Exercises for A-level students to develop their writing skills using activities from ‘The Writing Revolution’ (Hochman and Wexler). This set of activities focusing on the third and fourth chaptersf the book: ‘one step at a time: why students need to plan before they write’ and ‘first steps in planning: the single-paragraph outline.’ My own high-ability A-level English literature set have found this resource invaluable in helping them understand the writing process and improve their own writing across their A-levels. This is the third resource I have created for this scheme. I would highly recommend completing activity 1 and 2 before attempting activity 3 as the skills build on each other.

Exercises for A-level students to develop their writing skills using activities from ‘The Writing Revolution’ (Hochman and Wexler). This set of activities focusing on the second chapter of the book: ‘sentence expansion and note-taking: getting students to process what they’ve read.’ My own high-ability A-level English literature set have found this resource invaluable in helping them understand the writing process and improve their own writing across their A-levels.

Exercises for A-level students to develop their writing skills using activities from ‘The Writing Revolution’ (Hochman and Wexler). This set of activities focusing on the first chapter of the book: ‘sentence-level writing: the basic building blocks of writing.’ My own high-ability A-level English literature set have found this resource invaluable in helping them understand the writing process and improve their own writing across their A-levels.

Imagery in Poetry Lesson using Preludes by T. S. Elliot; poetic devices

20 minute lesson judged Outstanding against the new 2012 Ofsted criteria. PEA Lesson Using & analysing evidence

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Be able to…) To be able to understand, describe and select information from a text.

Learning Objective: To be able to understand, describe and select information from a text.

Matching the pairs exercise. Using rhyming pairs to complete a ballad.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Be able to…) To be able to use time connectives with our creative writing.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Be able to…) To be able to use new knowledge of connectives and adjectives to re-write the highwayman.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Beable to…)To be able to vary sentences for clarity and effect. To understand how connectives can be used to form compound sentences.

Looking at metaphors in the Highway Man

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Be able to…) To understand the main events of the highwayman.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Be able to…) To understand what a simile is. To be able to use similes within a complex sentence.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Beable to…)To be able to use different sentence starters in our writing.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Beable to…)To understand what a metaphor is and beable to use it in our writing.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Beable to…)To be able to use adjectives in sentences to make them more interesting.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Be able to…) To understand and identify how language is used to describe and create atmosphere.

Learning Objectives (Know, Understand, Be able to…) To understand events from The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned. To be able to name four features of a ballad.