A handy overview of the tasks/areas of focus for each exam paper since the start of the current AQA spec. Can be used to locate specific exam papers as well as seeing which areas have been cover... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Exam practice & revision
Course: A level lang
I found a great website with a translation. I formatted it properly with chapters and checked random parts of the text to see how well it translated and it's a very good version. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
This is a table of Language and Gender theorists that students can use to support or challenge their argument. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
The booklet has the entire play, Elizabethan terminology breakdown, deconstructed Essay structure with model responses, plus a coversheet. Made for Y7 could be changed for other years. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
This is a very simple lesson to get students to write an article about their home city/town. The pictures and references for this are Birmingham as that is my closest big city so you may need to adapt... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
A full run through of activities for each question on the paper, including screenshots from the mark scheme of different levelled responsesTargeted at a higher ability class VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Originally made for an alevel lang student but can be used for all levels! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Exam practice & revision
Course: A level lang
This is a basic powerpoint that gives a basic structure for each lesson with key concepts. I have included suggested activities on a word document along with creative teaching strategies for eac... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
I created a SOW for Year 7 to teach the core knowledge of plot structure, characterisation, setting, theme, etc. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
A SOW that I created for a high-ability Year 8 class to explore the conventions of the Dystopian genre and engage with a variety of dystopian texts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
I print these as A3 and laminate them so that students can 'help themselves' to the additional support if they need it. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Set Exam Texts (Novels), Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
SOW on non-fiction writing with a science and wonder theme running through 4-5 weeks. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
After a recent round of mocks testing English lang Paper 2, a handful of students were selected to write a handy student-friendly guide. These students got full marks in their answers so the advice th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Teaching booklet that has Lamb to The Slaughter, The Landlady, When Wasps Drowned and The Monkey's Paw. Comprehension questions added and key vocab. Helpsheets and knowledge organisers are involved to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Whole School Literacy, Writing
Based on heroes and vilains. This will need to be slightly edited, but this is a great stand alone lesson or cover. Could be used for years 7-9. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Task board for SEN students at the beginning, 6 starter question (need to be edited to fit your curriculum), use of Cornell notes (this fits with Noughts and Crosses currently, but can be edited), Fra... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Writing
This is catered to AQA Language curriculum, but could easily but chopped and changed for other exam board. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Key extracts for teaching/printing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Key extracts for teaching/printing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Key extracts for teaching/printing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
PowerPoint of key extracts for teaching/printing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Supportive resource used with my students to help them develop their independent answers for English Literature. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
A supportive resource used with my students to help them develop independent responses to questions. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
A quiz on context and the staves VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Two quizzes with answers:Quiz 1: match the opening lines to the poem.Quiz 2: guess which line of imagery the poem is from.Enjoy :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
GCSE Literature - A poster with an Unseen Poetry Memonic and plan for Paper 2 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
GCSE Literature - A poster with an Unseen Poetry Memonic and plan for Paper 2 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Final task may need adapting as unfortunately I cannot link the wheels I created. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Includes exemplar VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
Complete PowerPoint on how to plan and write an article for AQA Paper 2 question 5 based on a past exam question about corruption in sport. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A sheet to cut up, match or copy adding student examples, to teach or revise language devices with simple examples. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A guided reading and analysis sheet which explores the introduction of The Cratchit Family in 'A Christmas Carol'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Using pictures to compare the skills of summarising and comparing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A collection of lessons I did with LA year 9 (SEND provision) to top up their knowledge ahead of GCSE. I didn't get to cultural allusions within the unit, but it will get mopped up within their next t... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Exam/Board: AQA
I just spent over an hour going through the play and making this, so hopefully it also helps someone else :) and saves you an hour! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Print on A3.This sheet helps students revise the themes and main characters in A Christmas Carol. For characters, students need to give an overview of the character and then find five character quotes... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
This is a creative writing scheme I made based on fairy tales and fractured fairy tales for year 8. Throughout the scheme, students complete tasks on setting, characters, etc which prepare them for th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Suggested exemplar AQA Jun 18 Macbeth essay. Feedback welcome. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson to see what my class can/cannot do! No teaching. A straight up writing assessment. The second part of the PPT provides teaching opportunities to develop skills and allow for DIRT opportunitie... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson to introduce the English GCSE. Features information for both Language and Literature.I did this PPT over two lessons with my class, they are very mixed with behaviour and EHCPs. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
A collection of strange, funny and grotesque pictures to be used at the teacher's discretion VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, City and Guilds
Used to help a student catch up, so only has key quotations from each scene and key questions. There's also a summary of each scene as well. Might be useful as a starting point for a scheme of work or... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
The aim of this is to close the vocabulary gap by introducing all students to a range of Tier 2 vocabulary. By way of reminder, the different tiers of vocabulary are described by David Dida... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Whole School Literacy
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
this is using gothic texts and using the active reading skills to question and explore. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
A lesson for low ability year 7s using conjunctions to complete sentences and 'score a goal'. Click 'score' to go to the next sentence. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
Used to help a student catch up, so only has key quotations from each scene and key questions. There's also a summary of each scene as well. Might be useful as a starting point for a scheme of work or... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
A wide range of texts exploring the different types of heroes and villains. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
This is a revision power point for question four of the Language Paper Two GCSE. You will need to download the 2022 November paper from AQA to use alongside. I have included notes from the examine... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
This lesson is focused on the first chapter on Pride and Prejudice. The starter activity assumes that you have watched the first hour of the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The lesson focu... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
An activity I've quickly put together for Year 11 students on their last English lesson. 'You say we pay' style game using terms applicable to English Language Paper 2. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Memes on An Inspector Calls- can be used for display or with students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Jekyll and Hyde Memes to use for display or with students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Memes for Macbeth- for display or use with students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Freely accessible audio recordings of GCSE poetry for all Edexcel clusters (including IGCSE) by ex-BBC Broadcaster. Useful to help students embed sound, rhythm, vocabulary and quotations. Click on the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL, IGCSE
This is a revision lesson focused on the structure question for Paper One. There is a practice extract and one that the students can do alone or for homework. There are sample answers for each level a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Plot summary of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
This file is adaptable for 1-2 lessons, dependent on whether you are going to read a whole chapter or extracts. It assumes knowledge of the conventions of fantasy and horror. Students read the opening... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
This lesson explores the blurb of Coraline, focusing on talking about how it shows conventions of horror and fantasy. Students will also look at foreshadowing and predicting what may happen in the sto... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
There are many variations of this type of resource, but this one promotes the importance of the elusive AO4. It can be argued that AO4 is at the heart of a successful essay, although it awards the lea... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Paper 1, Paper 2, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Revision: ppt showing how each question addresses the AOs - Papers 1 and 2 Lit VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
Macbeth key quote booklet in Act/Scene order with brief analysis/explanation. This has been adapted from free resources. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Key quotes in stave order with brief analysis/explanation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Using a variety of sources, I have created a knowledge organiser for each of the poems to support with revision. You are welcome to use them or edit them to suit your own needs.**I haven't finished Ti... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Scheme originally created for iGCSE Y10, as an introduction to Question 2 from Paper 1.Made for SEND/ASD students so although a term long scheme, could be condensed down to half-term for quicker paced... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Reading, Schemes of Work, Writing
Exam/Board: IGCSE
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A full lesson analysing the structure and climax points of Lamb to the Slaughter by Road Dahl. This is a full lesson and has a starter activity, video link, extracts, sentence starters and examp... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a full lesson aimed at mid-low ability using the trailer of The Lion King to practice identifying and commenting on key structural features. The lesson includes an exemplar paragraph and... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
I have created a character summary sheet for each character to help support students with revision. These are aimed at higher ability students and include key vocabulary and writer's intentions. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Comparing the rallying speeches of two British Queens to get students to work on comparisons. Model paragraph is in the style of a question two from AQA paper 2 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Students can complete their own short summary of 'Macbeth' here. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A series of slides used as feedback after PPEs. The blank Slides are where the examples of our/your students’ responses can go. There is also a WWW/EBI slide at the start of each question for you to t... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Paper 1, Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies, Shakespeare, Unseen Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
A walk through of how to write a top grade essay. I can't take credit for the mark scheme annotations or the essay chain. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Paper 1, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Romeo and Juliet SOW, cobbled together from various sources over the years. Not all my own work but hopefully useful to some of you. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
This table helps track how the relationship develops throughout the novel. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Eduqas: Death of Naturalist. A lesson to introduce the poem with a writing exercise and success criteria. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: WJEC, Eduqas
May be helpful for students to gather their thoughts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A PowerPoint to go through the key points to remember in approaching Q 4 Paper 2. Includes 2 exemplars at L2 and L3. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: WJEC, Eduqas
A highly embellished PPT covering relevant aspects of context compiled from several online resources. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
A creative writing lesson based on Macbeth. I have used this with lower ability classes to try and get them to be more descriptive and imaginative in their writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Paper 2 Question 4 only but you could probably write the other questions for this if required. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A Thinking and Linking grid on An Inspector Calls I have made, based on Stuart Pryke's Macbeth version. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Worksheets for each ghost and what they teach Scrooge VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
This is a full SoW and is aimed at AQA. It teaches each stage in writing a narrative/description. It follows a set structure of establishing setting, developing a character, how to write a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
An A3 sheet for revision/ track Scrooge's transformation VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas
A very simple resource to get students just consciously making choices. If printing, I'd change it to A3, to give them the physical space on the sheet. This goes with any picture, with a focus on desc... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Year 9 study "The Woman in Black" at the start of the year. It forms part of our spiral curriculum because it helps to build students' knowledge of Victorian (style) ghost stories, thereby preparing... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
I used a video and photographs of the eruption of Mount Etna to help students gather ideas for a piece of descriptive writing for AQA Paper 1 Question 5 (the planning frame on slide 14 is adapted from... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A series of PPTs taking students through the AQA Language Paper 1 which used the "Rosabel" extract by Katherine Mansfield (2017). We use this for revision with Year 11. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
SOW for Romeo and Juliet for Year 8. It contains resources collated/adapted from other sources as well as original activities. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A basic scheme of work aimed at Year 7 students on the novel 'Holes'. Feel free to use and adapt! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
A half term’s worth of Functional skills lessons. Each week has power points and resources for one lesson at E1-E2 or E3-L1 on the same theme so you can mix and match resources depending on the leve... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: Functional Skills
Exam/Board: City and Guilds
A half term’s worth of Functional skills lessons. Each week has power points and resources for one lesson at E1-E2 or E3-L1 on the same theme so you can mix and match resources depending on the leve... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: Functional Skills
Exam/Board: City and Guilds
A half term’s worth of Functional skills lessons. Each week has power points and resources for one lesson at E1-E2 or E3-L1 on the same theme so you can mix and match resources depending on the leve... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: Functional Skills
