Ideal for both KS3 and KS4 students, this fully resourced and differentiated lessons looks at the way Dickens presents Scrooge as an outsider and supports students in writing notes on the whole novella around a central theme. A great lesson for Y7 right the way through to Y11 and easily adaptable. Recently revamped and includes both models and scaffolds for writing analytical paragraphs around A Christmas Carol.
This 17 page booklet is designed to help students to start writing like a Degree level student (rather than a GCSE student). It outlines how to structure a new spec essay, including Steps to Success, Where to Start and Top Tips. It also gives advice on developing your evaluative language and critical phrases.
A comprehensive guide to essay writing. The toolkit contains over 50 activities to help students improve their essays, as well as a wealth of other information, ideas and links. All aspects of essay writing are covered and the material is suitable for use across Key Stages 3,4 and 5.
Focus on how to develop analysis and structure a solid essay.
Common errors with essay writing.
Pair work to explore George and Lennie's relationship.
Close analysis of language - authorial intention.
Teacher model of introduction, main body and development.
Mark scheme.
‘An Inspector Calls’ lesson on how to structure an essay. 37 slides and works out to about three lessons. Quiz is also embedded into lesson as well as a film break.
This resource breaks down the process of writing an essay, focusing on character analysis. It shows students how to reach the success criteria with PETAL examples.
This lesson is very detailed and can be tailored to suit a range if abilities. It is broken down into
DO NOW
STARTER
I DO
WE DO
YOU DO
This ensures a that lessons follow a ’ gradual release of responsibility approach’, scaffholding students before they embark on independent tasks.
Enjoy !
A great learning mat with a step by step guide for writing an effective paragraph that can apply to most Language style questions and Literature exam questions.
This learning mat breaks down each component of the paragraph and offers a variety of sentence openers and academic language that students can use.
A brilliant resource for differentiation of to give to students as a self-help sheet. I have these out on the tables almost every lesson!
Review and follow :-)
Useful guideline to A level Coursework with useful Vocabulary, Expressions and a suggested structure for Writing Skills. Good for Writing about Opinions and developing Arguments. Useful for Exams skills and Revision.
This booklet is designed to help students with writing a piece of persuasive writing from start to finish. It includes a planning page and a description of audience, form and purpose as well as a guide to writing each paragraph of their essay. We’ve even included some useful sentence starters and a list of linguistic devices which are key to making writing even more persuasive.
A level essays can be hard !!
Essay writing presentation is equipped many activities to help A-level students in biology start writing essays. This lesson focuses on the “importance… style of essay questions” Includes various activities for students to complete to help in writing a synoptic essay. Focuses on the PEEL paragraph structure and also includes an essay question for students practice essay writing
Need to write about poems? Stuck on what to say and how to say it? Not sure about how to organise an essay? This interactive Poetry Essay PowerPoint presentation helps you analyse poems and write essays about them more confidently. It features: structured paragraphing (point, evidence, explain, link); writing frames; sentence starters; annotation prompts; poetic terms simplified with examples; connectives (conjunctions); stanza names and other helpful hints. Poetry Essay PowerPoint presentation is also bundled with a printable poetry essay template.
Poetry Essay PowerPoint application is an ideal accompaniment for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-Level English Literature; assessment writing; college essay tasks; coursework; and term paper assignments.
This PowerPoint has been adapted from Poetry Essay iOS app that used to be available to download from the App Store. Please note, when using some interactive whiteboards, it is necessary to press ‘Ctrl+A’ on your keyboard when full screen.
For more learning resources, please visit Poetry Essay’s website.
A comprehensive guide to essay writing. The toolkit contains over 50 activities to help students improve their essays, as well as a wealth of other information, ideas and links. All aspects of essay writing are covered and the material is suitable for use across Key Stages 3,4 and 5.
A step by step guide to effective essay writing. Uses practical examples as well as providing students with activities to practice essay writing skills. Ideal resource for A/AS level students. Will benefit any subjects requiring answers which require logical structure and argument.
in this folder: 6 activities for students to practise different aspects of writing an essay on the movie La Haine. the 6 tasks are all on a word document (4 pages) and a version with possible answers is also included.
each task uses a different essay question:
Analysez le rôle joué par le personnage d’Abdel
Examinez le personnage d’Hubert dans la Haine
D’aprés vous, le film La Haine est-il un film ‘anti-flic’?
