Worksheet on relative clauses

Lesson analysing the opening scene. Includes annotations and a range of comprehension activities to explore the importance of the scene.

Includes a differentiated starter, detailed annotations of the scene and then comprehension questions to test students’ understanding of the scene. Not bad for a £1,

PowerPoint to guide students through Act 3 Scene 2 of Macbeth. Includes a scene summary, annotations of the scene, comprehension questions based on the annotations and then an extension activity analysing the use of animal imagery with an example paragraph as a guide.

Writing super sentences for an article (transactional writing)

A handy worksheet for getting students to find out the definitions of the challenging vocabulary in A Christmas Carol. There are 127 words to find definitions for.

A Christmas Carol generic structural writing frame

Great Expectations Chapter 1. Questions to explore

6 handy tips that are useful for the Macbeth GCSE exam. Also includes a generic writing frame to help students meet the 3 assessment objectives.

Use the writing frame to write acting directions for Juliet’s soliloquy in Act 4 Scene 3.

Great Expectations questions based on extracts from Chapter 1. Working towards an analysis of how themes are introduced.

A timeline looking at how the motif of blood develops in Macbeth.

A writing frame to guide students through the following exam style question: Compare the ways the poets in War Photographer and one other poem (Remains) present ideas about conflict. (30). The writing frame encourages students to make discriminating comparisons between the poems.

Plot storyboard to help students gain a basic understanding of the plot to Othello.

We are still waiting for the theme of kingship to come up. When it does, here are 6 key quotations that are useful for analysing how this theme is presented in the novel. Each quotation is analysed in some depth to meet the requirements for A01, A02 and A03.

This resource contains high level analysis of what I consider to be the 10 most important words to zoom in on in the novella. Zooming in to these 10 words will also pave the way for zooming out to explore Dickens’ authorial message for various themes such as poverty, family, redemption. Through analysing these 10 key words in detail it can negate the need to memorise a list of longer quotations. This can be a revision resource or a lesson. For the lesson, give students the blank template and ask them to think about why each word is vital in communicating Dickens’ authorial purpose. For the second part of the lesson, go over the high level sample answers.

A lesson exploring how Romeo reacts to his banishment in Act 3 Scene 3 with a sample EDUQAS exam question on the extract, annotations and a writing frame.

6 quotations exploring the effects of greed in A Christmas Carol based on the May 2023 AQA exam question. The revision cards are aimed at students look to develop grade 7-9 comments about the key quotations which meet the requirements for A01, A02 and A03.

A detailed worksheet on semi colons for a 20 minute intervention session.

I have abridged the whole novella of A Christmas Carol into 28 very short extracts to help struggling readers to access the text on one A3 sheet. I have had to use font size 8 to fit it all onto one sheet. For students who require a larger font, I also have included a second version in font size 12 and comic sans. Each extract comes with a question to check for understanding.