This is a ‘bread and butter’ single cover lesson comprehension to exercise skim and scan skills. This comprehension has a glossary of terms to aid independent disambiguation. Additionally, there is a short descriptive writing task with the focus on sensory description. The sentence stem bank helps the students to compose more ambitious sentence forms.

*NB Appears jumbled up on the screenshot but downloads fine. Single cover lesson revising sentence structure. WAGOLL short story inspired by an image (AO5 revision). Short ‘find the quote to fit my point’ activity (AO2 revision). Sentence structure revision activity. Identify the sentence type and identify the effect followed by a CLOZE activity for speedy memory refreshment. Creative writing activity in response to an image (AQA question 5 revision AO5 focus). The focus is on using short, compound and complex sentences. Self assessment activity to embed proofreading and reflection.

A comprehension that focuses on inference and skim reading retrieval. The creative writing extension task echoes the AQA Language Paper One framework because the image the students work from is informed by the extract the students have been working on through the comprehension.

Descriptive writing sheet focusing on adverbs, similes and onomatopoeia. Colour-coded support for each technique and self assessment included in task sheet. Useful for a stand alone single lesson or for homework.

Descriptive writing resource focusing on adverbs, onomatopoeia and similes. Colour-coded support and self-assessment included. This task sheet would work well as a stand alone single lesson or homework.

A stand alone descriptive writing sheet focusing on adverbs, onomatopoeia and similes. Colour-coded support.for each technique and a simple self-assessment task to enable proofreading and reflection.