Stave 2 and 3 comprehension questions: A Christmas Carol

Ideal to set as an assessment after reading the first 5 chapters. Contains 3 carefully selected short extracts from chapters 2, 3 and 5. Students analyse how power is abused in each extract and answer the overall question: who is worse the humans or the pigs? There is a writing frame for students to follow to help analyse each extract and ensure they meet the criteria for A01, A02 and A03.

A storyboard to teach students the basic plot to the novel. There is also a Freytag’s pyramid activity to push the more able.

Useful model when looking at descriptive writing.

Draw lines to link poems by themes related to power and conflict.

In my experience, students find beginning comparative paragraphs to be the hardest aspect of writing comparisons on the power and conflict anthology poems. These two worksheets offer help with starting off discriminating comparisons. Students use the prompts to complete the opening sentences to various comparative paragraphs.

A context sheet to support the teaching of Lord of the Flies. It looks at 8 contextual factors to deepen students’ understanding of the novel: Golding’s life WWII Cold War British Imperialism Coral Island Religion Existentialism Thomas Hobbes

An exam-style question on Romeo and Juliet with an attempt at a Grade 9 response. Students can annotate the model example and then try to write another paragraph of their own in the same style.

How to structure Heroes responses for EdExcel

An Inspector Calls: differentiated vocabulary activity for AQA 1-9 3 worksheets for 3 levels of differentiation: tough, tougher and toughest.

A revision sheet containing explanations for 10 key quotations about Eric Birling in An Inspector Calls. Also contains a blank version for students to have a go at explaining the quotations themselves first.

Identifying the purpose and audience: 2 worksheets

A detailed A3 revision sheet containing key quotations in short easy to remember chunks for the following 4 supporting characters in Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio, Capulet, Nurse and Friar. There is a differentiated activity to encourage students to use the revision sheet effectively: Bronze: AO1 explain what we learn about the character in each quote. Silver: AO3 link each quotation to context Gold: AO3 link each quotation to a theme Diamond: AO2 Identify language features in each quotation Also includes a follow up lesson revising the key quotes and testing understanding.

Lesson exploring the presentation of religion in Animal Farm. Students contrast the pigs’ hatred of Moses in Chapter 2 with the way his presence is tolerated on the farm in Chapter 9 when the animals are hungry.

A famous extract from Chapter 2 of Oliver Twist with an exam style question and a writing frame to help students explore the extract. Ideal to use with Key Stage 3 to prepare them for Key Stage 4.

Animal Farm. 20 questions quiz with answer sheet

Differentiated starter activity on the character of Scout. Bronze: Define the words Silver: Make links between the words Gold: Use the words in a paragraph about Scout.

Analysis of 6 key quotations linked to the theme of ambition in Macbeth.

Use this test if you want to find out if your students have read the whole of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ instead of just watching the movie. All the questions test students on incidents that occur in the book but not in the film.

3 differentiated worksheets to explore what Scout learns during the course of the novel. Bronze: Includes possible answers Silver: Includes page numbers and points Gold: Students select all points independently.