Assessment Sheet - Reading Skills/Analysis (Teacher Version)
As assessment sheet designed to cut down on marking whilst still providing meaningful feedback, clearly linked to AQA mark scheme expectations for reading and analysis skills. If used over time, pupils become more familiar with the success criteria for analytical writing and can track their own prog...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
An Inspector Calls display images
Character, theme and key quote posters for An Inspector Calls display} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Wall Displays
Exam/Board: AQA
An Inspector Calls character display
An Inspector Calls character quote posters for display / revision} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Wall Displays
Exam/Board: AQA
Alien Poetry
Lesson on reading and writing poetry I've used with Y6 transition. Based on the poem 'A Martian Sends a Postcard Home'.P.S. Couldn't work out how to upload multiple files so have added a PDF at the end of the PPT to print as a postcard template for students to use.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
A Midsummer Night's Dream PDF
A version I found online with the modern translation next to it. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
A level lit spec A unseen question
A mock exam style practice question for students. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Exam/Board: AQA
Literacy - Using Semi-Colons (Full Lesson)
A fully-resourced lesson with a choice of two starter tasks based on pupils' exisiting knowledge. Suitable for both KS3 and KS4.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Short description extracts
Nine very short descriptions to help revise language analysis skills. Suitable for quick starters.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Power and Conflict - War Photographer - Guided Analysis
A copy of the poem with guided analysis questions. This was initially designed to support very LA pupils with making meaningful annotations, but has also been used with higher ability pupils and pupils across Year 9, 10, and 11. Useful both as a differentiation resource, a homework resource,...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Power and Conflict - The Prelude - Guided Analysis
A copy of the poem with guided analysis questions. This was initially designed to support very LA pupils with making meaningful annotations, but has also been used with higher ability pupils and pupils across Year 9, 10, and 11. Useful both as a differentiation resource, a homework resource,...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Power and Conflict - The Emigree - Guided Analysis
A copy of the poem with guided analysis questions. This was initially designed to support very LA pupils with making meaningful annotations, but has also been used with higher ability pupils and pupils across Year 9, 10, and 11. Useful both as a differentiation resource, a homework resource,...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Power and Conflict - Storm on the Island - Guided Analysis
A copy of the poem with guided analysis questions. This was initially designed to support very LA pupils with making meaningful annotations, but has also been used with higher ability pupils and pupils across Year 9, 10, and 11. Useful both as a differentiation resource, a homework resource, and as...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Technical Accuracy Marking Slips
Designed to support pupils in understanding rules for common SPAG/technical marking errors. Typically I will print a set, cut them into slips, and stick them into books as I am marking if a pupil demonstrates consistent inaccuracy in a certain area (e.g. apostrophes, capital letters etc.).} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Exam/Board: AQA
English Language - Paper 2 - Assessment Resource (Part A only)
Suitable for both teacher assessment and peer assessment, this resource provides a success criteria and a marking grid for questions 2, 3, and 4 of AQA's GCSE English Language Paper 2. The marker highlights the criteria that the response has met, and uses that to assign a final mark.Typically, I wil...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Power and Conflict - Checking Out Me History - Guided Analysis
A worksheet for developing language analysis skills for 'Checking Out Me History'.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
English Language - Paper 1 Skills - Short Fiction Extracts (Vol. 1)
A collection of short fiction extracts (19th, 20th, and 21st century) designed to be used as either a quick starter task or a means of getting pupils to focus on language analysis. Generic support and challenge differentiation boxes are provided for each extract. Further differentiation could be pro...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Inference Starters
A series of 20 paragraphs / verses of poetry from varied sources (fiction and non-fiction, different points in time) each with an inference question. Intended originally to be used with mini-whiteboards to extend inference skills but could easily be used in a variety of ways. S...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Starter - Using Unique Imagery - Fireworks
I used this as a starter in a descriptive writing lesson to encourage the pupils to try to create more unique and unusual imagery and to avoid cliche. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A Christmas Carol Extract Analysis - Redemption
Extract is quite long but useful to go through with a class :-) } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Language Paper Two Q3 (Language) Focus - Poverty Text with Scaffolding
Task and extract with scaffolding to help pupils extend their responses to Paper 2 Q3. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA