7 attractive and informative literature revision booklets covering the following 7 popular GCSE texts. I have compiled my most popular resources for each set text into 7 easy to print pdfs. There are also word versions if you wish to edit and add to the booklets yourself.
The 7 texts that are covered should hopefully cover the 4 set texts you will be studying or teaching:
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet (98 pages)
A Christmas Carol (56 pages)
Power and Conflict (51 pages)
An Inspector Calls (43 pages)
Lord of the Flies (46 pages)
Animal Farm
All the booklets contain knowledge organisers, revision cards, plot/knowledge tests, high grade model exemplars, writing frames, support with planning and much more.
Please look at the previews to sample the wide range of resources on offer.
Can be printed in A4 or A3. Some pages may benefit from an A3 print out.
Starter: List words associated with rain.
Learning outcomes:
To identify features of Dickens’ style
To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing
To evaluate against the success criteria
Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author.
Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria.
The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.
Oliver Twist: Nancy’s Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic?
There are two differentiated versions of the task with differentiated writing frame guidelines.
There are also differentiated resources to help students answer this GCSE style question.
Includes a revision of language features in the extract.
Students read 10 sentences from Oliver Twist.
In task 1, the difficult word is removed and students must think of a suitable word to go in the gap.
In task 2, students are given the actual word and must work out the meaning of it. Their answer for task 1 should help.
A growing collection of resources on Oliver Twist.
Includes a close focus on Chapter 2 (workhouse and Fagin) and Chapter 48 (Nancy’s death) with exam style activities.
A huge bundle of resources to support both the teaching of A Christmas Carol and revision.
Includes:
Quotation knowledge organisers
High level model exemplars
Stave analysis and comprehension quizzes
Character revision sheets
Differentiated Writing frames
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.
Updated bundle for 2025 containing all my best resources on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
9 grade 9 model answers
Comprehension questions on all staves
Revision Flash Cards
Writing frames
Scrooge Analysis lessons
Fred Analysis lesson
Bob Analysis lesson
9 Step method for grade 9
Quotation/Knowledge organisers.
Sample exam questions
Revision of big ideas
Top 50 quotation revision task with answers
Differentiated worksheets for exploring the ghosts
Lesson on Fezziwig
Lesson on women in the novel
Lessons on the ghosts
30+ page printable booklet.
Plus lots more.
I have tried to fit all my best A Christmas Carol resources into here. If I have missed any, send me a message and I will send them over.
To save time on the download, click on the resource called ‘A Christmas Carol - everything you need to teach the novella’. Most of the resources can be found in here.
A wide range comprehension questions on each Stave of the novella with differentiation to help you find the right level of difficulty for your classes. The previews should give you an idea about the quality and relevance of the questioning. I recommend collating together to make a text book for students to work through.
7+ high quality lessons covering the following characters.
Fred
The four ghosts
Fezziwig
Tiny Tim
Women (Belle, Mrs Cratchit, Mrs Fezziwig, Fan)
The Cratchit Family
Scrooge
Also includes a lesson covering all 4 ghosts.
20 premium resources created specifically for the GCSE examination on A Christmas Carol. This is a bundle full of lessons and resources that I have consistently developed and improved over the past 7 years based on student and teacher feedback.
Includes:
10 grade 9 model answers
Multiple exam style questions
25 extract revision booklet
19th century context resources
Bob Cratchit analysis and response
Fred lesson
Scrooge’s transformation lesson
Scrooge in Stave 1 analysis
Theme revision cards
Analysis of the ghosts
Generic and specific writing frames
Analysis of Christmas in Stave 3
Comprehension questions on each Stave
Lessons and activities on Stave 2
Analysis of Ignorance and Want extract
Knowledge organiser quotation revision sheets
Revision lesson of big ideas
Revision sheet and task based on 50 key quotations
100 question knowledge quiz
Plus a lot more. Check out all the previews!
Detailed lessons covering the key quotations from Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol. Each quotation appears chronologically to assist with annotating the text.
Instructions for the lesson.
Give out the worksheet with the 28 key quotations from Stave 1 and asked students to jot down their ideas in the blank boxes.
Then in the second half of the lesson, go through the teacher answers either on the PowerPoint or on the answers worksheet.
A term’s worth of ready-to-teach resources created for the 2021 examination on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
Revision sheets containing key quotes and context points and differentiated revision tasks
Context match up sheet
9 grade 9 model answers
Writing frames
5, Sample AQA-style questions
Partially completed essay plans to finish
Difficult vocabulary glossary activity
Carousel activity on key extracts
Differentiated questions on stave 2
Differentiated questions on Marley’s ghost
Which vision in Stave 2 affects Scrooge the most worksheet
Activities with model responses on how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3
Comprehension questions on all staves
Top 50 quotations revision sheets
Fred lesson
Fezziwig lesson
Lesson on more obscure extracts
Lesson on women in the novella
Plus lots more
Some templates and ideas for making marking more time efficient for teachers.
It includes generic targets that can be set for any creative writing or any reading analysis task.
Also contains a writing wheel which is useful for self, peer or teacher assessment.
Also includes a literacy tracker that can be used by all departments across a school to check that students are maintaining high standards of literacy across all the different subject disciplines.
Sheets to assist with speed marking. This will save you the time-consuming job of writing out the full targets while not compromising the specificity of your marking.
The reading response sheet should work with any reading/comprehension response to a text where students are expecting to answer in PEE style paragraphs.
The writing response sheet should work with any task in which students produce a creative response.
The 20 targets are differentiated - starting with the basics before moving on to higher skills.
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.
Also includes a version for A level English literature.