Exam/Board: City and Guilds
REUPLOADED (The last time I uploaded this it didn't open and I thought I deleted it but it stills shows up.)Guidance sheets I have put together for my year 11s to remind them what they are expected to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
Written with help from teachers from several schools including The Priory. Full SOL including:PP (empty slides for Do Nows)Week by week lesson MT planKOSeveral texts Copy of an "interesting"... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Revision worksheets for the 15 Power and Conflict poems; they act as a summary for each poem with activities for each poem's key ideas. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A scheme of work based upon World Englishes and English as a global language. Useful for A Level English Language Paper 2. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Please find lessons and sow posted separately. I designed these to be completed alongside the reading of The Giver, starting a few weeks in. The success criteria is the same each week because the stud... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Please find the series of lessons to go alongside this posted as a separate resource. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
The Giver by Lois Lowry. A great book to read with Y7. Here we have a series of lesson ppts created on Google slides, so formatting may be lost in converting to ppt. The entire novel is on the lesson... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
'A Song for Ella Grey' written by David Almond reading comprehension questions.There are also additional resources linked Greek Myths to support students wider understanding of the novel. Aside f... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Collection of 14 extracts from novels post-1945. Designed for AQA spec. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Detailed Powerpoint scheme working through the KS3 novel Tribes VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
These PPTs comprising key extracts from the text, can be used for whole class discussion and analysis, as well as independent revision. Individual slides can be used for starters or homework. There is... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Detailed MTP for Shakespeare/Much Ado About Nothing. The first half takes a thematic approach looking at colonialism. The second half shifts to a close study ago Much Ado. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
6 comprehension books and answers.Book 1 - social and historical context. Books 2-6 are based on each stave. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
First few lessons I put together based on the principles in Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth's wonderful book, Ready to Teach: Macbeth. Act 1 Scenes 1-3 covered here. Good for introducing the text for... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Unit: Plays, Shakespeare
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson I have taught at the end of a poetry module in the final term. Great for cultural capital and promoting sensitivity regarding black history. Students find it very engaging. It's also nice to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies, Unseen Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: OCR
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: OCR
Used this with my KS4 groups. The idea is to instill the principles of responding to Literature questions using the conceit of 'building a case' to push them to developing a clear idea/concept. This s... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Paper 1, Paper 2, Set Exam Texts (Novels), Shakespeare, Unseen Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
A narrative writing scheme of work designed to take year 7 up to the Christmas holidays. Using 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' extracts, children have weekly opportunity to flex their cre... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Student and teacher question sheet for watching through the 2018 BBC adaptation of An Inspector Calls. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
I teach English at a SEN school for ASD students. I was asked for tips regarding how we approach teaching and preparing our students for GCSE English language. I picked the brains of my department and... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
detailed comprehension questions and answers for each act.I would love to take credit for these resources, but they were created by an old friend of mine who has since retired. They are brilliant and... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, Eduqas
Whole SOL based around speaking and listening for Key Stage 3 and lower ability Key Stage 4. Utilising persuasive techniques and writing structure. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Speaking and Listening
Whole scheme introducing creative writing and writing techniques VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Act summaries with a gap fill exercise, dual coding and a key quotations section.Ideal for cold reads, lower abilities or revision. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, City and Guilds
I wrote this sheet to sort out my own thoughts about helping Autistic students (and others who struggle with inference) understand how to infer in a text. It has been helpful for colleagues and parent... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
A writing scheme of work for Coraline by Neil Gaiman based upon the reading SOL written by Jane Peters and my own work on structure using Freytag's pyrmaid. Includes a KO, PP and week by week SOL plan VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
A walkthrough worksheet to support students reading AIC for the first time. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A basic scheme of work aimed at Year 7 students on the novel 'Once'. Feel free to use and adapt! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Simple dual coded bunting with the names of the poems and an image to represent each one. I have these printed and laminated then hung on a piece of string in my classroom! :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A word document which is to be used when listening to the audiobook / reading as a class. Questions to answer about key quotations, fill in the blanks, complete diagrams of the dining table etc. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
An A3 sheet with possible questions for Elements of Crime for AQA English Literature A Level B Paper 2 Section C, along with space for students to plan. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2A: Elements of crime writing
An A3 sheet with possible questions for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for AQA English Literature A Level B Paper 2 Section B, along with space for students to plan. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2A: Elements of crime writing
An A3 sheet with possible questions for Atonement for AQA English Literature A Level B Paper 2 Section B, along with space for students to plan. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2A: Elements of crime writing
An A3 sheet with possible questions for Brighton Rock for AQA English Literature A Level B Paper 2 Section B, along with space for students to plan. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2A: Elements of crime writing
Unseen Poetry Worksheet on Piccadilly Line poem by Carole Satyamurti. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
I took the format of this quiz from something that I found online but the questions were designed by my year 11 class.How to play: Split the class into two teams.Quickly draw up this grid on the white... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Not in a lesson format at such but this PPT has lots of Do Now Activities and goes over the whole plot of Macbeth with fill in the missing blanks sheets, there are also slides with the answers on.&nbs... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
More information/revision really than a teaching resource but it gives all the necessary context for Macbeth and relates it to the play with a couple of exam tips at the end. I teach the EDEXCEL sylla... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This resources is effectively a cold read/viewing of the film with comprehension tasks that go stave by stave. It works particularly well with EAL learners and is a good introduction to the story, cha... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
A knowledge organiser with 10 key quotes for both Macbeth and A Christmas Carol with brief context, device/method used and themes covered. Suitable for low/mid ability students who are struggling... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Edexcel style exam paper on Conflict and Unseen Poetry. Has easy teacher marking attached. Teacher simply highlights the relevant target, level and grade. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies, Unseen Poetry
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
A Christmas Carol/Jekyll and Hyde year 10 exam with easy teacher assessment attached should help to reduce teacher marking but also provides students with targets. Teacher just needs to highlight the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
Pearson Edexcel Unseen Poetry resource based on the poems Blackberry Picking and Nettles. Gives an intro to the exam criteria, marks, timings and AOs. There is also a peer assessment marking grid cont... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Unseen Poetry
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
A 16 page booklet of the full text of The Signalman, with glossary and pictures. Aimed at KS3 students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Past questions for AQA Literature exams VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Journey's End full scheme of work. Some resources cobbled together from other sources, plagarism not intentional. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
This is scheme of work for KS3 for non fiction autobiographical writing. We also used it for cross curriculum links with Science and Humanities. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
A quick Do Now asking students which part of the play each meme refers to. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A quick Do Now asking students which part of the play the memes refer to. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A quick Do Now asking which parts of Macbeth the memes refer to. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A quick Do Now asking students which parts of the text the memes relate to. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
A quick Do Now/starter task asking students to identify the poem from the meme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A double sided sheet posing 12 exam questions linked to Power and Conflict from AQA, asking students to consider what they would do should that be their questions. Aims to get students really thinking... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A simple activity designed to allow pupils to see the similarities between Ozymandias and King George III in order for them to see the poem as a criticism. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson designed for pupils that have already studied both poems separately but are now wanting to prepare for exams by practising comparing poems. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
My students needed a lesson with a full walk through of a paper. We annotated the extracts together using the mark scheme/ examiner report. They then completed the plan and answered the question.Some... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language discourses
This sheet is for all students to stick in their exercise books, either on the inside front cover or the back inside cover for them to refer to. If students complete a task and need a challenge questi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Students map out Eva's relationships with the other characters by summarising what happens between the two characters and supporting this with a quote. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
This sheet is to have students plot the important events for the main characters. It is a good summary sheet for students to look back on for quick revision. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
These are help sheets I have given my year 11s to remind them what they need to do for each question for Language Paper 2. It includes marks per question and how long to spend on each question. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
These are help sheets I have given my year 11s to remind them what they need to do for each question for Language Paper 1. It includes marks per question and how long to spend on each question. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
An A3 sheet using a simplified version (includes embedded quotes) of the poem to support students in their exploration. It includes some context and two quotes that students can analyse in detail. My... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
An A3 sheet including a simplified version of the poem, to be used alongside the original. My LOE students engaged with this format well. Feedback welcome :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
An A3 sheet including a simplified version (written as a newspaper report) and two quotations for students to analyse. My LOE students are engaging really well with this format. Feedback welcome :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
An A3 sheet containing a simplified version of the poem, to be used alongside the original. My LOE students have engaged well with this format. Feedback welcome :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Key content quiz covering a range of topics from AIC, Macbeth, L+R poetry, all AQA.Could be useful for starters, or a one off session. Marking sheet included. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
An A3 sheet with a simplified version of the poem to be used alongside the original. The idea of Rich Tea Biscuit was that it's a simple biscuit that hits the spot without being overly complicated! Th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
I have created a range of PPts and resources using some modern examples to introduce non-fiction texts and writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA, Eduqas
Unit: Writing
Bundle of resources for teaching the Penelope Lively story VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Reading, Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
Booklet form of all Language Paper 2s on AQA VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
A short SOW for year 7.Lessons and extracts based on 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'Frankenstein', 'The Raven' and 'Dracula'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A knowledge organiser for a 5-week unit of Animal Poetry with homework tasks. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
AQA Love and Relationship poetry anthology Test and Fold.Simply do test 1, then fold it back so that you can do Test 2, etc. You might want to start with recalling the poem, then move on to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A quiz I made for my year 11s to revise the Edexcel Conflict poems. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
Guidance sheets I have put together for my year 11s to remind them what they are expected to do for each section/question in the literature papers.Texts I have made these for are: Macbeth, Jekyll and... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
To help students embed knowledge of word classes. Could be used at KS3 or KS4. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
Crossword containing literary techniques for both Language Paper 1 and 2. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2, Vocabulary
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Wall Displays
When studying the poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience I've found that it helps students to have a working knowledge of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell too as this more clearly displays the cont... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2B: Elements of political & social protest writing
A PPT to annotate and plan a response to Part A. Includes a sheet of sentence starters for a scaffolded response. Can be used for KS3 or KS4 as the poem is fairly accessible. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A PPT to explore the annotation and planning process for a response to Part A. Also includes a handout with some sentence starters to aid scaffolding a response. Can be used for KS3 or KS4 as the poem... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a power point containing 32 questions and answers to revise Macbeth that I have made for my year 11s. (The power point goes through all 32 questions first and then it goes through all 32 answe... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
I came across this online vocabulary game and thought it would be great for building students' vocabulary.https://play.freerice.com/categories/english-vocabularyIt's run by the UN and for every correc... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A PPT to support and encourage discussion and analysis of Chapter One. Can be used for whole class, group, or independent work. Includes relevant context links. Can also be assigned for homework. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
There is a blank Book Look sheet and a completed one in the folder. Before starting marking have the blank Book Look sheet in front of you and the work, if this is in book form, then ask students to l... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing
