51ºÚÁÏ

Explanations and examples of the different types of subordinate clause. Copies are available in colour or black and white to accommodate printing capabilities and budgets in different settings.

Explanations and examples of main and subordinate clauses as well as simple, compound and complex sentences.

Explains and provides examples of the five phrase classes (prepositional phrases, adjective phrases, adverb phrases, noun phrases and verb phrases). It further explains how prepositional phrases can function as adverbials (fronted and not) as well as post-modifiers in noun phrases. I’ve uploaded colour as well as black & white versions to suit different printing budgets and toner/ink levels at different schools.

A series of peer editing sheets for use across the curriculum, designed to develop writing proficiency without sacrificing attention to subject-specific content. Worksheets are differentiated into bronze, silver and gold levels, with increasingly challenging targets for each level in organisation, grammar, punctuation and use of language. There are separate sheets for explanatory, instructional and persuasive writing. Students simply follow the instructions on the sheet, looking for specific features in their partner's work and circling the corresponding recommendations accordingly. No specialist knowledge is required on the part of the classroom teacher. For teachers in Wales, the targets are in line with those of the National Literacy and Numeracy Framework, with bronze targets aligning with the objectives for year 7, silver matching those of year 8 and gold matching those of year 9.

A series of peer editing sheets for use after students have finished drafting descriptive or narrative texts. Sheets are organised into Bronze, Silver and Gold levels with increasingly challenging criteria included in each. Criteria are based on the Literacy and Numeracy Framework for Wales, with Bronze corresponding to Year 7, Silver to Year 8 and Gold to Year 9 expectations.

Question paper, source insert and and mark scheme with exemplar response samples plus response planning grids for each question to help students prepare answers as well as DIRT sheets to help you provide feedback more quickly. The source text is an extract from The Call of the Wild by Jack London. As always, please leave a positive review if you find this resource helpful to help spread the word!

Revision activity in which students plan a five episode TV mini-series of the novel. The planning sheets lead them to look back to the novel to revise the settings and characters involved in each chapter and scene. Students must also consider physical and personality aspects of the characters to select suitable actors to play each part (as this is a hypothetical exercise, I usually give them the option of choosing any actor -- living or dead -- at any age to gain a better idea of how they visualise the characters).

This is a series of straightforward planning guides for responses to extract questions focused on: - audience response to the extract - the impression we get of a relationship from the extract - mood (the feeling created by charaters and events) or atmosphere (the feeling created by objects and surroundings) in an extract. I have found these to be very useful with students who struggle to structure a response to the extract question. Before using any of these resources, I first ask students to draw lines dividing the extract into three sections (there are usually 2 or 3 shifts in an extract: from one event to another, one character to another, etc. Getting students to identify and focus on different sections of the extract helps them to structure their answer and to ensure that they're writing about the extract in its entirety).

A list of useful terms (along with their definitions) to use when discussing how an author creates an effect in a work of literature.

This is a grid for planning a response to an extract question focused on a character (as opposed to audience response, a relationship, etc.). I used the general label 'THE CHARACTER' throughout when designing this; whenever I use it with a text I go back and do a 'Find and Replace' search, inserting the actual name of the character in place of the general label 'THE CHARACTER'. This way I've been able to use it with a variety of texts and characters. I've found this scaffold very useful in helping students who have struggled with the extract question to plan and structure their response.

Teaches noun fundamentals (common and proper, concrete and abstract, countable and non-countable). In the lesson, students practise identifying the nouns in extracts from two classics (A Christmas Carol and The Wizard of Oz ). They must also identify and capitalise the proper nouns in each text. This provides very useful practice for helping students to analyse language (specifically lexis) on Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 as well as Literature Paper 1 and Paper 2. In addition to explanations and examples of common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, and countable and uncountable nouns, the presentation also explains the rule for when to use ‘less’ and when to use ‘fewer’ to present quantity of nouns.

A straightforward guide for helping students to structure a response to a literature paper question. Students answer 6 prescribed questions to craft a body paragraph that contains the elements they need for success. A sample paragraph based on Act I, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet is included as an exemplar.

A grammar-for-writing lesson with worksheet (answers provided in presentation). Students are given two simple sentences and challenged join them with a subordinating conjunction to create a complex sentence. Useful for encouraging sentence variety.

Worksheet that teaches students to identify the subject in sentences with unconventional word order (questions, imperatives and inverted sentences); concludes with an exercise to give them practice. This helps them to better understand sentence structure and to maintain subject-verb agreement when writing.

Lesson and worksheet - students read passages from The Call of the Wild by Jack London and identify the noun phrases in apposition/ appositive phrases that London includes in the text.

Complete grammar lesson focusing on grammatical phrases; it includes a slide show with explanations and examples, a printable worksheet with exercises (answers included in slide show), and a knowledge organiser summarising key points of the lesson. The lesson covers these phrase classes: noun phrases adjective phrases verb phrases adverb phrases prepositional phrases Students practise classifying prepositional phrases by function as either: adverbials post-modifiers

Complete lesson including slide presentation, exercises (with answers provided in the presentation) and knowledge organisers. The lesson covers: simple, compound and complex sentences main clauses subordinate clauses functioning as adverbials relative clauses (defining and non-defining) participle clauses infinitive clauses

Complete A-level English language grammar lesson on verb phrases. Includes slide presentation and worksheet with exercises (answers included in slide presentation). The lesson covers: grammatical person grammatical number active and passive voice of verbs verb tense (past, present and future) verb aspect (progressive, perfective and perfect progressive)

Complete lesson which includes a slide show explaining concepts to students, a printable worksheet with exercises for practice (answers included in slide show) and a printable knowledge organiser (in both colour and black and white). Focus of the lesson is on lexis and identifying these 9 word classes within texts: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, determiner, interjection.

I created this matching exercise for my students in A-Level Language and also in A-Level Combined Language and Literature, who were confident in applying literary terms to texts but who consistently neglected to apply language terminology in their analyses. We’ve drilled on this a few times now, and I’m starting to see more confident application of these terms. I’ll continue to use this exercise as a starter activity from time to time to keep these terms at the front of their minds.