**If you have previously purchased my GCSE 2016 unit 1 resource, please get in touch if you would like to upgrade to this new version. ** In this digital product: You will find everything you need to teach the first topic of Theme 1 of the GCSE course with AQA: People and Lifestyle: Identity and Relationships with others (teaching starts 2024, first exam 2026). The Presentation (approx. 150 slides including answer slides) covers the whole topic and is composed of 4 parts: A: About me! B: Family and Friends C: Relationships D: Partnerships There are 4 folders (A, B, C and D) containing the relevant files for that part. It includes: a range of Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and Translation activities grammar points including: avoir and être in the present tense, adjectival agreement, possessive adjectives, regular -ER verbs in the present, near future elements of phonics: on/om, silent -e, silent final consonants, ail/eil/ill retrieval activities, cultural aspects and homework tasks QR codes/ links for independent study vocab lists (full topic list or 4 lists for the 4 parts) + link to online course comments under the slides for notes and worksheet location answers audio files and transcripts .pdf and editable versions of the worksheets (except the nought and crosses game, which is only available as .pdf) Activities are differentiated and exam style. The first 15 files are a preview of what is included in the .zip folder: Topic1.zip. After downloading, save the .zip file in your computer (in “documents” for example), then right-click and select “extract all” to access all the resources. For the full overview, you can check the free SOW available for download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13056641

This book is a collection of activities to extend pupils’ opportunities to encounter words and their meanings. The sheets are also useful for developing dictionary skills, and are arranged alphabetically for ease of reference for the teacher. Most of the words can be found in junior dictionaries. Previously available through Easylearn.

An apology letter written from the Big Bad Wolf to Little Red Riding Hood outlining his sorrow for eating Riding Hood’s grandma and the measures that he will be taking to make up for this heinous act. I have used a similar text in recent years with my Year 6 children as a model text to inspire them to create their own apology letter from the villain in their favourite story to the corresponding hero. These have resulted in letters from: Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker; Bilbo to Gollum (a little backwards but nevertheless worked); Cruella De Vil to Roger (from the 101 Dalmatians) and many more. It is a letter-writing task that children engage with more than any other in my experience as it can be based on a favourite story and it is also more than appropriate to include some subtle humour within the piece, which the Greater Depth children revel in inserting. This particular example text contains all the punctuation taught in KS2 and can therefore be used to model appropriate use of these punctuation marks if necessary, especially for Greater Depth students who will pick up on this readily. The vocabulary is at points stretching for an average Year Six child but is in no way unreachable with a dictionary to hand and a basic level of inference (which this text could be used to encourage).

A fully-resourced, detailed and differentiated 1 hour lesson which introduces students to the Buddhist holy texts, in particular the Tripitaka. This lesson is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning and is best suited to KS3. The lesson is well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task, contains a variety of activities, an hour long PowerPoint, a 2 page information pack, detailed worksheets, clips with differentiated questions, clear measurable LOs, new key-term introductions and other activities. It is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also run the EC Publishing site where you can find everything you need for PSHE, RE and Citizenship at discounted rates. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

Example newspaper report based on the fantasy adventure novel Varjak Paw by S.F. Said. This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying Varjak Paw. The example text reports on the events at the end of the novel. After using the WAGOLL to identify the features of the text, pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the novel. This resource comes with the following documents: • Example newspaper report WAGOLL • Newspaper report planning template • Newspaper report writing templates x2 All resources come as both easily editable Word documents and PDFs. Other Varjak Paw themed resources: ✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Varjak Paw Diary Entry Example Text Pack ✦ Varjak Paw Character Profile Example Text & Character Matching Pack ✦ Varjak Paw Playscript Example Text Pack Other popular resources: ✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4 ✦ Stig of the Dump Complete Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4 ✦ Moon Landing Diary Complete Unit of Work | One Week | Year 3/4 ✦ Stone Age Boy Example Texts BUNDLE ✦ The Twits Example Texts BUNDLE ✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE ✦ How to Train Your Dragon BUNDLE ✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE ✦ The Butterfly Lion: Example Text BUNDLE ✦ The Hodgeheg Example Text Packs BUNDLE ✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Charlotte’s Web: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Flat Stanley WAGOLL Writing & Punctuation BUNDLE ✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

An example of a recount text (Incident report style) Designed to link with other resources, but can be used independently. Contains features of recount writing such as reported and direct speech, 3rd person and past tense etc. Ideal for small group work as well as whole class explanations.