4.Analysez en quoi La Haine pourrait etre considérée avant tout comme un film sur les banlieues
Examinez la scène sur les toits
Examinez la scène de la garde à vue à Paris
the tasks:
-find the question from the introduction
-fill in the blanks in a paragraph by adding evidence to the points made
-fill in the gaps by adding your evaluation to the points and evidence given
-use the plan to write an introduction and the first paragraph
-read the body of an essay and produce a plan and a conclusion
-produce a plan from a question
the first four files are a preview of what is included in the .zip folder
If you are interested in more resources of this type, you can check this facebook page: @Frenchresources
12 SAMPLE ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR GCSE MUSIC
To support students with their long answer questions in the GCSE Music exam, here are 12 Practice Questions.
The PPT is self-contained, and can be sent to students who are revising, or working remotely.
All four Areas of Study from the Eduqas specification are covered, three times - 12 Questions in total - with a wide variety of music, and mood/emotions for students to link them to.
Q1–4: four 4-mark essays, to be used to get students’ brains warmed up!
Q5–8: four 8-mark essays, to be used when they’re nearly ready for the full answer.
Q9–12: four 10-mark essays, to be used to practise for the real exam.
The questions include music from the likes of Michael Giacchino, Led Zeppelin, Dusty Springfield, Britten and Sondheim.
The bundle includes:
22-slide PowerPoint, with all 12 questions written out, plus reflections on all previous exam essay questions from 2018–2023.
PDF of Questions and Mark Scheme together
PDF of the Questions (each one being two sheets of A4, perfect for printing on double-sided A3 sheets)
PDF of the full and detailed Mark Scheme
Access to free audio
Please have a look at my other GCSE Music resources.
Thank you!
Develop your KS3 and KS4 students’ formal writing skills with our ‘toolkit’ of creative classroom activities, genuine student exemplar essays and exclusive teaching resources.
This pack features activities to help students write well-planned, well-structured and sophisticated essays in readiness for GCSE English Literature and for the longer essay-style questions in GCSE English Language.
Essential for teaching all aspects of essay writing for your class novel, play text or reading unit.
What’s included?
sections include: getting students started, planning and structuring essays, introductions and conclusions, using quotations, inference and deduction, formal essay vocabulary and drafting and redrafting
real student essays from year 9 students in a range of comprehensive schools.
What’s inside?
Introduction (pages 3-5)
Getting students started (pages 6-15)
Planning and structuring essays (pages 16-25)
Introductions and conclusions (pages 26-34)
Using quotations (pages 35-48)
Inference and deduction (pages 49-60)
Formal essay vocabulary (pages 61-67)
Drafting and redrafting (pages 68-75)
These documents are designed to help A level students structure and write their essays (specifically designed for Part B AQA)
RS A Level Essay Structure- a help sheet that explains clearly how students should structure their essay.
RS Essay writing Frame- students can use the writing frame to write out or plan their essay
A two-page guide to writing a discursive essay. The topics covered are:
The purpose and content of the introduction
The role of topic sentences
Different forms of evidence
Concluding sentences
The use of counterargument
The content and purpose of the conclusion
This revision sheet is suitable for upper-ability learners at GCSE.
A fully differentiated and resourced set of 2 lessons that looks at the controversial topic of fox hunting. This is ideal preparation for students getting ready for AQA English Language Paper 2 and the writing section. The lesson looks at essay writing but also writing to explain. Although teachers will spend a long time looking at letters, speeches or articles, the essay often gets overlooked. Definitely worth downloading this lesson.
This bundle is aimed at teachers of A Level Dance (AQA)
Included in this bundle are:
10 Practice essay questions with mark scheme and area for feedback and student respones
4 student resources for improving their essays.
29 page resource that helps to prepare your students for considering context in their essays. This resource includes; images and explanations of contextual information in relation to American Jazz Dance 1940 - 1975; teacher guidance notes; 2 sample essays using the PEED structure.
A simple visual guide to adding details to your student essays. Designed for lower ability or SEN to explain the ideas to add to their paragraphs but could be used for challenge with KS3 or as a challenging/ model paragraph/ guide to use.