A high grade exemplar for ‘The Darkness Out There’ and ‘Chemistry’ that not only supplies content for students but shows a possible style for high grade answers. There are activities to lift Grades 5 and 6 into the uber grades of 7, 8 and 9. Two hour’s worth of teaching and learning included here.

Take the fear out of short creative prose for the Eduqas/WJEC English Language Creative Prose Paper 1 Section B with this 550 word exemplar short story with full story arc for use as *what a good one looks like * and to adapt and borrow from to inspire similarly structured and controlled work from your students.

Celebrate International Children’s Book Day 2nd April or teach students the history of children’s books in an engaging way then create a playful leaflet inspired by a villain. Best suited to Years 4-8. Draw on prior knowledge, have a giggle, re-frame existing knowledge, add knowledge to the understanding of this literary canon and create a very modern publicity leaflet in which a children’s book villain attempts to change the public’s perception of them. 28 PPT slides with lovely graphics, challenge, differentiation, support, numeracy and wit to amuse them! Would last at least two hour lessons to complete with the leaflet task.

Invaluable resource for teaching those more nebulous skills for Grades 8 and 9. A high level exemplar response to a task on ‘Letters from Yorkshire’’ and difficult to define relationships. Compared with ‘Climbing My Grandfather’’ for the AQA English Literature Paper 2 Section B. Plenty of high level ideas ready to be learned and high level response style and also a good range of activities provided to encourage students to interact with the essay response, pick it apart, learn it, borrow the style and to encourage wider research. Rich in applied contexts and perspectives and full use of those aspects of poems students often neglect - structure and form - the response looks at sounds (because poetry is an aural form) and both big (journey structures) and smaller structures. Offered as a pair of resources - a framework for exploration in class and tasks and exemplar essay.

A set of response notes on themes of isolation and belonging in ‘My Polish Teacher’s Tie’ with tasks for students to complete to braoden the notes e.g. adding short quotations and blending context with personal informed response. Useful for initial learning and revision and independent work or homework.

A full fiction reading exam practice paper with Eduqas style English Language Paper 1 Section A questions. Extract from ‘To the Lighthouse’. Fully line referenced. Follows question pattern: list five impressions how does the writer (craft language) …? how does the writer (mood and atmosphere) …? build argument/evaluate Indicative content included to support marking.

High grading essay response comparing ‘Tissue’ as main poem and ‘Poppies’ as a comparison poem. Tips on how it was planned and easy tips to elevate essays. Examiner experienced teacher and writer created. Offers potential for new interpretations of a complex text and also revision potential.

An A3 framework grid students can use to explore extracts in class or learn the framework sequence to prepare for extract exploration in the actual examination. Gives lots of key terms as prompts as well as questions to stimulate responses to extract. Puts AO2 as the focus to allow for AO1 commentary. Has context and perspective reminders if they are relevant to your exam board.