Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 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 texts. Questions 1-7 only for extracts from ‘Return to Earth’ and space:uk magazine

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.

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

Jeopardy style quiz on poetry terms/devices/techniques, so the definition comes first and student must give the term in the form of a question. Answer appears on click on same slide.

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.

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.

Practice paper for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 (non-fiction and transactional writing). All questions included, texts on the theme of civil war. Based on the new specification.

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

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.

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.

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.

A review/revision source for Edexcel English Language Paper 1 going through requirements for each question with tips and advice.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2017 (with 2019 question updates) 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 1-7 only for extracts from ‘Return to Earth’ and space:uk magazine

A series of lessons showing you how to prepare for the anthology poetry comparison (AQA Power and Conflict). All poems covered, real practice exam questions, challenge / extension opportunities. Learn how to prepare and write a level 7+ answer! This is a 15 lesson step by step guide to revising, comparing, planning, writing and improving.