This is a booklet which covers the 1954 Guy Hamilton film version of An Inspector Calls. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from and bares in mind methods used by the director and Priestley whilst allowing them to compare the two media types. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

This is a booklet which covers the 2015 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas film. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question by and bares in mind methods used by the director and Boyne whilst allowing them to compare the two media types. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as a pre-reading activity or post-reading recap.

This is a booklet which covers the 2003 film version of Holes by Louis Sachar. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question by. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap.

One off short lesson used for an interview with ideas for activities to be carried forward. The students loved this.

A Ppt to help students tackle the AQA example KS3 paper which can be found on their website…

Covers plot, characters, themes, context and techniques/terminology.

This is a new set of assessment tasks on Othello - please see my other resources for Pack 1. A set of 13 assessment tasks, following the same structure as the AQA A Level Paper 1 (Love Through the Ages), Section A, Q1 sample materials, all on Othello. This is for the new specification (7712). The assessments focus on the presentation of varying types of love across a range of key scenes in the play. This makes them useful as practice exam material, and/or for recapping key scenes in the play. Each task has a question based on the presentation of [aspect of love] in response to a statement, followed by an extract.

This is a booklet which covers the 1951 Disney film version of Alice in Wonderland. It has rough timings as to when students should be able to answer the question from. Covers a range of Bloom’s skills. Can be used either as an activity during teaching or post-reading recap. You will need to delete the cross from the answer/question sheet which just needs selecting and then deleting.

Lessons designed to teach year 7 the skills they will need to know for their GCSE. These lessons use two Test Packs created by AQA.

The board will need to be printed on A3 and could be laminated for reuse. This is a really good way of getting students to revisit their learning and knowledge of the characters, themes, context and events of the novella in a fun and independent way. I have used this before and the students really enjoy it. All you will need it some dice to play. You could get students to think of their own questions and tasks too as an extension/challenge.

This covers all of the text including events, characters, themes, context. I used to use this for my GCSE groups and they loved it. All you will need is some dice.

This covers the whole play, context, characters, events, themes and can be adapted to suit any exam board. Students really enjoy this! All you will need is some dice.

39 weeks of words with quotes, thinking activities and space for timetable and form notices. You will have to change the dates for the year you are using it.

These lessons have been designed to be used in form to reinforce essential literacy skills. They include engaging videos, and challenge and extension activities. The tasks are self-explanatory and hopefully will work well for the whole of KS3 and KS4. These could also be used in English lessons.

Covers the book and context with creative activities.

Key words for Food Technology and words to describe.

A comprehensive collection of 23 sample exam tasks on 'A Christmas Carol' by Dickens, in the style of the new specification (8702) AQA English Lit Paper 1 GCSE exam. As with the official sample materials, each task includes brief details about where the extract is from, the extract itself with line numbers, and a question, followed by prompts to refer to the presentation of character/theme/idea/setting in the extract and the novel as a whole. The tasks are ordered in the same sequence as the extracts appear in the novel, so this would also be useful for recapping the story through key extracts.

44 detailed lessons which covers plot, characters, themes and context. Learning objectives are linked to the new AQA spec assessment objectives.