Non fiction & Media Texts

As the half term holiday fast approaches I'm sure that many of our members are looking forward to a well earned rest, time to take a break from the classroom and recharge the batteries ready for the run up to Christmas.

Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts

To make the next half term a little easier here at Teacher-of-English.com we've been working away to provide our members with some additional resources to prepare for the GCSE English exam. With an eye on the November entries we have produced Non Fiction and Media Texts. This resource is designed to help teachers prepare students for reading section of the English exam. So whether its AQA Paper One or WJEC Paper Two, or whatever board you're teaching to, there should be something to help the revision process. Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts also contains a series of worksheets to accompany the slides and some links to other web sites which may be of use. To take a look at the resource Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts click on the title above. This resource is now available on the PAYG pages for non-members and is free to download on the members' page for subscribers.

Romeo and Juliet

The next resource in the pipeline is for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This is in the early stages of development but will be a resource to help teach the play and to produce a piece of coursework. Romeo and Juliet will take up much of the half term week to produce and hopefully will be available on the website in November. Watch this space!

As always, please feel free to leave a comment. It's always good to hear from our members, so don't be shy!

Have a good week.

Regards

Martin

GCSE English Exams

Only 3 weeks into the new academic year and already things are hotting up. With many school's now taking the option to enter pupils earlier for GCSE in November we are building new resources designed to help prep for the non fiction and media texts section of the exam. So keep an eye on the site for further developments.

If you are preparing pupils for the exam why not take a look at the following resources already available, all useful for revising the key skills needed in the exams no matter what board you're using:

Writing to Describe

Writing to Entertain

Fact and Opinion

Different Types of Texts

Texts to Argue, Persuade and Advise

Bias and Rhetoric

...and don't forget the Poetry from Different Cultures Cluster One and Poetry from Different Cultures Cluster Two for AQA.

Good luck and have a good week.

As always please feel free to leave a comment, until next time.

Regards

Martin

2009 Up and Running

The new academic year got underway last week and saw Teacher-of-English.com add a couple of finishing touches to the site. Our resources for Blood Brothers are now fully published and are proving popular with users as are other new resources for Of Mice and Men and Our Day Out but it is Robert Swindell's Stone Cold which is number one in the charts as far as individual sales are concerned.
A big hello and welcome to all our new members. September has seen a steep increase in the number of new teachers joining the site so I would like to offer you a warm welcome to the Teacher-of-English family. I hope you enjoy the benefits of membership and find Teacher-of-English.com a handy resource to add to your teaching tool box.
I hope that all our members had a good break and are looking forward to the new year and all the challenges it brings, it's a big year with the English 2010 curriculum on the horizon, I hope we can help you negotiate your way through the new specifications as we begin to work on materials to fit into the new specifications in the New Year.
On a technical note we have improved our system this week to speed up the website. As the site grows and grows the more web space it eats up so we have upgraded our capacity giving users a quicker browsing and downloading experience.

Well that's it for now. As ever any comments are very welcome, there is an option to leave a comment on the bottom so if you have any suggestions please let us know.

Have a good week.


Martin

New term, new resources

As the summer holidays reach the final weeks here at www.Teacher-of-English.com we have been sprucing up the website and finishing off another new resource to help teachers get the new academic year off to a flying start.
In addition to new resources for Our Day Out and Of Mice and Men we are about to publish a brand new, 186 slide PowerPoint for Willy Russell's Blood Brothers. Blood Brothers bolsters our GCSE resources which continue to grow and grow of which our ever expanding army of members and PAYG users are reaping the benefits.
Blood Brothers was selected as members told us that there aren't a great range of resources available to help teach it. If you have a suggestion about what you'd like to see on the site, please let us know.

To preview the latest resources please click on the links below.

Poems from different cultures cluster 2

Unrelated Incidents
Half Caste
Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan
Search for my Tongue
Not my Business
Love after love
This Room

Our Day Out (complete with worksheets and APP task)

Of Mice and Men (also includes accompanying worksheets)

Blood Brothers (includes medium term plan and worksheets)

Well, that's all for the moment. Please feel free to leave a comment, otherwise enjoy what's left of the holiday and if you haven't done so please take a moment to check out the website, www.Teacher-of-English.com

Regards

Martin

Poems from Different Cultures 2

This week sees the launch of our huge Of Mice and Men resource and a focus on the second cluster of poems from other cultures from the AQA Anthology.

Our Of Mice and Men resource is a complete scheme of work for teaching Of Mice and Men. It includes a 272 Powerpoint and accompanying worksheets covering all aspects of the novel to prepare students for success at GCSE.

Poems from Different Cultures Cluster 2 aims provide resources on all 8 poems from the anthology's second set of Poems from Different Cultures. So far Powerpoints include:

Search for my Tongue
Unrelated Incidents
Half-Caste
Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan
Not my Business
Hurricane Hits England

All these resources will be available by the end of the week to members and on the PAYG pages of www.Teacher-of-English.com .

As August begins we look forward to the new school year. New resources in the pipeline include Willy Russell's Blood Brothers and some additional Key Skills materials which will be available over the coming weeks.

If you have a suggestion about resources please let us know via the Contact Us page of the site.

Time to get back to the site.

Regards

Martin

Of Mice and Men, Our Day Out, Other Cultures 2 and English 2010 Ready resources

As English teachers enjoy a well earned rest and recharge the batteries ready for the challenges of the new academic year, here at Teacher-of-English.com we've been beavering away on a host of new resources to help take some of the sting out of September.

Brand new this week are two resources for widely used GCSE texts, Our Day Out (Willy Russell) and Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck).

