A revision sheet that helps students analyse key quotations within four core themes in the play: social responsibility, class, gender and age. The students need to use two layers of meaning, make links to Edwardian context, and identify and comment on writer’s methods. There is an extension task - students need to comment conceptually on Priestley’s intentions. I get students to annotate around the quotes.

A simple resource to be used in lessons for revison or could easily be given for homework. This is ideal to get your students to think about five key moments for each character/ theme and for them to find quotes, which link to these.

Ten exam questions for An Inspector Calls which can be used for revision. The students need to think of ten points they could include for each one to revise key characters and themes.

A free language paper one full exam for GCSE revision. Can be adapted to any spec. Used with my own classes to develop exam technique.

Exam revision for Macbeth that focuses on Malcolm and then the wider play question is on the theme of ambition. Use this work sheet for the basis of the whole lesson with 20 minutes on the extract and 25 minutes on the wider play.

A GCSE exam question for students to revise for their GCSE Literature examination. Focus on annotating the extract for 5 minutes (making sure students use subject terminology) then consider the question with regards to the whole play. The students can either write collaboratively, or in exam conditions after the teacher has modelled how to write one point on the board.

A GCSE exam question for students to revise for their GCSE Literature examination. Focus on annotating the extract for 5 minutes (making sure students use subject terminology) then consider the question with regards to the whole play. The students can either write collaboratively, or in exam conditions after the teacher has modelled how to write one point on the board.

A bronze, silver, gold differentiated worksheet that focuses on the character of the Inspector from An Inspector Calls. Great activity for revision and to help students develop their understanding of the character that is the voice of J.B Priestley.

A fully differentiated work sheet to get students to focus on Priestley's use of dramatic irony.

A differentiated resource to help students revise a key character from the novella.

A differentiated resource to help students revise a key character from the novella.

A differentiated resource to help students revise a key character from the novella.

An example of an informal letter for students to evaluate using the differentiated tasks. A great resource to get students to reflect on what is needed for informal letter and how to create the appropriate opening, tone and how to link ideas to improve marks for organisation (assessment objective AO5).

A detailed and very useful guide specifically designed for English teachers to give them top tips on how to 'mark smartly' to ensure their assessment and feedback is most effective to ensure student progress, but that it is also manageable so it can be sustained.

An engaging article to hook your students and to get them to think about tone, humour and the development of ideas for this transactional writing task. It is differentiated using bronze, silver, gold so students have clear level of challenge when they are evaluating the article.

An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.

An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.

An exemplar for the narrative question that is on all specifications. This also includes with a differentiated evaluation task so students can assess the example and see what is good about it and also how it could be improved. A useful revision tool for students.

Two differentiated lessons on this GCSE anthology poem that uses a game of Pictionary to engage students as a way to develop their understanding of the ideas in the poem. It is differentiated with LOs that are on every slide so they can easily be referred to. A scaffold is provided to help support students when they write their exam response.

A differentiated lesson for narrative writing that includes spelling tasks, LOs on every slide, differentiated tasks and also peer assessment. There are three possible narrative titles for students to complete to ensure they can develop their narratives with more than one opportunity to do so.