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A great lesson (with a video clip) during which students investigate Meghan Markle’s speech on the topic of gender equality. I’ve attached an annotated version of the transcript for the teacher or team leader if you want to set students up on an independent task. The lesson structure is as follows: Quick starter looking at some persuasive techniques in print media Look at the transcript and video Annotate the extract Look at model paragraph structure together Write an essay Peer Review Students loved it!

A quick reference guide for students answering the English Language (8700) exam paper. It's an easy read, which includes activities. I printed them out in A5 booklets and they looked absolutely fantastic. Grab a bargain.

This ideal one page resource gives eight different ways to start a sentence and is really useful with weaker Key Stage 3/4 students, as well as those who continually start a sentence with the subject of the verb. Ideas for use: simply as an aide memoir, a revision tool, descriptive writing homework or to help with descriptive writing. Has been invaluable with my year seven and eight students!

I was struggling to find exam papers so decided to make one myself! This is a complete paper for AQA English Language Paper 1 of the 8700 (new) specification. The great thing about this is that you will then have the template to use in the future!

Would work perfectly for other exam boards as well as AQA! I created this wheel in order to give students some kind of autonomy in terms of their essay writing. It outlines what students might say for AO1/2/3 in order to sound sophisticated. In my lesson, students absolutely loved it! They were able to use the wheel to inform their own topic sentences, AO2 analysis and essentially, write an independent essay. Two files: PDF/PPT (same file) so you can edit it if you like!

A two hour session that talks students through the exam paper. All links to mark scheme, insert and exam paper are in the slides.

This document is a two-page help sheet for students, teachers and parents that outlines common errors made in English such as: - Fused sentences - Hanging clauses - Comma splicing ... and many more. I usually give this to students when they are responding to feedback - or I give it to parents at parents' evening so they can help their children at home.

This is a simple slide that I use with my students as a prompt when they are responding to feedback. I have it in front of them so they have a reference and prompt when responding to comments. I usually laminate these and put them on desks - that way, they last the whole year!

* This is a wonderful little resource if you are trying to encourage your students to become more independent; the poem just goes in the middle and you're set for just about any poem - just slot it in there and there's a lesson! * I crated this resource in order to support my year 11 students analysing poetry - both unseen and otherwise. Usually, I cut out the white section so students can simply put the poem in the middle. If you really want to go to town, you can laminate them once you've chopped the middle out. Simply print it on A3 and you're ready to go. I've also included the original file so it's fully adaptable should you need to change anything at any point. Like I said though, it's ready to print and go! I've also included a non-fiction text analysis grid as a bonus! I hope you find it as useful as I have.

I made this resource to decorate my classroom with. They are posters that can be displayed around the room to help students remember to use a variety of punctuation in their work. Each poster is themed in the same way so students know where to look for the information and they are not too heavy with information so are suited to a range of students. 1. Apostrophe 2. Colon 3. Semi-Colon 4. Commas 5. Full Stops I have included sentence types posters too: 1. Simple Sentences 2. Compound Sentences 3. Complex Sentences I have included several posters which help students to vary their sentences: 1. Adverb start 2. 'ing' start 3. 'ed' start 4. Relative clause 5. One word sentence start I have also included commonly-made errors to remind my students to be mindful of ensuring they are proof reading their work for literacy errors. 1. Comma splicing 2. Fused Sentences I have also attached the template if you want to adapt them or make additional ones suited to your class.

This is a language analysis of Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish Independence speech that she gave in March 2017. It is a really engaging lesson and comes with the following: - Overview of features to argue/persuade - A debate on the topic of independence with reasons for and against (meant as a quick speaking and listening activity) - A model annotation for students - Features of language associated with Sturgeon’s rhetoric - A model essay paragraph - An essay question - A fully annotated extract from the speech itself Loads of resources and enough work for a week or more. Great for English language or even a lesson on British Values if you want a cross-curricular link. If you like my resource, please review it! Also, take a look at my Trump or Emma Watson speech resources too. Thanks!