Lessons designed to teach year 7 the skills they will need to know for their GCSE. These lessons use two Test Packs created by AQA.

This covers all of the text including events, characters, themes, context. I used to use this for my GCSE groups and they loved it. All you will need is some dice.

This covers all of the text including events, characters, themes, context. I used to use this for my GCSE groups and they loved it. All you will need is some dice.

Covers plot, characters, theme and context. All extremely detailed and includes 'did you know?' interesting facts. Please note that not all powerpoints have learning objectives on as I am going to add these on at a later date and have not had time as of yet as I have spent hours making these. All decorated and covers exam practice. Please leave feedback. Thank you.

39 weeks of words with quotes, thinking activities and space for timetable and form notices. You will have to change the dates for the year you are using it.

These lessons have been designed to be used in form to reinforce essential literacy skills. They include engaging videos, and challenge and extension activities. The tasks are self-explanatory and hopefully will work well for the whole of KS3 and KS4. These could also be used in English lessons.

A resource that students to look through to help them check their SPAG.

Covers the book and context with creative activities.

Three pages to be used to support students with literacy and structuring answers for English Literature and Language Exams as well as general SPAG. A couple of images have moved during the preview but hopefully won’t be an issue when downloaded.

A series of 17 lessons to develop students' descriptive writing skills in preparation for the new GCSE English Language descriptive writing task (targeted specifically at the new AQA GCSE - 8700 - Paper 1, Section B). It uses some of the poems from the Power and Conflict section of the AQA anthology as a stimulus, along with a little analytical exploration of them. This is the first unit we teach our Y10s but could be easily adapted to simply focus on descriptive writing, add to the poetry, etc. If you do cover this section of the anthology, it is ready to teach 'straight out the box', with all relevant resources. Plenty of examples of published writers to use as models.

A comprehensive collection of 23 sample exam tasks on 'A Christmas Carol' by Dickens, in the style of the new specification (8702) AQA English Lit Paper 1 GCSE exam. As with the official sample materials, each task includes brief details about where the extract is from, the extract itself with line numbers, and a question, followed by prompts to refer to the presentation of character/theme/idea/setting in the extract and the novel as a whole. The tasks are ordered in the same sequence as the extracts appear in the novel, so this would also be useful for recapping the story through key extracts.

A variety of reading and writing tasks all focused around the Titanic. Clips can be shown from the film to aid learning.

This covers analysing holiday and hotel adverts, brochures, reviews, travel writing and persuasive writing. It covers some of the new AQA Language exam skills so that year 8 can get used to some of the skills they will need to know in the years to come.

Can be adapted but a basic outline which tells the students what they will be expected to do each day. Space for notices and a thunk - many can be found online.

A template to test the students’ knowledge of each of the poems from the ‘Power and Conflict’ poems in AQA. Meant as a revision resource so both the student and teacher can see what they remember and need to revise. Also included are answers to the poems in the powerpoint.

Mats that students can use to remind them of the mark criteria and what they should be looking for in the English Language Paper 1. Can be used for self or peer assessment or as revision.

This is a booklet which covers the 2006 film version of Stormbreaker by Antony Horowitz. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question by. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

This is a booklet which covers the 1999 film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Michael Hoffman. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

This is a booklet which covers the 2009 film version of Coraline by Henry Selick. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

This is a booklet which covers the 1954 Guy Hamilton film version of An Inspector Calls. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from and bares in mind methods used by the director and Priestley whilst allowing them to compare the two media types. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.