English GCSE / KS3 Woman in Black Gothic Extract Kipps alone in the house. Range of language tasks

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read and understood. This is an extract-based activity on a popular
Gothic novel. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to discussions about this text. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. This lesson can easily be edited for the Edexcel exam specification.
The lesson comes with a writing activity which allows students to imaginatively develop the ideas from the extract.