This resource is designed for GCSE English Literature teachers looking to deepen their students’ understanding of key themes, character development, and dramatic techniques in J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, particularly focusing on the themes of responsibility and generational conflict. It includes a comprehensive set of key vocabulary and phrases, a detailed essay analysing how Priestley explores these themes, and a range of discussion questions to encourage critical thinking and class debate. Key Features: Key Vocabulary and Phrases: A carefully curated list of essential terms, such as “responsibility,” “generational conflict,” and “moral failings,” alongside character traits and literary devices. These will help students grasp important concepts and enhance their analytical skills. Detailed Essay: A model essay exploring how An Inspector Calls critiques generational attitudes to responsibility, focusing on the contrasting perspectives of the older and younger characters. The essay discusses the dramatic techniques Priestley employs, including dramatic irony, foreshadowing, and cyclical structure, as well as the symbolic use of characters like Mr Birling, Sheila, Eric, and Mrs Birling. Key Phrases from the Play: A selection of notable quotes from the play, offering insight into the themes of responsibility, societal change, and moral conflict. Each quote is accompanied by a discussion question to help students analyze the significance and implications of the dialogue. Discussion Questions: Thought-provoking questions exploring the generational divide in the play, helping students to critically engage with the text. These questions focus on character development, moral responsibility, and Priestley’s social critique, offering opportunities for deeper analysis and class discussions. Reflection on Relevance Today: An exploration of how the generational conflict in An Inspector Calls mirrors societal attitudes during Priestley’s time and its continued relevance in today’s world, prompting students to consider the ongoing importance of social responsibility and change. An additional resource is provided which focuses on understanding the key moment when The Inspector leaves. Students have to write in speech bubbles about what each character would say in their disagreement.

The GCSE, Macbeth Homework and Study Booklet is a detailed resource designed to support GCSE, English Literature students in mastering Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Tailored for classroom use and independent study, this guide provides comprehensive coverage of the play’s key characters, themes, scenes, and literary devices. It is structured to build students’ analytical and creative writing skills while helping them develop a deep understanding of the text. Key Features Character Quizzes: True/false and multiple-choice questions focus on Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, and others, ensuring students retain essential plot and character details. Scene Analysis Tasks: Targeted practice for pivotal scenes, including Act 1 Scene 7 (Macbeth’s Doubts) and Act 5 Scene 1 (Lady Macbeth’s Madness), with guiding questions and practice tasks. Themes Exploration: Short-answer questions delve into ambition, guilt, fate, and deception, encouraging students to connect textual details with broader thematic ideas. PEEL Paragraph Examples: Model answers illustrate how to construct high-quality analytical paragraphs. Creative Writing Tasks: Activities such as writing diary entries from Macbeth’s perspective or imagining additional prophecies engage students creatively while deepening their textual understanding. Essay Plans and Tips: Guidance on structuring essays for key characters and themes using evidence-based analysis. Glossary and Revision Tips: A literary glossary ensures students are familiar with key terms, such as soliloquy and hubris, while revision tips focus on memorizing quotes and linking analysis to questions. Assessment Practice: Multiple-choice quizzes and structured essay questions provide opportunities for formative assessment, allowing teachers to track progress and address gaps. Holiday and Homework Focus: This booklet is ideal for assigning homework tasks during term breaks or as ongoing revision. The scaffolded activities help students prepare for exams independently, with a mix of creative, analytical, and memory-based tasks. A second version has been included with answers removed for assessment purposes.

Engage your students with comprehensive and versatile GCSE, English Literature resources designed to deepen their understanding of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. These materials cater to various learning styles and include: A complete revision guide with multiple-choice quizzes, short-answer tasks, PEEL paragraph examples, and essay plans. Character analysis quizzes for Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Tybalt, and Friar Lawrence. Theme exploration with questions on love, fate, loyalty, and conflict. Creative writing prompts like alternative endings or diary entries. This unit can be used for classroom or home us and encourages independent study and solid exam preparation through structured activities. A creative writing guide based on picture prompts and storyboards is also included. Students craft descriptive stories inspired by scenes from Romeo and Juliet. This will enhance descriptive writing skills while fostering an imaginative connection to the play’s themes. It incorporates visual stimuli to support learners needing extra guidance in building their narratives. This resource is useful as an additional guide and can be used as a revision guide during school holidays.

