A differentiated carousel activity based on the Edwardian context to An Inspector Calls.
Red (highest ability) make notes on socialism and capitalism
Orange (high ability) make notes on 1912 versus 1945
Yellow (middle ability) make notes on the role of women
Blue (low ability) makes notes on JB Priestly’s life.
Students then carousel to share answers and create a mind map.
Differentiated A3 worksheet analysing the stage directions to ‘An Inspector Calls’. Ideal to use at the start of the scheme of work. Includes an answer sheet.
Low ability:
Green/Blue group: A01. Retrieve information about the characters.
Mid ability:
Yellow group: A02. Comment on the effect of language
High ability:
Red/Green group: A03. Relate points to context and Priestly’s purpose.
Lots of schools have literacy mats but this is perhaps the most visually engaging one on the internet. This double-sided whole school literacy mat offers literacy support for students in a highly visual, colourful and engaging way.
The literacy mat covers the following areas:
Vocabulary across various subject areas (geography, history, science, the arts, RS, PE, Business Studies, ICT, technology)
Connectives
Openers for PEE chains
Punctuation reminders
Common mistakes
Apostrophes
Sentence types
TipTop Paragraphs
20 premium resources in one bundle. Some of the topics covered in the various worksheets include:
A3 double sided literacy mat
subordinate clauses
embedded clauses
sentences and fragments
colon and semi colon
prefix and suffixes
parts of speech
writing interesting sentences
varying sentence starts
using ambitious vocabulary
similes and metaphors
paragraphs
Many worksheets include 3 levels of differentiation. There are also some songs about grammar and punctuation included to make your teaching memorable.
These worksheets are ideal to use with KS2/KS3.
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.
Ideal for lower ability students or students responding to an AQA exam question on A Christmas Carol for the first time, this writing frame guides students through the process of responding to a question about Scrooge’s lack of humanity. The sentence stems invite students to respond to outside of the extract as well as inside the extract and include opportunities to make links to context.
Students read a model response to the following question:
How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet. (34).
Then then have to annotate each sentence to analyse what the essay writer is doing in each section of the response.
There is also a building better answers sheet included.
An ideal differentiated end of term activity after a series of lessons on writing interesting sentences or at the start of a term to test how much students know about sentences. There is a test on the second page.
It covers the following:
What is a sentence
Varying the subject of a sentence
Long and short sentences
Subordinate clauses
4 sentence types
Varying sentence starts
Active and passive voice
A detailed A3 revision sheet containing key quotations in short easy to remember chunks for the following 4 supporting characters in Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio, Capulet, Nurse and Friar.
There is a differentiated activity to encourage students to use the revision sheet effectively:
Bronze: AO1 explain what we learn about the character in each quote.
Silver: AO3 link each quotation to context
Gold: AO3 link each quotation to a theme
Diamond: AO2 Identify language features in each quotation
Also includes a follow up lesson revising the key quotes and testing understanding.
A term’s worth of resources created specifically for the 9-1 AQA Romeo and Juliet examination combined into one bundle. Well over 300 pages of PowerPoints and worksheets covering the assessment objectives.
Check out the many previews.
There are a huge amount of resources here. To help make it easier, I recommend opening the following two files first.
In the file named ‘Romeo and Juliet 2023’ I have collated all the resources onto one document with easy to follow file names to make it easier to find the resources you want.
In the file named Romeo and Juliet revision guide 2023 I have collated an 88 page revision booklet to help start make the resources more ready to go.