A 45 slide lesson that teaches students how to identify and comment on the effect of semantic fields in the short extract that is used for AQA Paper 1 Question 2 and Paper 2 Question 3. There are 6 extracts to work through as students develop the skill to identify a pattern of words within each extract. Commenting on a semantic field allows students to make a more sophisticated comment about the effect of language than merely commenting on individual words in isolation.

I have abridged the whole novella of A Christmas Carol into 28 very short extracts to help struggling readers to access the text on one A3 sheet. I have had to use font size 8 to fit it all onto one sheet. For students who require a larger font, I also have included a second version in font size 12 and comic sans. Each extract comes with a question to check for understanding.

A timeline looking at how the motif of blood develops in Macbeth.

A complete ready to teach lesson containing a starter activity, 6 pages of line by line annotations of Act 4 Scene 1 followed up with various extension activities to test students’ understanding of this scene. Ends with students completing an analytical paragraph on the scene. Includes a modelled example.

Fully resourced unit of 5 lessons which introduce the unseen prose element to A Level students. Can also work for high ability GCSE students as a transition/bridging to A Level. Extracts from 19th century classic are used to give students a grounding of themes within classic literature before the transition to post-1945 texts. Each lesson is focused on how to answer an exam-style theme question based on a short extract. Lesson 1: Great Expectations - Miss Havisham extract. Explore the significance of degeneration in this extract. Lesson 2: Frankenstein - Chapter 5 extract. Explore the significance of disappointment in this extract. Lesson 3: Jane Eyre - Extract about Bertha Explore the significance of restriction in this extract. Lesson 4: Jekyll and Hyde - Extract from Jekyll’s statement Explore the significance of duality in this extract. Lesson 5: The Catcher in the Rye - opening paragraph Explore the significance of cynicism in the extract.

Lesson exploring the importance of Fezziwig in the novel. There is a differentiated starter with answers followed by analysis of 8 quotations. Once again possible answers are provided. Then students attempt to write an analytical paragraph using one or more of the quotations.

Complete lesson analysing Act 4 Scene 3 from Macbeth. Includes a starter activity, scene summary, 9 slides of line by line annotations for this extended scene and analytical questions (covering how Scotland and Macbeth are presented in the scene) to test understanding of the annotations. Also contains a revision sheet on the character of Macduff.

Lesson introducing Act 3 Scene 2 of Macbeth. Includes annotations of key lines in the play, comprehension questions based on the annotations and a detailed exploration of the ‘scorpion’ image along with an example paragraph.

A grade 9 response about the theme of ambition. This is one of a number of high level Macbeth responses that can be purchased in a bundle from here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-9-responses-12242190

An example of high level analytical writing in An Inspector Calls about how Priestley presents ideas about selfishness in An Inspector Calls. Includes an examiner comment and grade at the end. This resource is also available as one 9 sample responses at different grades: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-an-inspector-calls-model-responses-11453529 It is also available as a bundle covering the whole play: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310

A lesson analysing the character of Boxer from Animal Farm. Includes detailed annotations of 10 key Boxer quotations to prepare students for answering an exam style question on Boxer. The lesson is aimed at students with a grade 5/6 target.

A quick and free to download test on quotations for An Inspector Calls. Students must identify who speaks each line.

A structured worksheet with 5 tasks for students to work through to help them improve their descriptive writing.

Differentiated activity for building word power. Bronze:Ffind words in the wordsearch Silver: Find definitions of words Gold: Use the words in a paragraph Diamond: Identify spelling strategies to prepare for a spelling test

Differentiated worksheet for learning 25 ambitious words relating to gothic horror.

A differentiated carousel activity based on the Edwardian context to An Inspector Calls. Red (highest ability) make notes on socialism and capitalism Orange (high ability) make notes on 1912 versus 1945 Yellow (middle ability) make notes on the role of women Blue (low ability) makes notes on JB Priestly’s life. Students then carousel to share answers and create a mind map.

Instead of buying my power and conflict revision cards, why not download this template for free and have a go at creating your own personal revision cards. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049 Alternatively try the full power and conflict bundle with lessons, model essays and lots more revision resources and writing frames. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-bundle-2018-11881499

Romeo and Juliet into 15 pages to help students with revising the plot and key quotations to the novel. The abridged version includes: - A short summary of each scene. - The key quotation(s) from each scene. - Extended extracts from what I consider to be the key scenes from the play.

Worksheets aimed at helping students consciously use a range of simple, compound and complex sentences to describe an image. Task 1: Students combine the sentences already provided to describe the image. Task 2: Students must come up with their own examples of simple, compound and complex sentences and then produce their description. This task is very repeatable - just change the image each time. It is worth repeating until students find it easy to come up with simple, compound and complex sentence examples.

A random generator powerpoint that is useful for encouraging students to experiment with using alternative sentence openers. Simply give students a topic to describe. Turn on the random generator and students must begin each sentence with whatever word the random generator lands on. It may be ad adverb, present particple verb, preposition etcetera. Students always seem to enjoy this activity.