DIDLS is a powerful acronym used in text analysis. It stands for Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, and Structure. Diction: It refers to the author’s word choice. Analyzing diction involves understanding why specific words are used and their impact on the text’s tone, mood, and meaning. Imagery: This involves examining the sensory details used in the text to create mental images for the reader. It includes descriptions that appeal to the senses and evoke emotions. Details: This encompasses all the specific elements in the text, such as names, dates, places, and objects. Analyzing details helps in understanding their significance and how they contribute to the overall message. Language: Beyond diction, it involves looking at the overall language style, whether it’s formal, informal, colloquial, etc. This also includes figurative language like metaphors, similes, and symbolism. Structure: This refers to how the text is organized and presented. It involves examining elements like paragraphs, sections, sentence length, pacing, and overall composition to understand how they impact the reader’s experience. Using DIDLS for analysis involves dissecting each element and examining how they contribute to the author’s purpose, tone, and overall message. It’s a structured approach that helps in organizing thoughts and constructing insightful essays when analyzing texts.

This handy resource for both CIE IGCSE English Language students and teachers is the perfect lesson plan for a whole class on journals and for that quick revision to recap journals. It has sentence starters, GAPSS analysis, annotation of a past paper question and a model response to it. Besides, it is written and typed on a beautiful journal page as well designed particularly for class teachers who might want to use it as a Powerpoint in their lessons.

The resource is an unannotated set of Prose and Poetry Fiction Extracts. This is an excellent resource for KS2/3/4 GCSE English Literature and Language students that has prose and poetry extracts typed on aesthetic pages that are ready to be printed out and annotated for language features and poetic techniques. This along with the TPCASTT anslysis can be used to annotate the extracts with language features and figurative devices or other linguistic and structural tools. Teachers will also find this extremely helpful as a visual aid along with their usual lesson plans. It has the following extracts in that order: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling The Sick Rose by William Blake Still, I Rise by Maya Angelou The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake Tyger by William Blake

This 60 Minute Lesson plan revises and gives a recap template of the 8 major word classes such as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjuctions and interjections that can be used as visual aids, lesson plans, worksheets, revision material and print outs. Also is a bonus powerpoint on other language features such as word choice, sentence structure, imagery, tone and mood, point of view and themes as well as examples of personification, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, hyerpbole, idiom, etc. Although it is addressed to Year 8, it can be used for Year 6, 7 and 9 as well. Also take a look at the bumper pack of fiction extracts, both prose and poetry that can be distributed to students in the classroom for annotations of extracts with an addition of a Figurative Language Quiz in the end to conclude the lesson.

A Literary Heritage Text refers to a work of literature that is recognized as being of significant cultural, historical, or artistic value, often forming part of a country’s or culture’s literary canon. These texts are typically regarded as classics and have stood the test of time, contributing to the understanding and appreciation of a language, society, or literary tradition. They are often included in educational curricula due to their enduring themes, language, and insights into the human condition. Examples are “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” by Homer, “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, and “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. This comparison Grid will help students of the British Curriculum compare and contrast two or more Victorian or Literary Heritage Texts using the following parameters: Overall Structrue Characters Setting Conflict Themes Also included is a Visual Aid with examples of Victorian Heritage Texts such as the follows: Gulliver’s Travels Ozymandias A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Listeners Wuthering Heights Spellbound

A handy visual aid for teachers and a comprehensive 11-page PDF aimed at helping pupils to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in movie extracts and film scipts. This document and analyis template model is written for all major UK curriculums aligned with the National Cuuriculum as well as for IBDP Students analysing movie/film scripts for Paper 1 Commentary Question. It contains the following components: Steps in analysing film scripts Genre Analysis Plot Analysis Character Analysis Dialogue Analysis Theme Analysis Setting and Atmosphere Analysis Structure Analysis Visual Elements Cinematic Techniques Also added is a bonus pack of analysis of movie posters suitable for IBDP English Paper 1 Commentary Question 1

A lesson plan for teachers and a comprehensive PDF aimed at helping pupils and teachers to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in extracts from several parts of the novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. These model sample answers are written for all major UK curriculums and contain long sample answers that are also totally exam-style. The PDF has 14 full-length model answers on the novella, adapted and sourced from past papers. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Literature (AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR) for an instant last-minute revision or for an intense past paper response writing throughout the year. Besides, they are all A* and top-notch answers written by an expert.