This GCSE, WJEC, English Language Paper Pack includes a practice paper, extracts and model responses/indicative content. Ideal for preparation for the exam, the practice paper follows the format of the Unit 3 paper. It is based on the theme of social media and teenagers. The extract includes a range of text types. It includes indicative content so that you can compare successful responses with the students responses. There is also a model writing response. A further visual resource is included if you wish to explore argumentative writing and social media. A useful resource for students to improve their attainment for Non-Fiction!

The resource includes a number of storyboards to help students discuss issues related to the environment. This is a useful scaffold to write argumentative or persuasive texts. You may also want to use them as a story prompt!

Unlock the potential of your students with these visually appealing, A Christmas Carol resources tailored to support GCSE English Literature teachers. Perfectly aligned with the curriculum, these tools focus on Stave 4, providing deep insights into character relationships, narrative developments, and key thematic explorations. Key Features of the Resources: Analytical Extract-Based Questions Develop critical thinking with detailed prompts centered on key scenes, such as the businessmen’s indifference to Scrooge’s death in Stave 4. Students analyze language, tone, and societal critique through scaffolded questions and PEEL-style model paragraphs. Narrative Writing Practice Engage students in creative tasks like rewriting or continuing narratives inspired by Stave 4. With comprehensive vocabulary lists and structured storyboards, students can explore Scrooge’s emotional arc - from fear and dread to hope and resolution. Stave 4, Sequential Activity Reinforce understanding with a sequence-building task that aligns Stave 4 events in chronological order. This activity helps students visualize Scrooge’s journey and identify the pivotal moments of his character’s redemption.

The pack aims to support dyslexic students in improving their Discussion Writing. It contains an outline of the lessons, a series of unique, visual spelling activities, a visual sentence activity and a model text. The unit finishes with an independent writing task. The use of the copy - cover - spell technique has proved ineffective for dyslexic students. Instead, I have developed a unique approach to spelling that involves drawing and colouring the words and using colours to demarcate syllables. It is a simple, yet powerful approach. Often dyslexic students struggle to structure sentences in writing due to memory processing issues. The pack contains a visual, sentence sorting activity. Finally, there is a model text included so that students can see the key words and sentences in context. The unit is a sure way to support dyslexic students!

The unit contains resources and lesson plans to teach descriptive writing in a structured and successful way. It contains picture prompts, a model answer, a five senses analysis sheet, a planning sheet and independent task. Using the model and analysis sheets, the unit shows students how to be successful writers in the descriptive genre. It has proved highly successful in improving the writing of GCSE students!

This GCSE, Vocabulary course focuses on the academic words needed to succeed in the GSCE, English Language course. It is suitable for GCSE students, often with a good verbal ability, who struggle to express their language using formal language. There is a section focused on targeted words from the Academic Word List. It contains speaking and listening activities, gap fill tasks and an explanation of the body language and facial expression linked with some of the words. This should aid narrative writing. It also contains graphic organisers to analyse key meanings and story examples to help learn key words. There is an assessment to help understand if students have grasped the key vocabulary. Also included are a reading and wordsearch activity and discussion questions. Finally, there are two units to explore how to write about vocabulary in a GCSE examination. I have also added a free vocabulary unit - Reading Response - Analysing Situations! This will provide you with a list of words to analyse situations. The course is excellent for English coordinators, SENCOs and TAs who want to run targeted groups for students who are verbally strong but struggle to use academic language. Since vocabulary is a key component of comprehension and writing, the course has proved successful in helping underachieving GCSE English Language students succeed!