An example diary entry text for The Boy at the Back of the Class written from the point of view of Ahmet, the new boy at school, plus writing feature identification worksheet and answers. This exemplar recount text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 2 of Onjali Q. Raúf’s refugee novel The Boy at the Back of the Class. Resources provided: • Exemplar diary text • Feature find worksheet • Feature find answer sheet • Teacher notes The diary text contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features: • Similes • Rule of three • Repetition for effect • Alliteration • Metaphors • Hyperbole • Personification • Show not tell emotions • Rhetorical questions • Fronted adverbials followed by a comma • Variety of nouns to avoid repetition • Noun phrases • Apostrophes for contraction • Apostrophes for singular possession • Apostrophes for plural possession • Hyphens • Dashes • Colons • Semi-colons • Brackets • First person POV The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents. Pupils read the model diary text, identify the features and then write their own diary entry. More The Boy at the Back of the Class themed resources: ✦ Example Text Bundle ✦ Character Profile Text Pack ✦ Dialogue Writing Text Pack ✦ Differentiated Apostrophe Activities Other popular resources: ✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4 ✦ Stig of the Dump Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4 ✦ Moon Landing Diary Unit of Work | One Week | Year 3/4 ✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE ✦ How to Train Your Dragon BUNDLE ✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE ✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Charlotte’s Web: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE ✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

If you would like to teach your students a step-by step approach to writing persuasively and also scaffold every stage of the writing process, then you will find this resource very useful. All components in this pack are designed to facilitate students to write persuasive essays effectively in preparation for formal/Naplan testing. The materials adhere to a formal writing style complete with close detail to elements of structure and composition of persuasive texts whereby opinion is supported by relevant details. Further details of lessons included in this pack are outlined below: * All lessons to teach and model the parts of a Persuasive Essay revolve around the mentor text, ‘How Good is Fast Food?.’ Application of writing skills is targeted in the close writing prompt: The Importance of Eating Clean. The graphic organisers also enable students to write on other topics of choice. LESSON 1: THE STRUCTURE ✓ Persuasive Writing Anchor Charts x 3 ✓ Mentor Text x 1 on the topic ‘How Good is Fast Food?’ ✓ Cut and glue parts of the mentor text activity to study structure ✓ Colour-code parts of the mentor text to study the structural components of the introduction, body and conclusion. ✓ Questions x 23 to draw attention to structure (to use with mentor text and informative article) LESSON 2: THE INTRODUCTION ♦ Scaffolded activities based on the mentor text to enable students to write the three parts that make-up the introduction: hook, opinion and thesis statement. LESSON 3: THE BODY ♦ Cut and glue interactive activities and reference to mentor text to help students better understand the parts of the three body paragraphs: the topic sentence encompassing the reason, supporting details and concluding sentence. LESSON 4: THE CONCLUSION ♦ Reference to colour-coded mentor text and deconstructing parts of a concluding paragraph activity to better understand the parts: summary statement, re-statement of reasons and call to action. ALSO INCLUDED: ✓ Graphic organisers to organise ideas of the introduction, body and conclusion when planning to write on a given prompt are included for all lessons. ✓ Writing templates for published pieces. ✓ Self-editing checklist ✓ Peer-editing checklist ✓ Teacher marking rubric ✓ Booklet cover for all lessons if compiling lesson sheets. ✓ Posters x 6 on Persuasive Writing Signal Words Once you have taught students the style and structure of a Persuasive Essay, the job is half done. All the best! I hope you will have an idea of how I have used this resource with my students via the guided notes for each section. Further instructions on how to use this resource are in file. Wish you and your students a successful year!

Fantastic, no prep reading & writing worksheets based on The Journey by Francesca Sanna. This print and go book companion is great for busy teachers who want to teach about the issues refugees face escaping war torn countries. Worksheets include diary entry writing, persuasive letter writing, story writing, informal letter writing, setting description writing and making inferences. What’s included: 18 lesson plans 30 worksheets 7 reading comprehension worksheets 6 reading response activities 17 writing response worksheets Engaging activities allow students to practise reading and writing skills using this highly emotive book. The journey teaches lessons about migration and fleeing war torn countries as well as the importance of international relationships between countries. Make connections to real life through examining the journey of a family fleeing their home to find safety. Reading worksheets: 2 x Analysing illustrations 2 x Making predictions 4 x Making inferences Compare and contrast Reading response worksheets: Diary entry example Analysing the journey Examining Convention on the Rights of the Child Thought tracking Writing worksheets: 2 x Diary writing Dialogue writing Persuasive letter writing Setting description Short story writing List writing 2 x Informal letter writing Story summary Book review Excellent for lessons on refugee, migrations, examining rights of refugees, rights of children and how refugees impact other countries. Ways you can use this resource: Migration projects Refugee projects Guided reading groups Literacy Centers or Stations Independent practise Small group work Whole group work Reading assessments Writing assessments ** Due to copyright reasons The Journey by Francesca Sanna is not included in this resource.**

