Lesson and differentiated resources for teaching students how to write a review of the award winning short film ‘Father and Daughter’ 2008 by Michael Dudok de Vit. Link to film included.

Act 1 Scene 1 Romeo and Juliet worksheet. 5 levels of differentiation (colour groups).

Touching the Void: Comparing Joe and Simon’s accounts

‘When I have fears’ by Keats. 2 worksheets containing reading and writing tasks.

Writing to describe a room in your house. 5 levels of differentiation. I found this to be useful for a cover lesson on descriptive writing.

Learning outcomes: To understand a code for identifying language features in Shakespeare (word level, imagery, structure) To Apply understanding by locating the language features in key quotations. To evaluate the effect of the language features.

Easy to follow helpsheet to support teachers with the main functions on Accelerated Reader.

AQA Reading 1 style questions on an extract from Great Expectations

A differentiated learning journey exploring Scrooge in Stave 1 and 2 with accompanying resources. Contains instructions to follow at tough, tougher and toughest level to encourage students to explore the character independently. Also includes: A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist. A01: What is the meaning of the quotation? A02: What is the impact of words/methods? A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation? Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it. Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.

AQA 2017 Paper 1 style question on Jane Eyre with writing frame and glossary activity with answers.

10 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR WRITING COHESIVE

A useful resource for getting KS3 students to self-assess their progress in English. Includes a detailed VCOP and some exemplars.

AQA 2017 Reading Paper 1 - Structured worksheet for the 8 mark question based on a short extract from 'Tender is the Night'. Includes writing frame. Ideal for helping lower ability students to respond to fiction texts.

A structured resource to support students with the 8 mark question on the AQA 2017 Reading Paper 1 exam. There is a warm up activity identiying language features in the extract followed by a writing frame to support students with their analytical writing. The question is based on a short extract from 'Of Mice and Men'.

Structure for responding to AQA Eng Lit Paper 1 Shakespeare/19th Century fiction. Two versions. One for Section A (Shakespeare) one for Section B (19th century fiction).

To Kill a Mockingbird: multiple choice questions

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.

AQA 2017 Paper 1. Structured planning sheet for descriptive writing based on an image.

A great resource to help students plan essay responses to 5 different themes in the novel.