This GCSE persuasive writing resource includes key word spelling activities, questionnaires, two model essays a plan . It is ideal to use as part of KS3 and GCSE English Language lessons. The model essays are a response to a persuasive task in which the reader has to persuade a headteacher about the inportance of contact sports and having junk food on the school menu. There are two model answers to answer each of the GCSE, writing questions. There is also an innovative spelling activity to help dyslexic students and a plan to help students write their own response. As well as all this, there are two lesson plans if you want to deliver the sessions in school. This resource is an excellent way to show students how to plan and write a GCSE persuasive essay!

Invaluable to teaching the skills required to succeed in the English Language Reading paper and English Literature GCSE, this course explicitly teaches the sentence types needed to write an effective paragraph. Students with dyslexia, ADHD and autism, as well as ESL will benefit from the model sentences and activities. It is also useful for students who need to consolidate the skills. It is ideal for students who are under-performing due to a lack of the grammatical skills which will enable them to express their ideas. It covers the use of topic sentences, the introduction to the quotation, the analysis of language and the reader response/social context of the text. There is a FREE assessment with a rubric and model response. It can be used for GCSE English Language revision classes, SEN interventions or as a unit for class teaching. SEN and ESL students will be sure to benefit from this effective Reading Response course!

The unit contains resources and lesson plans to teach descriptive writing in a structured and successful way. It contains picture prompts, a model answer, a five senses analysis sheet, a planning sheet and independent task. Using the model and analysis sheets, the unit shows students how to be successful writers in the descriptive genre. It has proved highly successful in improving the writing of GCSE students!

This 11 Plus Unit contains a reading practice paper, reading fluency support, a writing picture prompt, plan and model answer. It is designed for students who struggle with reading fluency, spelling and structure. The reading practice paper has a section in which the student learns to pronounce targeted vocabulary and read specific phrases/sentences taken from the text. It involves copying syllabified words in different colours to aid visual memory. After reading the Extract - taken from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde - practice exam questions are provided. The extracts are often taken from novels/novellas/short stories which are challenging to read and the pre-reading tasks should help students access the content of the extract. The writing section contains a picture prompt, model response and planning rubric. The picture prompt is one of the options in the creative writing section of the paper. By familiarising themselves with the style of writing required, students gain confidence in writing their own description. A colour code spelling activity is provided to practice spelling key words from the descriptive model response. The unit provides materials to provide inclusive support for dyslexic students and enable them to make progress!

This comprehensive, PDF bundle provides AQA, GCSE English Literature teachers with innovative resources to help students understand and analyze conflict in Romeo and Juliet. The pack includes novelized versions of key scenes, newspaper articles summarizing pivotal moments, and a detailed essay writing scaffold. These resources are designed to make Shakespeare’s language more accessible and to support students in developing a deeper understanding of conflict within the play. Key Features: Novel Versions of Key Scenes: Rewritten in a modern, novelistic style, these versions of Romeo and Juliet make the language and emotions of the characters more accessible to students. The novel format adds detail to the characters’ internal thoughts and emotions, helping students connect with and understand the motivations behind key moments of conflict. Scenes Included: Act 1, Scene 1: The opening street brawl sets the tone for the ongoing feud between the Montagues and Capulets. Act 3, Scene 1: The explosive confrontation between Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio that marks the turning point of the play. Act 5, Scene 3: The tragic resolution in the Capulet tomb, where Romeo and Juliet meet their fates. Newspaper Articles for Key Scenes: These engaging newspaper-style reports offer an alternative perspective on key scenes. Written as if by a journalist reporting on the events in Verona, these articles summarize major moments of conflict, highlighting key details in an accessible format. They serve as excellent revision tools, helping students distill the action of each scene into its essential elements. Articles Included: Act 1, Scene 1: “BRAWL ERUPTS IN VERONA: CAPULETS AND MONTAGUES CLASH ON THE STREETS!” Act 3, Scene 1: “ROMEO KILLS TYBALT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: STREET FIGHT TURNS DEADLY!” Act 5, Scene 3: “TRAGIC DUEL AT CAPULET TOMB: NOBLE PARIS AND ROMEO DEAD IN SHOCKING LOVE FEUD!” Essay Writing Scaffold and Model Essay: This structured essay writing scaffold guides students step-by-step through planning and writing an essay on the theme of conflict in Romeo and Juliet. The scaffold includes sentence starters, key questions, and tips for embedding quotations. Additionally, a model essay demonstrates how to structure a response, integrate evidence, and analyze Shakespeare’s use of language and structure. Essay Scaffold Includes: Introduction and topic sentences for each body paragraph Guidance on how to link quotations to analysis Prompts to discuss language, structure, and dramatic techniques Model Essay: “” Who This Pack is For: This resource is ideal for AQA, GCSE English Literature teachers looking to enhance their students’ understanding of Romeo and Juliet. The combination of modernized scene adaptations, journalistic summaries, and scaffolded writing support is especially useful for students with additional learning needs or those struggling to engage with Shakespeare’s language.

