A handy A3 context sheet aimed at helping students understand how the Elizabethan context enriches our understanding of the play. Ideal as a starting point for helping students move outside of the text to address A03.

In this fast paced Macbeth revision lesson, students look at 12 key scenes from the play and quickly jot down the key ideas and significance of each scene onto the revision clock. Ideal for a revision lesson or an intervention session.

Revision activity/revision sheet containing 10 analytical questions on the poem with 10 high level developed responses to the questions. Created for a revision booklet on the Edexcel Conflict anthology. Also contains a model response comparing how powerful images are presented in War Photographer and What were they like?

A 6 week reading intervention unit aimed at students in Year 6 and Year 7. Each session involves looking at a short speech on a contemporary topic (topics include homework, school uniform, the environment) working on a range of fluency strategies to develop students’ confidence in accessing the text. Full details are included for how to structure each session. At the start of the unit and in week 6, the teacher should assess students against Rasinski’s rubric to help measure progress in reading fluency.

Part of a series of superhero-themed comprehension worksheets from a reading intervention I ran with Year 6 and Year 7, this text focuses on Captain Marvel’s origins from the Marvel franchise. Students read the 500 word text and answer the comprehension questions. The answers are included.

A 28 slide PowerPoint that includes an engaging starter, detailed annotations of each stanza, discussion about the overall message in the poem, comprehension questions, a band 5 sample paragraph and extension tasks involving analytical writing and researching archetypes. Also includes 5 sample essays ranging from low band 5 down to band 2 answering the following question: Examine the view that in Feminine Gospels 'women are presented as victims of society.’ Ideal for moderation or looking at looking at how to build up through the bands. Also contains a revision sheet with analysis of 10 key quotations from the poem on one handy printable sheet.

Over 200 slides with detailed notes, questions and annotations for key extracts and chapters across the novel.

When approaching Paper 1 Question 5, I advise students to begin with an opening paragraph that uses pathetic fallacy to describe a setting. Here are 6 examples that use pathetic fallacy to depict the opening. They also consistently use ambitious tier 2 vocabulary and advanced punctuation to help show the sophistication required for the top band of the mark scheme. After studying the 6 model paragraphs, students should then move on to create their own pathetic fallacy opening paragraphs.

Detailed analysis of key quotations from Prelude by Wordsworth (from the Power and Conflict cluster) aimed at grade 9 students.

Simple plot storyboard to help students learn the plot to Frankenstein.

2 grade 9 articles about homework which response to a Paper 2 Question 5 task: “Homework has no value. Some students get it done for them, some don’t do it at all. Students should be relaxing in their free time.” Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper in which you can explain your point of view on this statement. One article agrees with the statement while the other disagrees with the statement. They have been put side by side on an A3 sheet so students can compare the ideas to help guide them towards generating their own ideas for their own response on this topic.

A high level response exploring how Stevenson uses settings to create a disturbing and threatening atmosphere in the novella.

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 worksheet looking at the moral lessons/big ideas in Macbeth. Students complete the blank grid and then compare their ideas to the model answers.

Highly detailed annotations of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke to support students with gaining a perceptive and thoughtful understanding of the Eduqas poetry anthology.

A grade 9 response to the following question on An Inspector Calls from the 2022 EdExcel exam: Explain how the chain of events is important in An Inspector Calls

A revision sheet focused on Williams’ use of plastic theatre in A Streetcar Named Desire. It offers detailed analysis of 12 moments from the play which use plastic theatre to help express universal truths about the human condition.

Handy one page revision sheet on Half Caste by John Agard for the Edexcel conflict anthology. It contains 10 analytical questions and 10 developed responses to the questions. My most popular resource on Edexcel conflict poetry, which puts together all my resources into one booklet, is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/edexcel-conflict-poetry-revision-booklet-12955594