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February 16th 2018
This Friday Takeaway is a revision resource written by one of our regular writers Paul Dodd, one of the Ofqual advisors for the new 9-1 exams. Succinct and organised this is a useful set of documents for those final weeks. Some of this advice, I am sure, is teaching 'grandma to suck eggs' but we included everything, so you can share this with new members of the department heading for their first exam season. No matter how long we've been at it we can always remember that first time... [*]Within this gui ...Continue Reading
February 9th 2018
Did you know that two thirds of the Top 100 Schools in England are Eduscribers? Did you know that Eduscribers are well represented in the Top Ten Progress 8 Schools? Today's Friday Takeaway is as a response to a request from Jo whose school delivers the Eduqas GCSE English Language Specification. Eduqas English Language C2 19th/21st Century Non-Fiction Climbing Eduqas English Language C2 19th/21st Century Non-Fiction Death Eduqas English Language C2 19th/21st Century Non-Fiction Climbing Please forward this Friday ...Continue Reading
February 5th 2018
Two thirds of the top 100 schools in England are Eduscribers Five of the TOP TEN Progress 8 Schools are Eduscribers Why? [*]At Edusites we don’t just regurgitate resources and worksheets. [*]We take a smart solution focus to teaching and learning for exam success. [*]The New Media Studies specifications are a new animal. [*]We know that many teachers of Media Studies are not specialists. [*]Our resources can be delivered by teachers with little or no Media experience. [*]Your subscription can be shar ...Continue Reading
February 5th 2018
At Edusites we believe that the proof of the pudding....Two thirds of the top 100 schools in England are Eduscribers in addition to quite a few of the Top Ten Progress 8 Schools. Every week we publish resources which are emailed to our Eduscribers. We publish a variety of editable resources which engage with the process of teaching and learning. Below is a resource we published last week with an eye to developing specific skills for GCSE English Language. What skills are covered in this unit of lessons? [*]Vocab ...Continue Reading
January 17th 2018
This week's Friday Takeaway is a change from the usual. Our A Level English Language Guides for Students, originally written for the legacy specifications, are an example of quality recycling. Below is an Edusites English Student Guide that will, hopefully, help your own students to a deeper and useful understanding of the key idea of *context*. Many students struggle with this concept which, along with *purpose*, *audience* and *genre* must surely rank as one of the four key aspects of /all/ texts; indeed, it could be ...Continue Reading
January 8th 2018
At Edusites we are proud that our high quality resources are written, curated, moderated and published by English Experts. These anthologies are written by a regular writer for Edusites, Paul Dodd, one of the original Ofqual advisors for the new English 9-1 specifications. This is a small selection of our GCSE AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas and OCR Unseen Texts. All anthologies have chapters which include indicative content and how to use them in the classroom. They are printable using these instructions. Here is a collection ...Continue Reading
January 3rd 2018
Happy New Year Eduscribers The Twelve Days of Christmas ...Continue Reading
December 11th 2017
Edusites Guide to making booklets ...Continue Reading
December 8th 2017
Please forward this Friday Takeaway to your team. Today's Friday Takeaway is for everyone delivering the AQA GCSE English Language Specification. Here is a collection of Unseen Fiction Texts with a 'how to use' section, exam board based questions and indicative content. Anthology chapters for Edexcel and Eduqas coming next week. Also our Twelve Days of Knowledge Organisers on almost their way. Want to make a booklet like this? Takes 15 minutes. Want instructions? Yes? AQA English Language Fiction Reading ...Continue Reading
December 1st 2017
Please forward this Friday Takeaway to your team. Today's Friday Takeaway is for Ruth who is delivering the OCR GCSE English Language Specification. Here is a collection of Unseen Fiction Texts with a 'how to use' section, exam board based questions and indicative content. Anthology chapters for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas coming next week. OCR English Language Unseen Fiction Reading Anthology | Conflict OCR English Language Unseen Fiction Reading Anthology | Time and Place Part 1 OCR English Language Unseen Ficti ...Continue Reading