There is a blank Book Look sheet and a completed one in the folder. Before starting marking have the blank Book Look sheet in front of you and the work, if this is in book form, then ask students to l... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing
A lesson looking at structure in 'Through the Tunnel' by Doris Lessing. Then spending time crafting a response to a question 5 prompt with a focus on using structural features.PPT, Structure strip and... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Feedback lesson focused on Language Paper 2 Section B June 2023 Exam. Comes with a PPT and resource booklet VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A Language Paper 2 Focused lesson, looking at the development of technology in the 19th century and the use of AI in the 21st century. Students then plan/write their own Q5 response. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
The lesson focuses on the speech given by Boudicca before her defeat to the Romans. There is a particular focus on emotive language and how she wants to rally her army before attack. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
A base ppt for creating a letter to the local council. Uses the theme of graffiti. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
A Valentines themed Language Paper 2 that I made for my class, about falling in love on Valentines Day. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Looking at the topic of Knife Crime through a speech from Athian a UK Youth Parliament member. Exploring the use of language and writing a compelling speech. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Sentence stems for each question which pupils can revise from and use in lessons. My lower ability Language only pupils have this stuck on the inside cover of their exercise books. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
This is one slide which shows all of the AQA P1 Q5 pics which have come up so far - I took some time putting these together and they can be used for general revision, or as a starter. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
We used the June 2022 paper 2 as a mock so this is detailed feedback for the paper. Question by question guidanceIndicative contentmark schemes VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
4 lessons for Macbeth Revision. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, Eduqas
4 lessons for AIC revision. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Easy to navigate knowledge organiser. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Revision lessons for ACC. Complete lessons ready to teach. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
I did this based on Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens for my year 11s. There is differentiation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Essay graded 29 out of 30 in summer 2022 exam VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Exemplar Material
Exam/Board: AQA
Jekyll and Hyde revision worksheets for each chapter. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Useful resources to encourage students to adapt an academic style of writing and give them a range of expressing their points in their written responses. I usually print 2 per page and cut them up and... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Revision lesson with high-ability Year 11. Focused on analysis of writer's intention and included an exam practice question (24 marks) for AQA Literature Paper 2, Section C.Worksheet uploaded separate... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
This will be used for Set 2, Year 11 revision of Unseen Poetry. The worksheet is centred around the poem Catrin, however the analysis question frame can be adapted for any unseen poem. It u... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
More of the same... 5 minute activities all structured in the same way using What How Why as a framework. Designed to help develop confidence in analysing language skills. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR
Unit: Unseen Poetry
5 minute activities all structured in the same way using What How Why as a frame work. Designed to help develop confidence in analysing language. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Fun activity created after completing the novel with Year 9 as a class reader. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Originally put together as a fun pre-Christmas recap of the play and chance to revise key concepts. At this point in scheme of work the play isn't complete, so it doesn't cover the ending. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Originally developed as last week of term/ pre-mock "fun" lesson. Students really enjoyed and was fantastic for revising key quotations! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
This lesson resources was originally created for a middle-ability Year 9 class. I have added stretch questions to challenge the more able learners, plus extension activities and key context. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
A one-off Christmas lesson I did with my A Level Literature class, using Tim Minchin's White Wine in the Sun as a stimulus for discussion and language analysis. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
Unit: Additional resources
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Remembered Places
One 2 hr lesson. Part of a scheme of work on Dystopia and Utopia. Aimed at middle ability year 9. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
This goes with the clear/unclear writing table also uploaded to this site. (This could be used for Paper 2 Q3 as well in terms of crossover skills.) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
I produced this table to help students at GCSE level understand the differences in characteristics of unclear and clear writing on the Reading section, with the aim of moving them from Level 2 to Leve... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
My scheme that I have done so far- not all my work. Amalgamated from various resources online. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
My scheme that I have done so far- not all my work. Amalgamated from various resources online. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Lit What How Why questions to help kids develop their answers. I have them laminated on the wall. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
For Year 10/11. Writing to describe six-part structure. Suits Grades 3 up. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
There are gaps as this is cloze exercise. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Based on the AQA training for structuring a good response for section B of language paper 2. It follows the 5-part structure of persuasion, with an example for each section. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
PPT to enable whole-class feedback on the paper, including indicative material from the official mark scheme for the exam. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Exemplar Material, Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a ppt to encourage KS3 students to create a Gothic story that builds tension with each paragraph having a new focus.It includes pictures, captions and an eerie soundtrack. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
I couldn't find many resources on this so have created my own by researching some of the stories mentioned, mainly in Ch4-5 and then again at the end. This is for Lang Lit but can be adapted for... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 2 - exploring conflict
Topics: Writing about Society
A brief overview of historical political and social developments from the Reformation to now. This is not my specialist area so apologies if there are mistakes. I'm using it in conjunction... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2B: Elements of political & social protest writing
Historical context sheets for the war cluster poems on the Eduqas specification. I teach these chronologically so the students can understand how the transformative power of war has shaped and influen... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: Eduqas
Retrieval tasks after completion of studying the anthology VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Just the beginning couple of slides for a lesson introducing what, how, why paragraphs. There is a grid with question prompts to help show how they can begin their paragraphs with a different focus. O... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Poetry Anthologies, Set Exam Texts (Novels), Unseen Poetry, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Full play text of Macbeth in Russian.This version has been checked by my Ukranian students, all of whom speak and read Russian as well as Ukranian.Please note that I am not a Russian speaker, so I hav... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is a prestation going through different strategies for EAL students. It has a summary of each strategy, some examples of tasks, and copies of completed work. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Course: GCSE Language
I have designed this to support our weaker students to begin the process of language analysis. It is designed to be an initial springboard. I work in a SEMH provision and many students require coloure... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
I have designed this to support our weaker students to begin the process of language analysis. It is designed to be an initial springboard. I work in a SEMH provision and many students require coloure... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Taken from the AQA Paper 1 reading booklet. Text translated using Word translate. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
ACC translated to Ukrainian using Word translate. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
AIC full text translated in to Ukrainian using Word translate. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Full Macbeth text translated to Ukrainian using Word Translate. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A booklet that I have written for our updated rhetoric unit. Students will study speeches and letters from Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Michelle Obama and Marcus Rashford. We have 9 week curriculum cyc... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A KO for our updated Art of Persuasion unit which explores the use of Pathos, Ethos and Logos in speech and writing taking students on a journey of famous rhetoric from Gandhi to Rashford. Includes de... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A knowledge organiser for our new yr 7 scheme exploring the evolution of the hero from Beowulf to Captain Marvel. Includes a Beowulf plot summary, Freytag's pyramid; characterisation terminology inclu... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A KO for our new Dracula scheme for year 9 including: plot summary, key characterisation terminology, a list of explicitly taught Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary, a definition of Gothic Literature and guide t... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
One a day for KS3 groups to go over basics.We called it 'catch up curriculum' but it's just a revising of basic skills.Questions ask students to think about vocab, punctuation, word choice and spellin... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
A4 pages linking English texts to places in the world. They are specific to the books done at my school although I suspect many will have at least some similar. Done with Adobe Spark. The idea is to p... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Wall Displays
A booklet of tips, sentence starters and similar aimed at GCSE English Language students. Advice largely comes from my experiences as a marker for Paper 1 and Paper 2. Done in a comic book style to ho... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A Full 7 week SOW made from lots of resources I have found/made. Comes with a complete homework module. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Homework, Novels, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Creative writing lesson for Paper 1 Question 5. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Exam questions based on extract from Wuthering Heights. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A list of common homophones with definitions. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
Lesson's for the first 6 chapters of Animal Farm, some include resources and lesson plans. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
This power point is to be used with Neil Gaiman's short story. It develops student's understanding of Gothic literature and includes ideas for activities such as: monologue, newspaper and descriptive... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
A display for using when getting pupils to write about anything text related. All sized and coloured ready to print off. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Wall Displays
Ready to print in the right size for a display board. Useful to use for retrieval when teaching. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Unit: Wall Displays
A Lesson on the Poem Catrin from the Edexcel cluster on Conflict. Has context, language, structure analysis and essay writing guidance along with Self-assessment. Probably three lesson's worth of work... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
End of term fun PPT for your classes! 6 categories: events this year, say what you see, music, general knowledge, films, guess the celeb. Enjoy! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Course: GCSE Language
Used to introduce low to mid ability students to poetry for the first time and includes Remains, Bayonet Charge, Exposure, Charge of the Light Brigade and War Photographer from the Power and Conflict... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Covering Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde and Jack the Ripper. Used with KS3 to develop creative writing, subordinate clauses, analysis and familiarisation with 19th Century writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
A set of key quotations grouped by Act. Intended for familiarisation with the plot, teaching or revision. Not every scene is covered so you could add to it. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A test I set after reading 'Jane Eyre' and preparing for A Level Lit A Section C before we covered the poetry. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Topics: Prose text
This is a creative writing lesson for a Year 6 transition lesson. The ppt is based on the book/film Inkheart and has the trailer for the film, slides with captions and music (from the film) to gu... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Plays, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons extracted from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
3-4 lessons - part of a full scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
This is the first four lessons in the full Writing through Time scheme posted a few weeks ago. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
This is a basic resource for developing skills needed for Language Paper One. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A quick and easy couple of slides to remind students of what they will get in Paper 2 and the format of the questions for the Reading section. You could add in the Writing section if necessary. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
What I will be using with my students before their exam in the morning. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A PowerPoint of short tasks and precise information for KS4 students to revise and revisit the skills needed to answer AQA Language paper 2 Q2&4 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A few questions I've made up. Do check them beforehand as they may need tweaking or changing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
This booklet will look at past creative writing exam questions and the different ways you could answer such questions. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
I created this simple mock resource for students to practise the key skills for Paper 2. Q1 and Q3 differ on both slides to encourage the students to look at the texts differently. The main... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A revision workshop using the key scenes from the play with a blank booklet for students to fill in as you work through the slides. The booklet contains crosswords and scene summaries. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Keystone vocab resources, based on Alex Quigley's 'Closing the Vocabulary Gap' ideas. Can be used in classroom display or as part of lessons. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Wall Displays
I have a shareable link with links to youtube videos for visual reinforcement if you message me. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Language Paper 1 walk-through using an extract from 'Romeo & Juliet'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson to explore emotions in A Poison Tree. Focus on extended metaphors. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
A blank copy of a revision grid for Poetic Voices containing sections for a brief summary, poetic voice, form and structure and quotations/patterns. Works well for a quick revision task for Year 13.&n... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Poetic Voices
The Handmaid's Tale booklet containing some key extracts for most characters and themes. I have used this to help when setting exam questions for A-Level English Language + Literature. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Imagined Worlds
