These sheets are aimed at Years 7-9 but also keep the demands of the AQA GCSE English Literature and Language mark schemes in mind. They are colour coded with visual prompts to help students understand strengths and improvements required in their answers. The reading sheet works well for feedback on an essay/extended answer whilst the writing is intended for creative pieces. They have also kept in mind the need for reducing the marking workload for teachers, so whilst there is space for a brief comment, the majority of the sheet allows teachers to tick off relevant comments for student work.

A colour-coded resource with visual prompts to help GCSE students access the AQA English Language mark scheme. This can be used as a cover sheet to lighten the marking workload for teachers and also makes feedback clear and focused for students. Teachers can tick off clear comments as appropriate. These are carefully worded to link to the mark scheme in a more student friendly manner. The PowerPoint Slide condenses feedback for a whole Section A /40, including space for comments, and the word document contains A4 page versions for each of Q2-4.

A series of extract questions followed by creative writing question with student friendly writing mark scheme.

A colour-coded resource with visual prompts to help GCSE students access the AQA English Language mark scheme. This can be used as a cover sheet to lighten the marking workload for teachers and also makes feedback clear and focused for students. Teachers can tick off clear comments as appropriate. These are carefully worded to link to the mark scheme in a more student friendly manner. The PowerPoint Slide condenses feedback for a whole Section A /40, including space for comments, and the word document contains A4 page versions for each of Q2-4.

A colour-coded marking sheet with visual prompts to help students access the demands of AO5 and AO6 in the AQA GCSE English Language mark scheme. The checklist approach lightens the marking burden for teachers and the colours, visuals and focused comments make feedback more accessible for students. This 2-sided A4 sheet also contains space for written comments and a guide to approximate grade boundaries (correct currently against the 2019 boundaries).

This is an end of unit assessment for Key Stage 3, aimed particularly at Year 7, with extract questions on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ followed by a creative writing task. The creative writing task includes a student-friendly mark scheme (see my other resources for variations on this!) to aid student understanding of feedback and to help make teacher marking as efficient as possible.

A colour-coded mark scheme with visual prompts to help students access the AQA Literature mark scheme. This can be used as a marking cover sheet to reduce the volume of writing involved in marking for teachers, as they can tick the relevant boxes for comments that have been adapted from the AQA mark scheme to be more student friendly. There is also space to note down comments on strengths and targets.

Designed as an end of unit assessment for Key Stage 3 students for ‘Animal Farm’. It includes an extract essay-style question, a creative writing question and student-friendly mark schemes, all inspired by the skills needed for AQA GCSE.