English literature and language resources from KS3-5. I have a real passion for teaching and learning and take great pleasure in creating and updating resources for students. The KS4 resources are based on the AQA specification. The KS5 resources are based on AQA English Literature B. Most resources are transferable and can easily be used regardless of this.
English literature and language resources from KS3-5. I have a real passion for teaching and learning and take great pleasure in creating and updating resources for students. The KS4 resources are based on the AQA specification. The KS5 resources are based on AQA English Literature B. Most resources are transferable and can easily be used regardless of this.
A two-sided King Lear A4 knowledge organiser for A-Level students, that contains a bank of key information that relates to each of the AQA assessment objectives. My students have found it extremely useful as a quick reference point when constructing essay plans, particularly to ensure they are hitting all the assessment objectives. On the preview it appears as though the boxes overlap; this is not the case on the actual download.
A two-sided A4 knowledge organiser for A-Level students studying William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’. It contains a bank of key information that relates to each of the AQA assessment objectives. My students have found it extremely useful as a quick reference point when constructing essay plans, particularly to ensure they are hitting all the assessment objectives. It is also an excellent revision tool. This was printed off and laminated.
A step by step guide on how to answer the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 section A, using the Glastonbury/Greenwich exemplar paper. This includes model top band answers.
A two-sided A4 knowledge organiser for A-Level students studying ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. It contains a bank of key information that relates to each of the assessment objectives. My students have found it extremely useful as a quick reference point when constructing essay plans, particularly to ensure they are hitting all the assessment objectives. It is also an excellent revision tool. This was printed off and laminated for each student.
This is a comprehensive set of resources for use at GCSE. Students are asked to learn a set of quotations, a piece of context and one to three key words for homework. This is cumulative. The corresponding tests require the students to retain and revise the information they have learnt in previous weeks.
With this bank of knowledge, they have the tools they need to produce high quality essays.
A teacher booklet is included with all relevant resources.
Six weeks of key quotations and terms for students to learn, accompanied by and essay question with writing guide that can be used in class or at home.
Seven weeks of key quotations and vocabulary for students to learn, accompanied by a weekly essay question and writing guide that relates to what they have learnt.
This is a resource that contains eleven weekly blocks of knowledge for pupils to learn and be tested on. Each week includes quotations, contextual information and key vocabulary. The tests are cumulative, so pupils must remember the quotations, context and key terms that they have learned in previous weeks in order to be successful.
This is a comprehensive two sided knowledge organiser, which addresses Edexcel assessment objectives 1,2,3 and 5. It is extremely useful for A Level pupils when writing essays or revising. It contains key information for understanding.
This is a resource that contains seven weekly sections of knowledge for pupils to learn and be tested on. The tests are cumulative, so they must remember the quotations, context and key terms that they have used in previous weeks.
This is 63 page work booklet containing a full range of activities to use alongside the novel. It can be printed and bound and used as an alternative to an exercise book.
This is an extremely useful resource to be used alongside the study of J.B.Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. There are three booklets included that cover seven weeks of homework.
The first booklet contains weekly comprehensive homework tasks that requires pupils to learn key quotations, a short piece of contextual information and three pieces of vocabulary.
The second booklet contains weekly tests to check their learning. These tests are cumulative, so require pupils to retain knowledge from previous weeks.
The final booklet contains the answers to all weekly tests to enable teachers to quickly and accurately mark pupils’ work. This could alternatively be distributed to pupils in order for them to self or peer mark.
These booklets have proved to be invaluable in preparing our pupils for the demands of GCSE English Literature. Their ability to retain quotations and discuss the text confidently has greatly improved, and the pupils can see their learning is very clearly structured.
This is a comprehensive workbook on the first three acts of the play. Copies of all scenes (some abridged) are included for pupils to annotate. A wide variety of task types are included, including example paragraphs. It is 93 pages long (the actual play makes up for about half of these pages).
This is a comprehensive and carefully planned set of resources that requires students to learn quotations, contextual information and key words each week in a student booklet. This is then tested in the corresponding booklet. The tests are cumulative, so students must remember previous week’s knowledge in order to be successful. All the information for each week’s test is included in the accompanying teacher booklet.
A KS3 vocabulary booklet that is designed to improve students' spelling and vocabulary use. It contains 29 weeks of vocabulary for students to learn, This is set as a weekly homework and they are tested on what they have learnt each week. Students must then write down the correct spelling, along with either a definition or an example of the word in use. The words chosen are taken from the Bedrock Vocabulary lists.
This is a comprehensive scheme of work that contains 26 high quality lessons, a mock, six weeks of homework tasks, weekly assessments and a quotations test. The lessons are differentiated and have been used for the past three years to teach GCSE students.