15 posters created with Adobe Spark with key quotations in an attempt to make my classroom more SEND friendly. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This workbook can be used to develop writing skills in GCSE students. It contains a suggested teaching order, lesson objectives and a worksheet for each lesson. The lessons include: ... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Schemes of Work, SPAG, Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas
Comparing an autobiography and essay on the topic of women's rights and position in society. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Support mats to help students when writing fiction and non-fiction texts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
This lesson has a short game and suggestions on how the structure a piece of descriptive writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
I lesson that compares Remains to War photographer with differentiated planning table. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
An example of how to structure a piece of viewpoint writing, using the 5 part structure of introduction to outline the issue, logos to give reasons, pathos for emotive impact, counter-argument, and co... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
AQA A Level English Language Model AnswerNovember 2021AO1-11 marksAO2-13 marks24 Marks VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Children’s language development
This could be used as a starter, for revision or could be built on for a longer lesson. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Second attempt at uploading these as some people had trouble with the first ones. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Second attempt at uploading this. Hope it works! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Here is the PDF version of a 19th Century Essay resource booklet I've created (all sources are cited). If you would like the publisher version then please email me and I'll send it to you. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Recommended reads VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Reminder on including commas after fronted adverbials VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Whole School Literacy, Writing
This scheme covers the skills required to approach both creative descriptive and creative narrative pieces of fiction. Within this scheme are topics relevant to enhancing communication, style of con... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Schemes of Work, SPAG, Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas
Written for GCSE students but could be easily adapted. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
The aim of this unit of work is for Year 8 pupils to engage with the form of the play and its content, taking a freeing approach to the text that is talk- and drama-based, and active. In lieu o... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
This workbook contains 10 worksheets and answers to develop English language skills for GCSE students. There are also exam styles questions and their markschemes to develop exam technique. There are a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading, Schemes of Work
A set of three key quotes per main character along with some additional key quotes. Each quote has some analysis and consideration of effects to support revision. I have underlined any write... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A set of three key quotes per main character along with some additional key quotes. Each quote has some analysis and consideration of effects to support revision. I have underlined any writer's m... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A scheme we used with Year 9 this year - some bits will definitely need tweaking, and I feel like I've lost a couple of slides along the way - sorry! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
General revision lesson covering plot, characters, themes and context in the play. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Revision lesson focussing on the character of Malcolm and the theme of Kingship. The lesson also discusses how students can add 'flair' at GCSE. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
A revision lesson discussing the Gothic genre and other literary influences on Stevenson. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Revision lesson discussing Victorian Society and its influence on Stevenson and his novel. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Scheme of Learning, based around the short Ray Bradbury story 'All Summer in a Day.' The aim of the Scheme is to introduce students to some of the skills they will need for their GCSE Language papers,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Full Scheme of Learning analysing a range of poetry based around the theme of relationships. The aim of the SoL is to help students develop the skills needed for their Anthology study at GCSE. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Writing
Full Scheme of Learning covering a range of World War I Poets and Poetry. Students focus on developing skills in analysing and comparing poems through extended writing. There is also a focus on contex... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Link to a video and questions to be answered as an introduction to context within ACC VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA, City and Guilds
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: AS level Lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages, Exam practice & revision
A booklet of potential Othello Love and Relationships extract questions for Act 3 (for the 2022 exams) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Topics: Shakespeare
A booklet of potential Othello Love and Relationships extract questions for Act 3 (for the 2022 exams) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Topics: Shakespeare
An exploration of Sonnet 130 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Macbeth SoL for Year 7 with a focus on the character development of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's characters (culminating in a venn diagram comparison and comparative paragraph assessment. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A scheme of work for The Tempest. Following these lessons, students worked in groups to do an evaluative presentation on one of the following topics (differentiated):• “Prospero is a cruel tyrant.”• “... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A great intro for Media or Film Studies if studied at GCSE, if not, this is a great accessible unit for Year 9 students to explore a range of non-fiction texts. The scheme Developing an awareness of h... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A low stakes quiz on quotations up to the end of Act 1 Scene 4. Some more challenging questions included to revise techniques and significance of quotations. I will try to upload more of these quizzes... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Hot air balloon task with key scenes in R&J.Students need to summarise the scene and then justify which one could be 'thrown overboard' and why it's inconsequential to the play. Students discuss w... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
A low stakes multiple choice quiz on Macbeth context. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas
A reminder of a great range of resources which are all free, and can be used to support teaching for the language paper. I hope it's useful. I have uploaded the word doc, so you're able to modify/ add... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Language and Literature skills aimed at mid to low ability students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
This is my curriculum map for KS3 and year 10 (we are a new school so only just got to ks4). Hopefully, it is helpful. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Resources for reading a book in a day using Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
A collection of resources to teach War of the Worlds. Originally done for WJEC/Eduqas GCSE English Literature. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: WJEC, Eduqas
A full SOW for a Y7 unit around Catherine Johnson's Sawbones. Each lesson is planned and there are retrieval activities at the start of each lesson. Some of these resources are adapted from others I h... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A lesson on capital punishment in Oliver Twist. Features a real life case and requires students to formulate arguments then write these up in the form of a letter. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
This lesson is part of a bigger series of lessons on Oliver Twist. The lesson explores themes used in the play (adaptation by Nigel Bryant). VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
I've made a PowerPoint that includes readings of all of the poems, Mr Bruff short revision videos and one slide of condensed info per poem. I use it as a way to revisit the poems and for pupils to mak... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A glossary for students.When working on them, I deleted all definitions and gave students the sheets to complete as a working document. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Additional resources
Course: A level lang
Two structure strips to help students in structuring their extended responses. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Additional resources
Course: A level lang
Slides to work through whilst reading halfway through Stave 2. Animations should be used to reveal answers over questions / tasks. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A competition for the whole school. Give a teacher a sticker with one half of a literary pairing. Students have to match the teacher to the list on the sheet, and for extra challenge, name... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Scaffolded paper 2 Q5 worksheet aimed at article writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Persuasive writing lesson. Students will learn how to identify ethos, pathos and logos. Students will learn the AFOREST acronym and will put it into practice in a fun writing activity. Can be easily a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
A revision resource containing some of the major themes in Romeo and Juliet. Suitable for both KS3 & KS4. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
A fun resource to get students thinking about how we perceive monsters. It further gets students to consider how to differentiate between the characteristics of humans VS monsters. In this resour... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
A differentiated short SOW (approx 12 lessons) exploring the plot and characters in 'Wonder'. This SOW is great for upper KS2, EAL or low level literacy learners at KS3. Note* this SOW has been create... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
A differentiated short SOW (approx 12 lessons) exploring the plot and characters in 'Wonder'. This SOW is great for upper KS2, EAL or low level literacy learners at KS3. Note* this SOW has been create... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Scaffolded walkthroughs of Paper 1 Q2/3/4 and paper 2 Q2/3/4. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Annotated notes on the poem by Thomas Hardy VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Teaching resource for scaffolded writing response on Ghost of Christmas Past, once you have read halfway through stave 2. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
6 English and 6 Maths activities and some bonus mindfulness and goal setting to help GCSE learners refocus over the holidays. Perfect for a half term homework! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This unit covers identifying important information within a text, looking at analysing non-fiction at sentence,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Consolidating Jacob Marley, after reading Stave one. Useful vocab and a 'what how why' example for pupils to reflect on. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Following a discussion about structure, the end of chapter 8 is the falling action where the tone of the novel changes. Students explore methods and meaning related to the passing of time and Gat... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 2 - exploring conflict
Topics: Writing about Society
3 lessons that build to supported response on 2 exam questions from past papers on A Christmas Carol. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
AQA English Language A Level Paper 2 Question 4 mark scheme on one page: 'Write an article about ... in which you assess the ideas and issues raised in text A and text B and argue your own views'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Writing skills
AQA English Language A Level AOs and levels on one sheet for paper 2 question 3 'Analyse how language is used in text A and text B to present views about ...'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Edexcel Poetry anthology. The PowerPoint talks students through the poem and shows them how to analyse it as well as providing some context. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
A PowerPoint that talks students through the poem and gets them to analyse it and then write a comparative response. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
PowerPoint and booklet that walks students through how to complete Paper 2. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
An Introduction to Edexcel criteria in relation to the text A Christmas Carol, also explores the themes as opposed to Context (not needed for Edexcel but still important) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
Powerpoint SOW for Where The World Ends - Y7/8. Needs to be tinkered with but there's lots on there to get you started. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
A Bingo game I have made to revise terminology and key information about GCSE Language Paper 2 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A scheme of work designed for teaching at a Pupil Referral Unit/SEN school. All PowerPoints and resources included. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Writing
It's been a while since I last posted one of these but they are revision newsletters sent out to year 11 and their parents once a fortnight to support independent revision. We have dropped the poetry... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
A document with sections to complete whilst watching the film version of An Inspector Calls. The accompanying PowerPoint explores the concept of social responsibility with a range of recent news... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
A short activity to introduce An Inspector Calls, using Through the Keyhole as inspiration to learn about the family from the opening stage directions. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
A couple of adverts that I have transcribed from the 'How to Fail' podcast with Elizabeth Day. Could be used for cover or as a starter/couple of starters for identifying persuasive techniques. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
A lesson looking at the article from The Guardian 28/12/21. Includes Language style questions and skills as well as knowledge about context.Useful as a stand alone or revision lesson. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
SOW covering Acts 1 and 2 of 'Romeo and Juliet' aimed at year 9. All fully resourced.Acts 3, 4 and 5 are on another SOW also uploaded onto this website. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
I usually use this with Year 7 but you could use with other KS3 classes.The lesson is based around watching a couple of popular Christmas TV adverts, then a creative writing activity follows each one.... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
In the style of @spryke2 (thank you for format and inspiration!), key extracts with targeted questions for annotation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A really simple walkthrough guide of Paper 1, question 2&3. Would be appropriate for both high and low level learners and can be easily adapted to suit all. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
The sheet has each AO organised by level. Students can see what level they are achieving according to each skill and saves marking time. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: OCR
Unit: Exam practice & revision
A handout to support and encourage the use of evaluative language for Language Paper 1, Question 4 (can be used for AQA and Edexcel). VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
I have created a few resources for paper 1. Please feel free to use. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
A couple of lessons on Penny Dreadfuls as part of a larger focus on Gothic Literature. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
A worksheet to accompany the TED video on iambic pentameter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, City and Guilds
In the style of @spryke2 (thank you for format and inspiration!), key extracts with targeted questions for annotation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
This is a workbook with lots of revision ideas on the character of Macbeth along with some sample questions. It is very visual and hopefully useful! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Hardy’s 'The Convergence of the Twain’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, 'My mistress' eyes’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a te... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Romeo and Juliet’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with t... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Nick Carraway in 'The Great Gatsby'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook wit... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Daisy Buchanan in 'The Great Gatsby'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook wi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Romeo and Juliet’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with t... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitem... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitem... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excite... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excite... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'King Lear’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the exci... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
