A range of resources for English across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, as well as Literacy resources. I create schemes of work, individual resources, revision games, and exam-style papers.
A range of resources for English across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, as well as Literacy resources. I create schemes of work, individual resources, revision games, and exam-style papers.
Two PowerPoint slides (one for Paper 1, one for Paper 2) which we printed as revision ‘mats’ in A3 and placed around rooms where students congregated before the exams. It gives them final reminders on how to approach each question, and can be easily tailored to suit your own teaching - e.g. changing timings or including your own approaches to certain questions.
These could also be used as revision sheets, posters or reminders to be used with mock exams.
Complete unit / scheme of work, designed as 22 lessons plus assessment. Includes a PowerPoint for each lesson, as well as a range of resources, with clear notes within the PowerPoints where necessary for guidance.
Designed for new spec AQA (8702) but could be easily adapted for other exam boards. Particularly suits middle to stronger ability groups, but again would be straightforward to adapt to suit weaker students.
This lesson can be used at any time of year but has Christmas based activities such as making a paper chain. It is designed to be a creative lesson whilst focusing on analytical skills and the writer’s intentions. There are lots of opportunities to consider the wider text and how quotes link to build a concept.
14 lessons which cover SPAG in detail.
All lessons are linked to the bands of the new AQA spec to stress the importance of good SPAG and the fact it will impact their grades.
The booklet means they can work through the activities and have everything all in one place - it looks really good in colour too!
Is aimed at year 10/11 but can easily be used for year 7 upwards.
14/15 lesson SoW.
Covers different contextual influences e.g. Elizabethan times/Shakespeare/witches.
Looks at 'All the World's a Stage', and also focuses on extracts from various Shakespeare plays but mainly 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Macbeth'.
Lesson 2 - Timings refer to the film 'Anonymous'.
No paper SoW as activities are self-explanatory.
Fully decorated, with success criteria, lesson objectives and challenge criteria.
This covers analysing holiday and hotel adverts, brochures, reviews, travel writing and persuasive writing.
It covers some of the new AQA Language exam skills so that year 8 can get used to some of the skills they will need to know in the years to come.
This workbook is designed to guide students through independently re-reading the novella and making notes. It breaks the text down across eleven revision sessions, each of which has three parts:
Direction of which pages to read.
A set of comprehension questions on this part of the novella.
A choice of further revision tasks, encouraging students to further reflect on the section they have explored. Many of these tasks include challenge questions to encourage higher order thinking.
There is also a relevant exam question provided for each of the eleven sessions.
I created this because many of my students don’t really know where to start with independent revision, and I also want to see evidence that they’ve read back through the text. It could also be used in school revision sessions.
The page numbers used relate to a copy of the novel that is available online (link within the resource) but could be adapted for students’ own physical copies of the text.
This is a booklet which covers the 2014 Theatre Ink version of Blood Brothers. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from and bares in mind some methods used by the director and Russell. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap. It is also ideal to be used during a class reading of the original with a slight tweak of a couple of questions.
This is a booklet which covers the 1988 film version of Hound of the Baskervilles by Peter Hammond. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question by. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.
This is a booklet which covers the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice by Joe Wright. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.
This is a booklet which covers the 1996 film version of James and the Giant Peach by Henry Selick. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.
This resource would be best enlarged onto A3 and could be used during teaching this paper, before an assessment or after a marked piece of work in order for students to make improvements.
This focuses solely on the reading section of Language Paper 2 and uses ‘One’s Company’ and ‘Records of a Girlhood’ (2023 exam) as its focus. It is three pages in length. The sections could be potentially highlighted by students or folded to look less overwhelming and to seem more like a bookmark style tool.
This is a grid which includes
the key things to remember about the reading section
emphasis on the importance of the context box at the top of the extract
what each question looks like (based on ‘One’s Company’ and ‘Records of a Girlhood’ (2023 exam)
questions they should ask themselves for each question to help reading for meaning
how to plan (or what I tell mine to do)
what should be included to gain specific levels with a short example
sentence openers
a rough breakdown of marks for grade boundaries
the mark scheme with bracketed simplification of some words for students to understand
This resource would be best enlarged onto A3 and could be used during teaching this paper, before an assessment or after a marked piece of work in order for students to make improvements.
This focuses solely on the reading section of Language Paper 1 and uses ‘The Life of Pi’ (2023 exam) as its focus. It is three pages in length. They sections could be potentially highlighted by students or folded to look less overwhelming and to seem more like a bookmark style tool.
This is a grid which includes
the key things to remember about the reading section
emphasis on the importance of the context box at the top of the extract
what each question looks like (based on ‘The Life of Pi’ 2023 paper)
questions they should ask themselves for each question to help reading for meaning
how to plan (or what I tell mine to do)
what should be included to gain specific levels with a short example
sentence openers
a rough breakdown of marks for grade boundaries
the mark scheme with bracketed simplification of some words for students to understand