AQA 2017 Reading Paper 1 - Structured worksheet for the 8 mark question based on a short extract from 'Tender is the Night'. Includes writing frame. Ideal for helping lower ability students to respond to fiction texts.

25 sentence types: differentiated worksheets

A simple but effective and ready to go worksheet to promote a group activity exploring who is responsible for the death of Eva Smith. After splitting your class into 5 groups, ask students to create their argument for their character by finding further quotations to support their point and adding them to the structured grid. Students can then share their ideas in a carousel style.

Comprehension questions on The Man he Killed.

A writing frame for responding to any question on the 19th century novel section of the English Literature exam. Will work equally well with A Christmas Carol or Jekyll and Hyde - the two most popular texts. Effective at guiding students towards high quality responses. lso includes advice on how to create a thesis-style introduction on A Christmas Carol. ‘A thesis-style introduction that demonstrates your understanding of the question can be a really helpful way of starting your answer. It shows that you are ‘in charge’ of your essay and that you know what you think. It can provide a strong foundation for the rest of the essay. Keep referring back to the introduction to create a coherent response.’ AQA examiner’s report 2022 Creating a thesis-style introduction is a challenge for many students but is essential in helping students to reach levels 4-6 in the mark scheme. I have produced a simple 3 point structure to help students quickly generate a thesis statement in timed exam conditions. There is an example of the 3 point structure being used and then students attempt to imitate the structure for 4 other exam-style questions.

Dreams in Of Mice and Men: essay planning sheet

Lesson analysing key quotations to annotate from Chapter 2 of Lord of the Flies.

Turn the story of Pandora’s Box into a storyboard.

4 unseen poems to analyse

EdExcel Relationships. Annotations on a PowerPoint

Differentiated literacy worksheets to support the teaching of Samson and Delilah. Includes: Copy of the story Bronze, Silver, Gold storyboard activity Differentiated inference carousel questions about Delilah, Samson, Israelites and Philistines

Much ado about nothing plot summary cloze activity.

Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy 2 Worksheets

Lesson on newspaper headline techniques and tabloid broadsheet differences

A simple but engaging revision game to revise 10 key quotations from each scene. Start and scene 1 and roll the dice. The students can advance if they can analyse the quotation they land on. You can differentiate it easily by asking for two inferences per quotation and asking for links to specific A0s. Dice not included.

A helpsheet containing 10 generic ways that students can improve their sentences in a second draft of a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Ideal for Key Stage 2/3 or for low ability students at Key Stage 4. Examples are included. The 10 strategies are differentiated in order of difficulty and are designed to help students in a mixed ability class to respond to feedback on narrative writing by selecting the methods to help them improve.

Questions on Edexcel Relationships poems

Structured worksheets based on the short story by Angela Carter. 2 worksheets focusing on how the structure builds tension.

A differentiated activity to get students to engage with the grade 8/9 assessment criteria for the new AQA 1-9 English Literature Paper 2 GCSE. Modern texts. Bronze level: students look for the meanings of difficult vocabulary. Silver level: students convert the criteria into student speak. Gold level: students write advice for how to meet the criteria for A01, 2 and 3.

A complete ready to teach lesson that includes a differentiated starter, detailed line by line animated annotations of the full scene following by comprehension questions to text students’ understanding of the annotations.