The Merchant’s Tale (Chaucer) annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts: 33-54: presentation of January 318-341: presentation of marriage 611-638: presentation of January 948-972: presentation of January 1108-1133: presentation of January and May If you haven’t seen it already, there’s also a free annotated extract available - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13030820

A Christmas Carol annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCSE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts, each one from a highly significant event in the plot: Stave 1 - first description of Scrooge Stave 2 - when he tries to extinguish the light from the Ghost of Christmas Present Stave 3 - Ignorance & Want Stave 4 - the graveyard scene Stave 5 - description of Scrooge If you have found these useful, take a look at the revision materials that accompany the text, also available in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845 - a board game is a brilliant way of engaging learners with revision without it feeling like work! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-worksheets-12942672 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-12938348

‘Heroes’ revision activities includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after reading the novel. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters thinking critically of characters and their personality traits considering essay structures for the exam (WJEC) £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p! If you find this resource useful, you may be interested in other Heroes resources available in my shop: Essay structures - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-robert-cormier-essay-structures-12973423 Narrative Overview - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-by-robert-cormier-narrative-overview-12970174

King Lear annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts, one from each act. Act 1 - Lear banishes Cordelia Act 2 - Lear’s knights are taken away from him by Goneril and Regan Act 3 - Lear facing the storm Act 4 - Lear reawakens after being rescued by Cordelia Act 5 - Edgar enters to challenge Edmund to a duel If you have found these useful, take a look at the revision materials that accompany the text, also available in my shop: Revision PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13013430 Revision materials: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12969963 Critical Approaches: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970159

Inference Worksheets 4 - Alice in Wonderland / What Katy Did These worksheets support learners in developing the skills of reading for meaning and making inferences. The teacher guide at the start helps you navigate through a series of activities that support learners in understanding a text. Each text will take approximately an hour to complete. These work particularly well with groups of 3-6 learners but can also be used 1-1 and with larger groups. These activities help learners to practise: making connections with current knowledge visualising questioning word meaning explaining subtext empathy prioritising summarising The two texts in this pack are extracts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and What Katy Did. Also available in my shop are: Inference Worksheets 1: Peter Pan & The Wind in the Willows Inference Worksheets 2: Treasure Island & The Secret Garden Inference Worksheets 3: A Christmas Carol & The Wizard of Oz A bundle offer including Inference Worksheets 1-3

Inference Worksheets 1 - Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows These worksheets support learners in developing the skills of reading for meaning and making inferences. The teacher guide at the start helps you navigate through a series of activities that support learners in understanding a text. Each text will take approximately an hour to complete. These work particularly well with small groups of 3-6 learners but can be used 1-1 or with larger groups. These activities help learners to practise: making connections with current knowledge visualising questioning word meaning explaining subtext empathy prioritising summarising The two texts in this pack are extracts from Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows. Also available in my shop are: Inference Worksheets 2: Treasure Island & The Secret Garden Inference Worksheets 3: A Christmas Carol & The Wizard of Oz A bundle offer including all six extracts

Inference Worksheets 2 - Treasure Island / The Secret Garden These worksheets support learners in developing the skills of reading for meaning and making inferences. The teacher guide at the start helps you navigate through a series of activities that support learners in understanding a text. Each text will take approximately an hour to complete. These work particularly well with small groups of 3-6 learners but can be used 1-1 or with larger groups. These activities help learners to practise: making connections with current knowledge visualising questioning word meaning explaining subtext empathy prioritising summarising The two texts in this pack are extracts from Treasure Island and The Secret Garden. Also available in my shop are: Inference Worksheets 1: Peter Pan & The Wind in the Willows Inference Worksheets 3: A Christmas Carol & The Wizard of Oz A bundle offer including all six extracts

Inference Worksheets 3 - A Christmas Carol & The Wizard of Oz These worksheets support learners in developing the skills of reading for meaning and making inferences. The teacher guide at the start helps you navigate through a series of activities that support learners in understanding a text. Each text will take approximately an hour to complete. These work particularly well with groups of 3-6 learners but can also be used 1-1 and with larger groups. These activities help learners to practise: making connections with current knowledge visualising questioning word meaning explaining subtext empathy prioritising summarising The two texts in this pack are extracts from The Wizard of Oz and A Christmas Carol. Also available in my shop are: Inference Worksheets 1: Peter Pan & The Wind in the Willows Inference Worksheets 2: Treasure Island & The Secret Garden A bundle offer including all six extracts

GCSE English Language Exam Revision Pack - WJEC Exam Board This resource contains eight pages of revision notes for learners sitting the GCSE English Language exams in Wales. This has been used successfully to support revision prior to the exam, in addition to completing exam practice questions in class. It can be used to teach/remind learners of success criteria, support the transition from modelled/supported activities and aid independent revision. They can be used as individual sheets or copied together to provide a support pack for learners. The pack includes: an overview of what to expect on Unit 2 an overview of what to expect on Unit 3 two pages of notes guiding learners through different reading skills a page of notes guiding learners through success criteria for Unit 2 writing a page of notes guiding learners through success criteria for Unit 3 writing a suggested method for planning non-fiction writing (one of the most useful exam preparation tools I have shared with my learners) a list of language features that could be used

‘An Inspector Calls’ revision worksheets includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after studying the play. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters considering mood and atmosphere thinking critically of characters and their personality traits £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p!

