A Christmas Carol annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCSE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts, each one from a highly significant event in the plot: Stave 1 - first description of Scrooge Stave 2 - when he tries to extinguish the light from the Ghost of Christmas Present Stave 3 - Ignorance & Want Stave 4 - the graveyard scene Stave 5 - description of Scrooge If you have found these useful, take a look at the revision materials that accompany the text, also available in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845 - a board game is a brilliant way of engaging learners with revision without it feeling like work! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-worksheets-12942672 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-12938348

Of Mice and Men | Quotes Revision | I Have Who Has | GCSE This resource is targeted towards high school students in need of key quotes revision. It is a great way to get students revising whilst making it feel like a game. There are 60 cards included, and these are divided into two games of 30 cards each. Each card contains a quote and act. The two games have been colour-coded - blue and green - for ease of use. A student will read the quote on their card, and students must identify which character said it, or which character/setting the quote relates to, depending on which version is being played. They must also identify whether the quote is from the chapter specified on their card. Full instructions are included in the resource, as are all of the answers on a separate teacher sheet. There are also suggestions for differentiation, including making the game more or less challenging, as needed. If you found this resource helpful, you may also like: my essay planning tool: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-essay-planning-tool-wjec-12972679 an essay structuring pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-essay-structures-12970873

Of Mice and Men Essay Structures provides two different types of structures for learners, depending on ability/level of confidence with the novel. These have been tried and tested with groups of differing abilities in preparation for the Unit 1 Literature exam (WJEC). The first set of essay structures is for pupils who don’t have much exam practice. It provides them with a detailed scaffold for some of the key ideas they may want to discuss and in which order. There are spaces for them to add notes about context and key quotations to include. There is an essay structure for each character and for the theme of ‘loneliness’. This has worked very well with C/D borderline learners. The second set of structures are brief notes for learners who are more confident with writing essays, or as a quick revision tool. There is an essay structure for each character, in addition to three thematic structures. This has worked well as a revision resource for all abilities, and as a lighter form of scaffolding for B+ grade learners when beginning to produce essays. You may also be interested in the following: Narrative tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970442 Revision activities: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12945645

Halloween Word Games | Literacy | KS3 Learners/Age 11-14 This literacy task pack is perfect to use with KS3 learners/ages 11-14 during the build-up to Halloween. There are ten activities included with an answer sheet for each one. The activities are: wordsearch x3 anagrams x3 wordgrids x3 colour by number x1 Where there are multiple examples of an activity, there are different levels of complexity to enable differentiation within the classroom. Tasks can be used in English lessons or as part of a whole-school literacy incentive during form/tutor time. The task pack encourages learners to consider spelling, the alphabet, consonants/vowels and language features. Designed so that sheets can be printed in colour or grayscale without compromising on clarity, depending on resources available to you. If you have found these resources useful, you may also be interested in: General anagrams for use throughout the year with KS3 learners/ages 11-14 - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-anagrams-12934233 Cross-curricular anagrams, containing subject-specific terms for six different subjects, for high school learners - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cross-curricular-literacy-anagrams-12972642

Advent Calendar 2024 | Literacy | Secondary School This advent calendar provides a literacy activity for every school day in December. It works as a regular advent calendar does: you open the day’s window and it takes you to the activity. Windows are opened by clicking on the dated hyperlink. These are short activities of 5-15 minutes and would be ideal for form time or as lesson starters. They can be used with any high school age group, but would be ideal for learners aged 11-14. Activities include: discussion topics around a festive theme word games such as anagrams, wordsearches and word grids festive phrases in other languages visualising The PowerPoint is also editable so that you can change/add activities to suit your learners, if you would prefer. If you like this, you may also like: Christmas Literacy Activities: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-literacy-activities-high-school-13128246 Christmas Mega-Wordsearch: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-wordsearch-high-school-13133045 Festive Anagrams: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-anagrams-12942667 NB. Activities in the advent calendar are the same as 2023 but dates, colours and hyperlinks have been updated for 2024.

