A Midsummer Night's Dream PDF
A version I found online with the modern translation next to it. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A level lit spec A unseen question
A mock exam style practice question for students. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
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
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Short description extracts
Nine very short descriptions to help revise language analysis skills. Suitable for quick starters.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
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
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Literature
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
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Literature
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
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Literature
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
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Literature
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
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Literature
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
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
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
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Literature
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
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
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
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
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
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
A Christmas Carol Extract Analysis - Redemption
Extract is quite long but useful to go through with a class :-) } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Literature
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
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
Language Paper One Q2 (Language) Focus - Dracula Text with Scaffolding
I have used this with Year 9 and Year 10/11 as a way of getting them to extend their responses when writing about how the writer uses language. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
Descriptive and Narrative Examples (Higher Level / 7-9)
I used these with Year 11 to show how similar descriptive and narrative can be and also how narrative does not have to be a complete story but can end on a cliffhanger (trying to prevent those 16-page stories! :-0 )} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
Year 7 Oliver Twist Text + Tasks Workbook
Abridged version of the text with tasks following each chapter. Please use/edit etc. Suitable for Year 7/8. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language
Year 7 Poetry Scheme of Work Full Booklet
A complete SOW for Year 7 poetry, including poems, key terms and tasks. Use/edit however you want. If you add anything fantastic, please let me know so I can edit our version, too! Feedback would be appreciated :-) } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Language