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

Includes powerpoint and planning resources for an assessment analysing Crooks in Chapter 4. Also includes a model essay to help with responding to feedback. Also includes 6 tasks based on Chapter 4 that works well as an independent learning task or as a cover lesson.

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.

10 ways to vary a sentence start/openers. With PowerPoint and resources. Ideal for Year 6/7.

Lesson and 4 worksheets for revising Mercutio’s character.

A lesson exploring how Scrooge is presented in Stave 1 with questions, model answers, writing frames, starter, plenary and success criteria.

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.

Using this marking code will speed up your marking without compromising the quality and specificity of your marking because it transfers the time-consuming job of writing the targets out for each student from you to the students. Your marking will look something like this: WWW 1. 3. 7. EBI 4. 10. 15. Read the work and select 3 ways they have met the generic success criteria (WWW) and 3 ways they can improve further (EBI). The students have to then write out the target before trying to meet it. The 20 criteria start with the basics of using full stops and capital letters before moving on to much harder targets such as using a full range of punctuation. This should work with any creative writing task. Students can also use it a self-assessment tool. I have also included a differentiated and more visually stimulating version which just has 8 targets.

Using this marking code will speed up your marking without compromising the quality and specificity of your marking because it moves the time-consuming job of writing the targets from you to the students. Your marking will look something like this: WWW 1. 3. 7. EBI 4. 10. 15. Read the work and select 3 ways they have met the generic success criteria (WWW) and 3 ways they can improve further (EBI). The students have to then write out the target before trying to meet the target. The 20 criteria start with the basics of using P.E.E. to more advanced targets such as exploring more than one interpretation and commenting on the overall structure of the text. They should work with any text.

Lesson and worksheet looking at using subordinating conjunctions to create multi-clause sentences.

Full lesson and worksheet on apostrophes.

A lesson aimed at getting lower ability students to use more ambitious vocabulary. Students think of synonyms for ‘nice’ and ‘bad’ and then use the words to write a positive and negative holiday postcard. The main task where students redraft and improve the model paragraphs is differentiated. Tough: Students replace the boring adjective with better choices. Tougher: Students also replace the boring ‘The’ sentence starts. Toughest: Students change the structure of the sentences and add in similes and a full range of punctuation.

9 differentiated extension activities on Private Peaceful for students to complete while they reading the novel. Useful to set as homework.

English Language Paper 1 Section A. An anthology of 20 printable fiction extracts and put together to form a printable anthology. Each extract contains some context about the extract and 1-3 Eduqas style 10 mark questions.

I have divided the play into smaller chunks. Students must find key quotations from each scene from the play and make links to one of the 6 themes. The page numbers are for the Methuen edition with the red cover.

Lord of the Flies exam question looking how tension is built up with lesson, powerpoint, objectives and indicative context to help with responding to feedback.

4 pages of worksheets looking at how Curley and Curley’s wife are presented in Chapter 2. Includes a writing frame for Curley’s Wife and a planning frame for Curley. Includes a high level model answer on Curley’s Wife. Also includes a lesson annotating the extract which first introduces Curley’s Wife.