Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
A fully-resourced unit of work for SEN students who need a general understanding of the play before approaching the original text in KS4.
The unit includes an adapted script in modern English.
The PPT is just over 140 slides long and is intended to provide 8-10 weeks’ worth of work for low ability and SEN students. It guides students through the adapted Acts 1-5 and provides a range of comprehension and vocab exercises.
It culminates in an assessment that makes use of both short-answer questions and one long-answer question on Romeo as a tragic hero.
Suitable for teachers and non-specialists with a low ability KS3 group.
If you would prefer to buy the adapted script separately, it is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-sen-script-11892212
NB. On slide 128, I’ve discovered that the multi-coloured text boxes look slightly out of place on different computers. If this is the case, it is simply a question of adjusting them slightly to put them back over the appropriate squares.
UPDATE: Core PPT tweaked and 2 new starters added. Please email me with any queries.
A 46-slide PowerPoint that provides a short course in narrative and descriptive writing for GCSE. It is aimed at middle-ability KS4 and is oriented towards AQA English Language 8700, Paper 1, Question 5.
The PowerPoint covers:
The writing AO’s, unpacked and turned into 7 ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions
The structures of 8700 Papers 1 & 2
The difference between narrative and descriptive writing
Descriptive techniques organised into the acronym MRS VAN SOAPS
Descriptive writing success criteria
Sample descriptive writing tasks (students choose 1 of 2)
A teacher-written response (presented as an extract from a full response)
Peer assessment
Short story structure (Freytag’s Pyramid)
Exploring Freytag’s Pyramid in relation to ‘A Christmas Carol’
Sample narrative writing tasks with planning activity
Narrative writing success criteria
Showing and telling in fiction
4 showing tasks with sample responses
DIRT tasks
Narrative choice: 1st or 3rd person with picture prompt activity
Self-assessment
Final writing tasks (descriptive or narrative)
Peer assessment
Reflection opportunity.
This resource incorporates others that have previously been on sale in my shop, either in their current form or slightly tweaked. If you already have these but wish to purchase this unit of work, please contact me at and we’ll try to work something out.
Resources also sold separately:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/descriptive-writing-techniques-match-up-activity-11749389
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/descriptive-writing-techniques-summary-mat-11747011
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/short-story-planning-flow-chart-11747165
These files were last saved in Office 2016.
A two-page guide to writing a discursive essay. The topics covered are:
The purpose and content of the introduction
The role of topic sentences
Different forms of evidence
Concluding sentences
The use of counterargument
The content and purpose of the conclusion
This revision sheet is suitable for upper-ability learners at GCSE.
A worksheet that encourages students to plan their short stories. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 groups,
NB A newer version of this worksheet should be available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/short-story-planning-flow-chart-2-12001454
A double-sided, detailed context sheet for ‘A Christmas Carol’.
As this doesn’t seem to show on the preview, the reverse side of the sheet contains a section on working conditions in the Victorian age and the ideas of Thomas Malthus.
There is an accompanying worksheet on which students can write their notes.
If preferred, these resources can be purchased as part of a larger unit of work on Stave One:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-stave-one-11996048
This lesson enables learners to explore ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland. It includes:
Lesson Starter (see cover image)
An image of the sinking US Arizona with the question, ‘When do you think this photograph was taken’? Learners discuss and then feedback.
A context sheet contained a simplified explanation of the Pearl Harbour attack and the rise of Kamikaze pilots. There is a corresponding worksheet for this.
A link to a BBC interview with a surviving Kamikaze pilot with three questions to answer.
A sheet of questions to prompt annotation of the poem.
The lesson is aimed at lower ability learners whose primary goal is understanding.
Following on from this introduction to unseen poetry:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/unseen-poetry-lesson-1-12130945
This is the fourth lesson in the series. It focuses on Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘The London Breed’ and is aimed at middle-ability learners.
It includes:
Do Now Task: A multiple- choice quiz on London
Answers slide
Revising terms relating to meter in poetry (see list below)
Link to Zephaniah reciting his poem
Introduction to iambic tetrameter
Identifying iambic tetrameter in ‘The London Breed’ paired/group task (teacher answers included)
Learning Review
Estimated time: 1 hour
This lesson can stand alone but assumes some pre-teaching or understanding of the following concepts:
vowel
syllable
stressed syllable
foot
trochee
iamb
meter
iambic pentameter
trochaic tetrameter
This is a straightforward lesson that follows on from prior teaching of broadsheet article writing. The question is styled in the form of AQA but could be adapted for other boards.
After a true or false Do Now task, the question is introduced and discussed.
This is followed by brief coverage of a suggested article structure (heading, introduction, main body and conclusion).
Students then work through a series of questions in response to a sample answer/WAGOLL. This sheet could be printed on A3.
Staff then take feedback from students.
Students write their own responses.
The lesson concludes with a learning review composed of five key questions.
This is an annotated copy of Chapter Ten of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’. The annotations cover some of the more complex terms and historical and biblical references.
In order to view the annotations, you will need to ensure that your version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is fully up-to-date. Hover your mouse over the ‘speech bubbles’ to display the annotations. Additionally, ensure that you display the files from Adobe Reader or similar and not your browser.
Five mind maps on different aspects of J&H:
The presentation of Jekyll
The presenetation of Hyde
The presentation of Lanyon
The presentation of Utterson
Women in the novel.
NB. This is an updated listing. If you have previously paid for this resource and need a copy, please email me using the address on my store front.
This Paper 2 exam practice is based on two texts on the theme of women in the workplace. There are all five questions in the style of AQA 8700/2.
The sample answers to the reading questions are on an Active Inspire flipchart. You should ensure that you have access to this software before downloading.
3 WAGOLLs for the AQA 8702 question on how Dickens uses Marley’s Ghost and the other spirits to change Scrooge’s attitudes and behaviour. I’ve called them Level 3, 5 and 7+.