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Using Alex Quigley’s Closing the Reading Gap, this session aims to introduce staff to the idea of literacy as a whole school issue and the importance of reading across school.

This was produced for a 90 minute lesson, but could easily be shrunk or extended to suit your needs. This lesson involves students watching and analysing three different 2016 Christmas adverts, considering features the writers have used to achieve effect and make use of ideologies. This is perfect for all AOs of the spec, allowing them to apply their skills to a visual form. I will be using the grid to get students to produce an analysis of the adverts, based on their critical understanding (AO4). All links are located on the Powerpoint, which has differentated learning objectives on each slide, and I have produced a scaffolded grid to enable students to write whilst watching. A perfect 'wind down' lesson, that actually gets them to apply their English skills thoroughly (without them knowing...) Please leave a review and let me know how it goes!

Includes: Full booklet scheme of child language development- spoken language acquisition. PowerPoint to support. 8 lessons that take me a half term to complete with time for application and essay practise. Inside the scheme is a complete breakdown of how children learn to speak from womb to 5+ years old. Homework, model essays and application questions included. I’ve developed this with AQA English Language A Level in mind, but could be easily adapted.

Whole school reading and word of the week for literacy. Includes activities. Cross curricular to all subjects.

Made for AQA English Language A Level, but suitable for Edexcel and other boards, this works as an introduction or revision of the key language levels and frameworks needed for the course. 7 Weeks worth of activities: Lexis and semantics Morphology Grammar Syntax Phonetics Pragmatics Practise

Complete booklet style lesson and PowerPoint exploring the opening of 1984 by George Orwell. Model responses, scaffolded questions. Perfect for resit, tutoring, year 11 intervention etc.

Introduction to pragmatics booklet and Powerpoint.

Powerpoint for the scenes. Brief look at Benvolio and Mercutio's differing views on: love, life, friendship and women. Then activity in which students identify words that connote 'light' in Romeo's soliloquy. Provided a supporting worksheet in which they plot these references onto a graph depending on their 'brightness'- good for numeracy links.

Using June 2019 exam paper, a revision booklet for paper 2 question 3 and 4. Includes guidance and scaffolding on answering paper 2 question 3 and model responses for question 4.

Perfect for AQA paper 1 question 5 creative writing, or any creative writing exam question. Recaps need for planning and uses an extract from The Five People You Meet in Heaven to explore how structure can be used for effect. Uses drop, shift, zoom in, zoom out. Ends with a creative writing task. Enough for 2 hours+ Great for year 11, intervention, tutoring, resit etc.

Lesson focused on Question 4 of the new AQA English language paper 2. Comparison of two articles that discuss the Hillsborough Disaster: The Sun (1989) and The Guardian (2016). Included: Powerpoint presentation, linked to AOs, with questions throughout; two articles; comparison grid for students to collect thoughts.

Analysing the presentation of Blackpool by Bill Bryson and comparing it to Dickens description of Verona. Questions and scaffolding to support.

Posters containing sophisticated and ambitious vocabulary, with pronunciation and image to support.

A lesson comparing viewpoints on walking using a modern day and Victorian article. Enough for a double. Perfect for resit, intervention etc.

A lesson exploring the power of memory and nostalgia in The Emigree.

Booklet introducing paper 2 discourses to year 12/13- focus on accents, dialects etc.

A revision lesson on accents and dialects for A Level English Language students. Includes studies, A* response and practse question.

A whole lesson and resources practicing the AO3 comparison skill through Banksy’s ‘Dismaland’ attraction. I have created this lesson for a high set of year 11 students, however this could be adapted for any KS across school. The lesson focuses around comparison, firstly with photos, then videos, then texts- all surrounding Banksy’s Dismaland. Resources: Powerpoint: lesson with differentiated learning objectives and mark scheme for peer assessment. Worksheets: two newspaper articles for comparison, a sheet to compare two adverts of the attraction, a grid to record language choices in the articles.

A lesson that introduces the idea of differing narrative viewpoints within a text and explores how reliable these are. I used these as to help students evaluate for question 4. The base text is an extract from Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, whereby the narrator is a schizophrenic patient.

A standalone revision lesson perfect for intervention, tutoring, form time etc. Explores each character’s key quotes and encourages students to consider their construction by Priestley. Was extremely useful in 2023!