I'm a Head of English who has produced outstanding results throughout my career. I specialise in helping students achieve the very best marks in exams throughout their time in school.
The resources provided are designed to engage, intrigue students but ultimately help students achieve the very best results- enjoy!
I'm a Head of English who has produced outstanding results throughout my career. I specialise in helping students achieve the very best marks in exams throughout their time in school.
The resources provided are designed to engage, intrigue students but ultimately help students achieve the very best results- enjoy!
Bored of the same old revision tasks?
Here is an activity which plans your revision lesson for you.
Each section of the clock is worth five minutes of your lesson. Students need to complete each task within that time in order to revise different aspects of the play.
This task is easily adaptable to suit any of your texts or groups.
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Here is a fantastic set of resources to create 'flow' (or whatever you want to call it) in your lessons.
Use the grids to create a grid reference via dice or a method of your choosing. Students then have to locate a second grid reference in order to create a link between the two images. For the literature texts, this requires students to find a quote in order to justify their ideas. Images can be literal as well as metaphoric.
There are also grids for the AQA conflict poems, Macbeth and A Christmas Carol (for more able students to compare the two together) amongst others.
Other grids include creative writing tasks (select an image and use it within their sentence), selecting a task and many more.
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Here is a list of key GCSE terminology, with definitions and some example analysis, which will help ensure your students complete the terminology aspect of the Language and Literature mark scheme.
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Here are two grade 9 essays which you will no doubt find useful.
Perfect for revision, AFL tasks and to act as a full mark exemplar after completing a mock, there is no way these examples cannot help to improve the chances of your students in their upcoming exams.
Why waste time spending hours producing full mark examples of narrative and descriptive writing when it's already been done for you?
Here are ten examples of full mark narrative and descriptive writing which are perfect for AFL, lesson starters or simply inspiration in order to model the style you are looking for.
The document also enables you to edit the work as you wish to help you craft tasks which lead up to the students producing their own writing.
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This is everything every teacher and student across the land will want in their lives.
After hours (and hours) of work, this guide is aimed at providing students with the minimum they need to know in order to achieve full marks in their Literature exams.
This weighty document provides full mark analysis points (context, form, structure and language) for the following texts:
- Macbeth
- An Inspector Calls
- Animal Farm
- A Christmas Carol
- AQA Power and Conflict poetry section
This superb resource also includes:
- Basic plot outline
- Full mark exemplar responses
- Practice exam questions
- The planning and answering method for each question
Published as a word document to enable you to further edit if you wish, this resource really does have the kind of analysis your students need in order to allow you to spend time simply planning, writing and assessing Exam practice.
Why spend hours doing something similar when it has already been done for you?
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Why spend hours creating them for yourself when they have already been done for you?
Here is a collection of essays, based on the character Macbeth and his wife, for you to use with your classes as you wish.
Although written mainly for AQA, the structure of the essays mean they achieve full marks across all exam boards.
Perfect for revision and AFL this work will save you hours.
It's Finally here! A complete AQA GCSE language revision guide.
This hefty and comprehensive revision guide can be edited to seem as if your department has spent hours creating the following:
- Advice on how to revise
- Outline of the exams
- Methods for each question over the two papers
- Full mark exemplar responses.
- Simplified mark schemes
All you will need to do is add past exam papers in the relevant places.
At such a crucial time, can you afford not to offer this to the students?
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This is a nice resource to use as a starter with your exam classes.
The checklist lists all of the exam questions for AQA language and literature and asks students to note down how secure they are regarding the method for each.
This process is then applied to the Conflict section of the anthology.
A useful task for you and the students which can then quickly help to inform your planning for future revision lessons.
Here is all the analysis of form, structure and language you will need in order for your students to achieve full marks in the A-level or GCSE exams.
These are quick, simple presentations which cut out the needless rubbish and give you what you need. The accompanying videos can be found in the following location: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp3SR3KaDzg8jSe12tGnCg
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Why waste time creating it when it's already been done for you?
Here is an AQA style literature exam question (which can be easily adapted for other specs) which comes complete with a full mark response for you to use with your classes as you wish.
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Here is a time-saving document which outlines the main features students need to explore when analysing the language, form and structure of a poem.
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This engaging, challenging and enjoyable scheme work fully explores how language, form and structure help to create meaning.
Based on the AQA literature specification (although this is easily adapted), the unit teaches students the method required to achieve full marks for Section B of paper 2; a perfect way to ensure your students are embedding the required analytical skills as early as possible.
With multiple assessment points, multiple examples of a wide range of poems and multiple opportunities to write creatively based on the example poems, this unit cannot fail to help encourage your students to enjoy poetry whilst also being able to discuss and write about it analytically.
Why waste time creating this unit when it has already been completed for you.
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This comprehensive unit work not only inspires students in the field of poetry but ensures they have a fully working knowledge of the ways language, structure and form help to establish meaning.
With multiple assessment points and a variety of writing tasks included in the unit, the scheme is designed to ensure not only that students have read a wide birth of poetry but that they are able to discuss and write critically about them.
Designed with the more able in mind, there are multiple notes which explore how tasks can be differentiated to suit the needs of all students.
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Fancy killing two birds with one stone? Here is a Language paper 1 question 2 task which uses A Christmas Carol as an extract.
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Using "Of mice and Men" as the central text, this detailed KS3 SOW not only ensures students maintain a love for this fantastic text, but that students are fully prepared to respond to questions at GCSE.
The SOW uses AQA GCSE as it's assessment focus (so please use the KS3 AQA test packs for the assessments) but this can be easily adapted to fit all exam boards as the assessments ensure students explore how to create a perfect mark essay.
The unit's theme also enables teachers to explore various texts based around the theme; creating a breadth of study.
Why try to adapt your lessons when it has already been done for you?
Here is everything you and your students will need in order to achieve perfect marks for every single question in the new GCSE OCR qualification.
Every PowerPoint looks in detail at the planning and answering method, as well as modelling a perfect mark plan and response.
This is perfect for revision or teaching or simply just using it to save time writing your own models.
Everything you need for every question is already here; why waste your own time?
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This comprehensive document provides you and your students with the perfect mark planning and answering method required for every single question for both of the new OCR GCSE English Language examinations- it even provides your students with approximate timings.
Why waste time producing this, when this in depth task has already been completed for you?
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