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Key Stage 3 Music Steps
Key stage 3 music steps which have been created using the new 1-9 scale. There are 4 strands: performing, composing, rehearsing and listening and appraising.
There are student friendly steps as well as statements that can be used for reporting purposes.
A3 sheets can also be used as a tracking tool by dating when each step has been achieved.
Revising language features in Macbeth
Students identify the meaning of a range of language features which are divided into 3: words, imagery, sentences. They then have to find examples of each technique in Macbeth.
This activity can be differentiated by allowing weaker students access to a list of answers which have been mixed up into random order.
AQA GCSE Rhythm and Metre Revision
A worksheet detailing all terminology and definitions for students to revise from for the area of study ‘Rhythm and Metre’. A powerpoint is also available which explains all terms with musical terminology and musical examples.
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7 GCSE literature revision booklets 2025
7 attractive and informative literature revision booklets covering the following 7 popular GCSE texts. I have compiled my most popular resources for each set text into 7 easy to print pdfs. There are also word versions if you wish to edit and add to the booklets yourself.
The 7 texts that are covered should hopefully cover the 4 set texts you will be studying or teaching:
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet (98 pages)
A Christmas Carol (56 pages)
Power and Conflict (51 pages)
An Inspector Calls (43 pages)
Lord of the Flies (46 pages)
Animal Farm
All the booklets contain knowledge organisers, revision cards, plot/knowledge tests, high grade model exemplars, writing frames, support with planning and much more.
Please look at the previews to sample the wide range of resources on offer.
Can be printed in A4 or A3. Some pages may benefit from an A3 print out.
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Figurative Language (Simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration)
Includes various worksheets to support the teaching of figurative language.
Describing the weather in the style of Charles Dickens (KS2/KS3/KS4)
Starter: List words associated with rain.
Learning outcomes:
To identify features of Dickens’ style
To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing
To evaluate against the success criteria
Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author.
Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria.
The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.
Oliver Twist: Nancy's Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic
Oliver Twist: Nancy’s Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic?
There are two differentiated versions of the task with differentiated writing frame guidelines.
There are also differentiated resources to help students answer this GCSE style question.
Includes a revision of language features in the extract.
Key Stage 3 Music Titanic Composition
A series of 4 lessons which explores the rooms of the Titanic through music.
Students are introduced to the upper deck, casino, engine room and ballroom for which they must create the music. There are differentiated success criteria (4 levels of differentiation) and a glossary describing all of the music terminology in the success criteria.
A pp with room descriptions and tasks is also included.
A strategy to work out the meaning of difficult words in Oliver Twist
Students read 10 sentences from Oliver Twist.
In task 1, the difficult word is removed and students must think of a suitable word to go in the gap.
In task 2, students are given the actual word and must work out the meaning of it. Their answer for task 1 should help.
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Oliver Twist Bundle
A growing collection of resources on Oliver Twist.
Includes a close focus on Chapter 2 (workhouse and Fagin) and Chapter 48 (Nancy’s death) with exam style activities.
Classical Music Bizet's Habanera Performance
A series of 2 lessons which use the elements from Bizet’s Habanera and Toreador melody to create a stylistic performance.
All instrumental parts and composition tasks are differentiated and Sibelius files are also provided.
PowerPoints for the lessons are available with differentiated and push your thinking tasks.
GCSE Blues Music Composition Help Guide
A 10 page help guide for GCSE music students to guide then through composing a piece of blues music.
This focusses on chords, bass line, blues scale and texture.