Relevant and succinct context information on the Victorian era including: Education, the Industrial Revolution, religion, morality, the Victorian Gentleman, duality, the Gothic and the London setting. All covered in 9 slides! Includes a few activities to encourage connections to be made with context and plot in order to increase engagement, interest and understanding in the novel. No spoilers! Can be used prior to or during reading.

Mock Edexcel English Language GCSE Paper 1 (imaginative writing) featuring War of the Worlds extract. All questions included, to correspond with Edexcel mark scheme.

Practice paper for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 (Fiction and Imaginative Writing). All questions and based on new specification. Text is an HG Wells' short story.

Jane Eyre context presentation covering genre, the writer's life, women in the 19th century, religion and mental health.

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.

Full practise paper for AQA English Language Paper 2 (Writers' viewpoints and perspectives). Questions 1-5 featuring a letter from a former racist and an edited speech by Frederick Douglass.

A full practice paper directly modelled on AQA's new English Language Paper 1 (Explorations in creative writing and reading). Questions 1-6 on an extract from Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped meeting AQA's 19th century preference.

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.

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.

KS3 level introduction to structure. First lesson focuses on how punctuation and sentence length communicate feeling and atmosphere to the reader. Includes scaffolded writing models that increase in depth of explanation. Uses short extracts from Anthony Horowitz’s ‘Stormbreaker’ and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’. Second lesson builds on this to look at the relationship between structure and genre, through tension. Uses tension graphs and extracts including John Grisham’s ‘The Firm’, Len Deighton’s ‘The Ipcress File’ and Kate Morton’s ‘The House at Riverton’ as well the ‘Black Panther’ trailer. Builds on analysis skils towards evaluation.

Full 6 week scheme for GCSE level study of Much Ado About Nothing that fosters interest as well as understanding. The scheme is designed to support a full reading of the play with key quotes and plot points identified and brought together with themes and context. Includes writing models that scaffolding building up to independent reading and writing skills across the lessons.

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.

A 24 lesson scheme that supports a full reading of the play with an emphasis on building independent close analysis skills and personal interpretation. Close reading covers key themes, quotes and relevant context as well as structure, language, form and narrative. Many opportunities for written response building from a model paragraph structure towards independence. This is easily adaptable for more condensed reading and differentiation.

Table to structure revision notes for poetry. Focuses notes around theme, language, structure, rhyme and rhythm.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 from June 2017 (The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins). Three model answers each for questions 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 OCR GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee and A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas). 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 Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya and Don’t dread downsizing! By Libby Purves). Three model answers each for questions 3, 6, 7a and 7b 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 non-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 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 OCR GCSE English Language Paper 1 from June 2017 (William Hazlitt and Jeremy Clarkson on walking and the countryside). 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 non-fiction exam. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 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 text. Questions 1-4 only for the extract from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’.