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Putting the soul into curriculum: A practical teaching guide for English teams and leaders Are you looking to create an inspiring and joyful curriculum for your department and students? Are you wondering how to make strategic decisions, how to fit it all in, and make a lasting impact on students’ lives? Small but mighty, this punchy and compelling guide is the perfect way to reframe your curriculum thinking, reboot your love for the subject, take charge and challenge yourself professionally. Jo Heathcote draws on her passion for English and years of experience as a Head of Department, examiner, author and consultant in schools, to show you the way with plenty of tangible take-aways and opportunities to reflect. Contents1. Embarking on the Cohesive Journey2. The Spiral Curriculum3. Text choices with Soul4. The Lost Art of Lesson Planning5. Meaningful Methods6. Assessment with Impact7. Let the Adventure Begin

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Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English LanguageFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: November 2023 and June 2024 Help post-16 students achieve Grade 5 with resources to develop and practise the skills for each question in the AQA GCSE English Language exams. Pick up and teach with this readymade course. Organised into 30 weeks and structured by exam question, the Student Book provides complete coverage of Paper 1 and Paper 2 as well as preparation for the Spoken Language endorsement. Help students to build and apply the key skills for each question with a carefully designed learning sequence, a step-by-step methodology for responding and plenty of opportunities to practise the question in focus. Assess progress and build confidence for the summer exam with half-term progress tests, end-of-term mock exams and two further practice papers for revision. All are supported with marking guidance and a wealth of annotated sample responses in the Teacher Guide. Show students how to improve their work, with annotated sample responses to exemplify the Level 3 mark scheme criteria, and regular self- and peer-assessment activities. Save time searching for texts with a fantastic selection of fiction and non-fiction extracts from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Engage 16–19 year old and adult learners with texts and topics chosen to interest students in post-16 contexts. Trusted support from Jo Heathcote, a GCSE English Language assessment expert and an experienced teacher of GCSE and A-level.

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Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE English LanguageFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: November 2023 and June 2024 Help your students succeed in AQA GCSE (9–1) English Language, with resources to develop and practise the skills they need for every question in the Paper 1 and Paper 2 exams. Help students build and apply the key skills for each question with a carefully designed learning sequence, a step-by-step process for responding and plenty of opportunities to practise the question in focus. Assess progress and build confidence for the final exams with half-term progress tests, end-of-term mock exams and two further practice papers for revision. Show students how to improve their work, with annotated sample responses to exemplify Grade 5 achievement. Save time searching for texts with a fantastic selection of fiction and non-fiction extracts from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Trusted support from Jo Heathcote, a GCSE English Language assessment expert and an experienced teacher of GCSE and A-level.

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Help build a challenging and rewarding English curriculum with imaginative ways of studying Shakespeare’s drama, stories and language for every year of KS3. Reinvigorate the study of Shakespeare at Key Stage 3 to lay strong foundations for GCSE 9-1 English Literature or IGCSE Literature in English. Increase support in curriculum planning and teaching of Shakespeare with high quality, tried and tested lessons Build confidence in language, vocabulary and context with key extracts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet, accompanied by ready-to-use teaching PowerPoints, lesson plans and student activity worksheets Inspire students with creative ways to study and perform Shakespeare’s drama to boost historical awareness and cultural capital Easy to use with coherently planned and sequenced development of core skills building towards a strong understanding of Shakespeare’s world and work Take an inclusive approach with support and help for students whose first language is not English Easy to weave into existing schemes of work with the flexible, customisable and supportive approach and Microsoft and Google compatible files

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Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Language, GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Develop your students’ skills in English Literature and English Language as you study The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. This Student Book offers English Literature lessons to help your classes explore the set text in depth. In parallel, English Language lessons give students the opportunity to respond to fiction and non-fiction extracts that will deepen their understanding of the play’s themes and contexts. This practical resource is designed for in-class study, as well as exam preparation. Give students a supportive route through the set text, with pre-reading, close reading and whole-text review chapters to help them understand the plot, characters, themes and contexts and analyse the writer’s methods. Build writing stamina with the longer exam-style tasks at the end of each chapter. Support all learners with clear plot summaries and a ‘Who’s who’ guide to the main characters. Prepare for examination success with a final chapter on the Literature exam, including exam-style questions, step-by-step guidance for writing an effective response, and sample answers at different levels. Practise all the AQA English Language Paper 1 and 2 question formats. Students will learn how to locate information, analyse language and structure, synthesise, critically evaluate and compare as they read texts about nineteenth-century London, Victorian ‘freak shows’, macabre scientific experiments and the ethics of artificial intelligence. They will also be given the opportunity to produce their own narrative, descriptive and argumentative writing.

