigs and Reels’, known as Mr. Fisher.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from June 2017 (The Tiredness of Roasbel by Katherine Mansfield). Three model answers each for questions 2,3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Written to meet the mark scheme as well as examiner’s report for that year. Notes are included to show where and how requirements are met. Intended as an adaptable teacher’s tool to aid demonstration of models for the Language fiction exam.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 June 2018 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 ‘Morning Glass’ and ‘The Hawaiian Archipelago’.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (How can my son be a year old already? From The Guardian and Boy Lost from a Victorian newspaper). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Written to meet the mark scheme as well as examiner’s report for that year. Notes are included to show where and how requirements are met. Intended as an adaptable teacher’s tool to aid demonstration of models for the Language fiction exam. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from November 2018 (‘All cyclists fear bad drivers’ From The Guardian and ‘On a Bicycle in the Streets of London’ from a Victorian magazine). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and the mark scheme was 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 resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 November 2017 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 text. Questions 1-4 only for the opening of Kate Mosse’s novel ‘Labyrinth’.