Very simple writing frame to help students .ompare how ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ and one other poem (‘Prelude’) present the passing of time. (25 marks)

A differentiated learning journey where students complete up to 10 steps to help improve their descriptive writing for Paper 1 Question 5.

A lesson exploring Chapter 7 with a specific focus on the mob mentality when Ralph joins in with the hunt and finds the desire the hurt ‘overmastering’.

Comparing Your Shoes with Superman and Paula Brown’s Snowsuit.

A range of differentiated resources for teaching students how to compare the writer’s perspectives in two non-fiction texts (Red Dust and Touching the Void).

A lesson aimed at teaching students how to write an informal article for Paper 2 Question 5 in a lively and compelling way. It uses the popular TikTok debate about wheels and doors to engage students in the the topic. Students read and annotate the two exemplar paragraphs for the techniques that are being used such as hyperbole, chatty phrases, withholding, parallelism, triplets, rhetorical questions. They then go on to write their own response in the same lively style as the exemplar - using the list of chatty phrases as a handy crib sheet, My students really enjoyed this lesson and produced some amazing work.

Analyse language features in some famous slogans.

Lesson on The Soldier by Rupert Brooke for Eduqas GCSE 9-1

A simple Paper 2 Question 5 revision activity for lower ability. Students read the modelled opening paragraph and have to try and write the next paragraph in a similar style. w

20 starters focused on technical accuracy

An extract and helpsheet for tackling Paper 1 Question 5 for Eduqas.

Worksheet for a cover lesson revising literary techniques.

A free 20 slide lesson covering suffixes.

Simple VCOP to help students produce a book review.

Fully resourced unit of 5 lessons which introduce the unseen prose element to A Level students. Can also work for high ability GCSE students as a transition/bridging to A Level. Extracts from 19th century classic are used to give students a grounding of themes within classic literature before the transition to post-1945 texts. Each lesson is focused on how to answer an exam-style theme question based on a short extract. Lesson 1: Great Expectations - Miss Havisham extract. Explore the significance of degeneration in this extract. Lesson 2: Frankenstein - Chapter 5 extract. Explore the significance of disappointment in this extract. Lesson 3: Jane Eyre - Extract about Bertha Explore the significance of restriction in this extract. Lesson 4: Jekyll and Hyde - Extract from Jekyll’s statement Explore the significance of duality in this extract. Lesson 5: The Catcher in the Rye - opening paragraph Explore the significance of cynicism in the extract.

A simple blank table to encourage students to recall 3 quotations for the following combination literature texts: Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict. Useful when used in conjunction with my other revision sheets on the site.

An AQA Paper 2 Question 4 activity based around comparing a Donald Trump presidential speech (2019) with the Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln (1864). The first two tasks guide students towards writing up their comparison.

A worksheet that encourages students to explore the language in Counter Attack by Siegfried Sassoon. Useful as a cover lesson.

A 2 hour training session on how to teach functional writing for GCSE Paper 2. Can be used to train both teachers and students. Contains 64 slides. Includes exam requirements, a sample lesson, model openings to evaluate, exercises on using a range of sentence types and paragraph formats, a range of different questions to plan and a group carousel writing task to end the session. All resources are included and can be previewed.