3 lessons exploring Chapter 3. Lesson 1: A differentiated comprehension worksheet to help students of different abilities engage with Chapter 3 of Steinbeck’s novel. Tough: Storyboard Tougher: Comprehension Questions Toughest: Analysis Questions There is also a differentiated writing task included on the PowerPoint: Tough: Lennie wanted poster Tougher: Diary entry for girl from Weed Toughest: Newspaper report of what happened in Weed Lesson 2 involves analysing the language to describe the fight between Lennie and Curley. Lesson 3 is a skills lesson which looks at how to deliberately use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences in paragraphs.

A lesson analysing how George and Lennie are presented in Chapter 1. Includes annotation of an extract, a sample paragraph followed by an independent task.

Full lesson to help students analyse the significance of the death of Curley’s Wife in Chapter 5.

Week of lesson activities on Theseus and the Minotaur which would work for KS2/KS3 Includes the text to the story A differentiated storyboard activity (bronze, silver, gold) A myth mountain to study the structure of the story A differentiated worksheet on who is the cruellest character The accompanying PowerPoint with learning outcomes

This popular pack offers great value. It contains various worksheets to support with the teaching of A Christmas Carol for 2022 AQA GCSE examinations. The pack includes plans to help students respond to various AQA style examination questions. There is also a comprehensive list of the key quotations from stanzas 1 to 5. There is also a list of possible AQA style questions and a list of key context points. There are also helpsheets to structure responses on the character of Scrooge.

Various comprehension worksheets to develop an understanding of the 3 parts of the book.

Stave 2 and 3 comprehension questions: A Christmas Carol

A cloze activity based around selecting word choices for effect and then commenting on the word choices. Students then listen to the song and compare their word choices with the original.

Comprehension questions on The Man he Killed.

An ideal differentiated end of term activity after a series of lessons on writing interesting sentences or at the start of a term to test how much students know about sentences. There is a test on the second page. It covers the following: What is a sentence Varying the subject of a sentence Long and short sentences Subordinate clauses 4 sentence types Varying sentence starts Active and passive voice

A resource to teach the difference between parallelism and periodic sentences with a follow up activity.

10 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR WRITING COHESIVE

25 sentence types: differentiated worksheets

21 ways to write interesting sentences guide sheet.

Students revise the information sheet about sentences and then go on to complete the knowledge test. Also contains detailed guidance on what makes a powerful sentence.

Resource aimed at getting students to think more consciously about how they combine simple, compound and complex sentences within their sentences. Students respond to each image by following the suggested order of simple, compound and complex sentences. They can then review each paragraph to think about the function of each sentence type within the paragraph.

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.

Worksheet for analysing Shelter’s word choice and extending explanations on Shelter’s character.

Interesting sentences worksheet