A lesson plan for teachers and a comprehensive PDF aimed at helping pupils and teachers to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in extracts from several parts of the play, Macbeth by Shakespeare. These model sample answers are written for all major UK curriculums and contain long sample answers that are also totally exam-style. The PDF has 15 full-length model answers on the play, adapted and sourced from past papers. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Literature (AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC, OCR) for an instant last-minute revision or for an intense past paper response writing practice throughout the year. Besides, they are all A* and top-notch answers written by an expert.

This is a Practice Exam Paper: GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing made from scratch. A lesson plan (including Mock Paper 1, Insert and Mark Scheme) for teachers and 3 comprehensive PDFs aimed at helping students taking GCSE English Language Paper 1 to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in the extract from ‘A Taste of Death’ by P.D. James. The mark scheme is also designed and written for GCSE and is exam-style. The mock Paper 1 GCSE English Language with the accompanying mark scheme and insert will help students revise Paper 1 for exam practice. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Language for an instant last-minute revision or an intense past paper response writing throughout the year.

This poem, ‘Slow Reader’ by Vicki Feaver is not a part of the poetry anthology for IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question. It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure and an accompanying start to the essay worth 15 marks (taken from a past paper).

This poem, ‘Geography Lesson’ by Brian Patten is not a part of the poetry anthology for IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question. It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure and an accompanying start to the essay worth 15 marks (taken from a past paper).

This beautiful ancient, archaic vintage-themed GCSE Macbeth Model Answer on violence is a perfect exemplar. It adds to the effectiveness of learning and revision for GCSEs and exam time. Print it out and distribute it to the students in your class or send them an email with its attachment and it is obvious, that students will love it because it is an A* sample response for GCSE. Also, it has two sample responses for the price of one and discusses various literary techniques, drama devices and structural techniques used in the Tragedy of Macbeth. The answers are on the themes of violence, evil and brutality and the extract is from Act 1 Scene 2.

This beautiful ancient, archaic vintage Gothic-themed PDF Model Answer on ’The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson on the theme of evil is a perfect exemplar and sample response for GCSE. It is a graphical representation with a cover image to help visualise Dr Jekyll and his alter ego, the vicious Mr Hyde. It adds to the effectiveness of learning and revision for GCSEs and exam time. Print it out and distribute it to the students in your class or send them an email with its attachment and it is obvious, that students will love it because it is an A* sample response for GCSE. Also, it has a beautiful and elegant format and discusses various literary techniques, figurative devices and structural techniques used in ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. It can be used for all major UK English Literature boards such as AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, etc. The answers are on the themes of evil, greed, immorality selfishness and apathy and the extract is from Chapter 8, The Last Night.

This poem, ‘Pity Me Not’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay is not a part of the poetry anthology for GCSE or IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL, AQA, OCR, Cambridge) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question. It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure, form and rhyme.

The Damsel in Distress character is a really popular character in fiction, fables, legends, mythology, tales, etc. This woman is pretty, dependent, needy, helpless, clingy, etc. Traditional examples are Cinderella, Snowhite, Rapunzel, etc. It has somehow been subverted recently in modern literature and the damsel has changed to a modern working woman who is fiery, independent, not very pretty according to societal standards and shatters taboos all the time. This visual aid has several character traits of a damsel in distress that can be used as a whole lesson plan along with teaching the theory of damsel in distress. Also, another bonus feature of this learning material is a second visually appealing PDF that has even more character traits of damsels in distress. Use it as a 60-minute lesson plan or as revision material.

This PDF serves as an excellent visual aid for the Year 6 7 and 8 British and American Curriculum to teach them the books that have been made into movies and vice versa. The book adaptations are on mainstream cinema and also on Amazon and Netflix, besides being an intriguing and interesting way to retell a story from a modern point of view. There are pictures of classic and vintage books made into movies such as the following: Harry Potter Pride and Prejudice Lord of the Rings The Chronicles of Narnia Matilda Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Take a printout and distribute it to the students to pick and choose the books made to movies they might want to enjoy! Also, a bonus feature is a PowerPoint PDF that writes several reasons why books should be made into movies, which can also be used as part of a lesson plan that can be a 60-minute full-fledged class.

This is a handy resource sample of Descriptive Writing for the students taking GCSE and IGCSE English Language that teachers and students can use for teaching and learning how to write a descriptive writing essay based on a picture prompt or a writing prompt of a Train Station setting. It has rich usage of visual imagery, alliteration, simile, metaphor, symbols and loads of descriptive adjectives creating a perfect Here’s the Question for it: Imagine yourself entering a train station on a random morning. Outside, the train station, several commuters try to go on about their day, some to college, some to uni, some to their homes, and some to schools. Describe the scene around you vividly, capturing the sights, sounds, and sensations that make this train station a busy place.