A simple blank table to encourage students to recall 3 quotations for the following combination literature texts: Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict. Useful when used in conjunction with my other revision sheets on the site.

Just a list of words to describe the taste of foods that could be useful to teachers of English or Food technology.

A worksheet that encourages students to explore the language in Counter Attack by Siegfried Sassoon. Useful as a cover lesson.

A 2 hour training session on how to teach functional writing for GCSE Paper 2. Can be used to train both teachers and students. Contains 64 slides. Includes exam requirements, a sample lesson, model openings to evaluate, exercises on using a range of sentence types and paragraph formats, a range of different questions to plan and a group carousel writing task to end the session. All resources are included and can be previewed.

A lesson introducing Kamikaze with brief context, detailed line by line animated annotations, comprehension questions to test understanding of the annotations followed by various extension activities and a model comparative paragraph comparing Emigree to Kamikaze. Also contains a creative writing task involving transforming the poem into a narrative.

A comprehensive list of 32 A Level style exam questions. The table invites students to plan a response to each question by creating a thesis statement and thinking of 3 main points to support their thesis.

Lesson analysing Blake’s poem The Garden of Love. Includes detailed line by line annotations and extension activities to explore the deeper meanings.

A worksheet aimed at helping students use brackets in their writing. Part of a series of 20 minute intervention sessions.

A model answer analysing the blurb in Skellig.

Mid level essay response on the character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire.

A lesson which asks students to compare Capulet’s attitude to Juliet in Act 1 Scene 2 and Act 3 Scene 5. Includes a series planning sheet and PowerPoint with annotations. Also contains a high level model paragraph on Act 3 Scene 5.

Complete lesson looking at the conversation between Demetrius and Helena in Act 2 Scene 1. Structured activities build up towards writing a paragraph analysing each character.

2 Worksheets with a range of activities to show students how to use a colon to introduce a list, speech or definition and a semi colon to join two sentences.

Lesson teaching November by Armitage as an unseen poem for GCSE. Includes success criteria for grades 7, 8 and 9, annotations and an exemplar paragraph.

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.

Engaging PowerPoint with various resources to teach ‘London’ by William Blake. Wow word differentiated starter Freeze frame activity Listening questions Frame for analysing language, structure, form, context Detailed annotations Annotation activity

Worksheet looking at how Lord Asriel is initially presented.

Page by page comprehension questions for Book 1 from Pages 1 -118. An average of one question per page. Also includes: - an activity analysing an extract from Paradise Lost and other resources for analysing Act 1 and some resources for writing a film review of The Golden Compass. - a character analysis activity on Lord Asriel - a character analysis for Lyra - a planning frame to writing a newspaper article about Iorek kill Iofur

This lesson is focused on Paper 1 Question 3 (AQA - commenting on the structure of the whole text). This seems to be a popular topic for interviews at the moment. I have used a very short extract with lots of shifts which widen and narrow the focus - Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Starter: Students rate their understanding of structural devices. Construct: Students try to identify narrative shifts in focus in the text. Main: Students look in more detail at the narrative shifts in the text. This activity is in the form of an A3 table and is differentiated. Bronze Level: Identify what is happening during each shift. Silver: Apply structural devices. Gold: Comment on the effect of structural devices. I have also included the lesson plan. For a more challenging class, students can use the extract from the opening of Kite Runner.