The Securing Grade 4-5 Bundle

Which resources would I recommend to secure grades 4-5 for low-to-middle ability students? Here are my recommendations. The skills in the resources generally demonstrate ‘clear’ and ‘secure’ way of thinking and explaining. Tried and tested on my own students of course.

They are not a silver bullet and will need to be embedded through repetition and deliberate practice, checking understanding and a lot of testing. *

In this Securing Grade 4-5 Secondary English Teacher Resource bundle, you will receive 28 resources:

Language

• Creative Writing Level Ladders
• Daily drills general skills
• Analysing language ladders
• SEIZE scaffolding framework
• show don't tell writing skills
• Focusing on the question (x8)
• ISPACE openers
• Language methods/techniques and effects folding bookmarks
• Logos ethos pathos
• lang 2 q5 structure strip
• structural methods and effects folding bookmarks
• vocabulary ladders

Literature (but the skills overlap with language too!)

• Literature analysis level ladders
• PRIZEC+ scaffolding
• SMILE unseen poetry stems
• Anthology essay structure strip
• Quotation explosion grids
• Strong opinions: because, but, so
• The inference loop
• word analysis: winning the race

Retrieval

• 16 box think and link
• odd one out
• reduce, represent, review

Explicit knowledge of exam and skills

• AQA Lang 1 and 2 knowledge organiser
• KS4 revision checklist
• the lit skill split
• what/how/why visual prompts
• revision techniques bookmark

*Downloading and using the resources/this bundle will not guarantee you/your students grade 4-5