A differentiated activity to get students to engage with the grade 8/9 assessment criteria for the new AQA 1-9 English Literature Paper 2 GCSE. Modern texts. Bronze level: students look for the meanings of difficult vocabulary. Silver level: students convert the criteria into student speak. Gold level: students write advice for how to meet the criteria for A01, 2 and 3.

An Inspector Calls: differentiated vocabulary activity for AQA 1-9 3 worksheets for 3 levels of differentiation: tough, tougher and toughest.

Differentiated A3 worksheet analysing the stage directions to ‘An Inspector Calls’. Ideal to use at the start of the scheme of work. Includes an answer sheet. Low ability: Green/Blue group: A01. Retrieve information about the characters. Mid ability: Yellow group: A02. Comment on the effect of language High ability: Red/Green group: A03. Relate points to context and Priestly’s purpose.

Ideal for lower ability students or students responding to an AQA exam question on A Christmas Carol for the first time, this writing frame guides students through the process of responding to a question about Scrooge’s lack of humanity. The sentence stems invite students to respond to outside of the extract as well as inside the extract and include opportunities to make links to context.

Just a bank of ambitious vocabulary for creative writing.

Great Expectations Chapter 1. Questions to explore

Comprehension questions to complete on a first reading of Stone Cold by Robert Swindells. Includes at least one question on every chapter. Useful for developing scanning skills to retrieve information from the text. The page numbers are the same in the various versions of the book I have taught from over the years.

Structure for responding to AQA Eng Lit Paper 1 Shakespeare/19th Century fiction. Two versions. One for Section A (Shakespeare) one for Section B (19th century fiction).

Updated PowerPoint with annotations, differentiated question worksheets and differentiated writing frames for analysing Act 1 Scene 6 and Act 1 Scene 7 from Macbeth. Also includes questions to recap the main events in Act 1 as a whole.

AQA 2017 Paper 1 style question on Jane Eyre with writing frame and glossary activity with answers.

AQA 2017 Reading Paper 1 - Structured worksheet for the 8 mark question based on a short extract from ‘Tender is the Night’. Includes writing frame. Ideal for helping lower ability students to respond to fiction texts.

6 AQA-style examination questions on characters and themes in A Christmas Carol. A structured planning sheet to plan responses to various questions. Best value when bought as part of my much larger bundle.

A differentiated learning journey exploring Scrooge in Stave 1 and 2 with accompanying resources. Contains instructions to follow at tough, tougher and toughest level to encourage students to explore the character independently. Also includes: A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist. A01: What is the meaning of the quotation? A02: What is the impact of words/methods? A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation? Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it. Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.

Essential A3 revision sheets on 6 characters from Romeo and Juliet These 3 sheets have been created with the closed book AQA examination in mind. They contain key quotations from Romeo and Juliet in short easy-to-remember chunks. There is also a third revision sheet on 4 supporting characters (Friar, Nurse, Capulet, Mercutio) My students really enjoyed highlighting and colour coding the revision sheet to demonstrate their understanding. The sheets have 4 levels of difficulty: Bronze: Identify where the quotations come from in the play. Silver: Work out which themes each quotation links to. Gold: Identify language features within each quote. Diamond: Link each quotation to context.

Lots of worksheets looking at figurative language.

A Christmas Carol comprehension questions on Stave 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. It is differentiated; there are various forms of questions on each Stave to allow you to tailor it to suit students of different abilities. It is useful to accompany a first reading of the novel in class or to encourage a second reading of the novel for homework.

Useful to give out to students who are reading Chapter 9 of Animal Farm for the first time.

8 worksheets and resources focused on exploring themes in Animal Farm. Includes resources focused on: - Identifying the key themes in the novel - Identifying ‘super extracts’ which can be used to cover various themes - Model responses to themes in the novel - Structuring responses

Differentiated lesson looking at an extract from Chapter 5 of Frankenstein - when the creature comes to life. For higher ability there is a PowerPoint with annotations and model exemplars to stretch the more able. For lower ability students there is a structured worksheet: Task 1: Draw images to demonstrate understanding. Task 2: Find the meaning of difficult words. Task 3: Find contrasting phrases of beauty and ugliness in the poem. Task 4: Plan some PEE paragraphs. Task 5: Write up an analytical answer.