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.

To Kill a Mockingbird predicting exam questions and choosing suitable extracts.

Disabled: Wilfred Owen: 2 differentiated worksheets for exploring the poem. Ideal for homework/flip learning tasks. Worksheet 1: Bronze/Silver/Gold differentiated questions on each stanza of the poem. Worksheet 2: Bronze/Silver/Gold task involving annotating and drawing images to demonstrate understanding.

Analysis of 6 key quotations linked to the theme of guilt in Macbeth.

Flight by Doris Lessing Comprehension Questions.

Why is Atticus a good father. Complete the grid. Check against the answers.

To Kill a Mockingbird double zoom in to word choices

A worksheet for a 20 minute intervention session aimed at identifying word classes.

Worksheets looking at using commas and complex sentences. Answers not included.

The role of the nurse in Romeo and Juliet. Essay writing guide

Worksheets on prefixes and suffixes.

Red Dust - Travel writing extract comprehension activities

15 Conceptual Statements - one for each poem. Students must work out which poem each conceptual statement is referring to. Also contains summaries of each poem using the ‘because, but, so’ method from the writing revolution. The ‘because, but, so’ method is an excellent tool for teaching students to think analytically about each poem in the Power and Conflict anthology. This tool is powerful because it encourages students to expand their thinking with precision and detail. After studying each poem, I ask students to write a ‘because, but, so’ paragraph on it. This document collates ‘because, but, so’ paragraphs on all 15 poems as examples to assist students with revising the key ideas in each poem.

Analysis of 6 key quotations linked to the theme of blood/violence in Macbeth.

Lesson analysing key quotations from Chapter 3 to guide students with annotating the text. Includes a starter, chapter summary and an extension task.

AQA 2017 Reading Paper 1 - Structured worksheet for the 8 mark question based on a short extract from 'Tender is the Night'. Includes writing frame. Ideal for helping lower ability students to respond to fiction texts.

25 sentence types: differentiated worksheets

A simple but effective and ready to go worksheet to promote a group activity exploring who is responsible for the death of Eva Smith. After splitting your class into 5 groups, ask students to create their argument for their character by finding further quotations to support their point and adding them to the structured grid. Students can then share their ideas in a carousel style.

Comprehension questions on The Man he Killed.

A writing frame for responding to any question on the 19th century novel section of the English Literature exam. Will work equally well with A Christmas Carol or Jekyll and Hyde - the two most popular texts. Effective at guiding students towards high quality responses. lso includes advice on how to create a thesis-style introduction on A Christmas Carol. ‘A thesis-style introduction that demonstrates your understanding of the question can be a really helpful way of starting your answer. It shows that you are ‘in charge’ of your essay and that you know what you think. It can provide a strong foundation for the rest of the essay. Keep referring back to the introduction to create a coherent response.’ AQA examiner’s report 2022 Creating a thesis-style introduction is a challenge for many students but is essential in helping students to reach levels 4-6 in the mark scheme. I have produced a simple 3 point structure to help students quickly generate a thesis statement in timed exam conditions. There is an example of the 3 point structure being used and then students attempt to imitate the structure for 4 other exam-style questions.