Ideal for introducing unseen poetry to students. Writing frame included for how to write about two very short poems.

Comma splice worksheet: Arrest the illegal comma splice!

A sample 8 mark question from the AQA Paper 1 2017 exam. It includes a writing frame for answering the question. The extract is taken from 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

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

To Kill a Mockingbird: detailed writing frame for essay responses

An effective lesson on subordinate clauses with learning objectives and 3 accompanying worksheets.

Worksheets on prefixes and suffixes.

Identifying the purpose and audience: 2 worksheets

A worksheet looking at the quotes from the 4 best scenes which link to multiple themes that may come up in the AQA 1-9 examination.

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

A carousel style activity inviting students to understand the meaning of the challenging vocabulary in A Christmas Carol. The words are broken up into Staves. After learning the words, students should have the opportunity to put the words into context by producing a paragraph, poem or song.

Differentiated assessment/planning sheets to support students with a response to the following exam style GCSE question: How does Shakespeare present Lady Macbeth as an unconventional Elizabethan woman? A focus on how Lady Macbeth is presented in Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 1 Scene 7. There is a writing frame and easier planning sheets for lower ability students.

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 and PowerPoint for analysing Shelter’s word choice and extending explanations on Shelter’s character. There is also an intro activity based on the covers of the book and an activity to encourage students to come up with two alternative interpretations.

Differentiated PowerPoint with learning outcomes to help students answer the following question based on Chapter 8 and 9 of Oliver Twist: To what extent is Fagin an out and out villain? Lower ability students will look at how Fagin is an absolute villain. Higher ability students will also look at his redeeming qualities. Also includes a model response to annotate to help students improve their second draft or respond to feedback.

Brennan on the moor. Cloze exercise for updating this ballad.

Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy 2 Worksheets

Highly simplified version of Macbeth for very low ability.