A workbook that will help students with revision to improve creative writing. It guides students through the major points of the mark scheme.

This lesson focuses on how the student creates ideas in their mind. The lesson takes the student through a series of activities - including a guided imagination/ questioning/ shared work - to produce a piece of creative writing.

A worksheet to guide students through the demands of AQA paper 2 question 4.

An assessment to help assess the reading and writing ability of Year 8 students. Produced in a template examination paper to give students the feeling of completing an official test.

This worksheet takes students through the needs of question 6. It guides students to have an opinion about the text and then focuses their attention on how to build a paragraph.

This is a lesson plan for a thirty-minute lesson that would work in an interview lesson. The focus is on making effective vocabulary choices and encourages practical application of grammatical terms. Students are encouraged to make choices with impact on the reader in mind. The lesson plan includes suggested differentiation and possible extension to a one-hour lesson.

This is a simple worksheet that asks students to puzzle out the persuasive devices. This is suitable for all ages, as revision or as an audit of knowledge before beginning work on nonfiction writing.

These PowerPoint lessons are not sequenced in any particular order but focus on the reading and analysis of nonfiction texts. The approach in the lessons leads towards a teaching of skills and an increasing independence in asking appropriate questions. You will need to adapt the work in these lessons to match the examination board you are using.

This worksheet takes students through the skills needed to compare the two texts. It shows them how to build from a topic sentence, using comparative connectives. It then explores how to move between the two texts, whilst comparing.

This PDF guide takes students through each question on the examination. It gives practical tips about how to carry on the revision process beyond the tasks in the guide. This is a skills approach to the paper and covers both reading and writing.

This worksheet guides students through the process of answering Question 3 on Paper 1. The students explore techniques and how to explore these techniques.

This worksheet guides the student through two different approaches to this question. The aim is to help students achieve the detached critical judgement of a Level 5 - as well as evaluating the techniques of the writer.

This unit is perfect to deliver just before the summer holidays. The end assessment is speaking and listening and students are encouraged to take on a topic that they feel passionate about. The unit focuses on persuasive devices but also takes the Rotary Club presentation format, to give students a taster of formal public speaking.

This unit focuses on reading short stories and writing a comparative essay. The unit focuses on the guided reading of the literature and then how to build towards an extended essay. The unit works best if there is a theme such as gothic literature, women's voice or the creation of suspense. Stories are suggested in the unit but any stories can be used, adapting for the class you are working with.

This scheme of work is based on one of the activities completed on the TV programme, which is to sell a particular product or brand. The students are encouraged to either writer a letter to Lord Sugar or to produce a speaking a listening pitch. The focus of the unit is on effective persuasive writing and speaking and can be a lot of fun if you allow students to make up nonsense products to sell.

This document was produced for all staff in the school, to help them understand the reading demands on the examination paper in their subject. This is a useful guide to the issues teachers should cover in the lead up to final examinations.

The aim of this unit is to teach the metalanguage of poetry and give students a critical voice when writing about the choices in poetry. The poets used can be tailored to your class but some poems are suggested in the unit. The outcome of the unit is a comparative analysis of poems.

This unit is focused on thinking skills. The unit is written in a style that promotes workshop followed by student group work. Teachers can also set up master classes and doctor's surgeries to help mediate the group work and the research and production skills. The unit begins with the central concept of "What if" and students are encouraged to make up their own "What if" questions, research the possibilities and then find a creative way to present the outcomes. This broadens students minds about the world around them and promotes philosophical thinking.

These are a series of powerpoint lessons on An Inspector Calls, preparing students to analyse extracts of the play. The lessons are not numbered in any particular sequence but cover different issues such as context, stage directions and dialogue. These resources will help students with a first reading and with preparation towards an examination, if adapted appropriately for your examination board.