Simple grid for paper 2 topics with some theory suggestions

A fully comprehensive SOW for Paper One CLA spoken. This covers a range of different examples of data, exemplars and homework tasks are included too. This has been updated for 2023 - taking into consideration 2023 examinations. There are urls included to relevant video clips - please note these were working at the time of uploading, so please check before using - they are usually easy enough to find online.

A comprehensive SOW for AQA Paper One - CLA writing. This covers all aspects of accuracy vs creativity. Has a hwk booklet and various texts to analyse included. Updated this year to take into consideration examination feedback.

Comprehensive SOW which covers the concepts of ethnicity in language, looking at MLE, ‘Jafaican’, grime music, etc and whether of not ethnicity can impact people’s language. Contains lessons covering all of the ares in Paper 2 and contains exemplars and assessments that could be used to check progress. Interleaving hwk is included to help students with paper one analysis skills.

This is a fully comprehensive SOW for World Englishes - it covers all relevant theories with a hwk booklet and various interleaving tasks too. Case studies into various world Englishes, exemplars for Paper 2 questions are included too.

A full sow covering the occupation topic for Paper 2 English Language. Includes a range of case studies into: legal language, education, police, comedy, exercise, small talk, etc. Also includes relevant theories and a homework booklet which interleaves Paper 1 ‘meanings and representations’ questions. There are lessons on all assessment styles contained too.

Over 20 lessons covering the entire Paper 2 topic, also includes an interleaving booklet to test Paper 1 skills as hwk activities. Some further reading suggestions and Super-curriculum tasks too. Includes lessons on discursive essays, question 3 and opinion articles (relevant examples are included for discursive and opinion articles). Includes a theory booklet to help students revise these. Also looks at gender in music, non fiction, fiction, TV shows such as the Apprentice, Love Island, comedy, the Depp/Heard trial, etc. Sexist language and gender neutral language is included here too. Detailed focus on the 3 models: deficit, difference and dominance, alongside other relevant gender theories. Relevant articles are included too.

Full SOW for accent and dialect - this would usually take 6-8 weeks, taught 3 hours a week, with assessment time included. Covers all skills and terminology required for students. There is a homework booklet attached too and we usually get students to complete article review homework tasks as additional homework tasks to allow them to recognise the style of writing that they need to adopt for opinion articles (the articles themselves aren’t included but the review sheet is). This SOW covers case studies on a range of accents/dialects such as geordie, Yorkshire, Scottish dialects, Standard English. There are scaffolds to help to support students with writing in all 3 question styles and a range of exemplars to exemplify the appropriate writing style too. There are a range of video clips to help students to recognise the different dialects and the way they sound.

Mini tasks based on language change and accent and dialect, which could be used as hwk tasks or starter activities/ revision tasks to help to consolidate students’ understanding, also works well as interleaving tasks. Used with students to recap Paper One terminology. Each task is broken down into simple steps/ tasks as weekly homework tasks, but could be easily adapted. Examples included. Works best as a workbook. Includes scaffolds to help students with their answers too.

Lessons and scaffolds covering a range of poems from the Power and Conflict section of the anthology. Used with middle and low ability students to help to support their understanding of poetry. Some exemplars included too and key quotes. Could be used as revision or homework tasks too.

Full SOW based on Paper 2 English Language. Differentiation included for each question and a range of interleaving activities to help to consolidate skills from English Language papers. Works well as an introduction for both mid and low ability students, could be extended for high ability too.

These are scaffolds used with both mid ability and low ability GCSE classes to help to explore key quotes in the poems and also to check students’ rudimentary understanding of the main parts of the poems. Could also be used as independent revision resources.

Key quotations Key themes Essay Plan Revision mat that students can use to help to revise for AIC. Could be used for homework or as a revision task/ cover lesson.

Comprehensive SOW covering skills for Paper One and Paper Two. Approx. 12 weeks worth of lessons here (2/3 hours per week). Covering the main terminology from lang change, theory. It covers a range of change such as historical to contemporary changes and covers all question styles from Paper One Meanings and Representations to Paper Two Discursive, Question 3 and Opinion Articles. Created after examining Paper Two to help consolidate students’ skills in LC.

This is an introductory unit for Year 12 English Language, which covers all frameworks such as: graphology, lexis and semantics, grammar and syntax, phonetics and phonology, discourse, pragmatics, as well as an introduction to genre, audience, purpose, representation and context. There are lessons for each framework and a homework booklet which corresponds with the lessons too. Could be used as the first unit in Year 12 and encourages students to see the bigger picture to improve context through some of the text choices.

This is a lesson to support students with their first few lessons of the NEA focusing on the Language Investigation. It goes through what it is and ideas for further research, plus topic suggestions. Informs students how to set out their investigation and gives some exemplars from previous students.

This is a comprehensive document to help support students through the English Language NEA Investigation. It includes a range of advice on how to get started and suggestions for students of topics. It tells students how it should be set out and gives advice for each section. There are also some good examples of some sections included to demonstrate how to write the investigation too. The resource could be printed for students to use and it has proven beneficial to those students embarking on their NEA for the first time.

Paper 2 revision pack for A Level English Language. A range of questions focusing on all Paper 2 topics such as: World Englishes, Accent and Dialect, Social Groups, Gender, Occupation, Language Change, Ethnicity. The pack has 43 questions in total including a range of Section A discursive questions, also question 3 and question 4 questions across the range of Paper 2 topics. There are also self-review/ reflection activities at the start for students to review their progress. The pack also includes a range of scaffolds for each question, including the AQA mark schemes for students to self review.

Focusing on Section A of Paper One, ten different resources to use in lessons or could be used as a homework resource. Multiple pairs included, one historical text and one contemporary, across a variety of different topics. Included are also scaffolds for each question to help to support the analysis process; these have been used in lessons with my A Level students and have proven successful. Mark schemes are also included and there is a progress check for students to use to support their learning as well as an essay tracker.