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7 GCSE literature revision booklets 2025
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.
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Figurative Language (Simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration)
Includes various worksheets to support the teaching of figurative language.
Describing the weather in the style of Charles Dickens (KS2/KS3/KS4)
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
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.
Key Stage 3 Music Titanic Composition
A series of 4 lessons which explores the rooms of the Titanic through music.
Students are introduced to the upper deck, casino, engine room and ballroom for which they must create the music. There are differentiated success criteria (4 levels of differentiation) and a glossary describing all of the music terminology in the success criteria.
A pp with room descriptions and tasks is also included.
A strategy to work out the meaning of difficult words in Oliver Twist
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.
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Oliver Twist Bundle
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.
Classical Music Bizet's Habanera Performance
A series of 2 lessons which use the elements from Bizet’s Habanera and Toreador melody to create a stylistic performance.
All instrumental parts and composition tasks are differentiated and Sibelius files are also provided.
PowerPoints for the lessons are available with differentiated and push your thinking tasks.
GCSE Blues Music Composition Help Guide
A 10 page help guide for GCSE music students to guide then through composing a piece of blues music.
This focusses on chords, bass line, blues scale and texture.
Key Stage 3 Music Push Your Thinking Ideas
Cards linking to listening, appraising or understanding music which can be used to push the best students when completing a task.
They should select a card (which are general so can suit any scheme of work) and complete it on the graffiti sheet provided.
Often this makes students think differently or makes them extend their other musical skills other than simply performance or composition.
Oliver Twist: Letter to Mr Sowerberry: 3 levels of differentiation
Write a letter in role as Oliver to Mr Sowerberry.
3 levels of differentiated offered in the 3 worksheets.
Classical Music Scheme of Work for KS3
An 11 lesson scheme of work (can be extended to 12 by extending the Wagner lessons).
All resources are detailed along with ideas of how to differentiate.
A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 assessment, prep sheet and model essay. 3 lessons.
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.
Scrooge in Stave 1 lesson. 5 short extracts with questions, activities and writing frame.
A lesson exploring how Scrooge is presented in Stave 1 with questions, model answers, writing frames, starter, plenary and success criteria.
Stave 1 Key Quotations Analysis A Christmas Carol
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.
Speed marking in English
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.
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Speed Marking reading and writing responses.
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.
Speed Marking Sheet - useful for marking any reading response to a text.
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.
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A Christmas Carol Revision Cards and sheets
A large collection of my post popular revision cards and sheets for A Christmas Carol collated into one bundle.
Includes:
Top 20 quotations
Top 50 quotations
Top 100 quotations
Effects of greed - top 6 quotations
Poverty - top 6 quotations
Supernatural - top 6 quotations
Joy and happiness - top 6 quotations
Isolation - top 6 quotations
100 comprehension questions (with answer sheet)
Comprehension questions on all staves.
Check out the previews.