This is a booklet which covers the 2015 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas film. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question by and bares in mind methods used by the director and Boyne whilst allowing them to compare the two media types. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as a pre-reading activity or post-reading recap.

Reminders of timings and methods of answering questions.

Mats that students can use to remind them of the mark criteria and what they should be looking for in the English Language Paper 2. Can be used for self or peer assessment or as revision.

Revision lesson that can be done independently or as a carousel.

Can be used for peer or self assessment or even for revision.

Key information and suggestions of how to revise.

15 lessons which cover all of the poems. They encourage the students to become more independent and I have included lots of videos to engage them. My classes seemed to enjoy them and got a lot out of the lessons. Includes challenge activities working through Bloom’s. Includes an exam style question/task for each poem with a focus on writer’s intention.

Mini glossaries of words that students may not understand from the AQA Power and Conflict section. I get my students to stick them in to help them understand words they are not sure of. These could be adapted so that students have to find some of the definitions for themselves.

This is a booklet which covers the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice by Joe Wright. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

The board will need to be printed on A3 and could be laminated for reuse. This is a really good way of getting students to revisit their learning and knowledge of the structure/form, themes, context and messages of the poems in a fun and independent way. I have used this before and the students really enjoy it. All you will need is some dice to play. You could get students to think of their own questions and tasks too as an extension/challenge.

This is a booklet which covers the 1988 film version of Hound of the Baskervilles by Peter Hammond. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question by. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

This is a booklet which covers the 1996 film version of James and the Giant Peach by Henry Selick. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

A short 2 slide ppt. getting students to consider the mistakes they make and reflect on their work.

This resource would be best enlarged onto A3 and could be used during teaching this paper, before an assessment or after a marked piece of work in order for students to make improvements. This focuses solely on the reading section of Language Paper 2 and uses ‘One’s Company’ and ‘Records of a Girlhood’ (2023 exam) as its focus. It is three pages in length. The sections could be potentially highlighted by students or folded to look less overwhelming and to seem more like a bookmark style tool. This is a grid which includes the key things to remember about the reading section emphasis on the importance of the context box at the top of the extract what each question looks like (based on ‘One’s Company’ and ‘Records of a Girlhood’ (2023 exam) questions they should ask themselves for each question to help reading for meaning how to plan (or what I tell mine to do) what should be included to gain specific levels with a short example sentence openers a rough breakdown of marks for grade boundaries the mark scheme with bracketed simplification of some words for students to understand

This resource would be best enlarged onto A3 and could be used during teaching this paper, before an assessment or after a marked piece of work in order for students to make improvements. This focuses solely on the reading section of Language Paper 1 and uses ‘The Life of Pi’ (2023 exam) as its focus. It is three pages in length. They sections could be potentially highlighted by students or folded to look less overwhelming and to seem more like a bookmark style tool. This is a grid which includes the key things to remember about the reading section emphasis on the importance of the context box at the top of the extract what each question looks like (based on ‘The Life of Pi’ 2023 paper) questions they should ask themselves for each question to help reading for meaning how to plan (or what I tell mine to do) what should be included to gain specific levels with a short example sentence openers a rough breakdown of marks for grade boundaries the mark scheme with bracketed simplification of some words for students to understand

This workbook is designed to guide students through independently re-reading the play and making notes. It breaks the play down across twelve revision sessions, each of which has three parts: Direction of which pages to read. A set of comprehension questions on this part of the play. A choice of further revision tasks, encouraging students to further reflect on the scenes they have explored. Many of these tasks include challenge questions to encourage higher order thinking. There is also a relevant exam question provided for each of the twelve sessions. I created this because many of my students don’t really know where to start with independent revision, and I also want to see evidence that they’ve read back through the text. It could also be used in school revision sessions. The page numbers used relate to a copy of the play that is available online (link within the resource) but could be adapted for students’ own physical copies of the text.

This workbook is designed to guide students through independently re-reading the novella and making notes. It breaks the text down across eleven revision sessions, each of which has three parts: Direction of which pages to read. A set of comprehension questions on this part of the novella. A choice of further revision tasks, encouraging students to further reflect on the section they have explored. Many of these tasks include challenge questions to encourage higher order thinking. There is also a relevant exam question provided for each of the eleven sessions. I created this because many of my students don’t really know where to start with independent revision, and I also want to see evidence that they’ve read back through the text. It could also be used in school revision sessions. The page numbers used relate to a copy of the novel that is available online (link within the resource) but could be adapted for students’ own physical copies of the text.

A complete series of lessons, with 17 PowerPoints and accompanying resources to work through the play from the beginning to the end, developing relevant skills (AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO4). Includes opportunities for peer/self reflection using green pen (you may wish to change this if your school has a different colour/policy for independent reflection). Aimed at middle-higher ability but can be adapted. Lessons are designed to be one hour each but many can be stretched to allow for more detailed exploration of ideas where relevant. Useful for any study of An Inspector Calls but created with the new AQA specification (8702, Paper 2) in mind. Note: there are a range of original resources within the package, but two of these are freely available on TES (dominoes task and tension ordering in lessons 1 and 6). I am absolutely not claiming these as my own but including them within the scheme as they are incorporated in the two of the lesson plan PowerPoints I’ve created :)

After discounting all extracts and questions used in AQA’s sample and past papers, and considering the length of extract and question styles used by AQA, I came up with six potential extracts and questions AQA could use this summer. This resource consists of those extracts, each with a question, in the style of the AQA GCSE English Literature exam. Please note that these are purely predictions and I have no advance knowledge of the content of the exam! Included is also an additional further range of sample Romeo and Juliet exam tasks I’ve put together.