A ‘pre-flight checklist’ style resource for A Level students learning how to write an language analysis response looking at how authors create meaning and representation. Halloween theme, sort of - skeleton metaphor throughout.

Summarises the success criteria for the English entrance test for Cambridge and Oxford universities. Students can use it to mark their own ELAT answers and help them understand what makes a high-level answer.

This is a resource designed to recap persuasive and letter features for pupils and give them a chance to improve a poorly written argument. You can easily differentiate by asking higher ability pupils to focus on register, style, vocabulary and adding in techniques, while asking lower ability pupils to find the problems and suggest simple improvements. The “voice” in the letter to improve is a teenage pyromaniac who goes off topic. Resource includes a technique recap and reminders of the key ingredients for persuasive letter writing and arguments. Could be set as a main activity, or a starter or plenary to recap prior or previous learning. Could also be set as a homework task or project. Perfect for revising or teaching the new GCSE AQA Paper 2 Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives Section B writing task. Discusses the need to be convincing and consider tone, style, register, form, audience and purpose.

Revision guide for English Literature new AQA Spec. Revision tips, revision questions, modelling. Guides to using revision booklets Practise questions and tasks.

Student guide to question format for new AQA English Language exams. Includes tips on where to find information in revision guides. Deals with skills needed, layout, question format, how to get marks, assessment, what to do.

Descriptive language task with a picture prompt and teacher modelling of descriptive techniques and language devices. Suitable for GCSE and A Level pupils. Differentiated - task more able pupils with inventing their own examples for each technique, and use the modelling to scaffold the less able pupils. Exam style question echoes the structure of the new GCSE AQA spec for English Language Paper 1 Section B - Creative Writing

A revision worksheet for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens aimed at students studying AQA English Literature. Discusses exam style questions, gives example / exemplar answers / includes modelling and tips for revision.

Can be used for AFL/ self-assessment at the beginning or end of a module on poetry where the exam asks pupils to compare. Intuitive, student-friendly confidence levels assessment to inform your planning and teaching.

GCSE and A Level compatible. Planning chart for English Literature essays aimed at encouraging pupils to make effective plans and use them well. Can be used for revision or for classwork. Adaptable for your spec.

Exam style practice question for new AQA spec Paper 1 English Language using an abbreviated excerpt from The Great Gatsby. In the format of an exam paper it gives pupils practice with the layout and with the assessment objectives. The topic is designed to be engaging - it focuses on a party scene in Gatsby. It then includes a practice writing question around parties and music. Practice reading comprehension questions and creative writing for the exam. Boost your pupil's confidence and provide them with an understanding of the layout of the assessment. Can also be used as a mock paper (one class or whole school) as it is correctly formatted.

These two sheets help pupils plan and write creative writing which fits the A-level exam specs. The planning creative writing sheet takes a total of 50 minutes and gets them to think about their commentary, so this could be a full lesson with the commentary set. The Writing Fiction Lesson doc is designed to be printed on A3. It is designed to be a whole lesson which works collaboratively with a class - split them into pairs. Firstly, get the original pair to write their name on the top of their worksheet. 1) Pass the sheet around as many sets of pairs as it takes to fill the planning chart, giving them a certain amount of time to fill in one row per pair (can be differentiated). 2) The original pair fill out 'story one' as an excerpt from a short story - they choose the guidelines from the grid and tick it off. 3) Pass it on and repeat step two with a new pair. 4) Pass back to original pair to evaluate the writing (using two different colours) using the evaluation grid. Peer marking! Can then set easily set an improvement task, if you want to.

A quick pupil-friendly glossary (with examples) of new key terms for rhetorical devices for A Level English Language pupils. Handy to use when introducing new terms as you look at rhetoric and speeches or political speaking. We used them as a checklist for looking at interviews between Russell Brand and Ed Miliband, and one between Jonathan Ross and Keira Knightley and then discussed how these techniques can tie in with wider issues on the course: e.g. gender, power, class.

Peer and teacher feedback template for creative writing and the critical commentary for the new WJEC English Language A Level Specification. This saves loads of time for your own marking and feedback / assessment, and is a handy tool for a peer feedback or improvement and reflection time starter. Intuitive and straightforward, I use these to highlight to quickly give feedback for exam style answers and show students the key skills they need to hone. It has a 'what went well' and 'even better if' box at the bottom of each sheet for formative feedback.

A colourful, hand-drawn resource which explains in an accessible manner which skills pupils need to have by the end of KS3 English. Broken-down into categories which are indicated by symbols, this is written in a way designed to be pupil-friendly. It can be made into a fully differentiated resource easily: By, for example, a teacher laminating class copies and marking (with an erasable whiteboard pen) for each new topic or task the areas they want a certain pupil to focus on.

Designed for pupils studying for their English Language non-fiction exam. An example review with a task where they have to spot persuasive techniques. Can easily be used as a whole lesson if used with a starter recapping techniques, and an additional task of writing their own review of a meal they had recently.

Aimed at GCSE English Language students preparing for their non-fiction exam. Practice opinion article task with prompts and reminder of persuasive techniques. Cliparts to make it a bit brighter and more exciting! Differentiated - encourage higher ability pupils to ignore the scaffolding prompts and go straight to choosing their techniques and writing their answer.

For students sitting the new GCSE (AQA). Clear instructions and support notes including success criteria matched to the new markscheme. Differentiation - there is an example plan that can be used to scaffold for less able pupils. Specific links to the new AQA specification for the non-fiction writing task.

Information sheets with little activities to introduce pupils to subject terminology and to signposting phrases which they can use in their own writing. GCSE skills - subject terminology, analysis, evaluation, higher-level explanation.

This resource is an article about Electronic Dance Music (which many of my lower ability pupils like), with questions matched up to the new AQA Paper 2 English Language GCSE - a true/false task and a language analysis task at the end to brainstorm. There is a separate worksheet which requires you to cut up the sentences so pupils can do a card sort, focusing on PEEL paragraphs and being able to identify which sentence performs which function. It is aimed at a lower-middling ability class, but you can differentiate and ask higher ability pupils to focus on planning the language analysis task without the paragraph/PEEL sheet (which they could present to the class). Skills: analysis, synthesis, interpretation, close reading, paragraph writing, P E E, reading skills, language analysis, true or false

A detailed worksheet introducing the different types of sentence: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex to pupils with tasks. Includes references to popular culture and Disney villains to assist understanding. Designed to try and make a rather dry topic a bit more fun. Grammar, sentence structures, different sentence types, exam criteria, national curriculum.