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Domains 2b and 2d are weighted more in these comprehensions to match the weighting of the end of KS2 Reading Comprehension assessment. Included: • SATs style comprehension questions for the prologue/preface and the twenty-seven chapters of the novel. • A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions. This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after. This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores. Please let me know if you found this resource useful. It should save you hours and hours of time.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Domains 2b and 2d are weighted more in these comprehensions to match the weighting of the end of KS2 Reading Comprehension assessment. Included: • SATs style comprehension questions for every chapter of the novel. • A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions. Please view the sample pages for an idea of the questions and expectations. This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after. This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores. Please let me know if you found this resource useful. It should save you hours and hours of time.

A descriptive writing model text pack based on the novel Holes by Louis Sachar, including example text, feature find sheet and answers, word bank and planning sheet. The following resources are provided: • Setting description WAGOLL text • Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3 • Feature Find answers • Description planning sheet differentiated x3 • Desert vocabulary bank • Task sheet The model text describes the setting from the first person point of view: the desert environment at Camp Green Lake. The description comes with a feature find task, which asks pupils to search for the following writing features including figurative language and other literary devices: • similes • metaphors • hyperbole • personification • repetition for effect • onomatopoeia • alliteration • show not tell feelings • rhetorical questions • expanded noun phrases • rule of three The description can be used as a WAGOLL before pupils plan and write their own description based on Holes. It is best used after reading the first four chapters of the novel. The resources come in easily editable Word format and as PDFs. More Holes themed resources: ✦ Holes Complete Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 5/6 ✦ Holes: Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Holes: Character Profile Example Text Pack ✦ Holes: Newspaper Report Example Text Pack ✦ Holes: Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack Other popular resources: ✦ Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief Model Writing Pack BUNDLE ✦ Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Street Child WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Stormbreaker: Example Text & Literary Device BUNDLE ✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land BUNDLE ✦ The Nowhere Emporium BUNDLE ✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class BUNDLE ✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4 ✦ Stig of the Dump Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4 Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

Example newspaper report pack based on the popular novel Holes by Louis Sachar. This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying the mystery adventure bookHoles. The example text reports on Stanley Yelnat’s conviction for theft, from chapters 1 to 6 in the book. The model newspaper report comes with a feature find worksheet for children to fill in, with answer sheet, to give students the opportunity to examine the text in detail. After identifying the features, pupils complete the quotation punctuation worksheets, filling in the missing punctuation marks. Then pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the example text or other events that take place in the novel. This resource comes with the following documents: • Example newspaper report WAGOLL • Feature find worksheets, differentiated x 3 • Feature find answers • Quotation punctuation activity with answers • Newspaper report planning templates • Newspaper report writing templates, differentiated x2 • Labelled writing templates The genre-specific, language, grammar and punctuation features in the text include: • Headline with alliteration • Byline • Date • Lead: introductory paragraph containing 5 Ws • Quotes, with inverted commas • Photograph with caption • Passive voice • Past tense • Third person • Relative clauses • Alliteration • Fronted adverbials followed by comma • Synonyms to avoid repetition • Expanded noun phrases • Subordinating conjunctions • Modal verbs • Present perfect tense • Hyphens • Apostrophes for contraction • Apostrophes for singular possession • Apostrophes for plural possession All resources come as both easily editable Word documents and PDFs. More Holes themed resources: ✦ Holes Complete Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 5/6 ✦ Holes: Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Holes: Description Pack ✦ Holes: Non-Chronological Report Pack ✦ Holes: Character Profile Pack Other popular resources: ✦ Lightning Thief BUNDLE ✦ The Nowhere Emporium BUNDLE ✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work ✦ Stig of the Dump Unit of Work Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

This is the essential resource for National Five pupils studying Edwin Morgan. It is updated for the current six poems: Trio Winter In the Snack Bar Glasgow 5th March Glasgow Sonnets (i) Good Friday The resource includes an A3 back to back sheet. On one side, there are 100 revision questions. These are organised around commonality areas and revision of key quotes. The other side is a knowledge organiser. It covers the sixteen questions that are most likely to come up in the 8 mark question. It includes commonlaity statements for each area and key quotes to revise. I have identified the quotes which are applicable to the broadest range of 8 mark questions, enabling pupils to revise a number of quotes which could be used across a broad range of areas. Using national guidelines, past papers and other materials, this resource is extensively research and provides huge support for pupils and teachers alike.

