A detailed mind map for use revising Macbeth & the theme of power. Contains quotations with inferences, key characters, and contextual references.

A variety of revision tasks designed for a mid to low ability class. These are short, chunked activities to help them with remembering plot, characters and quotations. There is a plot summary cloze activity, a quotation matching exercise, two character analysis activities and a wordsearch - because who doesn’t love a wordseach as a reward!

Scaffold/flow chart, perfect for a table mat. Helping students to write analytically using the Point, Evidence, Explanation method. Designed to help students ask themselves questions about what to write next & encourage independent learning!

An easy to understand, colour coded ‘cheat sheet’ for students to keep handy to help with revision. This can also be posted around classrooms, or stuck in books to aid students who need an extra boost during lessons.

A series of tasks to help focus students’ contextual knowledge. This is differentiated to allow for essential knowledge to be gained, but also higher ability students to be stretched.

A grid with space for quotations and analysis of the main characters of Lord Of The Flies - from chapter 1 to chapter 6. Some quotes have been placed in as differentiation, and there are some spaces with page numbers for hints.

A series of contextual research tasks to broaden the knowledge of students.

For GCSE students, either heading into KS4 or part way through. This has a section for each of the questions on the language papers, and each text (we study) on the Literature ones. Additionally, it has a series of questions for the students to consider about their knowledge and understanding of what is expected of them from these questions. They can grade themselves out of ten, or check them off when they understand. Good for formative assessment & guided revision.

A planning sheet for students to prepare them to answer a question about how Ralph is presented in Chapter 7. This has suggested quotations and suggested annotation/planning ideas.

This is a hyperlinked powerpoint that uses a treasure map theme to guide students through the context surrounding the play ‘The Tempest’. This could be used either at the start or the end of the topic. It does require some independent research, using mobile devices or a computer room, and was originally designed to start the unit but could be adapted to use as an end of unit plenary. It is very extensive, and could be cut down to suit the needs of your class. There are a few joke slides in there to mimic the many jokes, ups and downs felt by the characters of the play.

A handy (colour coded) revision grid to help your students focus their ideas on useful tasks in the run up to GCSE or Preliminary exams. Designed for students who studied Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, and Power and Conflict Poetry (AQA) but is easily adaptable.

Tips and tricks for recapping language paper 2 question 5.

This resource contains a variety of revision tasks to help prepare year 10 students for the start of year 11. These are designed for the AQA spec, using Lord of The Flies, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol and Conflict Poetry as the chosen texts, but could be adapted. For the language paper, the tasks relate to SAMS 3 in the AQA secure resources area (The Aberfan paper). This is designed as a buffet style task, where students can pick the tasks they want to do, but still have options for revision later on.

This set of worksheets are designed to be kept in view of students during extended writing activities. They are full of vocabulary, sentence, and punctuation advice, but are varied enough to provide extension for more able students as well as intervention for less able - hence the name! Each is tailored to a specific skill set, and they are not designed to be used all at once, but could be. I get my students to stick them to the front cover of their books, so that they can always find them.

This is an excel document that generates combinations of nouns, adverbs and verbs from a short list within it. The list can be altered! A good exercise for low ability literacy classes is to get them to use the words generated to write progressively more complex sentences, and get them to vary the tense and word order. Works best with small classes!

This lesson revises Lady Macbeth’s role in the play, and involves the students recapping each of her scenes, and identifying key quotations to show her characteristics. My set are a mid/low set, so much of my challenge was verbal differentiation & extension.

A grid with tasks to aid comprehension of Act 3 Scene 3

A ‘mad-libs’ style activity to encourage students to form interesting and detailed sentences, by getting them to fill in the gaps with appropriate words.

A lesson that recaps Conflict and Power poetry, by getting students to compare to a named poem. They have a choice of themes, and have to compare to a different poem per theme. The idea is to create a revision resource.