A Pearson Edexcel 2.0 lesson focused on writing a formal letter.

A lesson practicing the imaginative writing question, on paper 2 of the 2.0 specification.

A follow up lesson, practicing imaginative writing skills and building on the work done in the previous lesson.

A lesson practicing writing formal emails.

The first lesson of a new academic year, introducing the Pearson Edexcel GCSE English 2.0 specification.

A booklet that breaks down every question on paper 2 of AQA GCSE English Language and gives learners a practice paper to check their learning.

A revision booklet that breaks each question on the AQA GCSE English Language paper and then gives learners another paper to practice what they’ve revised.

A quick, simple revision lesson designed to get learners to remember key imaginative writing concepts while building a story.

This is a pre-exam revision lesson designed to get learners to remember key concepts and skills to use when answering question 4 of paper 1.

A follow up lesson to build upon and revise persuasive language techniques and the skills necessary to answer an AQA GCSE English Language paper 2, question 5. This lesson uses a video from Mr Bruff.

Here is a skills building lesson to help GCSE English resit learners understand making connotations and inferences and applying them to a piece of writing.

A lesson that focuses on the simple, foundations of GCSE English, namely MAPSTORES and language analysis. It focuses on the lyrics in a relatively modern song that hopefully many learners will have heard and actually like. There is an example exam question that is modeled on the Pearson Edexcel 2.0 spec. Then, there is a writing task that prompts learners to use some MAPSTORES techniques to tell their own story in a poem or rap.

A lesson using a Queen song and a more modern song by Thomas Sanders to help learners understand the summary and synthesis question.

A complete lesson looking at narrative structure and how to approach the structural analysis question in the exam.

This is an escape room based lesson to do in the last week before the Christmas break. I am using it in GCSE English classes, but I’m sure it would work/could be adapted for other classes. The puzzles sheets will require cutting up to separate them and maybe envelopes to differentiate the different tasks. I have two Cryptexes that I will be making use of and a lockable treasure chest, but these aren’t necessary.

An imaginative writing lesson that gets learners to practice their writing skills and teaches them about different Christmas celebrations and festivals around the world.

A short lesson focusing on the critical evaluation question on the Pearson Edexcel 2.0 Uplift specification. The lesson uses Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby and is ideal for sports learners or learners interested in football. You will need to separate the example answers from their feedback, so learners can match them together.

An email writing lesson for GCSE English Language, focused around football.

A football related lesson focused on searching and finding information in a text and analysing language.

A matching writing lesson to the Lars Leese reading lesson, for learners to practice report writing. You will need to cut and separate the example report answers from the feedback, so learners can match them together.

A lesson for the beginning of the academic year, to help learners understand the skill of making connotations.