10 ways to vary a sentence start/openers. With PowerPoint and resources. Ideal for Year 6/7.

To Kill a Mockingbird essay questions

To Kill a Mockingbird: detailed writing frame for essay responses

A great resource to help students plan essay responses to 5 different themes in the novel.

A 43 page An Inspector Calls revision booklet and a 7 page character booklet. This comprehensive resource collates my most popular individual resources easy to print pdfs. Includes: Plot revision activity Knowledge organisers Character revision cards Theme revision cards Vocabulary builder Planning sheets for exam responses on all the main characters 9 model answers with examiner marks and comments Questions focused on the stage directions

A lesson aimed at getting lower ability students to use more ambitious vocabulary. Students think of synonyms for ‘nice’ and ‘bad’ and then use the words to write a positive and negative holiday postcard. The main task where students redraft and improve the model paragraphs is differentiated. Tough: Students replace the boring adjective with better choices. Tougher: Students also replace the boring ‘The’ sentence starts. Toughest: Students change the structure of the sentences and add in similes and a full range of punctuation.

A planning sheet for transforming Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland into a narrative. Provides a recommended 4 part narrative structure along with tips on punctuation, sentence types, vocabulary and literary techniques to include in the narrative. I do have other power and conflict resources available: Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301 Model answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-grade-9-model-essays-12213236 Revision cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049

Visual aid/revision sheet containing thoughtful comments on 10 key quotations for Mr Birling linking to both A02 and A03. Also contains a thesis-style introduction.

This heavily discounted bundle combines detailed revision booklets covering 4 of the most popular GCSE literature texts: Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls and Power and Conflict. All the booklets compile my most popular individual resources into 4 easy to print booklets/pdfs. Each booklet contains high grade model responses, attractive revision cards, colourful knowledge organisers, scaffolding to help with planning, plot overviews, comprehension questions and much more. Buying the bundle of 4 booklets is more cost effective than purchasing all 4 booklets from my shop individually. An Inspector Calls - 43 page booklet + additional 7 page booklet Romeo and Juliet - 106 page booklet (updated for 2025) Power and Conflict - 51 page booklet (newly updated for 2025) A Christmas Carol - 56 page booklet (newly updated for 2025)

Complete lesson covering Chapter 9 with notes to help annotate key quotations along with an engaging starter, chapter summary and extension questions and activities looking at 2 key extracts from the chapter. Also includes a lesson looking at Language Paper 1 Question 4 with detailed annotations of the violent scene in the chapter to prepare students for responding to a student statement for the 20 mark question.

Jingle Bells and We Wish You a Merry Christmas into 6 differentiated tasks. The bundle includes music with notation and without and also guitar tablature to allow performance on another instrument.

Differentiated instrumental parts to allow students to create an ensemble performance of Rocking Around the Christmas Tree. There are up to 3 levels of differentiation for each part and bass tablature is also included. There is also differentiated composition worksheets to encourage students to write a middle 8 section for their performance. A differentiated listening test which refers to different versions of Rocking Around the Christmas Tree with you tube links is also provided.

A huge bundle of Romeo and Juliet resources. Knowledge organisers Revision cards Context sheet Lessons on each scene Quizzes on scenes 106 page collated revision booklet Character revision sheets Timelines Model responses Exam style questions And lots more.

Differentiated film music motifs for the piano both 1 and 2 hands (with and without notes). Guitar tab also provided for some. Motifs are either in the horror, fantasy or romantic genre. There is also powerpoint slides which include instructions and push your thinking ideas. Sibelius files are also provided. Differentiated listening questions are also provided in the genres listed above. Analysis of some motifs is provided with musical language to stretch the most able.

A music test based on classical music to test student’s understanding of musical language and identifying key features. Answers and links to the pieces are provided.

Five questions in the style of the AQA A2 exam (question 3) with a mixture of vocal and instrumental music. All musical links and answers are available so these can be completed in lesson time or independently by the students.

A list of wider listening pieces for each area of study for Edexcel GCSE Music (15 for all with you tube links except Fusions where there are 10). A focus sheet where students must research the context and listen to key musical elements in the piece of music. A differentiated success criteria is also attached - can be used for up to 50 pieces of homework across the 2 years.

A differentiated introductory lesson to Victorian context in A Christmas Carol. Also includes an independent research task. Includes a handy revision sheet with answers on the powerpoint.