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Is the writer's viewpoint positive or negative? Visual display
Is the writer’s viewpoint positive or negative? Visual display
Revising language features in Macbeth
Students identify the meaning of a range of language features which are divided into 3: words, imagery, sentences. They then have to find examples of each technique in Macbeth.
This activity can be differentiated by allowing weaker students access to a list of answers which have been mixed up into random order.
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7 GCSE literature revision booklets 2025
7 attractive and informative literature revision booklets covering the following 7 popular GCSE texts. I have compiled my most popular resources for each set text into 7 easy to print pdfs. There are also word versions if you wish to edit and add to the booklets yourself.
The 7 texts that are covered should hopefully cover the 4 set texts you will be studying or teaching:
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet (98 pages)
A Christmas Carol (56 pages)
Power and Conflict (51 pages)
An Inspector Calls (43 pages)
Lord of the Flies (46 pages)
Animal Farm
All the booklets contain knowledge organisers, revision cards, plot/knowledge tests, high grade model exemplars, writing frames, support with planning and much more.
Please look at the previews to sample the wide range of resources on offer.
Can be printed in A4 or A3. Some pages may benefit from an A3 print out.
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Figurative Language (Simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration)
Includes various worksheets to support the teaching of figurative language.
Describing the weather in the style of Charles Dickens (KS2/KS3/KS4)
Starter: List words associated with rain.
Learning outcomes:
To identify features of Dickens’ style
To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing
To evaluate against the success criteria
Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author.
Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria.
The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.
Oliver Twist: Nancy's Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic
Oliver Twist: Nancy’s Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic?
There are two differentiated versions of the task with differentiated writing frame guidelines.
There are also differentiated resources to help students answer this GCSE style question.
Includes a revision of language features in the extract.
A strategy to work out the meaning of difficult words in Oliver Twist
Students read 10 sentences from Oliver Twist.
In task 1, the difficult word is removed and students must think of a suitable word to go in the gap.
In task 2, students are given the actual word and must work out the meaning of it. Their answer for task 1 should help.
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Oliver Twist Bundle
A growing collection of resources on Oliver Twist.
Includes a close focus on Chapter 2 (workhouse and Fagin) and Chapter 48 (Nancy’s death) with exam style activities.
Oliver Twist: Letter to Mr Sowerberry: 3 levels of differentiation
Write a letter in role as Oliver to Mr Sowerberry.
3 levels of differentiated offered in the 3 worksheets.
A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 assessment, prep sheet and model essay. 3 lessons.
PowerPoint covering 4 lessons on Stave 1.
Lesson 1: Prepare for assessment on Scrooge in Stave 1 using GCSE style extract and help sheets.
Lesson 2: Complete assessment
Lesson 3: Respond to feedback using model essay to help. Differentiated.
Lesson 4: Test on 28 key quotations from Stave 1.