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Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 Matched to the requirements of the AQA GCSE English Language specification, this workbook provides a targeted approach to practising the key reading skills of language and structural analysis; evaluation and comparision. Focusing on how to achieve grade 5, this full-colour, write-in workbook takes students through the individual exam questions and provides extensive practice opportunities, sample student answers, revision tips and sample exam papers. Including opportunities for self-assessment and reviewing progress, students take control of their skills development through this motivational resource, written by an expert and experienced author team.

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Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English LanguageFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: November 2023 and June 2024 Help post-16 students achieve Grade 5 with resources to develop and practise the skills for each question in the AQA GCSE English Language exams. Pick up and teach with this readymade course. Organised into 30 weeks and structured by exam question, the resources provide complete coverage of Paper 1 and Paper 2 as well as preparation for the Spoken Language endorsement. Help students to build and apply the key skills for each question with a carefully designed learning sequence, a step-by-step methodology for responding and plenty of opportunities to practise the question in focus. Everything you need to teach: the Teacher Guide includes medium-term plans to provide an overview of learning, clear and succinct lesson plans and worksheets to allow students to annotate and explore texts in depth. Readymade PowerPoints support front-of-class teaching while revision PowerPoints summarise what students need to remember for each exam question. Assessment-focused: a wealth of annotated sample answers and marking guidance are provided in the Teacher Guide for each of the half-term progress tests, end-of-term mock exams and the final practice papers in the Student Book to help you mark to standard and show your students how to improve. Tried and trusted support from Jo Heathcote and Sheila McCann, two experienced teachers and GCSE English Language assessment experts.

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The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022. Get straight to the heart of the text with crystal-clear notes, focused analysis and expert summaries. Quickly demystify historical contexts and get to grips with the text's form, language and structure. Efficiently unpick plots, contexts and themes and sharpen your memory of key facts, quotations and characters. Power up your essay-writing skills, learn how to write top-grade answers and feel fully ready and equipped to excel in any test or assessment. York Notes are the long-established experts in English Literature, and we take your success seriously. So whether you're studying Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare for GCSE at home, online or in the classroom, York Notes is your best bet for the best grades. Packed with more powerful features than any other guide, this essential Romeo and Juliet study companion is easy to use, brimming with essential info and will quickly become your go-to buddy as you navigate your GCSE course, build your confidence, stay motivated and get ready to impress in any test, assessment or exam. To make sure you feel really ready for the unique challenges of assessment and to get the grades you know you deserve, why not use this Study Guide with the York Notes Workbook and Practice Tests for Romeo and Juliet? Just search for 9781292100821 for the Workbook and 9781292236834 for the Practice Tests. Looking for a speedier way to refresh and remember what really matters? Our unique Rapid Revision Cards are fast, fun and have all the answers. Just search now for 9781292273662.

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One photocopiable and editable teacher pack with 9 knowledge-rich projects to build skills, reading stamina and cultural understanding in Key Stage 3 English. Shortlisted for the Education Resources Awards 2021 Invigorate your KS3 English curriculum and create a firm foundation for GCSE 9–1 English with 9 projects over three years and ready-to-use teaching PowerPoints, lesson plans and student activity worksheets. Explore thematically linked extracts from nineteenth-century fiction, poetry and non-fiction and twenty-first-century non-fiction to build a springboard for GCSE 9-1 English and English Literature Illuminate and understand key contexts for GCSE 9-1 set texts such as growing up, crime and punishment, monsters and medicine, and child labour Develop and interleave knowledge, skills and cultural capital to build a coherently planned curriculum that enriches students’ study in Key Stage 3 English Easy to use and fit alongside your English department’s class readers, plays and anthologies Save time with expertly planned and sequenced lessons with ready-made teaching PowerPoints, age-appropriate texts and student activity worksheets Photocopiable and editable files on the free download on collins.co.uk//ReimagineKS3English/download

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