Now with accompanying PPT file! Can be used as a session or homework. This is for GCSE English Language Students to practise their skills in general evaluation and then the exam question. With a number of formative tasks and exam-style questions. There are a few texts to explore and these are great for 1:1 tuition.

Now with accompanying Powerpoint! Grade boosting - I hope! - a workbook like the other I’ve created. Specifically around skills and some ideas of how to boost grades. Good for most students to work independently but lower level students will need some support. It covers all the basic elements of writing for P2Q5 - Nonfiction. It has an example answer, a number of tasks to complete, format/layout of the main forms and some extra persuasive features like anecdotes and expert opinions.

Now with accompanying PPT file! For GCSE students of English language to revise and practise their skills. Start with basic summaries and ease into what Paper 2, Question 2 requires. With examples and extra exam-style tasks, this booklet makes a great 1.5-2hr session with or for homework. It covers the main elements of the summary question and has a number of tasks to complete as well as an exam-style summative task.

This resource is a full Paper 1 resource which could have been split into 5-6 individual sessions. - covering every one of the five questions - 80+ slides - I use this for a full revision resource… Question 1 activities include one chosen to be a little tricky and has a warning with all the sound effects. Question 2 covers relationships between siblings via language in GOT. Question 3 looks at structure in the Maze Runner and looks at narrative openings. Questions 4 has a fantastic group activity where groups must consider a well-known trial and come up with a verdict and sentence. Question 5 does in with a descriptive focus using a M&S add and some other techniques and images. Exam-style questions & Academic Objectives, throughout. It has embedded video clips for use without reliance on connection. It has vast animations which contribute to activities, sound effects and song clips. As well as activities relating to each of the five questions, it also includes timers and initial preparation tasks/group work along with a secondary text-based, timed, activity to assess. There are book recommendations, RRPs and a Partridge in a Pair Tree…(not). But it is quite detailed. Run the slideshow to see the effects and how it all works. It has had a great deal of work put into to in order to make it fun and enjoyable. Texts Featured: The Magicians - Lev Grossman A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin Treasure Island - RLS The Maze Runner - James Dashner The Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall It also makes use of the Oscar Pistorius trial for Q4. It has no graphic information or images but encourages students to use evidence to form an objective assessment and evaluation. Structure has been given some serious attention here because it was new when I made this resource. I use over about 6 hours. Please also note that this is aimed at 16+ but can easily be edited to fit a younger audience.

Cover image from www.flickr.com - Free for commercial purposes… The scene for analysis is Season 3 Episode 4: ‘And Now His Watch ish Ended’ GOT is available on HBO and HBO NOW © Covers all questions and tries to move away from mainstream PEE paragraph structure. Triangulating and embedding evidence is encouraged but the slides can easily be switched back if you choose. This could be spread out across a couple of weeks of 3hr sessions because it’s 45 slides long and has revision slides for basic terminology. It covers every Paper 1 question, linking directly to the original exam-style paper included - to which the presentation refers constantly, throughout. Practice skills for: AO1 - Identify Explicit Information AO2 - Explain, analyse and comment on a writer’s use of language. AO2 - Explain, analyse and comment on a writer’s use of Structure. AO4 - Evaluate critically, another person’s opinion of a text. AO5 - Creative & Descriptive Writing. It is aimed at 16+ due to the violence of the war scene and it might also be too much for lower level learners. If you have, however, ventured into descriptions from historical wars - check it out. It is very engaging with a visual interpretation to show before reading the text. It’s also laden with step-by-step animation. Each click leads you to the next logical point. Went through this today and was very easy to use…

THis is a ppt display which can also be printed. Use as an extension task to any session really but Paper 1 - Q5, more so. Great for drop-in sessions and making displays. Display the images on the big screen and use annotations or on-screen typing to work with a group and fill out an example. Print them in any size as they are great quality images… All images are taken from www.pixabay.com, where top quality images are free to use, even for commercial purposes… =-)

This session goes through Paper 1 - Question 5, descriptive and narrative writing, as a practice session. It starts off comparing the mark scheme to an example with a task, following a set of animated annotations which are to be discussed as a group. Then move onto approaching an image for description and this includes an example, too. There is a list of figurative features which can be amended, as well as a task on making epic connections in creative writing. Following this, there is a small focus on titles and sentence starters. Finally, there is a writing challenge which uses a starting sentence and Christmas icons to stimulate and focus writing. As an added bonus: there is also a Christmas Full Paper 1 mock paper included. I wrote the example text myself and all top quality images are from www.pixabay.com - where all images are free for use, even for commercial purposes.

Special Offer! *Purchase a resource or bundle, leave a paid review and email a screenshot to me of your receipt with a request for ANY resource in my shop under £5 - FREE. Email: stormbornd@icloud.com This set uses all images from www.pixabay.com - to which I am a minor contributor and where all images are copyright free and free to use for commercial purposes…check out their website if you make resources. It’s an amazing sharing platform and all images are copyright free. It is a very complex set, animated with click-by-click/step-by-step animation, for ease of use. It features many famous cosplay images which will hopefully inspire students to create interesting narrative openings for Paper 1 - Question 5. It covers a grade 5 mark scheme for content and organisation, activities for creating features, the Action genre is focused on and both language and structure. It has tips for creating, extending and advancing similes and much more! I plan to take some comics in with me when I use it…if not there are plenty you can preview via the web. Turned out to be a great set and worked really well, with all my groups.

Special Offer! *Purchase a resource or bundle, leave a paid review and email a screenshot to me of your receipt with a request for ANY resource in my shop under £5 - FREE. Email: stormbornd@icloud.com Great for introducing nonfiction or revising. This set is for the first two questions of Paper 2. AOs 1 & 2. With an interesting Earth/Mars comparison starter (with animated explanation for afters) - this set looks at both freak weather from 1814 and 2016, from the ideas of conspiracy theorists and religious beliefs of divine intervention. Strategy included for covering Questions 2, 3 & 4 and two fully animated answer slides for the two Question 1 activities as well as some example annotations - step-by-step guidance for Q4 and example paragraphs for 2 & 3. The whole session is animated with click-by-click/step-by-step animation and looks very impressive with the Morph transitioning. Handout included and, as always, would appreciate any feedback. =-) All images taken from www.pixabay.com - where top quality images and short HD videos are free to use, even for commercial purposes…