English teacher for the last decade; huge passion for teaching and creating interactive resources that lead to better engagement, better outcomes and better classroom environment! Have a look through my items for sale!
English teacher for the last decade; huge passion for teaching and creating interactive resources that lead to better engagement, better outcomes and better classroom environment! Have a look through my items for sale!
If you’re like me, you’ve already used all of the previous and specimen papers!
I decided to create these resources as I wanted to give my students something they’d never seen before and wouldn’t have been able to access online.
They look a long time to put together and make identical to the AQA papers!
Hopefully you find them as useful as I did.
(You will also get the template so can make your own exam papers in the future!)
A Prompt Sheet (revision poster) and a Mock Exam Paper 1 (adaptable Word file so you can edit it yourself afterwards if you want to create more mocks).
A 39-slide PowerPoint that takes parents through the English Language Paper 1 and 2 examination papers and requirements of each question. A very valuable document if you want to discuss exam prep with parents, either on a one-to-one or at a parents’ evening/assembly session.
It also touches on the Literature towards the end of the PowerPoint.
Have a look through the previews for these files.
- 16 literacy posters
- Prompt Sheets
- Comprehensive Revision Guide
- Language Analysis Lesson on Trump's immigration policy
- Unseen Poetry Literature Lesson with desk mat
- Various other resources
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The aims of sentencing in UK prisons is outlined using a visual stimulus.
Students are given one of a number of scenarios and have to decide what the punishment ought to be for their scenario and whether it met the aims of sentencing.
The lesson works well for a citizenship lesson or as an interactive assembly.
These have worked really well with my year 11 class. I actually made them last year but modified them for the new specification.
The first resource is a great wheel (you also get the PowerPoint so you’ll have the template) that I made in order to put all of the AOs in one place. I wanted my class to understand the importance of sophisticated vocabulary in their exam response so I created this first resource in order to help them with their topic sentences. These look great printed in colour - or if you really want to go to town - laminated.
The second resource is a paragraph building tool which I used as a prompt sheet for students.
Both resources are fab - the first one took me ages to create (getting the lines right was a nightmare!) so just think, you won’t have to spend ages fiddling around to get it right!
Check out my other resources as I have something similar for A Christmas Carol.
The poster outlines the importance of skills in:
- Listening
- Communicating
- Organising
- Investigating
- Mastering
- Being resilient
- Being co-operative
- Being respectful
- Being creative
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A half term's worth of lessons for a two/three hour-per-week class. Three sets of PowerPoints, annotated examples, models and success criteria.
My suggested route through teaching:
- Trump on immigration
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
- Nicola Sturgeon on the referendum
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
- Emma Watson on gender equality
(Lesson 1 - Annotate, Lesson 2 - Essay plan, Lesson 3/4 - Essay)
Bonus Lesson: Trump's plans to leave the Paris agreement (climate change).
Bonus Lesson: Hung Parliament!
Once those 12 lessons are over, students can be assessed on their writing by creating a speech using some of the language techniques they have studied. Options I gave:
- Feminism/Gender Equality
- In/Out Europe
- Referendum
- Banning Trump from the UK
All four lessons are really well themed and some include video resources too! They look at a whole range of language features, techniques and stylistic devices that are unique to each speaker.
All come with fully annotated speeches, examples of essay paragraphs and clear success criteria for students to follow.
A UCAS personal statement worksheet to prompt students to consider the course they want to study and how to prove their eligibility on their personal statement.
See my other resource which contains a fab PowerPoint to accompany!
A quick reference guide for students answering the English Language (8700) exam paper. It's an easy read, which includes activities.
I printed them out in A5 booklets and they looked absolutely fantastic.
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Would work perfectly for other exam boards as well as AQA!
I created this wheel in order to give students some kind of autonomy in terms of their essay writing. It outlines what students might say for AO1/2/3 in order to sound sophisticated.
In my lesson, students absolutely loved it! They were able to use the wheel to inform their own topic sentences, AO2 analysis and essentially, write an independent essay.
Two files: PDF/PPT (same file) so you can edit it if you like!
I made this resource to decorate my classroom with. They are posters that can be displayed around the room to help students remember to use a variety of punctuation in their work. Each poster is themed in the same way so students know where to look for the information and they are not too heavy with information so are suited to a range of students.
1. Apostrophe
2. Colon
3. Semi-Colon
4. Commas
5. Full Stops
I have included sentence types posters too:
1. Simple Sentences
2. Compound Sentences
3. Complex Sentences
I have included several posters which help students to vary their sentences:
1. Adverb start
2. 'ing' start
3. 'ed' start
4. Relative clause
5. One word sentence start
I have also included commonly-made errors to remind my students to be mindful of ensuring they are proof reading their work for literacy errors.
1. Comma splicing
2. Fused Sentences
I have also attached the template if you want to adapt them or make additional ones suited to your class.
Students present the stave themselves using this prompt sheet. They use the middle of the page to plan and the questions on the outside as prompts.
You can either allow them to make notes in their books or simply make a few notes on the page itself before presenting.
A lovely visual worksheet.
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Two engaging sessions on Growth Mindset and a professionally created display poster that will blow up to A1 size if required.
Both sessions explore the term 'Growth Mindset' and look at the principles of the theory. Students investigate how they can be more resilient through developing their own Growth Mindset.
A bonus British Values SMSC/PSHE lesson has been thrown in too - as have some great additional posters.
This document is a two-page help sheet for students, teachers and parents that outlines common errors made in English such as:
- Fused sentences
- Hanging clauses
- Comma splicing
... and many more.
I usually give this to students when they are responding to feedback - or I give it to parents at parents' evening so they can help their children at home.
This is a simple slide that I use with my students as a prompt when they are responding to feedback. I have it in front of them so they have a reference and prompt when responding to comments.
I usually laminate these and put them on desks - that way, they last the whole year!
