A mock exam for AQA Paper 2 using two sources themed around Glasgow.

A sheet with ambitious vocabulary for students. Used to improve their vocabulary in creative writing. Categorised as follows: words for smells, tastes, feels, sounds, buildings, big, small, walk, weather.

Model response for an exam Q themed around poverty in ACC. Exam Q and extract provided. Model response meets all of level 6 Literature criteria and is roughly a Grade 8 response.

A modelled response answering the question How does Russell present the theme of childhood and growing up? Meets all level 6 criteria on mark scheme. Roughly level 8.

A model response for AQA Lit P2 answering the question: Compare how two poets present love and lust in Singh Song! and one other poem from the relationships cluster. Used with top set Y11.

A grade 8/9 descriptive writing response to an image. Uses highly ambitious vocabulary, sentence structure and punctuation. Uses a wide range of complex linguistic features successfully. Description of an image of a car graveyard (image attached to response)

A mock paper for the Edexcel IGCSE English Language 3B exam. Two non fiction texts themed around sledding. Section A - reading skills Section B and C - writing skills

An exemplar Grade 8 response for AQA Paper 1 Q5 using cyclical structure. Written in response to an image of a train platform. This is my own interpretation of the level 4 mark scheme and how I believe that a student can achieve the higher marks on this question. Please note that this is my own writing and is for use in the classroom. It should not be shared or published online without permission.

Exemplar response for a question about the presentation of violence in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Meets all of the level 6 criteria for AQA Lit Paper 1- roughly a Grade 8 response. Extract and exam Q provided to help contextualise the response.

A comparison essay comparing ‘Remains’ and ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ and how both poets present the effect of conflict. Meets all AOs for the Literature mark scheme. Roughly grade 7+ comparison.

Level 6 exemplar response for AQA Literature Paper 2 considering how mothers are presented in the play (grade 8/9 overall)

This is a lesson that I created for my bottom set Y9 class to help tem understand and use prepositions of place in complex sentences. It could easily be used to teach prepositions at KS2 and wouldn't take much adapting. Lesson uses Where's Wally as a stimulus for writing. Engaging activities to keep students enthused.

Model response for Macbeth GCSE Literature question 'How does Shakespeare present Macbeth and Banquo’s relationship? 2 paragraphs, roughly grade 6 standard

A grade 8/9 exemplar response for DIckens’ A Christmas Carol. Question about the theme of memory and the past. Starting with AO3 context before exploring three separate instances of memory in ACC.

An essay for Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers considering the purpose of the narrator. Used with top set Y11.

Grade 6/7 exemplar response for Paper 1 Q5 Four paragraphs using a variety of sentence types, punctuation and vocabulary

Section C of the AQA poetry exam Two Unseen Poetry assessment papers themed around winter

A vocabulary sheet for improving non-fiction writing. Contains connectives, modal and imperative verbs, words and idioms to express a range of feelings, and intensifiers.

A full mock exam for an extract from the opening of ‘Rebecca’. Q1-4 reading followed by Q5 writing.

Q27.1 and Q27.2 in style of AQA Literature Paper 2. Model answers for both questions.