Activities to encouarge learning and thinking USeful for all - and staff!

This resource contains helpful pictures to use as a wall display when teaching Animal Farm by George Orwell

Punctutaion focus - students correct the errors in a story version of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Really useful to have on an English shared ICT area - allows students to work on screen.

This resource has a Jeopardy style quiz focusing on the layout and presentational devices that may be expected in texts used in the GCSE Language exam

Mix of quotes on learning and on affirming positive thoughts. We use these in Tutor time and as posters for classrooms Gives a useful thinking point to the beginning of form time as students are coming in. useful to discuss and to share. Classroom affirmations are used to create a positive and supportive environment by teaching students to be supportive of one another. Affirmations develop an atmosphere where it is the norm to acknowledge and affirm positive behaviors, thoughts and actions. Used consistently, affirmations can change students’ attitudes and their actions. Daily affirmations train your brain to think positively; they are uplifting truths you want to believe and heartwarming convictions about yourself or the world as a whole. They are one of the most effective ways to proactively and permanently change the way you think. Included are some notes about affirmations and how they can support students to be resilient with some academic research to support the use in schools.

Award certificates for achievement. Created for English but could be adapted.

A resource this presentation concentrates on improving the quality of creative writing - could also be adapted for GCSE. It employs the Writing And Reading Assessment Foci (AF) and is focused on students moving to level 5 of these.

easy pacey starter testing key quotes from OF MICE AND MEN

This resource provides a lesson focussed on apartheid and how it connects to Robert Swindells' novel Daz 4 Zoe>

A resource focusing on achieving C/D band in GCSE poetry exam. It concentrates on Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke and provides exemplar essay excerpts for those aiming to achieve C and D band results in GCSE.

This ready to use Shakespeare resource contains a series of quotes and character names from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night that may be used as a classroom display - hope these are helpful.

ppt exploring gcse exam task writing to explain

A resource with a simple chart for students to use to help them compare the poems in AQA Other Cultures Cluster 1. The mood space has been left blank for students to complete and a blank chart is provided for students to write their own comments

A worksheet with a writing activity based on school reports using The Ghost of Thomas Kempe a low fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively

A resource that provides a video that may be used to create a sense of mood and atmosphere and be linked to the narrative poem The Marie Celeste

Proof reading activity

Hopefully a useful powerpoint that staff can adapt as an intro to summer school.

Focused learning on looking at the langauge used by Steinbeck in the killing of Curley’s wife.

<p>THinking activity about the effect of actions</p>

PowerPoint slides provide suggestions to students on how to improve their writing. Sentence length; connecting words; organization; development; key ideas; textual evidence.