I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
A question and an extract that students can use to prepare for the examination. Spend at least 5 minutes highlighting the extract (remembering to identify subject terminology which is needed) and then get students to write up their response on the extract. Then spend 5 minutes considering how to answer the question with regards to the whole play.
A model answer that allows students to see the importance of the supernatural in the play.
It has a differentiated task, bronze, silver, gold and includes a challenge activity using PYT (push your thinking) to stretch the most able.
A model answer for the whole play that you can add to an extract of your choice.
I have used this as a starter activity then changed the question focus to ambition so students could apply the points they had read.
It has a bronze, silver, gold task with a PYT challenge to stretch the most able.
This handy resource breaks down what you need to do for each question. Laminate this so students can grab them when they answer questions as this will boost their independence and focus them on the specific points they need to remember.
A fab resource that can be laminated and placed on tables to support students when writing. This considers the five ways you can vary your sentences to make writing more engaging and imaginative for readers.
Three fully differentiated lessons that focus on the character of the Witches in the play. The lessons are exam focused for year 11 and use bronze, silver and gold to challenge all learners.
If you are teaching GCSE Macbeth and need more extracts and questions, here is an extract on the play with an extract question 1a) and then a question relating to the wider play 1b).
Spend five minutes of the lesson annotating the extract and then spend 20 minutes to answer 1a). Then get the students to consider the essay question, which they have to spend 40 minutes answering.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
An engaging article to hook your students and to get them to think about tone, humour and the development of ideas for this transactional writing task. It is differentiated using bronze, silver, gold so students have clear level of challenge when they are evaluating the article.
Students need to know the importance of why Dickens wrote a novella and why he used the traditional form of a ghost story. This handy worksheet offers three tasks, which allow them to improve their knowledge of this to use for their examination responses.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
A GCSE exam question for students to revise for their GCSE Literature examination. Focus on annotating the extract for 5 minutes (making sure students use subject terminology) then consider the question with regards to the whole play. The students can either write collaboratively, or in exam conditions after the teacher has modelled how to write one point on the board.
An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.
There are three revision lessons for Macbeth that are fully differentiated with bronze, silver, gold tasks, including ‘challenge’ tasks to stretch the most able. The lessons include model answers, bell tasks, learning objectives, key quotes, opportunities for self/peer assessment and plenaries to conclude the lessons. I have used these in the run up to the exam as each lesson leads carefully to a GCSE exam style question, which the students will be able to answer having completed the starter activities and other learning activities which provide them with the information to plan and write their own responses. These worked very well with my own year 11 classes as they found them very useful in developing the length and quality of their exam responses.
A colour coded grid of retention questions for Dickens ACC that helps to ensure secure understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and key quotes.
A differentiated set of lessons designed to get students to consider the meaning of the poem, why Emily Dickinson wrote the poem and allows for opportunities for students to comment on language and structure (AO2) needed for their literature examinations.
A fully differentiated set of lessons that has the LOs running on every slide. The lessons use bronze, silver and gold tasks to challenge all learners and gives opportunities for students to develop their transactional writing skills, much needed for the Language examination for every exam board.