These two new resources signify something of a change in how our materials are presented. Each resource comes as a package which includes three items: a PowerPoint, an 'English 2010 Ready' medium term plan and a series of photocopy friendly worksheets. I would love to know what English teachers think about the idea of offering resources as a package, if you have a comment, please let us know.

Regarding the new 2010 English curriculum, we are currently updating existing resources and creating new ones which will ensure that from the start of 2010 anything you download from the site will fit into the new framework.

We hope you will find our new resources a great help in the classroom. Our Day Out includes a 100 slide differentiated PowerPoint, a Reading APP for use at KS3, an essay plan for GCSE Literature, a booklet of photocopy friendly worksheets in PDF format and a medium term English 2010 ready plan. Take a preview by clicking Our Day Out.

Of Mice and Men includes a 272 (!) slide differentiated PowerPoint, a booklet of photocopy friendly worksheets in PDF format and a medium term English 2010 ready plan. Preview by clicking on Of Mice and Men.

Whilst Our Day Out and Of Mice and Men are available to download now, we are currently working on cluster 2 of the Poems from different Cultures, starting with Search For My Tongue, so expect to see that popping up on the site in the coming week.

If you would like to add a comment to the blog please do. We rely on teachers to make the site a success and the more feedback we get the better. Is there a text you would love to have more resources for? Do you think a forum would be a worthwhile addition to the site? Let us know what you think.

You can drop me a line anytime at serviceteam@teacher-of-english.com or add a comment to the blog.

Until next time..


Regards


Martin Grundy

GCSE English Resources 2

School holidays - whey-hey!

As the 6 weeks holidays get underway there's no time for a breather here at http://www.teacher-of-english.com/ .
Already we have a new KS3 English resource ready for September 09: An Introduction to Drama Texts whilst an new PowerPoint for Our Day Out by Willy Russell is ready to be published this week. Once the Our Day Out Scheme of Work (complete with Reading APP for KS3 and essay title and plan for GCSE) is on the site we will turn our attention to Of Mice and Men before moving onto Blood Brothers and Poems from different cultures cluster 2 and adding a few more key skills English resources. This means that by the start of the new term we should have an additional 1000 PowerPoint pages on the website, all designed to help English teachers in the classroom.
Well, time is limited so I'd better stop blogging and get on with these new resources, as my mum used to say about the washing up, it won't do itself!

Until the next time (bet you can't wait!)

Martin

GCSE English Resources 2010

GCSE English resources can be found at http://www.teacher-of-english.com/ which will be available throughout the summer holidays.

As we approach the final week of term we find schools continue to sign up for membership to get ready for September. As the holidays near we still find lots of activity. What Were They Like? and Stone Cold lead the way with the remaining poems from other cultures such as Limbo not far behind.

Over the hols work gets underway on new resources. We hope to bring Of Mice and Men, Blood Brothers and An Inspector Calls to the site as well as the other cluster of Poems from different cultures and some more key skills resources for spelling, punctation and grammar.

Until next time....



Martin

Poems from Different Cultures or Poems from Other Cultures...

Teacher-of-English.com is a web site specialising in KS3 and GCSE English Resources in PowerPoint format.

Poems from Different Cultures Cluster 1 is now finished with the addition of Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes by Lawrence Feerlinghetti. This takes the total to 8 poems and is the first set of powerpoints to be completed. This enables us to begin resources for cluster 2 from September.

Web pages now include:

Key skills spelling, puncatuation and grammar
KS3 English resources
GCSE English resources
GCSE English literature resources
Poems from different cultures

Top 5 most popular are:
Poems from other cultures package
Stone Cold
Writing to Describe
What were they like?
Limbo

All still going strong even as the holidays approach!

Hope everyone is good.

See you soon

Martin

New GCSE English Resources

Teacher-of-English.com are about to complete the poems from different cultures cluster one with the final piece of the jigsaw. Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is the final English teaching powerpoint which completes the set. This alows us to turn our atention to poems from different cultures cluster two which should hit the site around September. Also in the pipeline is an Introduction to Drama Texts PPT, some shorts on Pathetic Fallacy and bigger resources for Blood Brothers, Of Mice & Men and An Inspector Calls.
As we near the end of the year we have experienced some slowing down but not as much as expected, things are still going really well and the site goes from strength to strength.
Hope everyone of you is well and looking forward to the holidays, I know I am. Until next time.....

Martin

English Teaching Resources

The burden of GCSE marking has made it difficult to get much time to do anything at the moment so the blog has been somewhat neglected but it is being updated.

This last couple of weeks Blessing Imtiaz Dharker was added to Teacher-of-English.com and the poems from other cultures pack moved up from 6 to 7, soon to be completed with Two Scavengers in a Truck before we get stuck into cluster 2.

Last month was another great month, top sellers were:

Poems from other cultures
Stone Cold
Writing to Describe
Limbo
Nothing's Changed
What were they like?
Fact and Opinion
Frankenstein

Despite the literature exam being done and dusted we are still getting requests for English Literature resources and are selling Death of a Naturalist, Patrolling Barnegat and On My First Sonne.

Well, better get back to the marking!

Bye!

GCSE English Resources

With only a matter of days until the GCSE English Literature exam students are making final preparations. Revision of Of Mice and Men and Pre1914 Poetry, Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke are now all we have left to cover. A few past papers to look at and the it's up to them to revise and prep properly.
For the group sitting the GCSE English Exam it's a case of revising the above plus poetry from different cultures or poetry from other cultures for the AQA and then reading and writing skills with a focus on reading non-fiction media texts, writing to argue, advise, persuade and inform, describe, etc...
As Year11 leave this week we push on with Year 9 and 10 GCSE English, SATs for KS3, reports, end of year exams - the marking seems to be never ending.

Oh well, soon be half term...

Cheers!

P.S. Don't forget... www.Teacher-of-English.com