Two-page example non-chronological report entitled “All About Knucker Dragons”, plus writing feature identification worksheet and answers. Pupils will love reading about the knucker dragon, and be inspired to use this exemplar to write their own non-chronological report about a dragon or other mythical creature. This 550 word example non-chronological report can be used to examine the features of non-chronological report writing before pupils embark on writing their own non-chronological report with similar features. Non-chronological report example text contains the following features: language features such as rule of three, technical vocabulary and facts; grammar features such as commands, questions, relative clauses, synonyms to avoid repetition and noun phrases; and punctuation such as question marks, apostrophe for singular possession, apostrophes for plural possession, brackets, semi-colons and hyphens. Documents available as PDFs and editable Word documents. Answers for the feature identification worksheet included. This resource works well with the Chinese dragon facts and category sheet, to categorise notes about the Chinese lung dragon and then write their own report. Both of these resources are available in a money-saving bundle. If you like this product, you may also be interested in the following: • Example Non-Chronological Report About Ogres • How to Catch an Ogre Example Instructional Text • Letter to an Ogre Example Persuasive Text • Example Ogre-Themed Text Bundle: Instructions, Persuasive Letter & Non-Chronological Report Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

A non-chronological text pack including model text, feature find worksheets, and planning and writing templates to write an information text about the yellow-spotted lizard from the novel Holes by Louis Sachar. Resources provided: • Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text • Non-chronologcial report Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3 • Non-chronologcial report Feature Find answers • Planning sheets differentiated x2 • Writing templates differentiated x2 • Task explanation sheet Structural, grammar, punctuation and language features included in the model information text: • Heading • Introduction • Subheadings • Bullet-pointed list • Picture/diagram with caption • Present tense • Adverbs of degree • Alliteration • Brackets to add a definition • Complex list with semi-colons • Embedded relative clauses • Expanded noun phrases • Fronted adverbials • Modal verbs • Passive voice • Relative clauses • Subordinate clauses • List introduced with a colon • Singular possessive nouns • Plural possessive nouns Pupils read the model non-chronological report, identify the features, and then plan and write their own non-chronological report about the yellow-spotted lizard using the templates provided. The resources are provided in both PDF and editable Word format. More Holes themed resources: ✦ Holes Complete Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 5/6 ✦ Holes: Example Text Pack BUNDLE ✦ Holes: Description Example Text Pack ✦ Holes: Character Profile Example Text Pack ✦ Holes: Newspaper Report Example Text Pack Other popular resources: ✦ Percy Jackson BUNDLE ✦ Harry Potter BUNDLE ✦ Street Child BUNDLE ✦ Stormbreaker BUNDLE ✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land BUNDLE ✦ The Nowhere Emporium BUNDLE ✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class BUNDLE ✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Year 3/4 ✦ Stig of the Dump Unit of Work | Year 3/4 Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

This resource contains five engaging fiction comprehension passages for KS3 students, each carefully written at three different levels (easy, medium, hard). Every passage is around 400 words and comes with 5–7 comprehension questions pitched to the level, making them ideal for differentiation, mixed-ability groups, homework, cover lessons, or in-lesson work. What’s included: Five fiction texts across a range of themes and genres: Adventure in the Forest Mystery at the Seaside Journey on the Train Dystopian City The Race Three differentiated versions of each passage (easy, medium, hard) to support all learners. Targeted comprehension questions for each level, encouraging retrieval, inference, analysis, and evaluation. Approx. 400 words per passage, giving students substantial practice with longer texts. Why this resource? Perfect for KS3 English comprehension practice. Ready-to-use for in-lesson activities, homework, literacy intervention, and cover work. Encourages close reading, critical thinking, and confidence in tackling unseen texts. Differentiation built-in: support weaker readers while stretching more able pupils. This is Pack One of a series, with two other packs also available, each containing five additional fiction passages with three levels and comprehension questions. This is a flexible and time-saving resource that supports literacy skills, reading comprehension, and English curriculum development.

I compared OCR Media Studies advertisements (‘Old Spice’ and ‘Lucozade’) in order to retain more information and prepare myself for the exam. In the end, I received a grade A and revision tactics like this incredibly helped.

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Tools of negation such as ليس - do not / am not لا - not / dont لم - didnt ما - not لن - never

A download and print text resource of the Romeo and Juliet scenes explored by the Shakespeare Unlocked series. Please refer to the other Shakespeare Unlocked resources on this site. The full Shakespeare Unlocked resources can be found here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dtvpl Shakespeare Unlocked - videos by the BBC in partnership with the RSC. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources