This handy resource is perfect for homework, cover work or revision of the Popular Music set work
Sweet Dreams by Eurhythmics
Burn Baby Burn by Ash
Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine.
With a combination of 1 mark, 2 mark and 4 mark questions, key word research and listening questions, this worksheet gives students the chance to develop their independent learning and improve their knowledge of this set work
This resource is the second in a series of GCSE pupil booklets designed to be user friendly and cover all aspects of the novel and writer’s technique.
These pupil booklets have been created by a seasoned teacher and examiner for English Literature, have been tried and tested in the classroom, and cover all aspects of the curriculum.
Teacher booklet provided offers possible responses for every question, and suggestions of quotations for Chapter work.
Currently available:
*Of Mice and Men: Background https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ccea-of-mice-and-men-background-context-12366444
*Of Mice and Men: Chapter by Chapter
*Of Mice and Men: Characters
*Of Mice and Men: Themes
*Of Mice and Men: Writer’s Technique
A series of resources for the CCEA English Literature Identity Poetry anthology. Contains:
Revision notes for each individual poem
Tips on structuring a response
Information on assessment objectives and mark schemes
Example exam questions
This bundle contains PowerPoints on every Robert Frost poem in the current CCEA AS Specification. These PowerPoints have been designed to promote student success in their exam response to Robert Frost’s poetry, and each one contains the following:
Detailed, line-by-line analysis of poetic devices and language for each poem (AO2)
Contextual information on Frost and specific context on each poem (AO3)
Questions on the relevant themes of each poem to assist with the thematic connections with Heaney’s poetry (AO4)
Detailed stanza-by-stanza/line-by-line questions to prompt critical analysis from pupils (AO2)
Pre-reading tasks and post-analysis questions to consolidate understanding of the poem
Included poems- Into My Own, Mowing, Going For Water, Mending Wall, After Apple-Picking, The Road Not Taken, Birches, “Out, Out-”, For Once Then Something, Gathering Leaves, Acquainted With The Night, Desert Places.
This 144-page slide PPT contains all of the poems in the CEA Identity cluster and are accompanied with notes on poetic devices used by the artist and the effects on the reader; there are explanatory notes on each poem and biographical details on each poet.
There are handouts on the Assessment Objectives with advice on how to maximise point scoring. As well the PPT contains practice GCSE exam questions, compare & contrast chart, essay structure advice, mind mapping, essay structure tips and discursive markers advice and tasks for better essay writing results.
In addition, there are handouts on poetic and rhetorical devices and poetry styles to help students identify techniques and comment on effects. This PPT is intended to focus the student on relevance to the exam.
We have worked hard to make it simple for the student.
Unit 1 Paper for revision. This resource contains all five tasks:
Section A: Writing for Purpose and Audience
Section B: Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts
Four Student booklets bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 1.
All five Unit 1 Tasks - combined teacher and student user- friendly booklet Power Point and Teacher Answer booklets covering the course in detail.
Task 1: Writing for Purpose
Task 2: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 3: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 4+5: Reading Media Texts
Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 1, Task 1: Writing for Purpose
45-page document
User friendly for both teacher and student.
Tried and tested in the classroom as a thorough REVISION booklet.
Provides:
Exam basics and advice
Typical topics
Legacy and current spec Questions
Fully comprehensive list of possible questions - 25 possible themes gathered to be analysed - with over 100 questions divided variously among them - to stimulate debate, research, essays etc
Advice basics about WHAT and to WHOM you are writing
Four pages of advice for WRITING EFFECTIVELY including handy Essay Layout
Exercises to complete: compiling similar questions and reacting to thought provoking questions
Separate planning pages for controversial topics: smoking/abortion/drugs etc
Highly effective STUDENT SCAFFOLD for full Essay Layout - has been used for every topic in the classroom
Three example essay titles with developed answers and guidance for completion: Organ Donation/Tolerance/Tattoos and Piercings
Student research of 12 separate topics - for and against points - gathered collaboratively - comprehensive and easy to use as stimulus for completion of essays.
Task 2
A complete 31-page pupil booklet covering all aspects of Task 2, taking some inspiration from CCEA GCSE publications and past papers from different boards.
Sample Teacher annotation and paragraphs have been provided for the majority of the work – please note, in most cases the same article has been annotated up to three different ways to accommodate the ability level of the class, therefore the sample answers range from basic to advanced.
This resource provides:
• A 31-page pupil booklet
• 11 separate documents of Teacher answers matching the tasks of the booklet – for a variety of pupil ability.
• This booklet carries the student through from easy to harder tasks, assisting in the building up of confidence as they grow accustomed to the task styles.
• Guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
• Worked example layout guiding the student through expected responses
• Exam guidance and annotation of past paper layout
• What to look for when analysing a variety of techniques
• Five short tasks where students annotate for key term
• Seven longer tasks where students annotate for named techniques and work through the accompanying tasks
• Seven practice articles to be worked on independently
Task 3
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work - every piece of student work is answered in the Teacher Booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for ALL tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Tasks 4+5
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 4 and 5 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
60+ page Booklet
80+ slide Power Point
Includes:
Two booklets and one PowerPoint
A Student booklet to be completed
A Teacher Answer booklet to assist with completion of student booklet, with student responses, teacher notes and teacher answers.
A Task 5 PowerPoint to assist teaching of Student booklet, with pertinent notes, sample answers and advice
Exam guidance
Worked answers
Reference to CCEA examples - current and past paper
Variety of examples to have pupils cover multiple scenarios
This is a great revision pack which focuses on how best to tackle both the writing and reading questions in the exam and includes practice tasks and success criteria for each task
Knowledge Organiser for exam revision and support: Pupils can use this KO as a writing frame or a means of creating a revision list - or you can structure lessons around the various sections and tasks included.
There are examples of introductions and independent tasks to complete. This has proven especially useful for revision sessions and supporting C/D boundary pupils.
This has been carefully created with pupils in mind and to help with those marginal gains which are vital for exam success!
This PowerPoint takes pupils through the skills needed for the CCEA **Unit 4 **‘Creative/Personal Writing, Comparing Literary Texts and Reading Non-fiction’ paper.
Detailed notes that help pupils understand how to approach each task.
Top tips for each task
Outlining of common mistakes that pupils tend to make in each task and how to combat these errors.
Model questions.
Revision activities.
Banks of techniques with examples to support revision.
Exemplar answers for each task.
Colourful, engaging and dynamic.
This resource is the first in a series of GCSE booklets designed to be user friendly and cover all aspects of the novel and writer’s technique.
These booklets have been created by a CCEA examiner for English Literature, have been tried and tested in the classroom, and cover all aspects of the curriculum.
Currently available:
*Of Mice and Men: Background
*Of Mice and Men: Chapter by Chapter https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ccea-of-mice-and-men-chapter-by-chapter-12366451
*Of Mice and Men: Characters
*Of Mice and Men: Themes
*Of Mice and Men: Writer’s Technique
Answer booklets will be available upon request.
You may also be interested in my Unit 1 Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Three Student booklet bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 4.
Includes:
Task 1 Personal and Creative Writing Student booklet - advice, examples and exercises
Task 2 Comparative Texts Student booklet - advice, LOTs of examples of comparative text, guided exercises, and example responses
Task 3 + 4 Reading Non-Fiction Student booklet - advice, example text response examples and exercises to complete.
Unit 4, Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 4, Task 1: Personal and Creative Writing
Trialled in class as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Provides:
• Review of Past Paper topics
• Checklist of topics for Personal Writing
• Student to complete common Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete of more thoughtful Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete quick descriptive practice
• Helpful overview of how to approach Personal and Creative Writing - including how to open and conclude
• Student to complete 11 Personal Writing Topics - short, engaging introductions supplied as an example for how to begin each question theme.
• Example response upleveled - three attempts with three feedback and guidance for approval - students will see the increasing competence as each attempt improves.
• Example creative response ‘Description of place’
• Example creative response - looking at connotation affecting storyline and word choice
• 5 guided Student responses to Creative Images (all sourced via Google Images)
• 8 further Creative Images to be used at teacher’s discretion
• 3 story arc outline tasks supplied to aid response to 3 further creative images
• Personal Writing mat - brings together all writing advice, and example questions.
