AmyJaney's English and Literacy Resources
A range of resources for English across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, as well as Literacy resources. I create schemes of work, individual resources, revision games, and exam-style papers.
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A range of resources for English across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, as well as Literacy resources. I create schemes of work, individual resources, revision games, and exam-style papers.
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KS3 AQA Preparation Poetry Collection - KS3 SoW covering growing pains
111 slide powerpoint which looks at dissecting a poem and analysing it, as well as some creative writing opportunities.
Challenge and extension activities included.
Skills linked to new AQA criteria.
Poems covered can be seen on the first slide of the powerpoint.
All fully decorated and ready to use.
Task booklet accompanies this scheme.
Descriptive Writing - using Power & Conflict poetry as stimulus
A series of 17 lessons to develop students' descriptive writing skills in preparation for the new GCSE English Language descriptive writing task (targeted specifically at the new AQA GCSE - 8700 - Paper 1, Section B). It uses some of the poems from the Power and Conflict section of the AQA anthology as a stimulus, along with a little analytical exploration of them.
This is the first unit we teach our Y10s but could be easily adapted to simply focus on descriptive writing, add to the poetry, etc. If you do cover this section of the anthology, it is ready to teach 'straight out the box', with all relevant resources. Plenty of examples of published writers to use as models.
Boy Overboard - 17 lesson SoW
Fully decorated with a range of activities leading up to creating a newspaper report.
Just needs learning objectives and success criteria adding.
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Othello Exam Questions Mega Bundle (A-Level, AQA)
Both my question packs on Othello for A-Level English Literature at a reduced price. Useful for preparing for the exam.
Boy in the Striped PJs SoW aimed at KS3. 23 lessons
Covers the book and integrates reading skills with writing. A range of activities with challenge and extension tasks.
Powerpoint lesson 7/8 also contains photos from inside Auschwitz from a visit I took to the camp which can bring the story to life for the students. Mine were really interested to see what it actually looked like.
KS3 Poetry Anthology - War Poetry
A SoW that covers a range of war poetry. Aimed at KS3 to give them an idea of what to expect at GCSE level.
Form Literacy PowerPoints x38 15 min activities
These lessons have been designed to be used in form to reinforce essential literacy skills.
They include engaging videos, and challenge and extension activities.
The tasks are self-explanatory and hopefully will work well for the whole of KS3 and KS4. These could also be used in English lessons.
Romeo and Juliet for Year 8 - 13 lessons linking to New AQA Spec
This SoW is ready to go. Decorated and video clips included complete with challenge activities.
This covers the play 'Romeo and Juliet'. The SoW is based on watching the Baz Luhrmann version of the play and then extracts of key scenes to analyse and base creative writing on.
It focuses on conflict, male aggression, character development and how these things link to contextual information.
There are a couple of writing tasks including describing the scene at the Capulet's masquerade, challenging Romeo to a duel as Tybalt, and a persuasive speech as to who is to blame for Mercutio's death.
Hound of the Baskervilles - 19 lessons that covers the retold version
This scheme of work is based on the Usborne Classic Retold version of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'.
Each lesson covers 1 chapter more or less and they aim to look at skills that students will need to be able to use in their new AQA GCSE exams. They think about structure, characterisation, description and PEE analysis as well as some contextual links.
37 Literacy Based Starter Activities Version 4
Could be used during form time as a whole school literacy task or in English lessons.
Covers:
Varying vocabulary
Homophones
Reading: skimming and scanning
Capital letters and full stops
Spoken English - discussion skills
Reading for meaning
Sentence types (excludes complex)
Apostrophes
Paragraphs
Speech marks
Connotation and denotation
Proofreading
Introduction to Shakespeare and his times - 14/15 lesson SoW
14/15 lesson SoW.
Covers different contextual influences e.g. Elizabethan times/Shakespeare/witches.
Looks at 'All the World's a Stage', and also focuses on extracts from various Shakespeare plays but mainly 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Macbeth'.
Lesson 2 - Timings refer to the film 'Anonymous'.
No paper SoW as activities are self-explanatory.
Fully decorated, with success criteria, lesson objectives and challenge criteria.
37 Literacy Based Starter Activities Version 2
Could be used during form time as a whole school literacy task or in English lessons.
Covers:
Varying vocabulary
Homophones
Reading: skimming and scanning
Capital letters and full stops
Spoken English - discussion skills
Reading for meaning
Sentence types (excludes complex)
Apostrophes
Paragraphs
Speech marks
Connotation and denotation
Proofreading
37 Literacy Based Starter Activities Version 3
Could be used during form time as a whole school literacy task or in English lessons.
Covers:
Varying vocabulary
Homophones
Reading: skimming and scanning
Capital letters and full stops
Spoken English - discussion skills
Reading for meaning
Sentence types (excludes complex)
Apostrophes
Paragraphs
Speech marks
Connotation and denotation
Proofreading
KS3 AQA Based - Poetry Anthology and Unseen Poetry
15/16 lessons which focuses on the topic of love and relationships with an assessment, and then moves onto unseen poetry with another assessment. This could be easily expanded. It aims to mimic the skills used in the AQA Literature exam.
Much Ado About Nothing - 13-14 lessons
This scheme of work focuses on love and relationships in the play between Beatrice and Benedick, and Hero and Claudio. You would need a film version of Much Ado with Kenneth Brannagh to help with the teaching as it is a short scheme of work. My year 7s really enjoyed it.
Holes - Louis Sachar, Scheme of work. 22 lessons
Range of reading and writing activities. Fully decorated and full of challenge and extension activities.
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2025 AQA Predicted Exams: Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol, Power & Conflict
AQA style GCSE English Literature exam papers on Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol and Power & Conflict, based on what I anticipate might come up this year.
I have no inside knowledge in terms of what will be on the exams - this is done by considering aspects such as typical extract length, question styles etc. that AQA use and eliminating anything that has already appeared on their published SAMS and past papers.
Alice in Wonderland - 16 lesson Scheme of Work
Would probably last longer if required.
This focuses on the first 'Alice in Wonderland' book by Lewis Carroll.
Mainly focused on writing skills. Covers all of the book apart from Chapter 9 and 10.
Activities include challenge tasks to extend students' thinking skills.
All resources needed are included and all powerpoint slides come decorated and ready to use.
All include learning objective and success criteria.
No paper SoW as tasks are self-explanatory.
Thank you for looking!
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2025 Predicted English Lit Paper 2 exams: An Inspector Calls, Power & Conflict, Unseen Poetry (AQA)
AQA style GCSE English Literature 2 exam papers on An Inspector Calls, Power & Conflict and Unseen Poetry, based on what I anticipate might come up this year.
The unseen poems are obviously unpredictable, but this pack includes six pairs of poems that have not been included in AQA exams in the past: each has a part (i) task on the first unseen poem, which is then thematically linked to the part (ii) poem for the 8-mark comparison task.
I have no inside knowledge in terms of what will be on the exams - this is done by considering aspects such as typical extract length, question styles etc. that AQA use and eliminating anything that has already appeared on their published SAMS and past papers.
Extremely useful if you want full sets of English Literature exam papers that don’t cover past content that clearly won’t come up again!