Unit including: full text by slide with full glossary questions for discussion ranging from low to high- ability on each slide longer tasks based on Literature and Language skills Word of the Day linked to the text and recall questions Language Paper 2 on the representation of Father Christmas over the years. I made this unit for a KS4 class who are familiar with the story, but have not yet looked at the text in any great detail. It is designed to prepare them for the GCSE Literature examination (AQA). They struggle with the vocabulary and so I have created a glossary for every single part of the text (which took absolutely ages!). The whole text is shown on these slides, enabling a teacher to use the slides as a standalone with groups, set the reading of it as for homework as a download, print off extracts from the Gutenberg copy of the text to annotate in class, or follow with their own copy. You could also use an audio version of the text to read it for you, as it is completely unabridged. Each slide comes with questions for that particular section of the text, ranging from very easy (bronze), language and structure focused (amber) and social and historical focused (yellow). I have designed these questions to develop the skills required for their Literature GCSE and also the skills required for their Language GCSE (Recall, Language, Structure, Response to Statements). These questions could be used for class discussion or you could actually get students to write the answers to the questions on some slides as class work or complete for homework. For each unit of the text, there is a task. You may want to interchange these with exam questions that have either been published by the exam boards or which have been produced by other TES authors. There are some excellent questions available for use on the TES resources pages. I have added some writing to describe and argue tasks, as well as a Paper2 Language Style paper on Santa Clause throughout the years. Best wishes, Lindsey

A series of lessons based on the Brighton Rock Specimen Assessment Materials from AQA. The student booklet should be used with the Powerpoint lessons, which explains how to attain a Grade 4 and beyond, good examples of student work and clear explanations of the components required in student responses to each question. Very useful as an introduction to the Paper 1 or as a revision unit. Includes words of the day and recall questions. Videos of me teaching these lessons can be found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9q_xc22DRvPTEY3sGyH8ug

Twelve completely differentiated and resourced lessons that cover the skills and knowledge required for the new style GCSE and are suitable for students at any secondary level and for any class reader. They include aims and objectives that are drawn directly from the new GCSE specifications and have a choice of three tasks for each lesson according to ability, followed by a reflection activity. These PowerPoint led lessons are completely ready to go and need no further work, leaving you with nothing to plan for twelve lessons at least - then the resources could easily be adapted to allow the unit to incorporate more investigation, analysis and application of the devices covered using the existing slides as a template for further lessons. These are also ideal observation lessons. The lessons explore a range of word, sentence and structural devices, allowing students to explore the device and then spot this in their own class reader, completing a task appropriate to their level after each reading. A free sample lesson from the pack is available at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/foreshadowing-lesson-link-to-any-text-11347750 The following devices and skills are covered: Social and Historical Context Investigations (x2) Identifying Foreshadowing and Effect Identifying Narrative Hooks Narrative Hooks in Practice Sentence Structures Relative Clauses Commenting upon Relative Clauses and Sentence Lengths Identifying Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia in Practice Identifying and Using Plosives Identifying Anaphora