A lesson guiding students to write found poetry. Although this was designed for KS3 classes, it could also work well with an able KS2 class.

26 A level essay questions, designed for the Edexcel A level specification.

This lesson uses ideas from a range of critics to support discussion about the ending of King Lear, before students plan and respond to an exam style question.

A lesson offering some approaches for analysing structure in King Lear, with some group activities which prompt students to do this. As well as considering structure, there are good opportunities in this lesson for students to consider the impact of the whole text on its audience.

A lesson designed to help students to make thematic links between poems from the AQA GCSE anthology. It starts with a bingo-style game, before introducing shared planning tasks.

Practice exam paper on the power of the supernatural in Macbeth, produced in the style that AQA used. There is an indicative content sheet included with this, covering some ideas that students could write about.

A creative writing lesson, designed for KS3. The students complete a range of planning tasks, ahead of writing an extended piece. I have often used this to assess the quality of writing students can produce at the start of the year.

A sequence of 2 lessons, focusing on improving descriptive writing. The first part supports students planning and writing about a perfect situation where something goes wrong, exploring the importance of contrast in writing. The second part looks at redrafting the student’s work, focusing on how effectively they are using literary techniques.

A creative writing lesson, originally designed for a low ability year 10 group. The lesson revises what metaphor and personification are, including clear visual examples, before exploring methods students can use to create their own examples.

This resource contains two lessons: A comprehension lesson, based on the initial description of Miss Havisham. This lesson includes a section on interpreting question words, comprehension questions with a mark scheme and model paragraph, followed by a plenary. Building on the previous lesson, a creative writing focused session, in which students describe an unusual sight. These lessons have been designed for KS3, but could be applied to other key stage groups.

This lesson gets students to focus on the detail of picture prompts that the exam board will provide, before giving them guidance on how to structure their writing (model response included). They then write their own pieces responding to an exam style task.

For this lesson, students are prompted to analyse sonnet 116, whilst considering some key contextual ideas. Key annotations are included in this PowerPoint. There is also a comparison task included at the end of this lesson.

A PowerPoint designed to guide students analysis of this poem, including detailed annotations and prompts for thematic discussion.

Edexcel A Level lesson, focusing on key thematic and analytical ideas of this poem, with a comparison to influential art/poetry for this piece and an essay task.

A lesson designed to improve understanding of tone, as well as how writers create this. It includes a range of tasks, including creative and analytical activities. It was designed for KS3, but would be applicable for KS4 classes as well.

Various critical ideas for A level classes studying Christina Rossetti, with revision activities.

A lesson introducing students to the features of Romantic poetry, before applying them to a range of famous texts.

A revision lesson including a quotation game that should provoke thoughts about potential arguments students can make about key characters and themes from Othello, followed by a task linking specific ideas from the Edexcel critical anthology to their ideas.

A model A level essay, which focuses on developing argument effectively, whilst also including perceptive contextual, critical and analytical ideas.

This is a model essay about inter-generational conflict in An Inspector Calls. It develops a detailed argument, using a range of contextual and analytical ideas to develop important points. It has been written with the AQA English Literature exam in mind, but could be used to help any GCSE student who will write about this text.