Hopefully useful to reduce workload. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Scaffolded 'what how why' task for the theme of Social Responsibility once Capitalism / Socialism has been covered and the entire play has been read. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a scheme created from a range of resources - some knabbed ideas, some text book stuffs, some language and power from days gone by. There are also some bits from a booklet we have at the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland, annotated as a class - stanza by stanza VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Useful for y8/9 looking at DAFOREST techniques and dissecting Rashford's letter. There is a what - how - why model that can also be used for other extracts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Exam/Board: AQA
A mock trial task for pupils to discuss who is most responsible for Eva Smith's death. Useful once the entire play has been read and individual characters have been explored. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
I give this planning sheet for students to complete as they plan and write their recreative task for the Unit 2 text. I do The Kite Runner but this can be used for all.Students can easily transf... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 2 - exploring conflict
Topics: Writing about Society
Language Paper 2 practice paper using extract from Flora Tristan's London Journal (19th century travel writer) and 2015 newspaper article about New Delhi air pollution. Question 5 is a timely one... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
In the style of @spryke2 (thank you for format and inspiration!), key extracts with targeted questions for annotation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
A selection of extracts based on ideas on disciplinary literacy. Each section has three extracts and the extracts get increasingly more challenging. Students then plan and write a response based on th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A Mr Birling model that I wrote for a feedback lesson. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Exemplar Material
Exam/Board: AQA
Quantum Theatre performs a full production of the Shakespeare text which runs for 1hr 25mins. This is a very heightened, theatrical production that moves at pace using a set, lights, music and p... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, Eduqas
An hour long play taken directly from the Dickens text, combining narrative passages and short scenes to tell the story, and using the original dialogue and descriptions to do this. It follows e... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC, Eduqas
A unit on The Lady of Shalott which I did with a low ability yr8 group. Complete set of resources. Some are based on things I found, so I can't claim complete credit for it all. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
This is a structure lesson which was based on year 8 pupils (ignore the title I was having a funny five) who were reading Animal Farm but would work for pupils that haven't been reading it as it is ba... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
Leaflet I made to hand out at 6th form open evening for students considering the combined Language and Literature A Level for AQA. Please, obviously, take off all identifiers VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Additional resources
Key speeches in powerpoint format. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: IGCSE
A full SOW for teaching Eduqas Component 2 Section A. You will find a mixture of the exam board texts and extracts taken from other non-fiction sources. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Reading
Exam/Board: Eduqas
Language Paper 2 practice paper using writing from John Howard (19th century prison reformer) and 20th century newspaper article. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
In the style of @spryke 2 (thank you for format and inspiration!), key extracts with targeted questions for annotation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
A workbook I created for students who are absent from school and need further support. It follows our Scheme of learning. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A lesson with detailed annotated lesson plan I created for an interview.Year 9 are currently studying a unit entitled ‘Identity’. In this unit, we are using poetry as a way to show how writers use lan... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
A resource made compiling:ExtractQuestion PaperMark SchemeGrade Boundariesfor every paper sat under the new spec for AQA since 2017. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Homework
Exam/Board: AQA
A framework for descriptive and narrative writing VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
GCSE class:Teaching students to use linguistic devices and find novel ways of describing things. Used as a starter activity. Have five strips of paper with each of the five senses and another word wri... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Useful for teaching or revision of the text, which I covered at KS5 a while ago. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
Lesson on 'Bright Star' as an unseen poem for high ability students who had already had a lesson on sonnets. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
A scheme of learning for A Monster Calls completed this half term. A Monster Calls is a stunning text that beautifully describes the emotional trauma of Conor O'Malley. I hope you find the r... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Delivered over two lessons to FE Public Services students preparing for Nov resit. A whistlestop run through not ideal for lower levels, but here we are! Modelled paragraphs designed to help borderlin... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
In the style of @spryke2 (thank you for format and inspiration!), key extracts with targeted questions for annotation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
SOW was created to support the Unseen Poetry element. Range of Black British poets' contribution to poetry. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
A coversheet for the full mock for A Level AQA Language. I normally mark each question with a different colour so the students can compare how they have done across each exam paper. It doe... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Additional resources
Course: A level lang
A coversheet for the full mock for A Level AQA Language and Literature. I normally mark each question with a different colour so the students can compare how they have done across each exam pape... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Additional resources
Found some great lessons on here on Macbeth, so just uploading my PowerPoint on Romeo & Juliet in the hope it'll help someone out in the same way! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A half term SOL including skeleton PP, all word files, SOL and KO for teaching to year 9 to support their preparation for KS4. All sources are about people who have been erased from history due to sex... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson with contextual links on Serena Joy and Ch3 of The Handmaid's Tale. For Lang Lit but can easily be used for Lit. With thanks to Railene Barker for the contribution. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Imagined Worlds
This is the first lesson on the opening chapters of Terror Kid, focusing on characterisation. I used this with Y8 students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our Brillder content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Othello’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excite... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
In the style of @spryke2 (thank you for format and inspiration!), key extracts with targeted questions for annotation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
Lecture notes and accompanying ppt/notes/weblinks. Designed for U3A adult group lecture. Will need some adaption/checks before using. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Additional resources
21 lessons based on short stories or extracts, some poetry and non-fiction links too. Inspirational stories aimed at year 7, equality themed lessons aimed at year 8 - extract list included to show whi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
This lesson takes students through the processes of answering a question on The Handmaid's Tale Ch2, for Lang Lit A Level. I borrowed the idea of 'planotating' from some other lessons on this we... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Imagined Worlds
In the style of @spryke2 (thank you for format and inspiration!), key extracts with targeted questions for annotation. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
High ability Year 7 or Mixed ability KS4. Based on Didau’s Slow Write technique. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
AQA GCSE English LiteraturePoetry: Power and Conflict‘Exposure’ by Wilfred OwenDouble-sided PDF activity sheet includes:Exploring poet’s word choicesVocabulary skillsSelecting effective quotationsMaki... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Context extracts and activities for J&H VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Old but maybe a start for a tweak. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Needs jazzing up as I took out all of the pictures, but the basics are there. Might save someone some time. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading
Good for a standalone practice or cover lesson. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
An introductory lesson looking at the theme of love through the ages using the History of ideas video and accompanying text before beginning to apply the central ideas about how love is a transcendent... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Topics: Shakespeare
An original text (700+ words) with starter tasks, comprehension and analysis questions, extended writing prompts, and reading mark scheme.Ideal for stand-alone lessons, cover lessons, or as part of a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
An original text (700+ words) with starter tasks, comprehension and analysis questions, extended writing prompts, and reading mark scheme.Ideal for stand-alone lessons, cover lessons, or as part of a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
A full lesson on the portrayal of Abigail Williams in The Crucible, delivered as part of the CIE IGCSE Literature in English course. Includes starter tasks, model answer (partial), and creative writin... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Exemplar Material
Exam/Board: IGCSE
If you would like to teach analysis, feel free to use it. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A stand alone double lesson for year 7, we are going to use this for their first English lesson with us. They will produce a piece of creative writing that we will use as a baseline assessment piece.&... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Exit Tickets allow pupils to reflect on their learning at the end of the lesson, thereby removing the need for a teacher-led plenary. Promotes independent and personal thinking skills, and provides fo... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Plays, Poetry, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary
Encourage students to think about the themes in three easy steps. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Knowledge Organiser for KS3 Novel 'A Little Piece of Ground' by Elizabeth Laird, a resource to support students' study of the text. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
This is a 30 slide PowerPoint which uses the speech by Chris Packham on Alan Turing and the letter Marcus Rashford wrote to the government, both great examples of DAFOREST techniques in a speech and l... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'King Lear’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: AS level lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excite... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Blake's 'London'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of a live,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Blake's 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the exci... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Keats's 'Bright Star’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of a l... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'King Lear’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Wordsworth's 'Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a tex... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
This is the synopsis of a “brick” from our content catalogue on Shakespeare’s 'Othello’. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: AS level lit (B)
Unit: Additional resources
A compilation of free online resources including short biographical information, source of inspiration for the poem, interview with James Nachtwey, historical information about 'The Troubles', the 198... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A compilation of online free resources to include biographical information, interview with Guardsman Tromans, and brief definition of PTSD. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A compilation of free online resources containing short historical information about the Crimean War, biographical information on Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the position of his views as the Poet Laureate... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
The PowerPoint goes through the text chapter by chapter - each chapter has activities that link to the text being an example of Political and Social Protest writing.I haven't finished the end of it ye... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2B: Elements of political & social protest writing
Mini exam practice for Lit - Macbeth, An Inspector Calls and Power and Conflict Poetry.Students write for 30 minutes and then peer assess. One question on each text per term for four terms to hel... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
A powerpoint of questions and activities VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Love through the ages, Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
Course: A level lit (A)
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
A powerpoint of lessons for teaching At An Inn by Thomas Hardy in the AQA A level English Literature Spec A. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Topics: Poetry anthology pre -1900
This is an excellent and timely novel.These resources have been created with thanks to inspiration from the freely available Reading with Relevance Guide found online.The SOW takes students through th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
This is the second part of the SoL: it has the resources to accompany lessons and an end of unit assessment. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
This is Part 1 of the upload; it has the lesson ppts. The end of unit assessment and resources are in Part 2 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A six-week resourced scheme of work for Year 7. Aims of the unit include class reading of a book for pleasure, considering structure and character development and exploring genre. Best tau... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
PPT for teaching Neutral Tones VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
I have cobbled together this list of 50 questions for A Christmas Carol from various other resources. There are assessment objective specific questions (although they are not labelled explicitly as th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels
Encourage pupils to think about the positives and negatives of the Euros 2021 and write a formal letter to one of the footballers. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy, Writing
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: OCR
A resource VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Speaking and Listening
A set of twenty hinge questions which can be used as an assessment tool for DAFORESTER on Paper 2. Print them, laminate them and then cut them up to create a set of question cards. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
A set of twenty hinge questions which can be used as an assessment tool for structural devices. Print them, laminate them and then cut them up to create a set of question cards. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
A set of twenty hinge questions which can be used as an assessment tool for language techniques. Print them, laminate them and then cut them up to create a set of question cards. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
A simple resource to help guide students through a what, how, why approach rather than PEE etc. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
This is a creative writing sow aimed at Year 7 with the theme of archetypal heroes and villains. There are numerous extracts and tasks to embed writing skills. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
A PowerPoint designed to be used for the first GCSE English Language lesson in September. You may want to edit the quiz links and a couple of slides have been left blank to add your own links to asses... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
