Lower ability 'A Christmas Carol Scheme' of work for AQA GCSE

A full scheme of work which spans across an entire term for myself. I put this together last year for a set 8 Year 9 group studying A Christmas Carol for the first time. This group was a weak class with an average reading age of about 8 yrs and EAL pupils (you will notice some French and Portuguese translations on some worksheets/ slides which you can delete). This unit can, of course, be used with any low ability class studying this text. It contains lots of assessment practise; example paragraphs/ WAGOLLS; no marking feedback sheets that can be adapted to anything else; differentiated tasks and worksheets to explore key parts of the novel; prompt sheets to support independent annotation of the essential bits, etc. There are homework suggestions too, including a couple of knowledge organisers.

The Main PowerPoint contains slides for all lessons (over 130 in total), all with clear objectives which are Blooms led. Many of the ‘lessons’ are meaty and may well span across two or more lessons.

I do also sell a high ability SOW on ‘A Christmas Carol’ in my shop. Whilst this unit follows the same order as the high ability one, rest assured that this lower ability scheme is completely different otherwise in terms of tasks and resources.