English teacher for the last decade; huge passion for teaching and creating interactive resources that lead to better engagement, better outcomes and better classroom environment! Have a look through my items for sale!
English teacher for the last decade; huge passion for teaching and creating interactive resources that lead to better engagement, better outcomes and better classroom environment! Have a look through my items for sale!
Students present the stave themselves using this prompt sheet. They use the middle of the page to plan and the questions on the outside as prompts.
You can either allow them to make notes in their books or simply make a few notes on the page itself before presenting.
A lovely visual worksheet.
Here are two sessions that I created for the whole-school as part of an SMSC/PSHE fortnight. Both sessions have a Growth Mindset focus, video resources and a fab Poster/Display that I created to display around school.
The poster has a focus on the following skills:
- Listening
- Communicating
- Organising
- Investigating
- Mastering
- Being resilient
- Being co-operative
- Being respectful
- Being creative
Both sessions worked really well with students in Key Stage 3 and 4 and are ready to go without needing to print anything/resource anything extra. These sessions can be taught by non-specialists and each contain one activity for students.
I hope you find them useful!
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A half term's worth of lessons for a two/three hour-per-week class. Three sets of PowerPoints, annotated examples, models and success criteria.
My suggested route through teaching:
- Trump on immigration
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
- Nicola Sturgeon on the referendum
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
- Emma Watson on gender equality
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
Bonus Lesson: Trump's plans to leave the Paris agreement (climate change).
Bonus Lesson: Hung Parliament!
Once those 12 lessons are over, students can be assessed on their writing by creating a speech using some of the language techniques they have studied. Options I gave:
- Feminism/Gender Equality
- In/Out Europe
- Referendum
- Banning Trump from the UK
All four lessons are really well themed and some include video resources too! They look at a whole range of language features, techniques and stylistic devices that are unique to each speaker.
All come with fully annotated speeches, examples of essay paragraphs and clear success criteria for students to follow.
Now with an automatic PowerPoint that loops continuously - ideal to prompt students during assessments and writing!
9 Posters that I made for my students to encourage them to consider the effect of language; they helped students to consider language rather than simply writing things like 'it makes me want to read on...'
Happy to adjust and adapt on demand but these are a really great way to encourage students to analyse language and work independently.
Techniques/Features:
Anecdote
Alliteration
Facts
Opinions
Repetition
Rhetorical Questions
Emotive Language
Statistics
Triplication
Other features mentioned on one slide: first person, second person, hyperbole, expert opinion, conditional tense.
This is a resource that I put on a whole-school display for students to reflect on their revision. I also asked form tutors to discuss revision strategies with their students in order to ensure students were not wasting their time making lots of notes that didn’t really help them.
This resource is perfect for students to stick in their books, discuss with their form tutors, include on a whole-school display or simply give to students to get them thinking about how they revise.
These are student-friendly resources that are intended as a revision helper. There are instructions on the first slides that let students know they need to be proactively analysing these poems in their own time. The resources are intended as an aide memoir for students to simply sort the poems into categories and verbalise how they will compare in the exam.
There are several points for AO1 and AO2 to help students compare the poems (aimed at a middle-ability group). Having said that, you are free to adapt as I am including the template. My aim when creating this resource was to give some good prompts for AO1 topic sentences.
Enjoy!
Printing tip: Look great on A5 but if you can’t print to A5, simply select ‘Print’ in PowerPoint and choose the ‘2 slides per page’ option. Or just print them on A4.
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Two engaging sessions on Growth Mindset and a professionally created display poster that will blow up to A1 size if required.
Both sessions explore the term 'Growth Mindset' and look at the principles of the theory. Students investigate how they can be more resilient through developing their own Growth Mindset.
A bonus British Values SMSC/PSHE lesson has been thrown in too - as have some great additional posters.
If you’re like me, you’ve already used all of the previous and specimen papers!
I decided to create these resources as I wanted to give my students something they’d never seen before and wouldn’t have been able to access online.
They look a long time to put together and make identical to the AQA papers!
Hopefully you find them as useful as I did.
(You will also get the template so can make your own exam papers in the future!)
Perfect for GCSE English Language (any of the specs!) and incredibly engaging. My students thought it was great!
A thorough analysis of two speeches by each party leader.
Depending on whether you want to walk the students through the annotations (teacher model included) or whether you want to let them work independently, there is probably about three hours’ work here.
The lesson starts by reviewing features of persuasive writing, followed by reading two speeches and annotating them. I have created a teacher model for each.
Finally, the lesson finishes with students writing a comparative essay (success criteria/model paragraph included).
Extremely topical and relevant around the time of an election and beyond!
Resources included:
-Comprehensive PowerPoint with lots of resources (just print the individual slides)
- May Speech annotated
- May speech blank
- Corbyn speech annotated
- Corbyn speech blank
A UCAS personal statement worksheet to prompt students to consider the course they want to study and how to prove their eligibility on their personal statement.
See my other resource which contains a fab PowerPoint to accompany!
A quick reference guide for students answering the English Language (8700) exam paper. It's an easy read, which includes activities.
I printed them out in A5 booklets and they looked absolutely fantastic.
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I was struggling to find exam papers so decided to make one myself! This is a complete paper for AQA English Language Paper 1 of the 8700 (new) specification.
The great thing about this is that you will then have the template to use in the future!
Would work perfectly for other exam boards as well as AQA!
I created this wheel in order to give students some kind of autonomy in terms of their essay writing. It outlines what students might say for AO1/2/3 in order to sound sophisticated.
In my lesson, students absolutely loved it! They were able to use the wheel to inform their own topic sentences, AO2 analysis and essentially, write an independent essay.
Two files: PDF/PPT (same file) so you can edit it if you like!
This document is a two-page help sheet for students, teachers and parents that outlines common errors made in English such as:
- Fused sentences
- Hanging clauses
- Comma splicing
... and many more.
I usually give this to students when they are responding to feedback - or I give it to parents at parents' evening so they can help their children at home.
This is a simple slide that I use with my students as a prompt when they are responding to feedback. I have it in front of them so they have a reference and prompt when responding to comments.
I usually laminate these and put them on desks - that way, they last the whole year!
This is a language analysis of Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish Independence speech that she gave in March 2017. It is a really engaging lesson and comes with the following:
- Overview of features to argue/persuade
- A debate on the topic of independence with reasons for and against (meant as a quick speaking and listening activity)
- A model annotation for students
- Features of language associated with Sturgeon’s rhetoric
- A model essay paragraph
- An essay question
- A fully annotated extract from the speech itself
Loads of resources and enough work for a week or more. Great for English language or even a lesson on British Values if you want a cross-curricular link.
If you like my resource, please review it! Also, take a look at my Trump or Emma Watson speech resources too.
Thanks!