This booklet is aimed to improve descriptive writing. In many 11 plus exams, there is a choice of creative writing tasks - one of these is a response to a picture. A picture of a train station is provided, along with a model response. Students are then guided through a number of exercises to help them read and comprehend the description. A list of words associated with trains is provided. Students have to write the syllables in different colours to aid memory. Dyslexic students struggle to read due to difficulty processing sounds. Often they have visual strengths which can be used to aid memory. This booklet utilises this strength by using a colour method to learn to spell and read words. To further enhance reading fluency, a list of phrases from the model text is provided and a timed activity in which students record the time taken to read the text, along with errors made. Prior to reading, students learn the different sentence openers that are used to write an engaging descriptive piece. Finally, students complete their own independent, writing task about another train station picture. This is a useful assessment to see how many successful features are used in their own writing. A further planning booklet and rubric for marking descriptive writing is provided.

This comprehensive Vocabulary Development Resource is designed specifically for students with additional needs, such as dyslexia. This engaging booklet focuses on enhancing targeted vocabulary in key areas essential for success in the verbal reasoning section of the 11 Plus examinations. The resource contains the following features - Targeted Learning: Each word has been carefully selected to meet the specific demands of the 11 Plus exams, ensuring that students are well-prepared and confident in their vocabulary skills. Visual Memory Aids: To support visual learners, words are colour-coded, making them easier to remember. This technique not only aids in memorization but also promotes better reading fluency and spelling. Interactive Practice: Students are encouraged to write each word three times in its corresponding colour, reinforcing their learning through repetition. After a short break, they will test their retention, fostering independent learning and self-assessment Clear Definitions and Examples: Each vocabulary word is accompanied by a simple definition and an illustrative example, helping students grasp the meaning and context. The resource also encourages discussion, allowing students to explain each word before tackling gap-fill activities. Engaging Activities: The resource includes gap-fill exercises that not only reinforce vocabulary but also enhance comprehension skills, preparing students for the challenges of the 11 Plus exams. This resource is ideal for teachers, tutors, and parents who support students with additional needs. It provides a structured and supportive approach to vocabulary development, catering to diverse learning styles and ensuring every student has the opportunity to succeed. The colour-coded, visual memory aid can be utilised to support the learning of further words. A Vocabulary List is provided to support this. Investing in this Vocabulary Development Resource will increase the confidence of students with additional needs and prepare them for their 11 Plus examination!

This unit helps students with the unseen poetry section of the GCSE, English Literature exam paper and contains a poem with comprehension questions along with a model, reading response paragraph. An acronym poster ‘STILE’ is included to provide a framework to respond to unseen poems. An additional winter, descriptive writing unit is included. The unseen poem booklet contains the poem, ‘Christmas at Sea’ and has a true/false section to help understand the content. This is followed by a variety of literal and analytical comprehension question. A final exam style question is provided along with an advanced level and differentiated PEEL paragraph. The STILE poster can be used to help students structure their response - it helps the explore the subject, theme, imagery and language used in the poem. A descriptive writing booklet based on a wintry scene is included as a follow up activity. This includes an adjectives and verbs list along with a picture prompt.