This resource is a PDF file containing 50 original prompts and questions for teaching/practising creative writing. Each page is one ‘AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5’-style question, with a choice of a descriptive or narrative response. There are a range of images, some more abstract and challenging than others, to suit students of all abilities. This resource also functions as a fantastic revision/homework tool for independent study.

This straightforward guide is designed to help students develop their persuasive writing for their KS3, KS4, and GCSE English exams. With a clear, simplistic approach, it offers: Clear exploration of persuasive techniques. Insight into various text types with explanations on their purpose, key structural features, and the best persuasive techniques to use with them. Guidance on structuring an effective persuasive piece. A ‘Practice Questions’ section with a wide range of prompts in the style of AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 2, Question 5. Whether you’re just starting out with persuasive writing or looking to refine your skills, this guide provides the essential knowledge and practice opportunities to excel in your English exams.

My first collection of creative writing practice questions, based on AQA’s English Language, Paper 1, Question 5. All images were taken by me. There are 15 questions in this pack.

This resource contains an overview of the structure of a Reading Response Paragraph. Each step is clearly labeled and features an explanation as to what the student needs to do at each point in the response. There are two copies of the resource on one page, making them ideal for cutting out and distributing as handouts or visual aids to students.

This resource is a straightforward display which breaks down each of the five steps of the Reading Response Ladder. Each step contains clear instructions for what needs to be done at that point in a student’s response, with most of the pages containing a relevant sentence starter.

This resource is a poster/visual aid for students who are revising for AQA’s English Literature examination on the Power and Conflict cluster of poems. The grid clearly identifies which poem links to each theme, and students can easily see similarities between the different texts, providing them with ideas for their own comparative responses.

This resource contains two posters, each containing several common basic word types/classes. Each word type/class is named and defined. At the bottom of each poster is a colour coded example sentence, with each colour relating to the corresponding word type/class identified above. This resource was designed to be a poster for display in a classroom, but it could easily be adapted and printed out for students to have in their books/folders, or emailed out as a supporting material for home learning.

This resource contains two posters, each containing several common language techniques. Each technique is named, defined and comes with an example of the technique in use. This resource was designed to be a poster for display in a classroom, but it could easily be adapted and printed out for students to have in their books/folders, or emailed out as a supporting material for home learning.

This is a poster that helps students follow the Hourglass Method to structure their descriptive writing. Students would be expected to write one paragraph for each of these sections. This approach works best when students are responding to an image stimulus. This resource was designed to be a poster for display in a classroom, but it could easily be adapted and printed out for students to have in their books/folders, or emailed out as a supporting material for home learning.

A pack of easily-adaptable resources to help teach students the What, How, Why approach to analytical writing. The pack contains the following: Prompt Sheet w/ questions. Prompt Sheet w/ questions and link to Reading Response Paragraph. Blank Planning Sheet for WHW paragraph. Blank Planning Sheet for WHW comparison paragraph. Two model plans: one for a standard paragraph (Hamlet) and one for a comparison paragraph (Bayonet Charge / Charge of the Light Brigade).