An A3 revision resource to remind students about the following: connectives persuasive techniques cohesion punctuation complex sentences figurative language Also includes an extension activity which models a first paragraph to 3 different Paper 2 Question 5 style questions and asks students to write the next paragraph. Also includes a revision mat with tips and writing frame for Paper 2 questions 2-4.

A detailed worksheet on semi colons for a 20 minute intervention session.

A detailed worksheet on how to use the colon for a 20 minute intervention session.

Worksheet with 6 exercises aimed at getting students to use brackets independently in their writing.

This popular resource includes 3 grade 9 Romeo and Juliet responses, 1 grade 8 response and 1 grade 7 model response to 5 AQA style GCSE examination questions on Romeo and Juliet. The exam questions and extracts are included beside the model responses. I have tried to produce responses at the level reasonably expected of a high-level GCSE-aged student within 45 minutes of examination time. Sometimes when teachers write exemplar responses, they produce such a high level of analysis that students find them overwhelming. I tried to avoid that. Includes a grade 9 model response to a question on adults and children. Includes a grade 8 model response to a question about male hostility and asks students how they could turn it into a grade 9 response through deeper language analysis (A02). This resource is ideal to use to show students how to write successful answers that meet the criteria for A01, A02 and A03. I have also included a sixth examination question so that students can have a go at an exam question themselves using my 9 step method.

This A3 revision sheet revises key quotations for 6 key characters and 4 key themes in the play. There are also notes on context for each theme and an exam question for each character and theme. Students found this really useful to help them revise for the new closed book examinations.

Ideal to set as an assessment after reading the first 5 chapters. Contains 3 carefully selected short extracts from chapters 2, 3 and 5. Students analyse how power is abused in each extract and answer the overall question: who is worse the humans or the pigs? There is a writing frame for students to follow to help analyse each extract and ensure they meet the criteria for A01, A02 and A03.

A writing frame for showing students how to write conceptual and discriminating comparative paragraphs between Prelude and Ozymandias.

Push more able towards the highest grades by using this worksheet to explore contrasting quotations to bring out the complexities and contradictions within the language of the 5 main characters. I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls: Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310 Revision Cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143 Knowledge Organisers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057 Revision quotations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293

Theme revision sheets covering key themes in the play: kingship ambition supernatural motif of blood Fear Guilt Each revision sheet analyses 6 quotations relating to the theme in detail to meet the requirements for A01, A02, A03.

3 versions of a simple but highly engaging board game to revise key quotations in Macbeth and A Christmas Carol for Paper 1 English Literature. Game 1: Use the 98 prompts to help revise 98 quotations from Macbeth and A Christmas Carol. Game 2: Explain the 98 quotations (49 from each text) to advance. Game 3: 100 questions on Macbeth (includes answers) Dice and counters not included! Also includes a Macbeth random generator activity.

Lesson introducing Act 3 Scene 2 of Macbeth. Includes annotations of key lines in the play, comprehension questions based on the annotations and a detailed exploration of the ‘scorpion’ quotation along with an example paragraph.

A detailed and comprehensive lesson looking at how violence is presented in Act 3 Scene 1 to prepare students for an assessment. Includes a range of planning sheets and a learning journey along with annotations of the scene on the powerpoint and a model response to help with follow up tasks after the assessment. Aimed at mid ability groups.

2 differentiated planning sheets with writing frame for writing an essay exploring who is responsible for Macbeth’s downfall. Stronger students can use the version which explores how Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and The Witches are to blame. Weaker students can use the version that only focuses on how Macbeth is responsible. Includes an accompanying PowerPoint. Also includes a model 4 person discussion about who is to blame to showcase the way students should respond to each other’s points.

A high level grade 9 exemplar response that explores ideas about power in Ozymandias and Tissue. Includes some examiner annotations. Also includes annotations for both poems that focused on ideas about power. Also includes a writing/planning frame to help see how the essay was created from a plan.

Complete lesson analysing Fred’s character in A Christmas Carol. Differentiated starter activity. Detailed annotation of 8 key Fred quotations with 4 detailed inferences for each quotation. The annotations are animated to appear one by one so you can talk them through. Students are then given a model paragraph and asked to use their notes to write the next paragraph(s). The plenary invites students to consider the strengths and weaknesses of Dickens’ characterisation and asks students to think about Fred’s one-dimensionality.

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.