You can never have too many practice papers. This looks at an extract taken from The Great Gatsby describing the valley of ashes. The additional resource is the start of a model response for Q2 and a full model response for Q3 aimed at higher ability students.

These three lessons were created for a very low ability SEN Year 8 class. They focus on comprehension and building working memory skills through over-teaching. Resources have been differentiated for some students who struggle to write words and sentences but the extension is there for those who are ready to make some independent inferences.

This is a double lesson if you include reading and annotation. This lesson opens considering a key quote from the assigned reading and literary criticism from Lesson 4. It then builds on students knowledge of Iago and introduces the ‘Vice’ character in morality plays. After a class reading of Act I Scene III, students are then asked to reflect on other ‘dramatic’ methods in Act I that suggest evil (e.g. the night time setting and Iago speaking in the shadows) and Aristotle’s Three Unities. In preparation for a mock exam, this lesson also includes a practice exam question and a review of how to structure a response.

This lesson opens with a reflection on the role of Iago in Act I Scene I and builds on understanding his role in the text with a reading of Act I Scene II. The lesson also introduces students to literary criticism (Leavis and Coleridge) and model its application in a model paragraph. The homework is pre-reading for I.III.

This lesson is meant to review and build on students understanding of 1.1 by completing a character carousel (see Word Document) as well as introduce them to a paragraph writing frame (SQIDDIQS) for extended responses which focuses on addressing the AOs. A homework task is included at the end to consolidate the work completed in the jigsaw. I really enjoyed teaching this lesson and the students loved the writing frame. Hope you enjoy too!

This is a very differentiated and scaffolded lesson that incorporates group work and presentation. It focuses on close analysis of small extracts from Graham Vest’s ‘A Tribute to Dogs.’ This was my interview lesson at my current school so it got me my job!

A glossary of language terms with definitions. Students can complete the last column ongoing in class or as a homework task. This was made for a higher ability group and should be cut down for lower ability groups by removing rows.

A series of lessons (3) to review the characters in Blood Brothers. Includes: - a character carousel (extract with differentiated questioning) that helps students create a revision sheet - an oracy revision lesson using Pose-Pause-Pounce-Bounce - a lesson on how to write an extended response (with differentiated models) Considering the differentiation in this lesson, it is suitable for most ability groups except those that are very low.

This lesson is the second lesson in my ongoing Othello SOW. It introduces the basic who, what, when, where, why of Othello and Act 1 Scene 1, prompting students to consider the importance of the scene overall.

A lesson covering basic terms of the tragedy genre including the five characteristics of the tragic hero as outlined in Aristotle’s Poetics. This lesson is to prepare students to begin reading Othello. Resources to print are included in the slides.

A simple meet and greet and course review lesson looking at the structure of the AQA English Literature course, the exam, assessment objectives, and marking descriptors. Link to exam paper used in lesson should be hyperlinked.

This is a FULL UNIT/SCHEME OF WORK with 115 slides on creative writing skills with a focus on describing people and places using for the new AQA English Language Paper 1 (Question 5) with some graded 'outstanding' lessons! This unit took 7 weeks to deliver to a Year 10 group and is appropriate for middle/high ability classes. (Targets 5-8) Everything you need is inside the slides! I worked really hard on this so I hope you enjoy teaching it as much as I did! If you'd like to buy the lessons separately, some of them are individually for sale on my shop as well.