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Quirky Whiskers Lead English Teacher & Assessor

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I am a Lead English Teacher within a pupil referral unit who is passionate about developing creative and inspiring teaching materials to meet the needs of a diverse and often marginalised student profile. My resources are highly engaging whilst maintaining a strong level of academic challenge. They grip hard to reach students and produce excellent outcomes. Every resource has been tried and tested for success before uploading to my TES shop. Check out my reviews!

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I am a Lead English Teacher within a pupil referral unit who is passionate about developing creative and inspiring teaching materials to meet the needs of a diverse and often marginalised student profile. My resources are highly engaging whilst maintaining a strong level of academic challenge. They grip hard to reach students and produce excellent outcomes. Every resource has been tried and tested for success before uploading to my TES shop. Check out my reviews!
AQA Step Up to English Gold AO2 LESSONS Component 2 Secret Spies
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AQA Step Up to English Gold AO2 LESSONS Component 2 Secret Spies

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AQA Step Up to English Gold AO2 Lessons Component 2 Secret Spies. Step Up to English - Gold Level. Fully resourced lessons for assessment objective AO2. Component 2 (creative reading and writing). Here is the second, series of lessons to complement the Secret Spies assessment at Gold level – Component 2. This unit of work aims to support the acquisition and development of the assessment objective AO2: • begin to show awareness of the writer’s craft • identify some features of the language used by the writer • begin to show awareness of structure. These lessons are based on extracts taken from the engaging text driver, ‘Farewell My Lovely’ written by Raymond Chandler – featuring the Los Angeles private eye, Philip Marlowe. The 1940s American setting is used to context set a suite of engaging exercises. I am a practising English teacher as well as a head of department and my resources are developed for use by my own students, a number of which have SEN and/or challenging behaviour. In order to meet their needs, I create resources which are SEN aware, engaging as well as academically challenging. My own students have responded extremely well to these resources; the resources are targeted to support progress and attainment towards the qualification. This resource comprises 12 engaging, short, sharp activities to support students who are working at pre-GCSE level and require support with the first of the assessment objectives – AO2. This high-quality resource contains: UNIT 2: AO2 lessons • Act 1 Visual Imagery • Act 1a What are your Thoughts • Act 2 Descriptive Words and Phrases • Act 3 Interesting Adjectives and Similes • Act 4 Word Check • Act 5 Farewell My Lovely extract • Act 6 Draw the Image • Act 7 Change the Adjectives and Simile • Act 8 Has the Visual Imagery Changed • Act 9 Figurative Language TARANTULA • Act 10 Figurative Language RAT • Act 11 Extract Visual Imagery • Act 12 What is Good about the Language • Act 13 Describe the Difference Attribution of images used in this resource: shutterstock and pixabay Attribution of extracts used in this resource: ‘Farewell My Lovely’ by Raymond Chandler
GCSE English Language QUIZ and DIFFERENTIATED ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT
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GCSE English Language QUIZ and DIFFERENTIATED ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT

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GCSE English Language Quiz with Differentiated Activities An ideal KS4 activity for the start of a term. The individual activities work well as a starter or an entire lesson dependent upon student abilities. Activities include: word search (key words) word check (GCSE terms) quiz covering Paper 1 and Paper 2 ‘how many words can you create’ activity. This resource includes an answer sheet. The quiz covering Paper 1 and Paper 2 can be used as a simple, short standalone assessment. I use this resource with my own Year 11 students at the start of the autumn term as it encourages a working knowledge of the the layout of both GCSE English Language papers.