I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapters 5 - 8 of The Edge.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- self and peer assessment
- character and theme exploration
- exploration of bullying
- analysing the creation of tension
- writing news reports
A student booklet and teacher power point that takes students through how to answer and revise for the Romeo and Juliet AQA literature question.
Model answers included and guidance on how to structure an academic introduction.
Opportunities for students to write their own answers with and without scaffolds.
The resource uses two different exam questions.
18 fully differentiated lessons that use the theme of family holidays to analyse and compare non-fiction texts. (All texts included) Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Differentiation by colour:
purple = low ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = high ability
These resource re ideal for KS3 or KS4 in preparation for tackling non-fiction texts at GCSE. They are meticulously planned and ready to go. Download and use.
Texts:
- Butlins promotional video
- Practical caravan article
- Information leaflet - Holidays matter
- Extract from PGL - Family adventures
- Guardian online article
- Centerparcs blog
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Analyse language
- Analyse graphological features
- Analyse perspective
- Analyse audience and purpose
- Compare texts
Resources to support the understanding of the context of being homeless.
Ideal for supporting students with their exploration of texts such as 'Stone Cold' and 'The Outsiders.'
Resources included:
- Homelessness case studies
- missing person posters/adverts
- extract from Stone Cold - homelessness and the law
- true or false activities
- what is a home?
- 'The Streets of London' Ralph McTell exploration
- 'London' by William Blake poem exploration
- consideration of bullying
- leaflet examples
- investigation into homeless charities
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore homelessness through case studies and exploring the law
- write persuasively
- structure formal letters
- explore and create missing person posters
- explore poetry
- analyse texts
- investigate and create leaflets#
- debate whether more housing is needed
Resource to support the revision of context of Jekyll and Hyde and how to form exam responses to an extract from the novel and make links to the novel as a whole.
Meticulously planned and differentiated.
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources provide opportunities for carousel activities whereby students read 4 extracts from the novel and make notes to form an exam response. Students will consider other parts of the text as part of their answer.
Extracts taken from:
-chapter 3 - 'Dre Jekyll was quite at ease'
-chapter 4 - 'Carew murder case'
-chapter 9 - 'Dr Lanyon's narrative'
-chapter 10 -'Henry Jekyll's full statement'
A booklet is also included to support higher ability exploration of context.
This bundle includes power point slides that contain key information on each of the 15 poems which can be used as a carousel activity to allow students to revise the poetry.
Also included is a card sort activity and opportunities to revise the context of each poem.
Useful in the build up to the exam or mock exams.
Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'Checking out me history' by John Agard.
2 lessons that include pupil talk tasks, assessment, outcomes and cover:
- context of the poem
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow - higher ability
Resources to support the teaching of context of Shakespeare's plays - Romeo and Juliet - Much Ado about Nothing - Macbeth etc.
Useful carousel activities to allow students to get to grips with contextual information before reading plays or as revision activities.
Resources provide opportunities to:
-explore Elizabethan England
-Share Shakespearean facts
-explore gender
-explore crime and punishment
- explore Shakespeare's theatre
- compare traditional and modern audience reactions to plays
-explore Elizabethan entertainment
-explore rich and poor
Resources to support the teaching of gothic horror short story with focus on the work of Edgar Allan Poe
Short stories and extracts covered:
- Masque of the red death
- The tell tale heart
- Frankenstein
- Dracula
Opportunities provided to:
- explore symbolism
- explore context of gothic and black death
- compare short stories
-analyse language and structure
- identify use of the senses and use the senses to create own gothic writing
- explore genre
Revision booklet for Macbeth with activities to help students revise character, theme, context etc.
This booklet would be useful for students after studying or to complete as they study the play or complete as a homework project.
6 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of act 1 of An Inspector Calls
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context 1912 and 1945
- explore Birling's political view point
- analyse language and structure
- structure exam responses
- compare the responsibility of Birling and Sheila
Over 10 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of spoken language. All lessons are meticulously planned and fully differentiated by colour. These lessons are ready to go and are numbered for ease of use.
Ideal for use in KS3 given the removal of this component as part of GCSE.
Differentiation:
purple - lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources allow students to identify and analyse the following spoken language techniques:
- face threatening acts
- jargon
- accent and dialect
- formal and informal talk
- Adjacency pairs
- back channel features
- Fillers and hedges
- Holding the floor
- turn taking
- overlapping speech
- standard English
- spontaneous speech
Students will explore spoken language taken from the following sources:
- Catharine Tate as Lauren in the UK sitcom
- Jeremy Paxman interview with Russell Brand
- Ali G interview with Tony Benn
- Jonathan Ross interview with Lady Gaga
- Board room conversations taken from the Junior apprentice
- Classroom talk taken from Highgate Wood school
- Transcripts of students talking with teachers
Links provided for YouTube video clips to allow students to observe the spoken language before analysing
Planning sheets, card sort of techniques, homework tasks and analysis writing frames are also included.
This bundle of resources provides opportunities for students to tackle unseen poetry for GCSE. Poems covered include Catrin, Cousin Kate, The Motorway.
Differentiation is by colour where yellow is higher, blue is middle and purple is lower ability.
Over 16 lessons that are ideal for KS3/KS2 students to develop grammar skills through creating an autobiography
Topics covered:
- Sentence structure
- Paragraphing
- Tenses
- Word classes
- punctuation
8 fully differentiated lesson (by colour) that support the teaching of writing speeches. (Spoken language) Lessons are meticulously planned and culminate with students writing a speech on a topic that interests them.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Speeches that are used as a stimulus:
- Emma Watson
- Winston Churchill
- Queen Elizabeth I
- George W Bush
- Napoleon (Animal Farm)
Students will practice writing speeches using the following topics:
- increase in legal driving age
- importance of mobile phones
- social media
Students will develop the following skills:
- speech writing using the 6 part structure
- persuasive writing
- speaking and listening
- developing effective openings
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapters 1, 2 and 3 of ‘Of Mice and Men.’
Resources have been created to reflect the skills needed to access the new GCSE 9-1
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Opportunities to:
- explore context
- read actively
- explore themes including loneliness
- explore characterisation
- use the GCSE 9-1 mark scheme to self and peer assess
- write imaginatively
Revision guide included which is also useful as a homework project
These resources (four lessons) guide students how to tackle each of the questions on language paper 1.
The extract is taken from ‘The Mist in the mirror.’
Included is a ppt to guide students through the expectations of each question including model answers that would achieve at least a grade 5 and planning strategies for each question.
Worksheets are also included which can be uploaded to an online learning platform for students to complete. Worksheets are very user friendly to minimise student difficulty.
A range of resources to support the revision of Animal Farm for new specification 9-1 with reference to the AQA literature paper
Included:
- character/theme revision
- extract to whole practice
- how to structure a response
- quotations with images - useful for learning quotations
- revision guide - useful as a homework project
A full exploration of the two poems individually.
This is followed by a lesson that draws ideas from both poems together to create a comparison of perspectives in relation to war.
Do now quizzes included.
These resources (four lessons) guide students how to tackle each of the questions on language paper 2.
The paper used is the Summer 2019 paper.
Included is a ppt to guide students through the expectations of each question including model answers that would achieve at least a grade 5 and planning strategies for each question.
Worksheets are also included which can be uploaded to an online learning platform for students to complete. Worksheets are very user friendly to minimise student difficulty.
