Grade 8 response exploring how Shakespeare presents the relationships between adults and children in Romeo and Juliet.

A detailed lesson exploring the character of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Detailed revision cards for 12 of the most significant poems in the Feminine Gospels collection. Each revision card contains an overview of the poem and detailed analysis of what I consider to be the 3 most significant quotations in each poem. I have also attached a blank version for students to have a go at creating their own versions of the revision cards. Also available as a bundle containing 15 lessons looking in detail at most of the poems in the collection: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12586188

This quiz has 8 multiple choice questions on each of the 6 main characters from An Inspector Calls so 48 questions in total. A great resource for checking students’ understanding of each character. Includes the answer sheet. Designed to fit snugly onto one A3 or A4 page for ease of printing.

Character revision sheet on Sybil Birling which analyses 10 key quotations. Also includes a thesis style introduction. Great revision tool for helping to prepare for writing an essay on this character.

My attempt at writing a grade 9 response to the AQA 2022 question about Macbeth’s fears.

A grade 9 response on the theme of guilt in Macbeth.

Grade 9 full mark exam-style response exploring Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship across the play

Many students struggle to get into the top band (level 4) for AQA Paper 1 Question 2. This resource is aimed at helping students move from level 3 to level 4. Students look at and compare level 3 and level 4 sample responses to 6 different Paper 1 Question 2 short extracts. For each, they must attempt to explain in their own words why the level 4 response is better than the level 3 response.

2 page Animal Farm revision worksheet. Page 1 has 3 key quotations for each of the main characters and themes which have been carefully selected from roughly the start, the middle and end of the novella for students to comment on and analyse to help them show knowledge of the whole text. On page 2 there is then a writing frame to guide students on how to write these plans up as 3 paragraph responses covering the whole text. This resource has been successful at supporting students looking to achieve grades 4-6.

A detailed lesson, inspired by teaching tip 3 on the recent AQA 2022 examiner report, that guides students on how to write grade 9 topic sentences for a range of literature texts. There are multiple examples for A Christmas Carol, Macbeth, Lord of the Flies and Power and Conflict that all follow the same structure. At each stage of the lesson, students use the models to try and generate their own topic sentences for each studied text.

A grade 9 response exploring how Dickens presents the suffering of the poor in A Christmas Carol.

A grade 9 response on how the ghosts change Scrooge’s attitudes and beliefs.

Two attempts at responding to a question about the effects of Scrooge’s loneliness and isolation from society. I anticipate that these would achieve grade 8/9 depending on the leniency of the grade boundaries in any particular year. The 2 responses are structured differently so they are useful to help students see different ways of trying to meet the assessment objectives.

A grade 9 response exploring how Scrooge’s fears are presented in the novella.

This 11 page booklet contains detailed model answers for questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the summer 2022 AQA Paper 1 English language exam which featured an extract from The Pearl by John Steinbeck. I go through each question in detail providing a range of possible ways of approaching the question to meet the marking criteria. For question 5 there are 4 different high level responses based on a life-saving rescue to compare.

A detailed lesson and revision resource asking students to explore multiple interpretations of the main characters and themes in the play. Students explore and examine 3 symbolic interpretations of each character or theme and discuss which is the most valid interpretation of the text. Exploring multiple interpretations is a method for enabling students to reach Bands 5 and 6 on the markscheme. Ideal as a final revision lesson in the run up to the exam.

A 6 week reading intervention module focused on building reading fluency and comprehension aimed at supporting students in Year 6 and Year 7 whose reading age is slightly below their chronological age. The theme of the booklet is superheroes. In each session, students read a 500 word text about a superhero and complete fluency activities before ending the session with comprehension questions. Full details are included on how the sessions can be delivered. Also contains an answer booklet for the comprehension questions. The superheroes covered are Iron Man, Superman, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Captain America and Spiderman. At the start and end of the unit, I recommend assessing students against Rasinski’s fluency rubric.