A Powerpoint slide with sentence openers to use when analysing writers’ methods. The next few slides offer an example text, suggested selection of evidence, and an example of analytical paragraph. This structure encourages pupils to ‘write a lot about a little’ and highlights the importance of selecting appropriate evidence which can provide material for a developed analytical paragraph. The slides can be projected and the first slide can be printed out as a classroom display.

18 Powerpoint slides with the most important quotations from A Christmas Carol, with pictograms to aid memory. Each slide includes the pictogram, the full quotation, the character who says the quotation and the stave. Slides can be projected to revise quotations, or can be printed and displayed in the classroom. According to dual coding theory, imagery accompanied by words, enhances recall as two separate but linked memory traces are laid down, one in each of the memory stores.

5 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities as A4 Word editable and printable booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class . Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – Functional paragraphing Functional paragraphing examples TIP TOP Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Correct the paragraphs Homework 2 – Purposeful paragraphing Purposeful paragraphing examples Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Homework 3 – Paragraphing direct speech What is indirect speech? What is direct speech? The general rules of direct speech Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Homework 4 – Making paragraph choices Sustain or maintain the same style Develop Contrast Complete the activities: Develop Contrast Homework 5 – Organising a text Topic sentences Sentence expansion Complete the activities: Add the topic sentences and discourse markers Sentence expansion

6 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities as A4 Word editable and printable booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class. Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – What is a verb? What is a verb? Different types of verbs found in the verb phrase Complete the activities: Complete the clauses Distinguish the verbs Homework 2 – Verb tenses Different types of verb tenses Complete the activities: Which tense is being used? Turn present to past Homework 3 – Present tense What is the present tense? Present continuous Present perfect Present perfect continuous Complete the activities: Correct the tenses Homework 4 – Past tense What is the past tense? Past continuous Past perfect Past perfect continuous Complete the activities: Correct the tenses Homework 5 – Future tense What is the future tense? Modal auxiliary verbs Future continuous Future perfect Future perfect continuous Complete the activities: Correct the tenses Homework 6 – Completing an action The progressive aspect The perfective aspect Some special uses of aspect Complete the activities: Identify progressive and perfective Match time expressions

Writing Practice Homework: Sentence Demarcation - 6 Weeks 6 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities Easy and quick to self-assess in class . Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – What is a sentence? Types of sentences The parts of a sentence Complete the activities: Find the sentences Distinguish the clause elements Homework 2 – How simple and compound sentences are structured Simple sentence Compound sentence Complete the activities: Simple or compound? Compound out of simple Homework 3 – How complex sentences are structured Complex sentence Complex sentence with embedded clause Complete the activities: Simple, compound, or complex? Complex out of simple Homework 4 – Punctuation to demarcate sentences The full stop [ . ] The question mark [ ? ] The exclamation mark [ ! ] The semi-colon [ ; ] The colon [ : ] Speech marks [“ ”] Complete the activities: Add punctuation to demarcate the sentences Homework 5 – Comma Splice and Run-On Sentences Comma splice Run-on sentence How to correct comma splices and run-on sentences Complete the activities: Correct the punctuation Homework 6 – Colons and semi-colons The colon and its functions The semicolon and its functions Complete the activities: Put a colon in each of the following sentences Replace the commas with semicolons

Macbeth Act 5 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Act 5. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 12 questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) or write the answers in the space provided. Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Answers are included on a separate page.

Macbeth Act 4 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Act 4. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 12 questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) or write the answers in the space provided. Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Answers are included on a separate page.

Macbeth Act 3 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Act 3. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 15 questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) or write the answers in the space provided. Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Answers are included on a separate page.

Macbeth Act 2 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Act 2. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 12 questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) or write the answers in the space provided. Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Answers are included on a separate page.

Macbeth Act 1 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Act 1. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 15 questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) or write the answers in the space provided. Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Answers are included on a separate page.

A Christmas Carol Stave 5 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Stave 5. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 13 multiple choice questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Also included, the answers worksheet where correct answers are highlighted in red.

A Christmas Carol Stave 4 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Stave 4. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 13 multiple choice questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Also included, the answers worksheet where correct answers are highlighted in red.

A Christmas Carol Stave 3 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Stave 3. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 10 multiple choice questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Also included, the answers worksheet where correct answers are highlighted in red.

A Christmas Carol Stave 2 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Stave 2. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 15 multiple choice questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Also included, the answers worksheet where correct answers are highlighted in red.

A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Stave 1. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 15 multiple choice questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Also included, the answers worksheet where correct answers are highlighted in red.

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from classic supernatural texts. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - The Vampyre by John William Polidori (1819) 2 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot (1859) 3 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) 4 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) 5 - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) 6 - The Wendingo by Algernon Blackwood (1910) 7 - Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker (1914)

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from American texts published in the 1930s. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - The 42nd Parallel by Jon Dos Passos (1930) 2 - As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 3 - Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934) 4 - The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (1936) 5 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) 6 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 7 - The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939)

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from classic Gothic texts. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1765) 2 - The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (1794) 3 - Caleb Williams by William Godwin (1794) 4 - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1803) 5 - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838) 6 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) 7 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

6 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from texts set or written in the 1920s. 23 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (2 to 4 sheets per lesson, including extract and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts include: 1 - A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 2 - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 3 - Just William by Richmal Crompton 4 - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 5 - A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 6 - Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from texts set or written in the 1920s. 27 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (2 to 4 sheets per lesson, including extract and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 2 - The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury 3 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 4 - The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings 5 - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot 6 - Ulysses by James Joyce 7 - We by Yevgeng Zamyatin