I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
This Halloween, get students reading The Monkey’s Paw, W.W.Jacobs. This 21 page booklet has mini comprehension questions to support students understanding of the story. This booklet also includes:
My predictions
Themes
Quotation analysis
Character summary sheets
SO MUCH MORE!
This 12 page mini-booklet gives students the resources to plan, draft and write their opening to a story titled ‘The Poisonous Pumpkin’. This booklet includes:
Designing the pumpkin
Drawing a map
Language features
Opening of stories
Structural features
Story development questions
SO MUCH MORE!
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These presentation slides, worksheet and self-reflection sheet has been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson work well as starter and a way to consolidate the basic!
The exam question is: How has Dickens presented Scrooge as a cold-hearted character?
Included is:
Contextual knowledge
YouTube Video links: Scrooge Character Analysis
Extract from Stave One
PEE structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure with modelled paragraphs
Self-reflection sheet: plus, minus and improve.
From Stave to Five, this PDF has a quiz and an answer sheet for each Stave. Each question aims to spark memory recall, make links to context and become familiar with key quotations from the novella.
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Tried and tested in the classroom! This character profile for Lady Macbeth allows student to get all their notes in one place!
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A complete lesson with contextual information on Peterloo, as well as exploration of the Shelley’s methods. What’s more, reading slides are included and videos are embedded. I’ve try to make the lesson jam-packed with information with tasks and worksheets to support students learning.
A complete lesson that has been colour coded to the Assessment Objectives: summaries, exploring writer’s method, identifying structural features and embedded exam practice. A worksheet and revision sheet has been included. If you like this resource and have found it useful, please leave a review.
Get you students revising A Christmas Carol with this colour coded revision game! See the rules below:
Each player MUST:
Roll the dice.
Move along the board to the number they have rolled.
If you stop on a coloured number, answer or respond the one corresponding coloured card.
Get the answer right, you move one space ahead.
Get the answer wrong,you move one space back.
The first to finish wins!
Get ready to play!
Don’t want to get the full booklet? Get this mini booklet to practice Question one and two for Unseen Poetry with AQA. With a supporting guide for writing too!
Scaffolded practice
Sentence starters
Colour coded
Self assessment using AQA AOs
Writing guide
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This 15 page booklet guides students in strengthening each of the assessment objectives from AQA’s English Literature Paper 1, mark scheme. Using three different templates, students have the opportunity to explore their own analysis of chosen quotations, as well as read modelled examples.
This booklet includes:
Guidance in analysising quotations
Top tips
Modelled examples
Key quotations log
Consistent reference to AQA’s AOs
Space to explore exam style responses
Develop depth in quotation analysis
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Don’t want to get the full booklet? Get this mini exam booklet with all the key exam questions.
FIVE exam questions
Planning sheets
Scaffolded practice
PEEZL
Sentence starters
Writing support guide
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This mini booklet aims to gives students a flavour of what English Language Paper 2 involves. Each of the readings is focused on true crimes that are wholly appropriate for teenagers. It’s 20 pages of building skills for AQA’s assessment objectives. This booklet is structured per question:
Question 2: Summary
Question 3: Language
Question 4: Comparison
Question 5: Writing
The writing section has 5 writing tasks, with a structured planning sheet attached.
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This 20 page booklet gives students an opportunity to read, understand and develop depth in their study of H.G.Wells’, The Red Room. This booklet includes:
Thematic study
Quotation analysis
Comprehension questions alongside reading
Language features
Overview
Messages and moral of the story
Essay question
SO MUCH MORE!
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Get this booklet to support students study of Arthur Birling. This booklet includes:
writing summaries
extracting quotations
speech analysis
audience perspective
writing quizzes
exam question
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Do you have students who are struggling to grapple with language features? Then this booklet is for them! From IDENTIFYING, ANALYSING to USING language features; this 25 page booklet has all basis covered.
Links to AQA AOs - Lit and Lang exam
Detailed understandings o language feature shared
Scaffolded tasks
Exam style questions
Extracts embedded
30 language feature challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
Get this pack of 10 worksheets that addresses each criterion of Section B: Writing in AQA’s English Language Papers. Worksheets include:
Spelling Game
Purpose
Audience
Grammar misconceptions
Sentence structures
Word choice
Constructung paragraphs
SO MUCH MORE!
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Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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The SEVEN page booklet has everything you need to set students a mini in-class assessment. The exam question this focuses on is '…explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a ruthless and aggressive character. The extract is from Act 4 , Scene 1 - after the second prophecy.
This booklet includes:
Warm up activity
Scaffolded planning sheet
PEEZL structure for practice
Effect of the audience: focus on four quotation that support the question.
Self assessment sheet with each AQA AO broken down.
Language analysis sheet
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This SEVEN page booklets guides students through warm up activities, planning and scaffolded paragraphs. All activities aims to target each of AQA’s AOs.
This booklet includes:
Warm-up activities
Quotation analysis
Scaffolded PEEZL paragraphs
Self Assessment with student friendly AQA AOs
and so much more!