This is an 'artist easel' so students develop their understanding of the poem independently in a fun interactive way.

A poster to display so that students know what comes for each component of the examination. This is useful to refer to and helps students to understand what they are studying and how they will be assessed.

Four lessons on the poem that help students look at the poet's main ideas. The students are given opportunities to work independently, collaboratively or with the teacher (I,C,T). The lessons are differentiated and include starters, mains and plenaries.

A lesson that focuses on the love poems from the anthology for WJEC (but can be used for any examination board if you change the title). The lesson also indicates the rules and assessment criteria for speaking and listening tasks.

A great resource to get students to evaluate a exam response to a question and then consider how it could be improved.

A model answer for Macbeth which has a differentiated task. The students need to annotate the margin using the marking codes and then consider how the response could be improved. This can be used to focus year 11 students on revision and on what their responses should include in their exam.

A revision lesson for year 11 who already have an understanding of the poems. This reminds them of the skills of comparative responses, and recaps on the poem ‘Mother Any Distance’ from the AQA anthology - love and relationships. Each activity has timings to guide the lesson so it has an appropriate pace. The lesson has: Bell task on entry LOs beginning, middle and end to review progress Links to exam details Collaboration built in Oracy Task Teacher Model slide to conduct live modeling (which is differentiated with B,S,G) Extended writing task using bronze, silver, gold to chunk challenge Plenary that uses peer assessment against a checklist of success criteria

This is another paper 1 exam for English GCSE. It includes all four questions for reading and both writing tasks for Q5 for AQA. It could easily be adapted for different specifications.

There are six poems included in this designed to be grouped in three questions: Set 1 - these two poems are about the sea/water Set 2 - these two poems are about the arrival of Winter Set 3 - these two poems are written from the POVs of animals, one a dog and one a cat, and deal with their views of their owners The poems link to the AQA specification, but could be adapted to suit any Literature unseen questions. The worksheet is differentiated using bronze, silver and gold to challenge students with their annotations.

A full paper1 for the AQA English GCSE. If your students need more revision skills, then this is a brand new fiction text that they can develop their comprehension skills and writing for question five. This is perfect for a full lesson, or can be used as homework.

This handy A3 resource is ideal for revising key themes and characters from Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. The sheet has 12 questions linked to the AQA spec (but could be adapted for other specs easily) and has 12 extracts, which provide key moments from across the whole of the play. I am using this myself to prepare my year 11s for their Literature examination.

This is a great resource that has both the image for the writing task for paper 1, AQA and the creative writing task. There are 25 tasks in an 11 page booklet so this would be great for year 11s to use for their revision for the new exam 2017 onwards.

Three answers that show different levels of the mark scheme, for the theme of betrayal. I have asked students to read all three, highlight the sections that are analytical and explain what makes 2, better than 1 and what makes response 3, better than 2. There is a bronze, silver, gold task and PYT for challenge. I have also demonstrated that the theme questions should be explored in an evaluative way, as done in response 3, where the answer explores the type of betrayal too.

You could cut these out and get students to rank order them to justify, which is better and why. This can be used for a homework, revision task before an exam. This could also be used as part of a task within a lesson. There are five responses to an exam question on Eric that gradually become more perceptive and detailed. Alongside the responses is a bronze, silver and gold differentiated task to challenge all learners. There is an extension task (push your thinking) to add additional challenge. This is something I have used with year 11 to help develop their understanding of the character, context, writer’s intentions and to teach the skills of writing a detailed reading response.

A model answer for AIC that includes a bronze, silver, gold differentiated assessment task and a PYT extension task. You could use this as a homework task, revision task of as part of a lesson where you analyse a model answer.

If you want to push your students’ responses for the English language papers then it helps if they are using sophisticated, higher level terminology when they explore the effect of the writer’s use of language. This worksheet includes 11 key terms that students need to revise and use to access the higher levels, alongside a differentiated bronze, silver, gold activity so they can apply what they have learnt. There is a question: how does the writer use language to describe the horror of prisons? where the students can then answer to show they can incorporate the terms into their analysis. This is a useful resource for top sets, but also any students who are at a Grade 5+ and are pushing for a higher grade.