A worksheet in which students have to match 50 key A Christmas Carol quotations to 50 brief explanations. Also includes a follow up worksheet for students to then explain each quotation independently.

Use for a final revision session or series of sessions on A Christmas Carol Present the students with 6 big ideas about the novel. Students use the attached top 50 quotations sheet to help add their ideas about each big idea. I have also included a top 100 quotation version for higher ability students. Then go through possible answers on the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is animated and each answer appears on the mouse click so you can talk through each one as it appears. I have also included 6 predictions about what extract might come up. Now we are 3 years into the 9-1 syllabus, I predict they might use a more obscure extract so I have picked 6 less obvious extracts. Students read each extract and complete the planning grid. Also includes some sample exam style responses to different generic questions. New for 2022 is a large PowerPoint encouraging students to choose and explain their top 3 quotations for 9 different themes.

Various comprehension worksheets to develop an understanding of the 3 parts of the book.

Red Dust - Travel writing extract comprehension activities

A cloze activity based around selecting word choices for effect and then commenting on the word choices. Students then listen to the song and compare their word choices with the original.

Comprehension questions on The Man he Killed.

An ideal differentiated end of term activity after a series of lessons on writing interesting sentences or at the start of a term to test how much students know about sentences. There is a test on the second page. It covers the following: What is a sentence Varying the subject of a sentence Long and short sentences Subordinate clauses 4 sentence types Varying sentence starts Active and passive voice

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21 ways to write interesting sentences guide sheet.

Students revise the information sheet about sentences and then go on to complete the knowledge test. Also contains detailed guidance on what makes a powerful sentence.

Worksheets aimed at helping students consciously use a range of simple, compound and complex sentences to describe an image. Task 1: Students combine the sentences already provided to describe the image. Task 2: Students must come up with their own examples of simple, compound and complex sentences and then produce their description. This task is very repeatable - just change the image each time. It is worth repeating until students find it easy to come up with simple, compound and complex sentence examples.

A free resource to use with low ability students. Students are provided with 5 grade 3 level paragraphs on the poem Remains. Students must extend the paragraphs by developing better inferences, zooming in to words/techniques or by zooming out to bigger ideas such as PTSD. This worksheet is a free taster from a premium 2 lesson resource: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-remains-2-lessons-power-and-conflict-11489751 For best value try buying a Power and Conflict bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-aqa-poetry-bundle-11489752

A series of lessons based around producing a piece of creative writing inspired by images of Hiroshima. All lessons include differentiation and learning objectives. There is also a model response to annotate. Also includes a lesson that looks at high grade exemplars of a lighthouse description.

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 for analysing Shelter’s word choice and extending explanations on Shelter’s character.

Interesting sentences worksheet

Writing super sentences for an article (transactional writing)

Worksheet to help students avoid using The as a sentence start.