This resource is the second week, looking at AQA Lanuage Lessons. This comprises 2x one hour lessons which adds to students’ hinterland knowledge of AO3 for A Christmas Carol.

This resource contains extracts and analysis focus to develop students’ hinterland knowledge around their AQA Literature reading of Blood Brothers.

This is the fourth installment of a SOW for AQA Language Paper 2 that supports students’ hinterland knowledge of AO3 in their reading of A Christamas Carol. This section includes an end of unit assessment and sources.

This is the second set of lessons guiding students through Language Paper 1, whilst allowing students to develop hinterland of knowledge for Blood Brothers. Lesson 1 has a complete Section A and Lesson 2 Has a complete Section B.

This installment is the fifth week of AQA Language Lessons supporting students hinterland knowledge of AO3 Blood Brothers. This lesson looks at riots.

This is the third week of AQA Language Lessons to support students hinterland knowledge of AO3 Blood Brothers. This week includes and Assessment for LP1.

Lesson objectives: To investigate the poet’s intended message to the reader. To consider the connotations of form, structure and language in ‘Hitcher’. To reflect upon emergent themes in the poem. Powerpoint for the lesson, with worksheets for pupils.

This selection contains retrieval and inference questions based on the extract from P. L. Travers’ Mary Poppins. Inference and retrieval questions can be cut out and slipped under a Monopoly Junior-style board, to engage the children in reading skills, prior to giving them the assessment. My year 6 intervention group love this activity and don’t notice that they are working! No Mark scheme provided.

Extract from What Katie Did, with accompanying fiction reading-style questions.

This selection contains retrieval and inference questions based on the extract from Barrie’s Peter Pan. Inference and retrieval questions can be cut out and slipped under a Monopoly Junior-style board, to engage the children in reading skills, prior to giving them the assessment. My year 6 intervention group love this activity and don’t notice that they are working!

This lesson is for mixed ability AS Level. It begins to examine Duffy’s The Map Woman, with tasks considering emerging theme, employment of poetic techniques and language analysis. The lesson encourages co-operative learning and group discussion. I also used a roll of wallpaper, with a silhouette of ‘the map woman’ for students to label.

SATs-style fiction reading paper, with comprehension questions that assess inference, definition, prediction and retrieval skills. The extract is chapter 3 of The Coral Island. This is a challenging paper and ideal for students performing at above expected standard.

A lesson for mixed ability GCSE poetry, viewing The Hero as an unseen poem. This lesson would work well as an introduction to WW1 poetry, unseen poetry or as a poetry analysis lesson. The lesson takes the context of the poem into consideration.

Fully resourced SOW for the entire novel. Lessons work alongside the chapters of the novel to work with developing reading and writing skills. There is a writing task for each chapter, with peer and self assessment opportunities for each writing element.

AQA style paper 1 and paper 2 question papers with inserts from Great Expectations and an article examining the changing attitudes to marriage. I have used this as a revision tool, taking the extract from Paper 1 and using it as Source A in Paper 2 (despite it being fiction) to cut down on reading time and to focus on developing the skills in the responses of candidates. This set is ideal for bite-size revision sessions, where students need to develop examination techniques and familiarity with the paper as a whole. These papers do not include question 1 on either paper. Papers are printable, with space for candidates to write their answers underneath the questions, to give them a sense of assessment conditions; it should also make whole-class employment for this resource easier.

Contains Kagan-style carousel lesson- 1hr. Includes work booklets and resources for stations and powerpoint presentation for support.

Engaging creative writing lesson, with ppt and handout, responding to an image. Mixed ability. Question 5.

This selection contains retrieval and inference questions based on the extract from Nesbitt’s The Railway Children.

A lesson, with worksheet, for a high ability year 8 class (mixed ability) introducing the characters of George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men.

A collection of taster activities in a carousel lesson, looking at theme, staging, music, use of props and context. You will need to assemble a selection of props for one of the stations and add your own review access page- I used Padlet.