For years I have been producing high quality PowerPoints to use with my English classes. I have always shared them around my department and now am offering them to you. For a very small fee, you can access these resources to hopefully help you plan or to inspire new lessons. I hope you and your students enjoy them.
For years I have been producing high quality PowerPoints to use with my English classes. I have always shared them around my department and now am offering them to you. For a very small fee, you can access these resources to hopefully help you plan or to inspire new lessons. I hope you and your students enjoy them.
A PEE grid showing students points that can be made an how to embed the quotations. Students then explain the points made. Designed to build the fluency of poetry analysis. Made for Year 9.
This resource is a 51 slide PPT to help students write an exposition/expository essay in line with the new WJEC English Language GCSE. The PPT explains clearly what an expository essay is, how to plan one effectively, how to write a good introduction, how to write excellent expository paragraphs and how to structure points with sophistication. It also contains proofreading tasks in line with the new GCSE, vocabulary extension exercises, examples of good and bad introductions and main paragraph examples. Perfect to help KS3 pupils prepare for KS4 or for KS4 students to practise their skills. The PPT focuses on an essay on War but also shows examples of an essay on Money and an essay on Footballers.
An A3 annotated copy of 'Mr Bleaney' by Philip Larkin. It covers all comments on the writer's techniques and comments as well as a comprehensive overview of the poem. This is very useful to help cover all poems in the anthologies without taking too much time, revision materials or to help students catch up with poems missed in class.
11 poems from The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin have been annotated comprehensively on A3 sheets. They are perfect to help facilitate the teaching of the anthology. Considering the number of poems required to be taught for the WJEC AS English Literature examinations, this helps save time and gives students very high quality revision materials. Perfect for helping students catch up on poems they have missed, giving for self study or for helping teach poems quickly.
An introduction to Carol Ann Duffy's 'Mean Time'. Designed for the new WJEC English Literature AS Level, this is a PowerPoint designed to get students thinking of the title and themes, and also shows them an analysis of 'Valentine' with annotations, sets homework and gives some more poems to analyse in groups.
A revision resource for The Ghost of Christmas Present containing key quotes from Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Perfect for WJEC English Literature GCSE students.
A challenging essay plan for Year 9 students to complete a poetry comparison to prepare them for WJEC English Literature GCSE controlled assessment. The students are asked to compare Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43. The sheet poses questions, phrases some points and gives advice on how to structure the response. Designed to gain L6+ from students.
A comprehensive explanation of Tiny Tim's importance to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. An overview of the character's importance is given using quotations from the text to support each point. Every appearance of the character is tracked and clearly explained. The importance of Tiny Tim is linked constantly to the context and how Dickens uses the character to comment on the poor in the 1840s. An excellent, attractive revision sheet that will be incredibly useful to all GCSE English Literature students.
An information sheet explaining The Poor Law and Victorian Workhouses to aid the WJEC English Literature exam. A good way of helping students add historical context to their work or introducing key ideas before beginning the text.
An A3 annotated copy of MCMXIV by Philip Larkin. The resource makes teaching the poem far quicker and also guarantees students have the notes they need. It includes lots of points to make about the content (AO3) and also how critics interpret certain ideas (A05). There are also links pointed out (A04). Excellent for students who have missed a lesson or to give as revision notes. Created for WJEC English Literature AS Level.
A writing frame to help students write a speech/presentation about a hobby of their choice. Great to get Year 7 doing presentations early on in the year.
This is a National Reading Test designed to prepare Year 7 students. It is based on two texts: one about Levi Roots and another about Peter Jones. The NRT is direct preparation for WJEC English Language GCSE with 'words in context', 'sequencing' and 'access, search and retrieve'. An answer sheet is included to make peer assessment an effective option that will help reduce workload for the teacher.
A wide range of resources including 11 annotated copies of a range of their poems which are perfect for revision, a revision PowerPoint, a 36 page booklet on Larkin's context in all of The Whitsun Weddings poems, a guide on how to write excellent introductions and how to embed quotations.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Send No Money' by Philip Larkin. It contains an overarching synopsis to the poem, detailed commentary focusing on specific details and the poem itself. Perfect for revision, catch up for those who may have missed the poem or a way of getting students to engage with the poem away from the classroom. Designed for WJEC English Literature AS Level.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Ignorance' by Philip Larkin. It contains an overarching synopsis to the poem, detailed commentary focusing on specific details and the poem itself. Perfect for revision, catch up for those who may have missed the poem or a way of getting students to engage with the poem away from the classroom. Designed for WJEC English Literature AS Level.
A full analysis of ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron. The PowerPoint explains the important contextual information needed to be known to access the poem as well as line by line analysis of the poem. Literary and Linguistic terminology is clearly labelled and gives students everything they need to adopt a forensic knowledge of the poem. The resource is created specifically for WJEC AS English Literature and Language.
A sheet designed to allow pupils to compare Emyr Humphreys' 'From Father to Son' with 'Do Not Go Gentle' by Dylan Thomas. The sheet is designed with a direct quote from each poem written next to each other then space for the student to write an explanation of how this is similar or different with the approach to how loss is being presented.
An annotated A3 sheet with analysis notes on 'Toads Revisited' by Philip Larkin. It contains an overarching synopsis to the poem, detailed commentary focusing on specific details and the poem itself. Perfect for revision, catch up for those who may have missed the poem or a way of getting students to engage with the poem away from the classroom. Designed for WJEC English Literature AS Level.