I love to kill many birds with one stone. While teaching Macbeth, I use this extract to explore parody and allusions. One of those resources that I'm pretty proud of.I hope you like it! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Accelerated Reading was a money pit for a while, but after implementing the key elements detailed in the handbook, we have seen exceptional progress in students who engage with the lessons. They also... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Whole School Literacy
A compilation of free online resources containing short biographical information on William Blake, the position of his views as a Romantic poet, contextual information for the poem, Blake's typicality... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Give by Simon Armitage and Tramp by Robert M. Loydell comparison - group work discussion prompt sheet VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
A useful planning and writing help sheet for an Exposure and Storm on the Island comparison essay VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Typed up mark schemes for questions 2-4.Easy to copy and paste / print. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Double-sided feedback sheet with the questions and the mark schemes. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
SOWOverview of every scene within acts 3, 4 and 5.10 full lessons VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Mock feedback lesson.Designed so that each question in discussed in detail as a class before the students go through their own work and upgrade their answers (green pen in my school/ DIRT etc.). VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Compilation of ideas from a range of free online resources, including short biographical information on Imtiaz Dharker, key themes and ideas within her poetry, a brief section on Dharker in her own wo... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a transcribed conversation between my sister and her son, Isaac. I used it alongside the linked video of him with my year 12 class as part of their Spoken Language Acquisition learning. Video... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Children’s language development
Three further examples of A grade investigations. Two are on political speeches (one with a gender focus) and one is on Billy Connelly's accent and dialect changes. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Language in action (NEA)
Course: A level lang
A selection of POS and lesson ideas from our English Dept masterclasses, aimed at Yr6 students coming to our school in the following year. They are a bit old and disorganised but they can be ada... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays, Poetry, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas
The Ppt builds from comparing the characteristics of fruit to looking at perspectives then two texts based on serial killers. Included modelled response and sentence openers / structure strips.&... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
I was doing a bit of research on the British Library site and found an interesting article on COTLB (link on Word document). This led me to think about some of the striking links you can make be... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Compilation of ideas from free online resources including biographical information about Browning, his time in Italy and its influence on his writing, Browning's connection with Victorian ideas,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Compilation of ideas from free online resources covering the Romantic genre, biographical information about Shelley, and historical references for the poem. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
This booklet was created in order to support students independent reading and understanding of the text VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Theme Analysis with links to characters, key quotes, effect on reader / audience, and context. This can be tailored as revision for any Literature text studied. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Consists of: PowerPoint, extract, sentence task - reading, sentence task - writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Consists of: PowerPoint, planning sheet, review quiz. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Consists of: PowerPoint, non-fiction extracts, sentence starters. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a full scheme of work with booklet and PowerPoints, plus an overview, covering around 5 weeks. It has been created with Year 7 in mind. I have brought together some previously existing resourc... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
An engaging lesson based around persuasive language and review writing for upper KS3/ GCSE students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: IGCSE
Unit: Writing
AS Level poetry lesson CIE looking at Alvi's inspirations/ meanings behind the poem. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: IGCSE, Eduqas
Course: AS level Lit (A)
Topics: Poetry anthology post - 1900
Unit: Additional resources
A short PowerPoint looking at the background of the poem and encouraging A Level, GCSE students to look for poet tecnhiques. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: IGCSE
Course: AS level Lit (A)
Topics: Poetry anthology post - 1900
Unit: Additional resources
A SOW designed to support the teaching of 'Noughts and Crosses' the play to y8 students for their English lessons. I have included clips from the Pilot theatre production of the play at the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
This is a basic lesson that is designed for my last GCSE lesson. It is designed to focus on posituve mindset and encourage students to think about their positive attributes and what they have to offer... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Spoken English
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
I designed this as an enrichment lesson for my last Year 11 lesson. It is not jazzy but does get the point across. My whole aim is to get them to think about what they have to offer and who they are,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Spoken English
Exam/Board: AQA
Active Viewing mini-worksheet introducing them to The Great Gatsby using the 2013 film version. Context - 2x youtube videos and active viewing question sThe Great Gatsby - each chapter has an ext... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Literary genres
Topics: Option 1A: Aspects of tragedy
A student response to the following question AQA style question:Starting with the extract, explore how Dickens uses the ghosts to help Scrooge change his attitudes and behaviour.I got it from the Face... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Ideas taken from this fabulous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfnQPCTdw4U&t=906s VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
This PPT is a mix of the AQA mark scheme, where I've taken each skill and focused on how it develops on the mark scheme. It also has transcripts from the recent free AQA mark scheme application traini... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
As assessments are now over, we're doing this in class. Can really be used with any year group. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Spoken English
Exam/Board: AQA
A simple reflective/ evaluative task- no additional resources needed. I used this with my Year 11s, but can technically be used with any year group. I've left some of their attempts on the PPT. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
I use this text in so many ways! For GCSE, it's good when comparing how children entertain themselves now and then (written in 1910 I think) and the difference between tech now and what chil... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Includes a newer and older text. I used these texts with Q4 for a mid-lower ability group because the texts are not too difficult. I followed up with a Section B lesson on article writing on the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Takes students through context and key questions on the poem. I normally flip learning and get students to annotate before the lesson, prepared to contribute. I normally direct them to sit... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 1: Love through the ages
Topics: Poetry anthology pre -1900
A lovely piece of creative writing, in which the student wrote from the point of view of the ink, which was printing the picture of the old man. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Exemplar Material
Exam/Board: AQA
We created this workbook to support students who may be isolating. Having marked Language Paper 2 for the exam board, we tried to include techniques recommended by AQA and anything we had learned whil... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
I have created a lesson(s) to teach Language Paper 1 Question 5 linked to Macbeth. The PPT has planning for a description or a story and the word file has a planning sheet and example response at the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Using the idea of camera angles to create a "film-like" piece of descriptive writing. I have taken elements of section A, Q3 and used them within creative writing.Works for pupils who need some sort o... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
There is a Guardian article, and a range of openings to articles, to explore the structure and content of articles. We then explored a range of provocative statements and had a silent debate, pr... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
We used this with Year 8 as part of their unit, but can really be used with any year group as an unseen poem/ making inferences etc. As part of the PPT I've include her performance of the poem on the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
A collection of poems and articles exploring protest, resistance empowerment and hope. VIEW
A series of 12 lessons (could be extended) working through skills for AQA Language Paper 1 on the topic of sci fi and dystopia. Extracts include 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Time Machine, The Road. Also... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A series of lessons working through the AQA SAMs on Death Zone and London Snow. Includes lots of activities for each question, including Q5, and exemplar material from the exam board. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A short series of lessons focusing on Greta Thunberg and her UN speeches. Quick practice for section A, but mostly focused on crafting an engaging Q5 response. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A short series of lessons working through a sample paper on travel, looking at texts by Bryson and Dickens. There are lots of opportunities to practice each question, including Q5, with example respon... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A revision session (designed to cover 2 hours), covering the plot, historical context, authorial background and use of characters as lessons about morality and the issues in society.Enjoy! :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
I created these 20 lessons for the first teaching of Macbeth after reading Pryke and Stainforth's teaching resource book on Macbeth and in order to facilitate online learning for our GCSE pupils. The... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
I've collected texts together for the Section A AQA A Lev language exam paper. Some are paired, some need pairing. One or two have also come from the marvellous @EngLangBlog. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
Ppt running through the concepts of ethos pathos and logos.First lesson I've taught for viewpoint writing using this approach and seemed to go down really well with my 16+ GCSE resit learners VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
For unseen poetry, a way to explore the implicit meaning and get students thinking about approaching a deeper level analysis. Good for GCSE or lower. I used with HAP group but could easily... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Quick powerpoint on how to use VEME Used in paper 2 Question 4 Not very much in the Powerpoint - Except for an example which has used VEME VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Useful for establishing character traits once halfway through the text VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Extracts on Football to be compared with Venn diagram plan created and mock Question 4 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A fun little worksheet to introduce the many insults in Shakespeare's works. This can be used as an introduction to Shakespeare or as a starter task with KS3, allowing them to become familiar with lan... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
These are four two hour lessons that we originally used in lockdown but are now being used by our exclusion room. The powerpoints include a warm up to the fantastic Oak National lessons by Stuart Pryk... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading
As a school we had worked on DEAR but it simply wasn't working, teachers were scared of teaching reading or students were allowed to simply stare at a book for 20 minutes. This is not about readi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy
SoL using 12th Night. It culminates in a speech assessment as well as focusing on analysis. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
An A4 table of allusions or references students might want to make in speeches / writing to persuade etc. Spoken language or Paper 2. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Spoken English
Easy revision or support Q5 tasks with self assessment plenary. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Short extracts and questions as a carousel to support plot knowledge and AO1 development. Useful as revision or essay skills. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Revision style lesson which also has an essay response opportunity. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Short extracts make for super comparisons. Very clear perspectives and analysis opportunities. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
Full mock paper - questions 1-5 based on an extract from the memoir 'Educated' by Tara Westover. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Mock paper for CAG/TAG evidence based on 'Jaws' extract VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Fully resourced lessons for ACC, mix of literature and language based tasks. I used this with a low ability group but can be adapted. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Power-point and resources for Transactional Writing. Designed for Y9 but can be adapted. Credit to Mr S Pryke as some of his amazing resources are included. Put together quite quickly so feel free to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Created this to avoid myself repeating the same phrases- you can edit with your own comment bank. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Does what it says on the tin. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
A series of lessons using extracts mainly to explore the Lang P1 GCSE skills through the text and apply literary and social theory. Another teacher completed other book content teaching at the s... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Covers the 'impact of conflict' mini-cluster with Remains, WP and Poppies. Students have already revised the content of the poems, we then worked with slow-writing to build essays using grids an... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
An introduction to some literary villains looking at common threads of description etc. There is assessment for Reading, Writing and S&L, and ultimately it was designed top lead into a Scheme on S... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
This Scheme tries to combine Paper 2 non-fiction writing skills with an introduction to the poems not related to war. It focuses on feminism, poverty, race and the environment building towards pupils... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
A really useful pdf with some of the headlines from the Daily Mail about Meghan and Kate. Organised into pairs, with typed details below to facilitate annotation. Worked really well as a M&R lesso... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
4 weeks of retrieval practice pyramids. Questions are centred around A Christmas Carol and An Inspector Calls mainly with a small interweaving of Macbeth.All created on Word so the questions can be am... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Extract and questions - no mark scheme or indicative content yet. Focus for Q5 is descriptive - this is an area we need to focus on more! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Paper 1 Q1-5 for 'Woman in Black' extract. Can be scaffolded more or I used it as a more independent follow on from 'A Sound of Thunder' which I have also uploaded on here. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A step by step walkthrough of past paper 'A Sound of Thunder' VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
This contains PPTs and resources for a full scheme of work. It is not all my work; I have used many different resources that I have collected over time, and many thanks to all those who produced them,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A list I put together of key revision quotations from 'An Inspector Calls' for KS4. Organised act-by-act. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
All the key quotes from Act 1 divided into characters for easy teaching and revision. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
These quotes are all from ACT 2 of the play and divided into each character to allow students to memorise for the exam. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Some examples of how Katie Ashford's book Building Brilliant Vocabulary can be turned into PowerPoints to teach alongside your SoLs. Just choose the words that suit the texts/tasks and embed them into... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Vocabulary
