Literacy skills booklet covering word classes, sentence structure, punctuation, spellings (i.e. homophones, prefixes and suffixes) and subject verb agreement. Created for low ability Y9. 5 lessons worth. Included fiction and non fiction creative writing activities to embed the skills.

A lesson to initially approach Q3 of the new AQA Language Paper 1. Encourages students to consider the way texts are structured, starting with an animated clip which enables them to draw out structural features, moving on to exploring the structure of an extract from Frankenstein. The lesson takes them through analysing structure in a very guided way with step by step analysis, questions to guide thinking, model answers and writing structure/frame. Peer assessment at the end of the lesson. Aimed towards Level 3-4 of the exam mark scheme/Grade 4-5 new GCSE.

A lesson designed to cover 8 lessons. Each lesson includes a quick revision and recap quiz followed by an extract and accompanying activities. Extracts include: intro to George and Lennie, Candy’s introduction to the other ranch characters, Curley’s wife first meeting, Candy’s dog, Crooks’ room, Curley’s wife’s death, comparing the brush setting from Chapters 1 and 5, and the ending. Designed as revision after the novel but could also be used for remote or home learning tasks.

This resource contains around 10 lessons geared towards practising the skills for the new AQA Language Paper 1 skills: list 4 (retrieval), exploring language and its effects, exploring structure and its effects, critical evaluation. Initially themed around gothic fiction and then moving to focus on the short story ‘The Phantom Coach’ by Amelia Edwards. Each lesson focusses on specific skills and question types for the exam along with modelled examples and support/guidance/scaffolding. A range of activities included. Aimed at Level 3 of the mark scheme (roughly grade 4/5) - can be tweaked up or down. The unit ends with an exemplar paper that I’ve created on an extract from the ending of the story which tests students on all of the Paper 1 Section A skills. Used with top set Y9 with great success - ideal for high ability KS3 or at KS4.

A 20 page booklet which uses an extract on the ‘Red Room’ from Jane Eyre as the basis for preparation for the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 exam. The booklet starts with the extract and each of the four reading questions for students to complete: locate and retrieve, language, structure and critical evaluation. There is also an activity on unfamiliar vocab at the start. There is support provided to answer the questions (such as tips and writing frames) which decreases as the booklet progresses through the questions. The second half of the booklet is based on Q5 writing skills including sentence types, commas for separating clauses, colons and semi colons and proof reading. Students then complete a piece of extended writing based on an image using what they have learned through the various activities - combining all of the skills. Could be used as multiple lesson activities, a revision booklet, a couple of weeks of cover or a half term of homework. All work can be completed in the booklet.

This lesson give an introduction to language features to describe using the VAMPIRES acronym. Then students are encouraged to select language features from the extract and explore their effects. This includes write up support, model answer to review and improve and self assessment opportunity. The lesson is geared towards level 4 of the mark scheme - Grade 4-5. Includes levelled outcomes as the focus for all the learning throughout the lesson, progress driven and highly focussed on exam skills for Language Paper 1. Step by step, easy to follow lesson.

Two lessons worth of resources in which students discuss the topic of the environment and how it is affected by litter etc… including microbeads and other everyday waste items. Students explore the effects these have, link to a YouTube video is included in the slides for students to gain further ideas from. The lessons then focus on developing detail within ideas, writing using a range of convincing and compelling language features and technical accuracy. The Powerpoint has step by step lessons including lesson outcomes and objectives based on AO5 and AO6. All resources are included: planning sheets, starter tasks, checklists and model paragraphs to annotate.

An introductory lesson to AQA GCSE English Language paper 1 in which students share prior knowledge of the story of Frankenstein, read an extract, explore unfamiliar/archaic vocabulary and then complete a Q1 locate and retrieve response with quick self assessment. AO1 of AQA GCSE English Language. Can be used as an introduction to Literature Frankenstein study. PowerPoint slides fully explaining stages of the lesson including outcomes (levels 3 and 4 of mark scheme) plus worksheet copy of an extract from Chapter 5 of Frankenstein and an optional research sheet for background information to Prometheus myth when exploring the full title of the novel.