I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
A simple resource to be used in lessons for revison or could easily be given for homework.
This is ideal to get your students to think about five key moments for each character/ theme and for them to find quotes, which link to these.
Ten exam questions for An Inspector Calls which can be used for revision. The students need to think of ten points they could include for each one to revise key characters and themes.
There are three revision lessons for Macbeth that are fully differentiated with bronze, silver, gold tasks, including ‘challenge’ tasks to stretch the most able. The lessons include model answers, bell tasks, learning objectives, key quotes, opportunities for self/peer assessment and plenaries to conclude the lessons. I have used these in the run up to the exam as each lesson leads carefully to a GCSE exam style question, which the students will be able to answer having completed the starter activities and other learning activities which provide them with the information to plan and write their own responses. These worked very well with my own year 11 classes as they found them very useful in developing the length and quality of their exam responses.
A colour coded grid of retention questions for Dickens ACC that helps to ensure secure understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and key quotes.
The resource includes 20 key quotes linked to the themes of: fear, appearance vs reality, violence and ambition. Students need to explode the key quotations using two layers of meaning, links to context, writer’s intentions and references to subject terminology.
A full mark response that provides a conceptual response for the theme violence. The extract used is the scene with the old man discussing the night of Duncan’s death. This responses hits the highest level of the mark scheme as it provides a critical response to the theme of violence, uses a range of judicious quotes and fluently explores the use of writer’s methods. The opening paragraph uses the ‘define the the question,’ then ‘refine’ it to the most significant moment.
A differentiated set of lessons designed to get students to consider the meaning of the poem, why Emily Dickinson wrote the poem and allows for opportunities for students to comment on language and structure (AO2) needed for their literature examinations.
A set of lessons that help develop students' speech writing skills for their GCSE English language examination. They include bell tasks/starters, main and development and a plenary. These three lessons also include a mini assessment. The LOs are on each slide to be referred throughout the lessons and they are differentiated.
A fantastic poster that students can stick in their books so they know what they need to do for each component of the Language examination. This is specifically for the WJEC course and details the percentage of each component, how many marks you get for each question and the type of texts you will read and be asked to write. This is very handy for students to refer to in each lesson to remind them about what they are studying and why.
What makes a sentence poster to remind students of the four main points about sentences. This is great to refer to for students who forget capital letters, full stops of write hanging sentences that are incomplete.
A great poster to remind students of the different word classes. Even more so important as the students are now required in the 2017 examinations to comment on subject terminology, which is much easier to do with a display that gives a definition and some examples.
This bundle includes:
25 writing questions for paper 1
a great writing frame for narratives
25 writing questions and guidance for paper 2
with other handy worksheets for reading skills.
This is another paper 1 exam for English GCSE. It includes all four questions for reading and both writing tasks for Q5 for AQA. It could easily be adapted for different specifications.
Six poems/ questions for the unseen poetry exam that students can use to revise. The poems in this collection are entitled:
‘Sleeping’ paired with 2. ‘The Insomniac’
‘Sunday Kickabout’ paired with 4. 'Gingerbread Biscuits
‘Redecorating’ paired with 6. ‘Empty Suitcase’
The worksheet also has a differentiated bronze, silver, gold task.
A full paper1 for the AQA English GCSE. If your students need more revision skills, then this is a brand new fiction text that they can develop their comprehension skills and writing for question five. This is perfect for a full lesson, or can be used as homework.
