A lesson aimed at preparing students for an Eduqas Paper 2 Writing task on the topic of promoting healthy eating in schools. Includes a detailed paragraph plan to help give students ideas.

An incentive reward sheet that encourages disaffected students to meet specific targets in order to improve their learner behaviours.

A resource to teach the difference between parallelism and periodic sentences with a follow up activity.

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.

A worksheet aimed at helping students to make inferences. Part of a series of worksheets used in 20 minute intervention sessions.

Lesson resources to analyse I wanna be yours by John Cooper Clarke. The worksheets are designed to encourage students to come up with two ways of interpreting key lines in the poem to help them answer the overall question: would the speaker be a good boyfriend?

44 Questions on Education Rita

A worksheet on comma splices aimed at a 20 minute intervention session. Part of a wider series of intervention lessons.

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

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.

Is the writer’s viewpoint positive or negative? Visual display

Analyse language features in some famous slogans.

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.

6 poems thematically linked to mother’s day to develop unseen poetry skills. The 3 sets of poems are linked in thematically and in terms of difficulty. For each poem students must identify the big idea/message about motherhood and then identify 3 poetic methods to comment on. Neatly adapted onto one A3 sheet for ease of printing which makes it ideal for either a carousel style lesson or a cover lesson. As a follow up lesson, students can write up their answers to the 24 mark single poem analysis and the 8 mark comparison.

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

Relationships Poems Edexcel quiz

How to write a comparative paragraphs for EdExcel Relationships. Includes a basic and advanced version.

What is dark humour? Analyse the examples.

A homework sheet to support students with the old AF2 - producing texts suitable for task, purpose and audience.

Students analyse two adverts for Coca Cola. Students must explore how each text was shaped by its context. They think about attitudes to women in the 1950s compared to attitudes to women in the 21st century and think about how these are reflected in the advert. This always engages students.