Example Literature responses with annotations outlining their strengths to help students understand what they must do in their own writing.

These resources were written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. However, all these resources are useful for all examination boards. This pack contains 7 files - a student friendly synopsis (aimed at IGCSE and A-level students). It also contains questions on meaning, structure, language and poet’s attitude. Moreover, the pack includes an AFL pie (an exploded, visual success criteria for teacher feedback and structured peer assessment), an example PEEAL paragraph for students to mark with the pie and notes on how to layout an effective response to poetry. There is also a sheet that helps students to write effective Explanations and Analysis of the quotations they select from the text.

A freebie to help students write more effective PEEAL responses in KS3 or 4.

A display to help students select vocabulary choices more deliberately, the word prison!

Example first paragraph and starter of second for student to complete.

These resources were written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. It contains annotations of poems, and a collection of question banks for most of the poems contained in the IGCSE Cambridge International Literature Poetry anthology. These questions can be used for revision, or after the students have undertaken their first reading of a poem. The questions are designed to help students explore the meanings of the poems (A01 and A02), the effects of the poets’ use of language and the effects of their use of structure (A03). The poems also encourage students to develop a personal opinion in relations to the attitude conveyed in each poem (A04).

These resources were written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. This bundle includes annotations of some of the poems from the collection, along with some analytical question banks and analytical summaries.

This resource is not currently in line with the new syllabus changes for 0500 First Language English. It was written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. This resource takes candidates through what they need to do in each question of Paper 2 in order to be successful in their responses.

These resources were written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. This bundle includes analytical questions, analytical summaries of the poems, example PEEAL paragraphs, example structure paragraphs, ‘How to’ sheets and an editable success criteria.

Written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. This is a complete lesson that uses a number of AFL strategies and resources that help students understand how they can improve their analytical written responses.

These resources were written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. However, they are suitable for all types of exam boards. This set of 5 detailed lesson plans all contain differentiation and Assessment for Learning strategies. Each lesson comes complete with the required resources. A second bundle of AfL descriptive writing lessons that lead on from these five lessons will be available soon.

Written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. These resources help build a dialogue between students and teachers regarding how learners can make progress in their written responses to Literature. This resource is useful no matter what acronym you use with your students (i.e. PEEAL, PEE, PEA etc).

Written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer, this pack of resources includes AFL pies that help develop a dialogue between students and teacher about what students must do to be successful. The pies act as a form of success criteria, but are linked to the Key Feature display sheets (i.e. the skills that the students must demonstrate in their writing to be successful when writing to different purposes and audiences). The Pies can be used for structured peer assessment activities and/ or as a way of the teacher providing feedback to students.

This resource was written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. This bundle includes a an exam guide that takes candidates through what they need to do in each question of Paper 2 in order to be successful in their responses. It also includes individual success criteria for each of the three questions that the students have to answer. This bundle also includes the key features of different writing styles, a useful sheet on connectives and a table to help lower ability students respond to question 2 of the paper.

These resources were written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. This pack contains questions to help students unravel the layers of meaning in Act 1 - 3. These questions also help students practice developing explanations of meaning in relation to evidence,and encourages them to experiment with analysing the range of effects of language and structure devices used by the writer. The pack also contains an assessment pie to help students understand what they must do to be successful in their responses to Literature in KS5. It is an exploded and visual success criteria designed to help students conduct structured peer assessment, and allows detailed teacher feedback too. This pie can also be used with upper ability KS4 students.

These resources were written by a Cambridge International Assessment Examiner, Consultant and Teacher Trainer. However, these resources are applicable and can be used with any examination board. This pack contains two resources about the power difference between men and women in the play, and the theme of class difference. Each resource comprises of detailed notes that are followed by a set of questions/ tasks that are aimed to help the students write more effective examination responses.

A PowerPoint that takes students through the historical context of the play, and the events that take place before the play begins. It also introduces the students to key characters and contains questions on the first two pages of the play. There is also a research extension task on the last slide. This resource also comes with a loom recording of the PowerPoint slides. In this recording I talk through the slides and go over the answers to the questions.

This resource contains a full, formal lesson plan on symbolism which can link to any set text being studied at IB or A-Level. The lesson uses the poems Ozymandias and Caged Bird for the students to explore. This resource comes with a complete accompanying PowerPoint presentation. I have also attached a video of me talking through the poem ‘The Three Fates’ which could be used as an extension or self-study task.

This resource contains an accompanying PowerPoint that could be used for two to three lessons based on a short story entitled, ‘Another Feather in his Cap.’ The story is set in Kenya, and involves the themes of responsibility, consequences and opportunities. The story is in two parts and comes with comprehension questions too.

A resource to help structure your library reading lessons. After finishing each book they read during library time, students then complete one activity from the booklet. This silver award has 10 different activities; meaning that students must read at least 10 books before being able to achieve the Silver award. This resource works best if it is kept in class and only allowed to be used during library lessons. This is a fully editable Microsoft Word version.