I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapters 1, 2 and 3 of ‘Of Mice and Men.’
Resources have been created to reflect the skills needed to access the new GCSE 9-1
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Opportunities to:
- explore context
- read actively
- explore themes including loneliness
- explore characterisation
- use the GCSE 9-1 mark scheme to self and peer assess
- write imaginatively
Revision guide included which is also useful as a homework project
Differentiated resources to support he teaching of chapter 2.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue - middle
yellow - higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Analyse Steinbeck's presentation of character
- Self / peer assess against GCSE mark scheme
- Rag rate own performance against mark scheme criteria
- explore character and theme
- Analyse writer's methods
With so few sample assessments available I made my own.
This bundle contains 5 assessments each looks exactly like the real paper and is phrased in the same way too.
The extracts are taken from staves 1,2 and 3.
3 differentiated lessons tha explore:
1. Out of the blue by Simon Armitage
2. President Bush's speech to America following the 9/11 terror attacks
Resources provide opportunities to:
- develop a personal response to the poem
- analyse language used in both texts
- compare texts
- explore the context of the 9/11 attacks on New York
- compare the 2 perspectives of the writers
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
3 fully differentiated and meticulously planned lessons to explicitly teach AQA English language paper 2 question 3.
The lessons start from scratch and provide opportunities for teachers to assess student ability and work out where their areas for development are. Students can then be pointed in the direction of a particular task that will help to plug the gaps in their understanding and climb the mark scheme.
Lesson 1 focusses on the selection of judicious evidence
Lesson 2 focusses on the effect of language
Lesson 3 focusses on language analysis
Texts used:
1. Mail online article about a spoilt child
2. 19th century extract from 'Walks in and around London'
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- read 2 texts
- use structure strips to form better analytical paragraphs
- select judicious evidence
- use the mark scheme
- self and peer assess
- teacher assess
- develop perceptive comments
- work on target grade specific tasks
- explore how language makes you think, feel etc.
- Analyse the effect of language
- improve a sample response
- grade sample responses
This bundle contains resources for the entirety of the novel. (Chapters 1-10)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunity to develop skills for GCSE 9-1.
Also included:
- 2 lots of exam revision for the literature exam
- Quotations with images to aide revision
- a revision guide
- structure strips to allow students to structure better responses
4 differentiated lessons that cover chapter 3 of Animal Farm and aims to build skills required to access the GCSE language and literature papers.
Structure strips included to help students to write better responses
Exam links
- Paper 2 question 4 comparison practice - compare the perspectives of Boxer and Benjamin about life on the farm
- Paper 1 and 2 language practice - analysing Orwell's use of language to present Squealer as an effective propagandist
Resources also provide opportunity to:
- explore propaganda
- analyse language
- compare perspectives
- compare life on the farm under human and pig rule
- write persuasively
- use structure strips to structure effective responses
- use the what how why method for analysis as PEE is too restrictive
- use the acronym PEDAL (for lower ability) to help structure responses
- select judicious quotations
- analyse writer's methods (techniques and word classes)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
With very few sample assessment materials provided by the exam boards I have created my own.
They have been made to look exactly like the assessments that students will sit in the real 9-1 examinations and are phrased in the same ways too.
The student responses can then be marked using the relevant mark scheme for literature.
The extract in this assessment is taken from chapter 9.
A presentation that launches a new look feedback policy.
A move away from marking to quality feedback and how this may look in pupil books with examples.
This knowledge book has been created so that students work through it in lessons rather than using an exercise book for all activities. Exercise books are then just used for extended writing.
All key knowledge for Macbeth has been pre-determined and this booklet provides that knowledge alongside purposeful activities and tasks for each scene of the play. When complete - students then have a perfect revision guide to use as part of their exam preparation.
Included in this knowledge book:
32+ lessons covering every scene
a ‘do now’ knowledge retention activity in every lesson
a powerpoint with all knowledge quiz answers
a big and small question to guide learning and discussion
key knowledge including key terminology
embedded contextual links as part of ‘extended reading’
an appendix containing scaffolded activities
activities that also help students to work on the skills required for the language papers
opportunity for students to develop narrative and transactional writing
opportunity to develop language paper 1 and 2 skills
Also useful for students to use as a revision booklet ahead of GCSE examinations.
A lesson that encourages students to think deeply when exploring Churchill’s speech.
Students work towards answering the question: How does Churchill attempt to motivate the British people?
Two lessons using an extract from Jurassic Park that are ideal for remote teaching as there is a power point for each lesson and a document that students can complete. Easy to copy and paste into Teams or google classrooms.
The first lesson explores inference and the second focuses on analysis.
These resources (four lessons) guide students how to tackle each of the questions on language paper 2.
The paper used is the Summer 2019 paper.
Included is a ppt to guide students through the expectations of each question including model answers that would achieve at least a grade 5 and planning strategies for each question.
Worksheets are also included which can be uploaded to an online learning platform for students to complete. Worksheets are very user friendly to minimise student difficulty.
A set of 24 quick questions to test students on their knowledge of Jekyll and Hyde.
Ask students approx 5 questions per day and increase over time.
There is a mixture of context based questions, chapter questions and quotation fill questions.
A document of questions that can be used when interviewing the head of a department around curriculum intent and implementation in line with the new Ofsted framework.
As many schools move in the direction of a knowledge based curriculum there has become a need in developing a more challenging and complex curriculum that builds effectively to ensure students grasp the key concepts in a given subject.
This resource has been used in staff training and covers the following areas:
Determining what it means to study each subject and why it is an important subject to study
Ascertaining what is meant by a key concept
Exploration of why students should be given the most important knowledge
Determining the key concepts and sub concepts that make up a subject
Mapping key concepts across a LTP
Justifying and articulating how students encounter each concept/sub concept and how the complexity increases as they journey through the curriculum
Exploration of the curriculum as the progression model
All content is based on educational research and researchers have been referenced.
This resource begins by getting students to explore the poem as an unseen poem.
It then guides them through how to answer a language analysis question.
Students explore extracts taken from Anne Frank’s dairy and explore the language she uses to express her feelings. Focus is applied to forming deeper interpretations.
Reading is also provided around the Holocaust which leads into an imaginative writing speech task based on this.
Do now quizzes also included.
Four full lessons using ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ by Roald Dahl, that support students in developing their ability in:
making inferences
evaluating
analysing
articulating their own perspectives and
researching
Worksheets have been created that can be easily uploaded to online learning platforms to make remote teaching easier. Students have everything for the lesson in one document and can simply annotate the text and fill in the relevant boxes and tables.
Model answers also included.
This resource contains 5 lessons in the form of a knowledge work book for Act 1 scene 2 of The Tempest with particular focus from when Ariel enters the scene.
The lessons deal with Prospero as a leader and how he treats those in his charge.
Each lesson begins with a ‘do now’ knowledge quiz. (Answers included)
Over the course of 5 lessons students will:
Read and understand complex material surrounding ‘colonisation’
Retain key knowledge
Use art to draw conclusions about character
Annotate extracts for language devices and inferences
Analyse Shakespeare’s presentation of Prospero
Draw similarities and differences between the ways he treats Ariel and Caliban
Effectively plan an argument
Write an effective argument