Here are resources dedicated the KS3 and GCSE English.
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Here are resources dedicated the KS3 and GCSE English.
I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance. Leave a review and choose any other single resource for free! Email me at theteachersnetwork2022@gmail.com to claim your free resource.
Complete lesson on context: focusing on the racially motivated attack on Stephen Lawrence in Noughts and Crosses. This is a context lesson to help support ideas on the text and give students an opportunity to think about the importance of racism and the issues it presents in the UK
Used evidence informed approaches such as retrieval practice, guidance is in the notes section of the powerpoint. Please feel free to change the lesson to suit your class.
Includes
Full powerpoint
Exit tickets for students: Two per page to give to students as a plenary activity as they leave the classroom.
Complete lesson on violence: focusing on differences in protests, peaceful versus violent. Full of contextual links to BLM and the removal of the Colston statue in Bristol. This is to help support ideas on the text and give students an opportunity to think about the importance of racism and the issues it presents in the UK.
Used evidence informed approaches such as retrieval practice, guidance is in the notes section of the powerpoint. Please feel free to change the lesson to suit your class.
Includes
Full powerpoint
Exit tickets for students: Two per page to give to students as a plenary activity as they leave the classroom.
This resource has a powerpoint on speeches and a copt of Greta Thunbergs speech to give to students to annotate. This is an introduction to speeches and their impact on auidences.
This is in line with the national cirriculum and AQA exam board. This introduction to speeches will allow students to understand their purpose along improving their reading and writing skills.
The English language paper 2 will ask a question on persausive/argumentative text so these resources are a great insight to how to tackle this particular skill.
● Learning new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries.
● making inferences and referring to evidence in the text
● knowing the purpose, audience for and context of the writing and drawing on this knowledge to support comprehension
This resource includes 5 figures from the LGBTQ+ community which can be shared during Pride month. This resource was orginally created for LGBTQ+ History Month but can be used during Pride as a way to raise awareness for key figures within the community.
This includes:
Year 7 - Beth Mead
Year 8 - Justin Fashanu
Year 9 - Lil Nas X
Year 10 -Elliot Page
Year 11 - Marsha P Johnson
We shared these case studies during assemblies for each year group. Please use however you like!
Here are three lessons for the novel Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman.
We have a context lesson, an analysis lesson and a theme lesson.
Please feel free to use and adapt as you wish!
This resource is a guide on how to answer the AQA English Language paper 2 exam. There are key ideas which are shown through the use of mark schemes and examiners reports. Everything is there to help you tackle questions along with examples.
I hope that these notes will help students understand what is needed to gain those top marks in English language paper 2, but also understand exactly what the examiners are looking for.
**There are: **
Annotations on how to appraoch the question with hints and tips on how to gain those higher marks.
Easy to learn, concise, bullet point revision notes
Covers points on the AQA mark scheme and examiners reports
Some examples of model answers to make sure students are fully equipped for the exam
I have gone through examiners reports and given insight on what they are really looking for and how successful studnets answered the questions.
Here is a poster displaying a paragraph sctrutre that is effective when analysing a peice of text. This is for PETAL.
This would make a good focus point in a classroom highlighting how ytou should structure a parapgraph.
This structuring technique is used in my school and I wanted to share it with you. Hope this is helpful.
**This is in line with the national cirriculm - **
Writing
Pupils should be taught to:
● write accurately, fluently, effectively and at length for pleasure and information
● well-structured formal expository and narrative essays
● summarising and organising material, and supporting ideas and arguments with any necessary factual detail
● applying their growing knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and text structure to their writing
● plan, draft, edit and proof-read
● considering how their writing reflects the audiences and purposes for which it was intended
● amending the vocabulary, grammar and structure of their writing to improve its coherence and overall effectiveness & knowing the purpose, audience for and context of the writing and drawing on this knowledge to support comprehension
Complete lesson on name analysis in Noughts and Crosses. This is an extra analysis lesson to help support ideas on the text and give students an opportunity to think about the importance of names and how it impacts on the characters identities.
Used evidence informed approaches such as retrieval practice, guidance is in the notes section of the powerpoint. Please feel free to change the lesson to suit your class.
Includes
Full powerpoint
Exit tickets for students: Two per page to give to students as a plenary activity as they leave the classroom.
Here is a powerpoint on Macbeth that can help get to grips with some of the context surrounding the play. Each slide displays different aspects of context with questions for you to think about. This is in line with the national curriculum.
At a glace
This resource helps those grasp the context surrounding Macbeth
It inclkudes key questions on how contect effects a writers writing.
Thinking WHAT HOW and WHY and grasping a more metaphysical approach to your writing.
Context will help refer to studying setting, plot, and characterisation.
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Personification
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Hyperbole
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Here are some folder inserts to help prepare for the English GCSE exams. They include breakdowns of the questions and asessment objectives. This is for the AQA exam board. Also available in a different colour
Here is a question paper fully annotaed in ideas of how to approach each question. It displays the AO’s needed to answer them and advice on how to tackle the question set.
This is in lines with the AQA exam board and national curriculum.
**At glance: **
Highlights the key information needed to answer the questions, backed up with mark schemes and examiners reports
Detailed ideas on how to go about starting off your answer
Highlights the assessment objectives needed to complete each answer - including mark weightings.
I hope this is helpful!
Here is a sheet to help with students idenfiying key details about characters and then using quotes to analyse. This is a gentle introduction to analysisng charcters and their characteristics. perfect for KS3 or KS4 students with a lower ability in English.
This is in line with the national cirriculum.
Learning new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries.
● making inferences and referring to evidence in the text
A Christmas Carol analysis posters, perfect for a deeper analysis of specific ideas and quotations from the novella.
Perfect for Literature Paper 1, Question 2 on the AQA exam board.
Section B The 19th-century novel: students will answer one question on their novel of choice. They will be required to write in detail about an extract from the novel and then to write about the novel as a whole.
These are some folder inserts to help divide up reosurces and work on the 4 English exams. These are for the AQA papers.
Question breakdowns are there with what asessement objectives the examiner is looking for! Also available in a different colour.
These reterival practise question will help improve the retnetion and cognitive skills of your students. Retrieval practise is a great tool for revision as is requires students to use their long term memory.
This lines up with national curriculum requirements and allows students to revise key aspects of their classwork.
I have used examples from the AQA exam board.
An Inspector Calls analysis posters, perfect for a deeper analysis of specific ideas and quotations from the play.
Perfect for Literature Paper 2, section A on the AQA exam board.
Section A Modern texts: students will answer one essay question from a choice of two on their studied modern prose or drama text.
Three resources included on specific themes and quote analysis from the play.