A lesson focused on ensuring pupils understand the features of the forms they can be asked to write in. Revision for Paper 2 question 5. Includes AQA past questions and additional guidance.

A help sheet for English Language Paper 2. Key information on the front and writing frames on the back for Section A questions 2, 3 and 4. Lower ability KS4. Ways to use: As revision, In lesson to answer reading questions (I have mine laminated for students). To help with homework. To support struggling students in higher groups (copy and paste writing frame onto slide to scaffold learning). Any other magnificent way you come up with. Let me know!

A single lesson aimed at developing students information retrieval skills (AO1). Question 1 practice based on Winston Churchills 1940 speech (on PowerPoint). Fully resourced complete lesson.

A lesson designed to get students comparing poems from the Power and Conflict poetry cluster.

A resource to support English language Paper 1 learners. On the front there’s key information regarding the paper. On the back, there are writing frames to support Section A questions 2, 3 and 4. My students have these laminated to help in class and at home. This is especially useful with students of lower attainment.

Resources aimed at developing Paper 1 skills and knowledge for student and for reducing workload for teachers. The resources required for this homework are minimal and are on the PowerPoint. The peer-assessment sheet can be used as a starter for the pupils to mark the homework weekly and after the six weeks there is a space for a teacher comment and overall effort grade. I hope you find this useful.

Help sheets with information regarding the papers, writing frames for the reading section (questions 2, 3 and 4 for both papers) and complimentary homeworks.

A lesson focused on developing comparison skills for English Language Paper 2. One text is nonfiction ‘‘The camera is not a shield’: life and death as a war photographer’ by Tom Seymour; the other text is the poem ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy. This does mean that both texts are not nonfiction as they would be in the exam.

A lesson focused on preparing and responding to the summary question (Paper 2 Language). The extract is from ‘Travels in West Africa’ by Mary Kingsley.

A lesson aimed at looking at structure initially through a film trailer and poem to develop skills. Fully resourced with a help sheet that can be printed and re-used to support any English Language Paper 1 lesson. The poem is ‘Storm on the Island’ by Seamus Heaney and the clip is for ‘Batman (2005)’.

A homework sheet on English Language Paper 2 skills for KS3/ lower KS4. Peer-assessment sheet to be used in lesson weekly with a space for a teacher comment and overall effort grade once all homework is completed.

A single lesson on summary for KS3. Low abilty KS4.