A worksheet on comma splices aimed at a 20 minute intervention session. Part of a wider series of intervention lessons.

A worksheet on using embedded clauses for a 20 minute intervention session.

A learning journey for To Kill a Mockingbird with 9 revision choices and 7 accompanying worksheets.

A quiz about news and major events in 2019-20 to help improve your students’ cultural capital in a fun and engaging way. There are over 100 attractive slides covering the questions and answers. There are 60 questions designed to neatly fit into a one hour lesson. 6 Rounds: General Knowledge and politics Music Sporting Achievements Television Heroes (picture quiz) 2020 Quiz Also includes a tiebreaker asking students to write a paragraph to nominate and justify their own personal hero of 2019-20. 9 possible candidates are provided from Ben Stokes and Raheem Sterling to Greta Thunberg and Lil Nas X.

A lesson aimed at getting students to be more conscious of the sentences types they use in their descriptive writing. Images from A Christmas Carol are used as the stimulus for the descriptive writing. After each task, students complete extension tasks to review their combination of sentence types.

A grade 9 response to the following question: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens explore the importance of places in the novel? (30 marks) Explore how Dickens presents a place in the extract Explore how Dickens presents places across the novel as a whole. The extract (included) is from the start of Stave 3 when the ghost of Christmas Present transforms Scrooge’s room. This was written in one 45 minute sitting to reflect the amount of time students would have to write their response in the exam.

A full lesson analysing the character of Old Benjamin in Animal Farm that offers support for weaker students and challenge to higher ability students. The PowerPoint/pdf includes the following: 3 question starter with detailed answers on slide 2. Then student attempt to explain 6 key quotations before comparing their explanations to the teacher explanations. Students are then given a grade 5/6model paragraph and asked to write their own paragraph analysing Benjamin. Higher level students can instead be shown an aspirational grade 9 paragraph. The included writing frame is optional for weaker students.

Lesson analysing 4 more obscure extracts from A Christmas Carol. Over time, examiners tend to set more challenging extracts. This features 4 of the more obscure extracts that could come up in May 2021 or May 2022. Boat out at sea (Stave 3) Facetious snowball (Stave 3) Fred’s Party (Stave 3) Cheap funeral (Stave 4) Each extract includes exploratory questions, answers and there is a model paragraph for the first 3 extracts.

Literacy training ideal for whole school teacher training. The session goes through ten strategies teachers can implement instantly to help incorporate literacy more meaningfully into their lessons - whatever their subject specialism. There are 65 slides. Also includes a list of ways each department within a school can support literacy in a meaningful way within their curriculum area. Also contains a list of 5 key priorities/achievements for a literacy coordinator.

Students revise the information sheet about sentences and then go on to complete the knowledge test. Also contains detailed guidance on what makes a powerful sentence.

11 high grade responses to questions about the main characters and themes in A Christmas Carol. Includes full length responses to all of the previous AQA questions. As you will see, all responses are at least band 5 because they present thoughtful and considered responses to the question. Many are in band 6 due to having judicious quotations, fine-grained analysis of methods, discussions about the various connotations of word choices (A02) combined with convincing exploration of wider contextual factors and themes linked to the methods (A03).

6 handy tips that are useful for the Macbeth GCSE exam. Also includes a generic writing frame to help students meet the 3 assessment objectives.

A full lesson that prepares students for how to write a speech about the benefits of reading for pleasure. Includes an example and invites students to follow the same 4 part structure.

Revision mats for AQA Language Paper 2

The 100 most important quotations from Macbeth, in my opinion, placed onto one A3 sheet to assist with revision. Each quotation has a brief explanation of its importance in the text. There are lots of ways you can use this in lesson/to revise. OPTION 1: Create a code for themes e.g. a for ambition, g for guilt, k for kingship, d for deception, s for supernatural. Apply the code to link each quotation to one or more themes. OPTION 2: Ask students to add to each quotation explanation by adding deeper inferences, comments on the impact of language and the wider symbolic significance of each quotation in helping to communicate Shakespeare’s message. OPTION 3: Give students a range of exam questions and ask students to pick 5 quotations they would use to answer each question. OPTION 4: Find pairs of contrasting quotations and explain the contrast to show you can explain how a character or theme develops and changes across the novel. Also contains a top 30 quotation lesson and resource (76 slides) aimed at lower ability students. Updated sheet has meanings, methods and message explored for 100 quotations.

This is a set of 4 lessons and an extra summary (homework or classwork) to support the advance information for Eduqas Section B of Bach’s Badinerie. The series of lessons includes facts required for section B as well as comparison and contrast to section A. There is answers throughout as well as differentiation and colour coded facts depending on target grade.

This is a set of 4 lessons to support the advance information for Eduqas Verse and chorus 2 for Africa by Toto. The series of lessons includes facts required for both sections as well as comparison and contrast to other sections in the piece. There is answers throughout as well as differentiation and colour coded facts depending on target grade.

Ideal for Spaced Learning. There are two versions of the 50 quotation quiz. The longer version can take a whole lesson and the shorter version is ideal as a 10 minute repeatable recap activity. Also contains a top 30 quotations PowerPoint lesson and worksheet aimed at lower ability students.