A great way to relieve stress and create a relaxing classroom environment at the end of a long term while helping students embed quotations into their long term memory I have selected 16 key quotations from Christmas Carol and including a relevant image with each quotation that can be coloured in. Students annotate the 16 quotations following the differentiated success criteria and annotate the 16 key quotations for various shades of meaning. After they finish annotating, I allow them to colour in the images. Also contains drawings of characters to colour in and label with quotations or what students know about each character.

A comprehensive A3 revision sheet for ‘A Christmas Carol’ with differentiated tasks. It includes key quotations from each stave and various ways of making links to context for A03. The differentiated tasks encourage students to Bronze: Find language features in the quotations Silver: Match the quotations and context to themes Gold: Work out the 10 quotations which can be adapted to suit the most themes. Also includes a planning resource offering 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.

This resource contains 8 exemplar responses on character and theme questions for An Inspector Calls with marks and examiner comments. The model essays range in quality from grade 4 to a full mark grade 9 response. This is an excellent resource to use in departmental moderation or to show students the different quality expected at each grade from 4 to 9. Thanks for your feedback. I have taken on board your comments and made significant improvements to the resource. Include model answers to the following questions about Sheila, Mr Birling, Gerald, Eva Smith, Mr Birling, Mrs Birling, responsibility, egotism. UPDATE 2022: I have converted this popular resource into a 36 page booklet combining essay plans, model essays, plot summary, theme revision cards, quotation revision tasks into one document for ease of printing. Update 2023: new responses added on the following: cruelty anger chain of events

A composite of various resources combined together to form one A3 revision sheet on the poem. This is a free taster from my Power and Conflict bundles which are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-2019-revision-bundle-12072615

A random generator powerpoint that is useful for encouraging students to experiment with using alternative sentence openers. Simply give students a topic to describe. Turn on the random generator and students must begin each sentence with whatever word the random generator lands on. It may be ad adverb, present particple verb, preposition etcetera. Students always seem to enjoy this activity.

Word search for the main characters.

Differentiated literacy worksheets to support the teaching of Samson and Delilah. Includes: Copy of the story Bronze, Silver, Gold storyboard activity Differentiated inference carousel questions about Delilah, Samson, Israelites and Philistines

22 strategies for promoting extended writing across the curriculum. The PowerPoint looks at various ways of using various modelling, planning and assessment strategies to promote extended writing . They are applicable for all subject areas that involve extended writing. Originally created for whole school staff literacy training in my role as a literacy coordinator. Also includes a staff survey to measure how literacy and extended writing is promoted across each department in your school.

Eduqas GCSE poetry quiz. 5 rounds of questions with 18 questions per round - one per poem. Worksheet and PowerPoint. Useful for finding out which poems to go over again. Links to other Eduqas poetry resources: Revision Cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545 Lessons on all poems https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591 Revision resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072 Bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065

Includes powerpoint and planning resources for an assessment analysing Crooks in Chapter 4. Also includes a model essay to help with responding to feedback. Also includes 6 tasks based on Chapter 4 that works well as an independent learning task or as a cover lesson.

Use for a final revision session or series of sessions on A Christmas Carol Present the students with 6 big ideas about the novel. Students use the attached top 50 quotations sheet to help add their ideas about each big idea. I have also included a top 100 quotation version for higher ability students. Then go through possible answers on the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is animated and each answer appears on the mouse click so you can talk through each one as it appears. I have also included 6 predictions about what extract might come up. Now we are 3 years into the 9-1 syllabus, I predict they might use a more obscure extract so I have picked 6 less obvious extracts. Students read each extract and complete the planning grid. Also includes some sample exam style responses to different generic questions. New for 2022 is a large PowerPoint encouraging students to choose and explain their top 3 quotations for 9 different themes.

Large 40+ slide PowerPoint covering key quotations with high grade analysis from across the novel linked to 9 themes. There are 3 suggested revision activities to accompany the PowerPoint to ensure students use the resource efficiently and effectively: a. Select the 3 best quotations for each of the 9 themes b. Complete essay plans for 6 exam-style questions c. Create a mindmap to revise big ideas in the Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose. Also includes: A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist. A01: What is the meaning of the quotation? A02: What is the impact of words/methods? A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation? Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it. Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.

This resource summarises two ways of structuring a comparative poetry response for the power and conflict poems: the 4 paragraph ‘methods-based’ approach and the 2 paragraph ‘conceptual’ approach.

Stave 4 differentiated comprehension questions on A Christmas Carol.

This PowerPoint contains detailed annotations of 34 key quotations to the novel. There are 4 annotations for each quotation which link to A01 - meaning A02 - writer’s methods A03 - context/themes/wider ideas Start by showing the students the 4 quotations and asking them to annotate them. Then talk through the annotations which appear one by one on the mouse clicl The following characters and themes are covered: Simon Roger Jack Ralph Piggy Hair Evil Island Conch Also includes a random generator quotation PowerPoint. Simply stop the PowerPoint on a slide and students must guess the missing word.

Lesson analysing key quotations from Chapter 3 to guide students with annotating the text. Includes a starter, chapter summary and an extension task.

Lesson for analysing The Prelude by Wordsworth for EDUQAS anthology. Includes annotations, two sets of questions.

Updated PowerPoint with annotations, differentiated question worksheets and differentiated writing frames for analysing Act 1 Scene 6 and Act 1 Scene 7 from Macbeth. Also includes questions to recap the main events in Act 1 as a whole.

Use the 9 Step Plan to help students structure their responses to 4 different questions on A Christmas Carol. Also includes a quote revision sheet to help students plan the answers. Step 1: Explain why the given extract is a pivotal moment in the novel. (A01) Step 2: Analyse 3 quotes from the extract. (A02) Step 3: link to extract to Dickens’ purpose/context (A03) Step 4: Choose a 2nd part of the novel linked to the question. How is is similar and different (A01) Step 5: Analyse up to 3 quotes from second part of novel. (A02) Step 6: Link 2nd extract to Dickens’ purpose/context (A03) Step 7: Choose a 3rd part of the novel linked to the question. How is is similar and different (A01) Step 8: Analyse up to 3 quotes from 3rd part of novel. (A02) Step 9: Link 3rd extract to Dickens’ purpose/context (A03) New for 2024 is a resource which offers 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.