Revision activities for the Unseen Poetry section of Edexcel English Literature IGCSE. Includes techniques to revise, examples of unseen poems, model answers, the markscheme and the feedback from the exam board for each response.

A range of 10, 20 and 45 minute revision tasks on the Edexcel IGCSE English Language and Literature. Includes revision of the Anthology texts, unseen poetry and Of Mice and Men, alongside examples of Unseen poems and example model paragraphs.

A series of lessons based around the book, ‘The Island at the End of Everything,’ by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Includes a research project on the historical context of the book, a step by step approach to writing an analytical response, model answer on Mr Zamora, the symbolism of butterflies and Sister Teresa and example questions.

A Challenge Literacy Skills Booklet to follow on from the Literacy Skills Booklet. Includes tasks on 13 different skills including: main and subordinate clauses, adjectival clauses, adverbial clauses, conjunctions, word types and sentence types. Each activity includes revision tasks, opportunities for practice, links to extracts to young adult fiction and space for peer assessment.

A comprehensive Literacy Skills Booklet with activities on a range of skills including: word classes, sentences types and punctuation and grammar. There are 13 different topics, with each one including a revision activity to demonstrate understanding, a task on the skill and links to popular young adult books with opportunities throughout for students to revisit ideas to ensure consolidation of knowledge. Each activity has space to be marked through peer assessment.

A series of 3+ lessons on the different types of travel writing: guidebook, article and narrative. Model examples given and tasks linked to the extracts.

A range of questions for students to help them consider what we learn about the characters in Act 1 of An Inspector Calls before the Inspector arrives. Includes questions on Priestley’s view, context and different characters. Answers included on the second slide.

A range of questions (and answers) that map out a plan to help students answer the essay question, ‘How does Priestley use language and structure to show Sheila’s journey towards social responsibility?’ Students can work through the questions on the corresponding pages and come up with a range of quotes that can be used to answer the question.

A range of quotes on Sheila to help students plan an answer to the response, ‘How does Priestley use language and structure to show Sheila’s journey towards social responsibility?’

A comprehensive analysis of the language and structure of Follower by Seanus Heaney, including an example analytical paragraph and a paragraph plan for students to write their own response to the question, ‘How does Heaney present the relationship between father and son?’

An analysis of the language and structure of the poem Nettles by Vernon Scannell.

A series of lessons on the historical context of Much Ado About Nothing, the presentation of Claudio and Benedick, how Shakespeare presents the two main female characters, an example analytical paragraph and a plan for students to write their own response to the question, ‘How does Shakespeare present a contrast between Hero and Beatrice in Act 1?’

A range of examples of setting description extracts from famous young adult fiction novels, with questions for analysis and discussion. Extracts are from: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Shoot to Kill by Steve Cole and Soldier Dog by Sam Angus.

Extracts of character descriptions from young adult fiction books, including questions for analysis, to help students plan out their own character descriptions. Extracts are from: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell, Lies by Michael Grant and Northen Lights by Philip Pullman.

2 - 3 lessons analysing the headlines used in the media to describe Meghan and Harry. Includes a discussion of bias in newspaper articles and an example of a biased editorial by Piers Morgan from the Daily Mail, before a plan to support students writing their own biased editorial.

A lesson introducing the poem The Soldier by Rupert Brookes with a range of questions on the poem and its structure.

A series of lessons on the poem Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon including a discussion based introduction to the poem, questions on each stanza, challenge question on structure and a model analytical paragraph.

A comprehensive series of lessons on the poem Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt - including a discussion based introduction, questions for analysis and a model example analytical paragraph, before allowing students to write their own responses on the poem.

A discussion based introduction to the poem Half-Caste by John Agard, including video clips from YouTube and differentiated questions to analyse the poem.

A series of 5 lessons based around the short Pixar film, ‘Piper’. Skills that are covered include: engaging openings, similes, metaphors, building tension and varying sentence starters. Students work through the skills whilst adding a paragraph of their own writing every lesson using ‘Piper’ as a writing stimulus.