I put this booklet together to support Year 6 pupils last year during lockdown. It could easily be adapted for Year 7 pupils. I hope you find it useful. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A lesson exploring spending and poverty, includes a shopping list in shillings, powerpoint, articles and images to help guide a final piece of report writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL
A five week (20 lessons) poetry scheme for Year Seven. Some resources are original, some are collated from a variety of other sources. SOW, lesson PPTs, resource booklet and homework ideas... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Useful revision task for creative writing, with an example paragraph, structure, and language technique checklist for introduction to Paper 1, Section B. Can be tailored as GCSE exam practise. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
A7 size grammar booklet for A Level English Language. Includes word classes, specific word classes, phrases, sentence moods, sentence types, and clauses, with definitions and examples. It's set up to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: AS level Lang
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Additional resources
One text from 1914 and link to another from 2020 on the representation of women who have committed crimes when drunk! Comparison question included. Used for remote learning but could be easily adapted... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society, Exam practice & revision
Course: A level lang
A lesson based on Amanda Gorman's Inauguration poem with focus on language analysis (Language Paper 2) skills. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Suitable for remote learning adapted from another resource from TES. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
I have been running a vocabulary acquisition project with year 10.The premise is that they select words based on their level of challenge, find the definition and use them.Two half-terms worth of slid... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Vocabulary
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
We teach KS4 in 5-hour blocks, so this is around 4 hours of work based on 'Checking Out Me History'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a lesson based on 'Odour Of Chrysanthemums' which is part of the AQA Telling Tales anthology. We don't study the anthology for the Lit exam but we use it for general Lang P1 skills, so that's... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Taught to year 8 as part of our 'poetry and short stories from other cultures' unit. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Taught to year 8 as part of our 'poetry from other cultures' unit. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This extract is studied as part of our 'Poetry and short stories from other cultures' unit. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This taught as part of our year 8 'Poetry from Other Cultures' unit of work. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This booklet is part of an on-going vocabulary acquisition project for year 10. It has 6 extracts featuring some tricky vocabulary for students to find definitions and attempt to use themselves. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Vocabulary
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, City and Guilds
A Power and Conflict poetry escape room-style activity. - Questions can easily be adapted. - Includes clear instructions and a teacher answer sheet. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a series of lessons based around The Woman in Black. It covers some techniques and mostly analytical writing focussing on atmosphere. I have adapted some of this to use as a creative writing f... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading
This is a series of 10 lessons that gives contextual insight to the play. There are some Oak academy link included in the PPTs too. Pupils need an idea of the plot and characters before commencin... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
This short scheme introduces the skills needed for AQA GCSE English Language paper 2, and is based on extracts on the theme of poverty, crime and social responsibility. The aim of the scheme is to dev... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
FINALLY I've amended this booklet for AQA (there is an Edexcel version I made a few years ago). For those using google slide... the word version REALLY does not like google slides! Very jumbled.Here i... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Paper 2, Reading, SPAG, Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Spelling, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
I've updated my list of great things to watch that support the teaching of English at KS3 & KS4. I've added some documentaries also. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Homework
Exam/Board: AQA
An example of our LTP for Language and Literature. We're a 14-19 school so we begin teaching from Y10. The beginning of Y11 then tends to be intro to Literature assessment, Anthology and unseen... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
A recent article about a "deluge" of English terms, many Covid-related, that are entering the Greek language. Followed by five questions which are designed to get students thinking about attitude... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Paper 1, Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a scheme I used with KS3 but you could take to poems and use them at GCSE also to practice for the Unseen element.Let me know if it is useful :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Two lessons starting with the red room in Jane Eyre followed by a lesson on The TellTale Heart using the online text:https://www.poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Has two articles in the PPT based on football, so no additional resources needed. Hope it helps. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Differentiated worksheet to go with the ppt (uploaded separately because people couldn't access the zip file with both docs in) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
There is also a differentiated worksheet to go with this but I will have to upload separately because I seem to have a problem with the zip file with both docs in. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Created for Year 13 AQA Literature B. These are a series of PowerPoints and linked tasks to help students incorporate more literary criticism into their answers. They were created for remote learning... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2B: Elements of political & social protest writing
Please note: the Paper 1 used here is not originally my resource but exemplar q2 and 3 responses are. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
A scheme of work that includes a range of fiction and nonfiction sources exploring the experience of childhood from the Bronze Age all the way to the modern-day. The scheme focuses on key reading skil... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Detailed PowerPoint about the different types of Language used in Much Ado About Nothing. Used for Year 12 AS Literature. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: AS level Lang
Unit: Paper 1: Language & the individual
Topics: Textual variations & representations
This is a scheme of work to support the teaching of the book Love That Dog. Would work very well with a low ability KS3 group.The book is essentially a journal written by 'Jack' in response to hi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
Produced for remote learning1. Research and comment on five stereotypical french dishes that France is known for. 2. Make notes about wine and how it can be considered part of French culture - you may... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Remembered Places
Six Lessons, based on OCR exam propmts but can be adapted to be the AQA narrative prompts for paper 1 question 5 (narrative writing).The lessons give students a structure they should use everytime. Th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA, OCR
Writing level descriptors that can be uploaded to the comment bank on google classroom.Just copy and paste.Use the # to search within the comment bank. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen poetry full lesson for remote teaching based on Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb from Biden's inauguration ceremony.Includes differentiated question worksheet and ppt VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Connecting Wall from Only Connect based on Macbeth. Probably best for higher ability groups, and as a revision activity. Solutions on final screen! I awarded 1 point for each set of... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas
Extracts from The Woman in Black & Game of Thrones. Loads of activities as well as exam Q's to answer. Section B and vocab lists included VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Here is a descriptive slow-writing piece based on Act 1, Scene 1 of Macbeth. This is based on an article about the changing of the seasons from The Guardian. It includes a modeled example with the slo... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Using certain strategies that make writing more interesting. Includes a synonym starter for more ambitious vocabulary. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Use these success criteria for different parts of narrative writing, linked to Freytag's Pyramid. Great for breaking down each part of the story into chunks. Can be used to create rubrics... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Tick Sheet for Pupil Self-Assessment. Can be used to create a rubric in Google Classroom, and then add a link to the document when returning work, for pupils to either choose their own 'Pink Pen... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials, Paper 1, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson for KS3 - year 7 - on Lady Macbeth and her downfall. The students are investigators and must find out what happened to her and why through clues such as doctors notes, secret letters fr... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Powerpoint of lessons for a Y7 Sci-Fi unit. Texts include Hitchhikers, Fahrenheit 541, Day of the Triffids. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: AS Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 2 - people and places
Topics: Re-creative writing
Some CPD I delivered to both whole school and NQTs and ATs on reading, vocabulary and oracy. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Remote Learning Unit - suitable for uploading on to an e-learning platform or for live lessons. Includes all PPTs and resources. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a useful resource for teachers to review evidence of a study and links to resources. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Course: Functional Skills
Marking rubrics to be imported into Google sheets and used in Google Classroom. Thanks must go to a previous poster who created these for Paper 1, and Paper 2 Q5 and the Literature! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
I have cobbled together a booklet from several resources to support A-Level students with their independent revision of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Tasks are broken down into weeks to g... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Exam practice & revision
A PowerPoint with a series of tasks, all leading towards learners writing an answer for question 5 on paper 2. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Checklist for success criteria in writing a comparative poetry essay. Useful for reflection/improvement/self-assessment. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials, Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Using AQA KS3 Papers as a resource - includes PPTs, resources and links for full remote learning unit. Can be used for live lessons or posting on e-learning platform. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Aimed at a higher year 11 set. Instructions on how to set up via Breakout Rooms on Teams attached, with all clues and answers. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Unseen Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
I've added some stories together (i've not read them all so please be careful). VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Quick guide if you are new to TEAMs. Written when I was working from home for 4 weeks and had a teacher in the classroom with students. Not an expert guide or definitive guide but the tips are u... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: AQA
This is an Oracy focused lesson (but could be adapted).The focus is on the historical background of the female rulers, of the Tudor era.Looking at the bloody nature of Queens Mary and Elizabeth, pupil... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A selection of resources for Functional Skills L1 and L2, comprising Reading sources and comprehensions, a SPaG exercise, vocab development and Writing/S+L exercises. See the PP teacher slides for ful... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing
Exam/Board: City and Guilds
Questions in the style of VIPERS on each character from An Inspector Calls - including Edna! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: AS Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 2 - people and places
Topics: Re-creative writing
A very simple remote learning lesson for writing skills. Feel free to use, edit etc. I've left some of my students' exemplars in the PPT. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Writing
This focuses on the first half of chapter 7. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: AS Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 2 - people and places
Topics: Re-creative writing
6 lesson mini-unit to introduce pupils to AQA Unseen Poetry, both questions. It begins with the skill of analysing a tiny snipppet of a poem and builds to a comparison of 2 poems in lesson 6. The unit... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Online Y10 lesson to recap A Christmas Carol and introduce An Inspector Calls, while practising Language P2 skills. The students worked through the slides, then moved onto the document.Apologies... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
An online lesson I taught last week linking Beatrice's character to the main themes of the play and working towards writing a response.WAGOLL included (though I did get a bit carried away!) the colour... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A one page word doc with two main time theories which are applicable to AIC: Ouspensky & Dunne.It gives a brief outline and space to make notes on how to apply to the text - this will need teacher... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
These are adapted from the resources produced in our Trust and from the book written by the marvellous Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth. Adapted mainly by our lovely HOD Eve Rice One is voiced by... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
Mostly lessons and texts for P1 Section A Reading with some texts from AQA but others new. The work in the main folder was mostly shared within our fabulous Trust English team, In the Sub folder... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
an easy-to-set hour lesson with stimulus to prompt non-fiction writing VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
An easy-to-set lesson on non-fiction reading and response VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
A research task designed for year 8 students prior to studying poetry and short stories from other cultures. Just to get them thinking about the relevance of context when studying a poem. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
A lesson exploring Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Revision of The Inspector and Mr Birling in 'An Inspector Calls'. The lesson has differentiated work at three different levels and has been designed for live teaching but could also be easily used in... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Independent project for Year 7s to complete using resarch and online resources from RSC. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A worksheet to upload to Google Classroom or similar for students to work through for their own learning. Ideal also for revision. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
This one refers to language change but I just change the key words and leave the structure intact for different questions. I print a3 versions and get the students to literally use them as... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language discourses
Success criteria with linked improvement tasks to aid quick marking and DIRT lesson. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Just in case you want something topical (and gentle) to introduce Transactional writing to your class, I've just put together this PP on the speech Boris Johnson gave last night (4/1/21). This is an a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Get your GCSE students out and about - and starting to think about writing about their own lives and area. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Unit: Writing
