A wide range of quality resources, schemes of work and activity packs helping secondary students to prepare fully for GCSE English Language and Literature.
Complete and Comprehensive activities that can be used as stand-alone pre-planned lessons, homework projects or complete schemes of work
A wide range of quality resources, schemes of work and activity packs helping secondary students to prepare fully for GCSE English Language and Literature.
Complete and Comprehensive activities that can be used as stand-alone pre-planned lessons, homework projects or complete schemes of work
A top Mark Response Essay to the GCSE English Literature- Poetry Anthology Question (Power and Conflict Cluster).
Includes:
The example essay with an activity for students to peer assess and pick out the key features.
An annotated version of the essay, highlighting AOs throughout and a breakdown of the marks
A commentary at the end outlining why the essay achieved full marks.
A quiz featuring context questions for all 15 poems in the AQA GCSE Anthology, Power and Conflict cluster.
Ideal starter, homework or end-of-lesson revision activity.
A series of comprehensive lesson worksheets on poetry analysis (Form, Structure and Language) and comparing two poems.
Poems used are: Extract from, The Prelude and Storm on the Island. (Based on AQA, Power and Conflict Anthology.)
The lesson worksheets provide detailed analysis activities on the Form, Structure and Language of each poem, before looking at comparison techniques and planning a response. There are a choice of exam style questions for students to select from before planning and writing their own GCSE style comparison response.
A comprehensive PowerPoint exploring the theme of Character voice in three poems from the AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology, Power and Conflict cluster.
The poems covered are: Remains, My Last Duchess and Checking Out Me History.
Powerpoint includes:
Structured Lesson format, with starter questions, analysis and a range of varied activities
Detailed poetry analysis, including annotated texts and questions to promote analytical discussion
A range of activities to explore context, meaning, language and characters within the text
Poetry Comparison Activities
Exam style questions
Activities to assist pupils with the analysis of Unseen Poems. Designed to help them pick out key techniques and explain the meanings and messages in unseen poems.
Three complete powerpoint lessons exploring poems from the GCSE AQA Poetry Anthology, Power and Conflict- Three poems included: Kamikaze, Poppies and War Photographer.
The PPT contains:
Detailed analysis of each annotated poem
Language, structure and meaning questions for each poem
Varied lesson activities
Exam style questions for each poem for students to attempt
Comprehensive Lesson worksheets to cover all 15 poems of the AQA GCSE, Power and Conflict anthology.
For each poem there are:
Learning Objectives Outlined
Detailed and varied analysis lessons
Creative lessons that explore the poem through a range of different angles (e.g. creative writing, drama, research etc.)
Example exam questions for students to attempt.
Ideal for use as fully-planned ready-to-go lessons or independent homework/revision tasks.
26 Lesson Activities to fully prepare KS3 students for GCSE Exam skills.
Each lesson is linked to the GCSE Assessment Objectives for Reading and Writing, Language Paper 1. Activities explore a range of popular texts, including extracts from GCSE Literature texts like Jekyll and Hyde or A Christmas Carol.
Can be used as a complete Scheme of Work, or broken up into stand-alone skills-based activities to supplement wider learning.
5 differentiated lesson worksheets for KS3 creative writing.
Develop the skills required to write creatively, engagingly and accurately in different formats.
KS3 Scheme of Work building on core non-fiction reading and writing skills.
Easily adapted and differentiated for varying abilities.
Can be used as a Scheme of Work, or seperated to create individual stand-alone lessons. Ideal for classroom teaching or homework project.
Complete lesson worksheets for the AQA GCSE anthology poems, Ozymandias and London.
6 double lessons included to prepare students for the the AQA GCSE Literature exam on Poetry comparison with Ozymandias and London.
Comprehensive analysis activity lessons for each poem, comparison activities between the two poems, exam-style questions and creative lessons to explore context,language and wider meaning in creative ways.
All individual lessons are complete with Learning Objectives and can be used in a scheme of work, or as stand-alone lessons.
A Complete SOW, ready to teach, including all learning aims, and detailed resources. Targeted at low-ability year 7 students, each engaging and creative lesson provides carefully structured stepping stones to guide weaker learners through story-writing.
The scheme of work follows a structured path, drawing on pupils’ own experiences, extracts from popular children’s novels, targeted activites
and active learning to draw out the best in every child’s creativity. All of the activites lead students to creating, presenting and evaluating their own stories by the end of the scheme.
There are also ideas for homework and independent learning activities which would complement the SOW.
A series of activities designed to help students tackle the GCSE Paper 1 Creative Writing Question.
The resource includes a series of engaging images and activities designed to promote creative thinking, planning and the execution of the question. There are also three different self-assessment tracking sheets (using the main AFs for the question) at the back of the booklet to help teachers to keep track of pupils’ progress throughtout the year.