Capital Letters Challenge Worksheets Each worksheet comprises an extract from a classic children’s novel containing errors with capital letters. There are six extracts in total and there is an answer sheet for each one. These are good starter activities for learners who are developing confidence with capitals or a more substantial activity for those who are less confident. The texts include: The Jungle Book (19 errors) Black Beauty (22 errors) The Railway Children (22 errors) What Katy Did (23 errors) Peter Pan (27 errors) The Wizard of Oz (28 errors) The errors include: starting new sentences use of the pronoun ‘I’ proper nouns punctuation of speech headings/titles

King Lear Revision Materials for A-Level contains two different resources that have been proven to support exam practice and revision for A-Level students, in particular for whole text responses where the text isn’t allowed into the exam. This is 15 pages of support, in total. This includes: A thorough narrative summary detailing key events, divided by Acts/Scenes, including a character-web activity at the end A comprehensive quote pack including quotes characterised by character, theme and imagery/language If this is useful to you, have a look at the ‘Critical Approaches’ resource in my shop, which also support A-Level teaching of the play.

This ‘Heroes’ by Robert Cormier unit of work and PowerPoint is tailored towards teaching GCSE English Literature Unit 2 (WJEC). It has been trialled successfully in a classroom with learners with A*-D targets. The unit of work contains tasks that deal with different sections of the novel, and encourage learners to think about character, theme and language analysis. The structure of the unit accounts for time spent on each section, main learning activities, key vocabulary and the corresponding PowerPoint task. (There is also a suggested whole text question activity at the end). The editable PowerPoint includes 17 main activities that encourage learners to analyse different sections of the text. This is sold as an editable resource so that you can amend as needed for your classes, and so that you can incorporate appropriate exam practice as and when it is needed. (Page references are for the Penguin edition). You may also find these resources useful: Narrative summary:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-by-robert-cormier-narrative-overview-12970174 Essay structures: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-robert-cormier-essay-structures-12973423 A range of ‘An Inspector Calls’ tasks is also available if that is the second text you are studying with your learners in preparation for Unit 2.

A Christmas Carol Revision Board Game This is a great way to engage learners in revising quotations and elements of plot, character and theme. This is a particularly effective resource for learners who may struggle with engagement/motivation at times when it comes to revision. This resource includes: 32 questions and answers about plot, character and theme 32 questions and answers about key quotations A game board ‘How to Play’ guide The cards can be used as a simple Q&A activity where quick revision is required. For a more sustained activity, the full board game version can be played. Full instructions are included on the second page of the resource. The cards can be printed double-sided so that the question is on the front and the corresponding answer on the back. The page should be printed double-sided along the long edge. Additional equipment you will need: dice counters

Lady Macbeth Shakespeare Unit of Work | With Resources This Lady of Macbeth unit of work can be taught as a unit on its own or integrated into a larger unit on the whole play. It has been designed to introduce learners to Shakespearean language in a less threatening way by focusing on two key scenes. Both scenes revolve around Lady Macbeth, and the unit comprises a character study. A range of reading skills are developed throughout the unit, resulting in a detailed analysis and comparison of Lady Macbeth’s character between the start and end of the play. This pack is ideal for non-specialists as teacher notes/answers are included for key tasks. This resource has been used with 13-14 year old pupils as an introduction to studying Shakespeare but could also support teaching of the play for 15-16 year olds. This resource includes: a two page teaching & learning overview, that can be taught as a standalone unit or integrated into a larger unit on the play a 38 slide PowerPoint that covers all aspects of the T&L overview, including differentiated versions of language analysis grids that can be given to pupils of differing abilities an additional 19 pages of resources, for pupils and staff, including annotated copies of the extracts Teaching time is based on 3 weekly lessons of 50 minutes - 1 hour.