KO containing a brief overview of the exam spec for AQA Lit and Lang for both papers. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Printable exit tickets that can be used for student reflection on learning. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This is a 5-hour session designed for year 9 students who will be remote learning for the first week back after Christmas holiday. At my school we do the Readathon (reading for good charity sponsored... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a 5-hour session created for year 10 students who will be at home for the first week back after Christmas break. They are about to complete their assessment on 'A Christmas Carol' and this les... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Two HW or remote learning booklets on Christmas Carol. One for higher ability (HA) and one for lower ability (LA) Each HW has a different focus - Scrooge, Bob, The Ghosts , Minor Characters, Structure... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Schemes of Work
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Powerpoint and handout to accompany a Year 12/13 lesson on gender representations. All texts are contemporary, so suitable for AS (and won't harm A Level either!). Includes powerpoint and handouts.&nb... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
This is my 'go to' Christmas lesson for Y13 English Language. Please note, it does require some understanding of the key features of Middle and Early Modern English (more so the latter) but could prob... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
This is a revision pack originally designed to support students in isolation - either internally or externally. Some ideas and resources have been taken and adapted from contributing teachers on the s... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
These are revision/ work packs created for students in isolation (internally or externally) for GCSE English Language and Literature for AQA. Some resources have been taken from contributing teachers... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Assessment Materials
Exam/Board: AQA
I used the National Curriculum grids to create this so that we can mark KS3 using the grades 1-9. It is certainly not an exact science but as always in English, it is about best fit. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Homework booklet of extracts and tasks to prepare students to study a C19th text. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
A list of codes matching AOs. Can be used for coded feedback and self-assessment. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Assessment Materials
A number of worksheets on the characters in Mortal Engines and the traction cities within the novel. Used with mixed ability Y9s VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Produced by Corby Technical School English Dept. A quick quiz / low stakes test for giving at the end of teaching each Act VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A Paper 2 Question 5 task using Netflix's 'The Social Dilemma' as inspiration. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Creative Writing using an image from Pobble. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Extracts from Critics. Worksheets showing example of how to use and activity to teach students how to engage with the critical opinion. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Additional resources
These documents are a working draft of how we are attempting to mark our KS3 students this year. They use a pared down version of both the AQA English Language AO5 and AO6 criteria for GCSE and... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
This is Qs 1-4 on The Hunger Games and Jaws. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
2 lessons, focusing on how we are lead to anticipate supernatural experiences and how/why Marley is presented as being doomed to Purgatory.Plenty of Oracy/discussion focus as well as sentence stems, a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Lesson and resource exploring 2019 Christmas ads VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Created to help students learning remotely in isolation VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Extracts throughout history on the subject of rebellion. I'm posting this in the hope of gaining more ideas, so if you use it, suggest soemthing to add! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
A revision lecture and workshop on language in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde based on the Massolit lecture by Nick Groom. Referenced on the first slide. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
A PP for A Level Language on ethnolects, urban dialects and more. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
A PP used in remote learning/online teaching (so reading/content heavy), mostly on Labov and Trudgill but with others such as Giles, Bernstein etc. Social class/ regional. Sociolinguistics. A Level La... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
A handout on Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil (2009) for AQA A level Paper 2 Language Change (technology). VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
A handout for students on Gretchen McCulloch's (2019) Because Internet for A Level Language. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
A little PowerPoint summary of Philip Seargeant's The Emoji Revolution (2019). VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Welsh board exemplars Creative Narrative Writing VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Exemplar Material, Writing
Exam/Board: WJEC
A Language paper 2 opinion article question using a BBC article on accents as its stimulus. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language discourses, Writing skills
Here, I have used the "City of Beasts" extract and created a series of repetitive questions for pupils, to assist them in looking for CHANGES within a text and the subsequent impact of these, on reade... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A ppt to show students how to create a snakes and ladders style board game. Scrooge's positive actions are the ladders. The negative actions are the snakes. It can be printed out to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Some resources I put together on the Apopo rats, who sniff out landmines and disease. My students really enjoyed this topic. Lots of information can be found on the Apopo site. This topic covered 2-3... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing
Many of these materials are for blended/interactive use on my Google Classroom, and I have attempted to convert them to paper based for easier sharing.This is the first FS topic I am uploading. I'm no... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy, Writing
A Christmas Carol starter focusing on stave 1 and 2, can be a useful revision resource. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Two texts both on elephants for Q1-3 on paper 1. One is a WWF advert and the second is from George Orwell in 1936. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Course: A level lang
Topics: Textual variations
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Gives examples of aspects of English which have changed over time. Includes a practice Q3 style task using podcasts as texts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Runs through lots of reasons for language change including the views of Crystal, Trask, Lerer, Hitchings, Goodman, Fairclough, Lane Greene, Aitchison, McWhorter, Chen, Bailey, Deutscher, Eckert and Ca... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Covers prescriptivism and descriptivism, the role and history of dictionaries of English, Deborah Cameron's Verbal Hygiene and a practice question. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
This has been my pet project since August! Lots of reading went into it. It's a mammoth presentation split into three main sections: 1) attitudes (prescriptivism, descriptivism, dictionaries, verbal h... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
A short student response for the presentation/significance of Serena Joy. This also includes the mark scheme and WWW/EBI space for students to assess the piece. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Based on a variety of different texts ( not included). Useful as starter, examining the structure of an analytical paragraph and emboldened useful words and phrases to help pupils understand how to wo... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Short extracts to practise with first, theme parks question and planning grid, ARRESTED table with examples (based on q about the merits of prom) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A starter task on the context introduced in stave 1,2,3 and how this links to characters, useful for year 10/11 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
A collection of photographs to choose from to inspire your students' writing. I've cropped short most of my portrait shots to help them suit a slide better, and over-saturated the colour on many of th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Practice unseen prose questions I have made for AQA English Literature A Paper 2: Texts in Shared Contexts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Exemplar Material, Unseen Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
It's a word document, so you can edit as you wish. I've used wording which mirrors the AQA mark scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a sheet of words to describe different types of weather. We use for Paper 1 Question 5 and teach students to start their descriptions by concentrating on the weather. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
This PPT helps students to prepare a school magazine article about the advantages/ disadvantages of school uniform. It includes model introduction and a model of a weak point to improve. We use it for... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A PowerPoint presentation for Year 10 or Year 11. This contains exercises which cover some of the Key Skills for the IGCSE English Language Reading Paper 1. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: IGCSE
This is unit of work is comprised of 20 lessons, 60 minutes in duration. Some of the lessons may carry over into a second day depending on speed and ability of class. These lessons address context (fo... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Schemes of Work, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: EDEXCEL
This is the Writing Mat we use to help students with their 'What, When, How, Why' paragraph structure.Although this Mat is specific to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, it can easily be adapted for any text. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 5
Exam/Board: AQA
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 2 - exploring conflict
Topics: Writing about Society
ACC Intro lesson - Dickens' Purpose VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Five PPTs each containing a variety of photographs to use as prompts for creative writing. Could be used for Paper 1 Q5, but also for creative writing ideas at KS3 (the photos are from the Guard... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
This is an SOW to introduce Year Ten to Language Paper One. Some of the resources are original and some have been collated from a variety of other sources. Each lesson focuses on a specific ques... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Exemplar Material, Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Macbeth q based on 'Is that a dagger' plus exemplar. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Exemplar Material, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Questions based on watching the film 'The Spirit of '45' Lots of useful contextual info that pupils can apply to 'An Inspector Calls'. Pupils fill in the missing blanks on the sheet to provide th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Exam/Board: AQA
Two lessons using the prologue of Malala's autobiography focusing on structure and the effect of giving away the ending in the opening and then telling the build-up after. This links to Romeo and Juli... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
I've created these A4 revision summary sheets for each of the questions on Language Paper 1. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: AQA
Eduqas Paper 1 Style using the opening of Halie Rubenhold's The Five. Could be used alongside the teaching of ACC for context. It is rather long so I wouldn't use it as a practice assessment as such. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Exam/Board: Eduqas
PPT with ten lines from Macbeth. Put students into pairs to act the lines. The teacher sets the scene, introduces the line, they act out the line, teacher summarises action, act out... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
A worksheet with a selection of words and definitions from Samuel Johnson's dictionary, and space for A Level students to make notes about patterns, quirks and changes they spot. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Select list of Old English lexis showing a range of spelling patterns and letters alongside modern equivalent. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Course: A level lang
Topics: Language diversity and change
Variety of tasks designed to help students understand the impact of punctuation on writing and meaning. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
Task and planning grid using helpful narrative approach plus images for stimulus:-In media res-Shift -Resume action and situation worsens-Climax - Resolution VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Exam/Board: IGCSE
A powerpoint I put together to get a Year 11 class through the play over the next few weeks. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Schemes of Work
Crime Fiction SOW (aimed at Y7 but could easily be adapted and used with all KS3 classes) combining both reading and writing activities focusing on crime fiction. Includes a booklet / workbook wh... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Act out the plot of Macbeth with key quotations. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
pdfs of slides (cannot convert Active Inspire to ppt, sorry), plus a worksheet. Three-step process to create metaphor, simile, personification etc. - lang devices based on comparison.Could also b... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Publisher doc with sections to summarise plot, quotes, context and writer's intent. Useful revision task - could easily set as homework. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
Revision activities and information for Much Ado About Nothing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
A brief planning worksheet for CIE AS English General Paper essay-writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: AS level Lang
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Homework, Poetry
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 1: Literary genres
Topics: Option 1A: Aspects of tragedy
Shamelessly stolen from Stuart Pryke's resources - excellent if you're stuck for cover or need to set a home learning task VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
Brief intro to P&C poetry unit. Then analyses Ozy with some creative writing about the Edward Colston statue in Bristol. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
A Revision tool for revisiting context, character and themes. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2
Exam/Board: AQA
This was delivered as a 'recap' unit of key skills at the start of Year 9 - mixed ability group with lots of EAL but generally high ability. It was a 3 week unit, and only taught in ONLY double lesson... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, IGCSE
Introduction to what is meant by PSPW and then looks closely at Section A Unseen question.Also has HW tasks based on banned books. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2B: Elements of political & social protest writing
This SOW includes 12 double 50 minute lessons to introduce the students through the key themes and ideas of the text. The lessons are based on the students reading the text before the lesson (there is... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level Lit (B)
Exam/Board: AQA
Unit: Paper 2: Texts and genres
Topics: Option 2A: Elements of crime writing
This tracker uses guesstimates from previous trends for AQA GCSE English Literature in light of the changes to the 2021 exam format due to coronavirus to allow for tracking of approximate grades. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Assessment Materials, Paper 1, Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies, Shakespeare
Exam/Board: AQA
Shared on another group - GCSE converter and trackers for a range of exam boards. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Assessment Materials
Romanticism Scheme for Year 9 - pitched to high ability but can be differentiated down with ease...set of slides more than explained scheme but feel free to contact me on FB for clarity. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
'Power' Poetry for Year 7. More a set of slides than a SoW, but you can always contact me on FB if you need info! :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Pastoral Poetry Scheme (well, slides that support the scheme - some lessons will be clearer than others - you can always ask questions via FB if you want more info) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
A scheme of work for Year 9 on Othello. Scene-based approach - relatively limited text content; lots of focus on character motivation and the notion of 'outsiders'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A PowerPoint and resources to talk students through planning writing and assessment of an exam style question. The question focuses on Checking Out Me History (and London) but could easily be adapted... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Paper 2, Poetry Anthologies
Exam/Board: AQA
A very detailed SoL on three stories taken from the excellent collection 'Canon Fire'. The stories are a collection chosen by Michael Morpurgo. The lessons and resources are for the three stories: The... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading