Welcome to the Teacher Toolkit shop! Here you will find a range of resources to make your life as a teacher easier, including modelled and sample answers, as well as pupil comment banks in a range of different subjects.
Welcome to the Teacher Toolkit shop! Here you will find a range of resources to make your life as a teacher easier, including modelled and sample answers, as well as pupil comment banks in a range of different subjects.
A lesson devised for CCEA English Language Unit 1 Section A - writing for purpose and audience. This will help students to understand the task, what’s expected of them, how to plan and answer and example openings for them to critique.
A lesson that helps students annotate and understand unseen poems. It guides them through the process, with a worked example and helpful annotations. The lesson also contains a mini-sample answer for students to level against the new criteria and helpful sentence starters for less able.
A lesson designed to guide students through the new AQA 1-9 exam for A Christmas Carol. It features a starter based on key quotations, a mock exam with extract and question, a sample answer and links to the marking criteria. Also contains sample analysis and guidance on timings. Perfect for use before the big day itself or as a stand-alone revision lesson.
A mock exam assessment for A Christmas Carol based on the new 1-9 SPEC AQA style.
Contains a mock paper with handy hints, sample PEE response and links to the mark scheme. The question used is:
Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge in the past, present and future?
Write about:
• How Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract
• How Dickens presents Scrooge in the novella as a whole
A sample mock exam based on The Sign of Four for GCSE English Literature. This perfect for a homework task, full blown mock exam or in the classroom as preparation.
The question used is:
Starting with this extract, explore how Conan Doyle creates a sense of tension and danger.
Write about:
• how Conan Doyle uses places to create a sense of tension and danger in this extract
• how Conan Doyle creates a sense of mystery and tension in the novel as a whole.
A fully resourced Of Mice and Men scheme of work which includes 12 bespoke lessons and two assessment lessons. Each lesson contains starter activities, analysis opportunities, creative writing tasks and plenaries. Every section is covered with key quotations and activities to ensure students understand the context of the novel, with quizzes to demonstrate understanding.
This document contains three different sample PEE answers for students to level and grade. Excellent for use as a revision tool or for use in class as students write their own answers. The three different questions are:
Compare how the power of memory is presented in Kamikaze and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict.’
Compare how Bayonet Charge and The Charge of the Light Brigade present the experience of soldiers in battle.
How does the poet present the power of nature in Storm on the Island and in one other poem from Power and Conflict?
A lesson based on Act One Scene, the fight scene. Contains a starter linking to context which will need to be printed. Also contains a sample answer based on an exam style question.
A lesson based on finding key quotes for analysis for LM's soliloquy; contains a starter, main and plenary activities that can easily be differentiated.
An Ofsted 'Outstanding' lesson I prepared for an introduction to Scrooge; contains an example PEE, mark scheme plenary and starter activity which is linked to context.
This has been written specifically for the new 1-9 spec.
A GCSE revision lesson that looks at different aspects of love in Act 1 Scene 5 (the party scene).
The lesson contains:
a starter activity
an activity to help students understand how imagery is created
printable example responses based on the new GCSE AQA criteria for students to level and grade and use as a guide to help them.
plenary with links to the mark scheme
A lesson based on comparing Fezziwig to Scrooge; lesson contains a starter, main and plenary with an example PEE to an AQA style question.
All of the AOs for AQA's new 1-9 are represented.
A lesson focussed on Storm on the Island, with links to context and The Troubles. Contains sample responses and key quotes for analysis. Slides can be printed and stuck into pupils' books.
Want your students to achieve the highest possible marks for their literature exams? Then look no further! Written by an experienced examiner, these lessons have been tried and tested to ensure that students understand how to achieve maximum marks in literature exams.
A fully-loaded Macbeth scheme of work that covers all of the main scenes in the play. All lessons contain starters and engaging main activities that allow students to explore the scenes in a number of different ways (such as through: PEE chains, diaries, directing the scene themselves, blogs, letters and other techniques). Also included are worksheets, research activities and contextual information.
An assessment lesson is also included, based on the scene where Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss the murder.
Where lessons require students to watch clips, links are included in the PowerPoints.
This SOW would ideally suit a middle-ability group although could easily be adapted to differentiate up or down.
13 full lessons are included in total, plus a computer research grid based lesson.