This powerpoint takes students through the skills needed to answer the question. It breaks the mark scheme down into manageable bite size pieces and provides students with essential subject terminology needed for answering this question. The other resource is great for printing off as a revision poster or learning mat to prompt students. Review and follow :-)

This powerpoint takes the students through the skills needed to effectively answer this question as well as providing a helpful acronym and writing frame to support the weaker students. All extracts are provided. The second resource is great to print as a revision poster or a learning mat to prompt students. Can be used as a stand alone lesson, for revision, for intervention or for first teaching of this question. Review and follow :-)

A great learning mat with a step by step guide for writing an effective paragraph that can apply to most Language style questions and Literature exam questions. This learning mat breaks down each component of the paragraph and offers a variety of sentence openers and academic language that students can use. A brilliant resource for differentiation of to give to students as a self-help sheet. I have these out on the tables almost every lesson! Review and follow :-)

This complete unit of work is designed for the new AQA GCSE Specification; however, it can easily be adapted for any exam board. This 25 lesson unit covers: - Literature skills - Language reading style questions - Creative Writing. A full scheme of work is provided with lesson by lesson instructions. Every lesson is fully resourced and accompanied by a powerpoint. Activities within this unit include: - Powerpoint presentations - A GCSE exam booklet - Planning sheets - Sample answers - Contextual research tasks - AfL - Differentiated resources - Audio clips of the book - Exam Questions - Carousel activites - Extract based questions - Writing frames - A comprehensive structure for writing paragraphs There is also an extract based question booklet that accompanies this unit with one extract from every chapter - this is great to use as a homework booklet or to use for revision at a later date. This unit will ensure your student knows the text, as well as equipping them with Language and Literature skills. Review and follow :-)

This is a whole unit of work with a series of 9 fantastic lessons (each lesson lasts 80mins) that includes: - A break down of the criteria - Various activities - Sample Answers - Peer and Self Assessment tasks - Helpful acronyms to break down the skills - Strategies to structure answers - Colourful powerpoints - All sources for exam questions This is a great introduction to the Edexcel Language Paper 1 skills for both reading and writing. It covers how to analyse language and structure; how to evaluate a text; punctuation, language devices and structure of narrative writing. My year 11s have really enjoyed this unit and have made up to 3 levels of progress as a result! I hope your students find it as useful. Please review and follow :-)

This unit of work prepares students for the new AQA GCSE style questions and is accompanied by a work booklet, the film and various activities I have gathered over time. If you like it, please share, follow and review :-)

These are self-checking reading and writing skill sheets with prompts and sentence stems appropriate for that level. Can be used for any exam board in English Language and English Literature. If you like it, please review and follow me :-)

These learning mats help students to structure their essay paragraphs so that they include all assessment objectives. The essay plan gives them a strict structure to follow to ensure they include all aspects needed in their essays. The learning mats also provide ways for students to self-check their work, and provide sentence stems and handy hints so that student can become more independent. This is a great starting point for all students. I have found it to be a winning formula with borderline student and it is easy to adapt and expand for the higher ability students.

Can be used as a model with the students.

This resources is based on the creative writing question: 'Write a description based on this image'. It helps students to plan and gather their ideas.

Year 7 and 8 spelling booklets for the entire year. These are based on the National Spelling Strategy and the most common misspelled words lists.

This activity gives students key scene featuring Lady Macbeth with leading questions to really get them thinking about her character.

A set of extracts/keys scenes and various writing and essay activities to prepare students for the Literature exam. If you like it, please follow and review :-)

A series of slides based on key characters to be used as a starter/plenary to help with revision - Students find key quotations about the character - Students analyse key quotations given - Students consider contextual information and the influence this had on the character.