Students read a model response to the following question: How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet. (34). Then then have to annotate each sentence to analyse what the essay writer is doing in each section of the response. There is also a building better answers sheet included.

A grade 9 response to the following question: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens explore the importance of places in the novel? (30 marks) Explore how Dickens presents a place in the extract Explore how Dickens presents places across the novel as a whole. The extract (included) is from the start of Stave 3 when the ghost of Christmas Present transforms Scrooge’s room. This was written in one 45 minute sitting to reflect the amount of time students would have to write their response in the exam.

A lesson aimed at getting students to be more conscious of the sentences types they use in their descriptive writing. Images from A Christmas Carol are used as the stimulus for the descriptive writing. After each task, students complete extension tasks to review their combination of sentence types.

A list of alternatives to this shows, this suggests, this highlights and this interests the reader to help sharpen your academic expression. Includes a PDF version and an editable version

A differentiated end of term colouring-in exercise to help revise 16 key quotations from A Christmas Carol. Ideal for the end of term to fill some time.

Students use the worksheet to follow the 9 step method for approaching an exam question on a theme in A Christmas Carol for the 9-1 GCSE examination. Includes an exam style question, a suggested writing frame using prompts from the AQA website, a table for planning a response and recommended extracts to zoom out to. Ideal for examination revision. Also included is a resource offering 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL EXAM QUESTION PREDICTIONS - planning sheets with extracts

Lesson analysing Steinbeck’s initial description of Slim in Chapter 2 with a focus on developing 2 analytical comments about each quotation.

Differentiated activities on Chapter 2 with an accompanying PowerPoints Lesson 1. Understanding Chapter 2. Differentiated comprehension activity. Lesson 2. The bunkhouse. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 3. Curley meets Lennie. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 4: How is Curley’s Wife presented. Worksheet with writing frame.

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.

A lesson analysing how George and Lennie are presented in Chapter 1. Includes annotation of an extract, a sample paragraph followed by an independent task.

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

Week of lesson activities on Theseus and the Minotaur which would work for KS2/KS3 Includes the text to the story A differentiated storyboard activity (bronze, silver, gold) A myth mountain to study the structure of the story A differentiated worksheet on who is the cruellest character The accompanying PowerPoint with learning outcomes

This popular pack offers great value. It contains various worksheets to support with the teaching of A Christmas Carol for 2022 AQA GCSE examinations. The pack includes plans to help students respond to various AQA style examination questions. There is also a comprehensive list of the key quotations from stanzas 1 to 5. There is also a list of possible AQA style questions and a list of key context points. There are also helpsheets to structure responses on the character of Scrooge.

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

Stave 2 and 3 comprehension questions: A Christmas Carol

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