Unit 4, Task 2
A fully comprehensive student booklet covering a wide range of comparative fiction. Utilising content from the current CCEA publications as well as pre 2010 specification.
Provides:
• Tried and tested Exam Advice and ‘Basics’
• Writer’s Craft
• Example paragraphs
• Language analysis examples
• Full story analysis
• Examples taken from CCEA Textbook, Revision Book and Work Book
• Advice for Character work - including structured comprehension questions
• Advice for Setting and Atmosphere - including accessible questions
• Advice for Tension - including multiple comprehensions
• Multiple single and paired exercises for various areas of writer’s craft
• Annotation of Specimen Comparison provided by CCEA with accompanying tips and example paragraphs.
Unit 4, Tasks 3+4
A complete pupil booklet, with accompanying teacher answer booklet to teach Unit 4, Tasks 3 and 4, Reading Non-Fiction
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Provides:
• Comprehensive and developed list of writer’s craft techniques
• Paragraph layout advice - suggested by CCEA, built upon by writer
• Non-Fiction example articles adapted from Non-Fiction Past Papers, pre 2017 spec, made suitable for new Task 3 and Task 4
• Sample tasks to accompany example articles, guide students to make pertinent comments
• Tasks could be used as practice or for mocks.
• Teacher booklet offers some example answers, and sample paragraphs to be built upon
Mr L’s 141 page study guide contains all of the poems in the CCEA Conflict cluster. There are explanatory notes on poetic devices and effects, the poem’s meaning and biographical notes.
In addition there is advice on the Assessment Objectives matrix and how to maximise points, 25 practice GCSE exam questions, compare & contrast chart and a 50 question multiple choice test with answers.
Mr L’s GCSE study guide is packed with information to maximise the student’s exam performance.
Updated for 2024-2025.
A complete set of resources covering all aspects of teaching the Identity Anthology for CCEA GCSE Unit 2 Literature course.
You won’t need anything else!
Includes:
Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - for students to complete as the poems are being taught - includes space to complete context, poetic techniques and sample Question at the back.
Pdf of Teacher completed Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - all context complete and images of some annotated poems - see separate pdf for all annotated poems - Noteboook file is even more useful
Identity Anthology Student Summaries - blank, to reveal students’ learning - to complete after the teaching of each poem
Identity Anthology of poems - blank, for exams
PowerPoint Identity Poems - Images, Author info, Context, Message, Themes
Handwritten Annotations - in pdf form, Identity Poetry TES; multiple versions of poems dependent on class ability; also available in Notebook form, Identity Poetry TES
Poetry Essay Layout
Word Document of Context Notes
Sample Comparative Essay Titles x18
Completed Comparative Essay Title ideas
Poetic Themes - Ideas for Comparison
PowerPoint -Images and Poem o accompany teaching of Prayer Before Birth
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of Mrs Tischer’s Class
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of I Remember, I Remember
Full Essay - how choices affect identity - Road Not Taken and Invictus
Essay Notes - sense of who you are - Here and Belfast Confetti
2 Different Approaches to How Childhood Affect us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
3 Variations to How Relationships Affect Us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
2 Variations to A Sense of Who We Are - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
Revision mind map including analysis of set work and individual elements of music (harmony, melody, texture, instrumentation and rhythm). There is a QR code linking to a video that analyses the music further.
Suitable in particular for those teaching CCEA GCSE Music (NI Curriculum)
A variety of resources: some my own and others I found on the net! All authors should be acknowledged on each document, if not, then please let me know.
Assessment objectives, what's expected, things you need to know and a step-by-step overview of Controlled Assessment Unit 4, Task 1 - Spoken Language Study. CCEA awarding body.
complete powerpoint for DA science waves section of Physics. Made for the CCEA revised specification. refraction, reflection, lenses, EM waves, wave equation, echoes and dispersion
In the content page clicking on the boxes will bring you to the correct slide, then on the bottom right the home image will bring you back to the content page