Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1. These lessons use an engaging Life of Pi extract to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. Also, drawing on David Attenborough's Planet Earth II voice-over to teach descriptive register and ambitious vocabulary. Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, individual, paired and group tasks. They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression. AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. Select and synthesise evidence from different texts. AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views. AO3: Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts. AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 3 scene 5 (Language analysis. Context Patriarchal gender roles) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 Scene 2 (Language analysis. Exam question and model paragraphs. Elizabethan gender roles) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature. Outstanding observation lesson.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 scene 5 (Light and dark imagery) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature

This Home Learning Pack for English at KS3 has been designed to provide learning activities during any school closure. It covers: Descriptive writing Writing a playscript Characterisation Showing not Telling Can be used to support students write a wide range of stories, descriptions and scripts.

A fantastic visual revision tool for the Love and Relationships poetry, uses images to recall and recap the poems, key quotations and key themes. Extension questions for each poem to create disucssion. Includes ALL 15 poems, excellent revision materials for GCSE students for AQA English Literature Paper 2 students. Versatile: I use it with LA students to recap key ideas in the poems and memorise quotations and also with HA students to analyse the poems, make comparisons and revise key quotations. Includes: Love’s Philosophy Porphyria’s Lover When We Two Parted Winter Swans Sonnet 29 Neutral Tones Letters from Yorkshire The Farmer’s Bride Walking Away Eden Rock Follower Mother any distance Before You Were Mine Singh Song Climbing My Grandfather

The context resource summarises key information about the context of each poem from the Poetry Relationships Pearson Edexcel GCSE anthology, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

Revision for Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde. Set of chronological images to represent 19 key quotations for the text Jekyll and Hyde. Students to recall key quotation to match the image, which leads well into discussions about patterns of imagery and recurring motifs. 2 AQA exam style questions. Includes slides with a support process for approaching and answering the specific question. One with an exemplar answer. Please review. Feedback is appreciated.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 2 scene 2 (Language analysis. Context: The Copernican Theory) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature

This resource is designed as a fun and engaging project that also teaches students key writing skills. It involves tasks based around football, creating a fantasy team, the perfect player and commentating. these tasks have a literacy focus. Learning Objectives: LO: To learn more adjectives based on physical abilities. LO: To learn how to use superlatives in explanatory writing. LO: To learn how to include ambitious vocabulary in writing.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 scene 4 (Petrachan lover) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 Scene 1 (Language analysis. Context Elizabethan dueling) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.

This lesson focuses on the poem One Flesh from a series of lessons covering all 15 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Relationships. The lessons are structured to prepare students to annotate all poems with meaning, language, form and structure. The lessons introduce key themes, encourage students to work out the meaning and synopsis of the poem, provide space for teacher led annotation and links the meaning to the form and structure of the poem. The context resource summarises key information about the context of the poem, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

A series of lessons covering all 15 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Relationships. The lessons are structured to prepare students to annotate all poems with meaning, language, form and structure. The lessons introduce key themes, encourage students to work out the meaning and synopsis of the poem, provide space for teacher led annotation and links the meaning to the form and structure of the poem. The context resource summarises key information about the context of the poem, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1. These lessons use an extract from Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. The BBC version of Birdsong is a useful tool to support the teaching of structure and language. (Modified Presentation) The sequence of lessons link well to the teaching of the Conflict and Power cluster of poems by exploring the theme of conflict and nature of trench warfare. Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, pair and group tasks. They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression. The question 4 lessons focus on teaching students how to develop a critical and evaluative response to a statement using a routine that can be applied to any question 4. The question 5 lessons are designed to enable students to create interesting and convincing story openings using The Sins of the Mother by Jamil Ahmad as a model text. AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. Select and synthesise evidence from different texts. AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views. AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.

Complete lesson on analysing Thomas Hardy’s The Ruined Maid. It uses artwork and interactive pair work to explore the purpose of imagery, teaches the different types of imagery, teaches students to identify and analyse these types of imagery in the poem, consolidates / assesses knowledge through a writing task and peer assessment of the clear success criteria. Includes extensions. Engaging lessons, outstanding in lesson observation.

First 5 poems from a full context resource, which summarises key information about the context of each poem from the Poetry Relationships Pearson Edexcel GCSE anthology, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

The lesson focuses on Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Valentine and comes from a series of lessons covering all 15 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Relationships. The lessons are structured to prepare students to annotate all poems with meaning, language, form and structure. The lessons introduce key themes, encourage students to work out the meaning and synopsis of the poem, provide space for teacher led annotation and links the meaning to the form and structure of the poem. The context resource summarises key information about the context of the poem, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.