An exemplar response for AQA P2 Q5. ‘Climate change is the most important issue facing the planet. We must act reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions before it is too late’. Write a speech persuading people to change their lifestyles and help reduce emissions. Used for higher ability students to help them reach grades 7-9.

5 exemplar responses for GCSE English Language descriptive writing. Each is written in response to a descriptive writing prompt. Used with top sets as examples of successful writing. mysterious situation peaceful setting abandoned setting inside of a house happiness

A sheet with ambitious vocabulary for students. Used to improve their vocabulary in creative writing. Categorised as follows: words for smells, tastes, feels, sounds, buildings, big, small, walk, weather.

A grade 8/9 descriptive writing response to an image. Uses highly ambitious vocabulary, sentence structure and punctuation. Uses a wide range of complex linguistic features successfully. Description of an image of a car graveyard (image attached to response)

A full grade 9 essay comparing conflict in Exposure and Bayonet. Thesis + 3 big idea paragraphs. Ideal for using as an example after teaching Power and Conflict cluster to students at KS4.

An complete essay comparing the ‘effects of war’ using Duffy’s War Photographer’ and Garland’s ‘Kamikaze’.

An exemplar response for AQA P2 Q5. ‘Gender inequality is everyone’s problem’. Write a letter to the Government arguing for or against this statement. Used for higher ability students to help them reach 7-9.

A two-sided revision sheet for students to use prior to their mock/ summer exam for AQA Literature Paper 1. This sheet is focused on A Christmas Carol and Macbeth. Includes example thesis statements, key quotations and context, and four practice questions for each text.

A full mock exam for an extract from the opening of ‘Rebecca’. Q1-4 reading followed by Q5 writing.

A vocabulary sheet for improving non-fiction writing. Contains connectives, modal and imperative verbs, words and idioms to express a range of feelings, and intensifiers.

Poetry knowledge organiser including subject terminology and definitions for Language, Structure and Form. Ideal to use at KS3 and KS4. Personally, I laminate them and place them on tables or print them and give to students to glue into front of anthologies for GCSE.

An unseen poetry booklet made to accompany study of AQA English Literature Paper 2. Includes the following: Mark schemes for Q27.1 and 27.2 Knowledge organiser (language, form and structure) Essay writing structures Collections of paired themed poems (winter, climate change, love and relationships, war). Planning boxes for each poem and question. Male AND female poets.

A model response for AQA Lit P2 answering the question: Compare how two poets present love and lust in Singh Song! and one other poem from the relationships cluster. Used with top set Y11.

A model thesis and first paragraph for the question: How does Shakespeare present Macbeth’s ambition? Topic sentence for second and third paragraphs and room for writing a We Do model, followed by students’ independent paragraph. I Do We Do You Do structure applied to essay. Great for introducing essay writing or feedback after assessment.

I produced these resources to use as part of an 'enable table' during a lesson about poverty for Dickens' A Christmas Carol. There are four information sheets (education, sanitation, workhouses and employment) with accompanying images. I printed and laminated them on 4 different coloured papers and left on the enable table for More Able pupils to use as a way of meeting AO3 for the new Lit GCSE. Would work well when used as an 'investigate'/carousel lesson, or alternatively on classroom displays.

A knowledge organiser for AQA’s Power and Conflict cluster. Contains key quotations for each poem, contextual notes, key themes and comparative words and phrases. There are also definitions for various language/structure/form subject terminology. Can be printed and laminated for tables, glued into books at start of topic, or given to Y11 for revision.

A worksheet on declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative sentences. Students label each sentence type and then have a go at changing one sentence type to another.

A worksheet of key quotations in a table with room for analysis. Ideal for revision.

An extract from 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell and an accompanying Language Paper 1 Q4.