‘Of Mice and Men’ revision worksheets includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after studying the novel. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters considering mood and atmosphere thinking critically of characters and their personality traits £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p! You may also be interested in these resources: Narrative tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970442 Essay structures: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970873

A Christmas Carol revision worksheets includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after reading the novel. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters considering mood and atmosphere thinking critically of characters and their personality traits £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p! If you find this resource useful, you may be interested in other A Christmas Carol resources available in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845 - a board game is a brilliant way of engaging learners in revision without it feeling like work! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-annotated-extracts-12933695 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-12938348

Of Mice and Men Essay Structures provides two different types of structures for learners, depending on ability/level of confidence with the novel. These have been tried and tested with groups of differing abilities in preparation for the Unit 1 Literature exam (WJEC). The first set of essay structures is for pupils who don’t have much exam practice. It provides them with a detailed scaffold for some of the key ideas they may want to discuss and in which order. There are spaces for them to add notes about context and key quotations to include. There is an essay structure for each character and for the theme of ‘loneliness’. This has worked very well with C/D borderline learners. The second set of structures are brief notes for learners who are more confident with writing essays, or as a quick revision tool. There is an essay structure for each character, in addition to three thematic structures. This has worked well as a revision resource for all abilities, and as a lighter form of scaffolding for B+ grade learners when beginning to produce essays. You may also be interested in the following: Narrative tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970442 Revision activities: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12945645

Capital Letters Challenge Worksheets Each worksheet comprises an extract from a classic children’s novel containing errors with capital letters. There are six extracts in total and there is an answer sheet for each one. These are good starter activities for learners who are developing confidence with capitals or a more substantial activity for those who are less confident. The texts include: The Jungle Book (19 errors) Black Beauty (22 errors) The Railway Children (22 errors) What Katy Did (23 errors) Peter Pan (27 errors) The Wizard of Oz (28 errors) The errors include: starting new sentences use of the pronoun ‘I’ proper nouns punctuation of speech headings/titles

Whole School Literacy Advent Calendar provides a range of literacy tasks that can be completed by all pupils during a designated time of day. This could be a form time activity or one at the start of a set lesson. The advent calendar could be used by one class or as an agreed whole school activity. Activities include: discussion topics around a festive theme visualising identifying festive phrases in other languages anagrams other language games The PowerPoint is designed so that clicking on that day’s date will take you directly to the activity for that day, just like opening the door on an advent calendar. There is an activity for each schoolday until the end of term.

King Lear Revision Materials for A-Level contains two different resources that have been proven to support exam practice and revision for A-Level students, in particular for whole text responses where the text isn’t allowed into the exam. This is 15 pages of support, in total. This includes: A thorough narrative summary detailing key events, divided by Acts/Scenes, including a character-web activity at the end A comprehensive quote pack including quotes characterised by character, theme and imagery/language If this is useful to you, have a look at the ‘Critical Approaches’ resource in my shop, which also support A-Level teaching of the play.

This ‘Heroes’ by Robert Cormier unit of work and PowerPoint is tailored towards teaching GCSE English Literature Unit 2 (WJEC). It has been trialled successfully in a classroom with learners with A*-D targets. The unit of work contains tasks that deal with different sections of the novel, and encourage learners to think about character, theme and language analysis. The structure of the unit accounts for time spent on each section, main learning activities, key vocabulary and the corresponding PowerPoint task. (There is also a suggested whole text question activity at the end). The editable PowerPoint includes 17 main activities that encourage learners to analyse different sections of the text. This is sold as an editable resource so that you can amend as needed for your classes, and so that you can incorporate appropriate exam practice as and when it is needed. (Page references are for the Penguin edition). You may also find these resources useful: Narrative summary:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-by-robert-cormier-narrative-overview-12970174 Essay structures: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/heroes-robert-cormier-essay-structures-12973423 A range of ‘An Inspector Calls’ tasks is also available if that is the second text you are studying with your learners in preparation for Unit 2.

A Christmas Carol Revision Board Game is a great way to engage learners in revising quotations and elements of plot, character and theme. This is a particularly effective resource for learners who may struggle with engagement/motivation at times when it comes to revision. This resource includes: 32 questions and answers about plot, character and theme 32 questions and answers about key quotations A game board ‘How to Play’ guide The cards can be used as a simple Q&A activity where quick revision is required. For a more sustained activity, the full board game version can be played. The cards can be printed double-sided so that the question is on the front and the corresponding answer on the back. The page should be printed double-sided along the long edge. Additional equipment you will need: dice counters