A fully-comprehensive handbook to be given to students at the beginning of their A-Level studies. This handbook was created to introduce students to the AQA B English Literature specification but could easily be adapted to any specification.

A 5 week scheme of work, fully resourced with both medium and short term plans, that works as an induction unit at the start of Year 12. This unit uses ‘Dracula’ as a base text which students are asked to read over the summer in advance of starting the A-Level. This induction unit then introduces students to 4 different critical perspectives (Feminism, Marxism, Post-Colonialism, Canon Theory) from AQA’s Critical Anthology and teaches students how to explore a text from this literary perspective. The unit culminates in an assessment where students write a magazine article (in the style of e-magazine) exploring a critical reading of the text in more depth. The unit has been written as an introduction to the AQA B English Literature specification but could easily be used as it is for any specification where the teaching of critical theory is relevant.

A mini- sow of three complete lessons, including all resources and powerpoints that help you introduce students to an approach for the unseen extract on the AQA B English Literature A-Level paper.

A three lesson scheme of work, fully resourced and with powerpoints that work as the introduction to the genre of tragedy. Suitable for AQA B English Literature A-Level specification.

Students' essays completed in timed conditions. An excellent set of resources to use with your class to help them understand how to meet the assessment criteria. You could easily incorporate this into a lesson whereby students work to improve the weaker responses, therefore showing and demonstrating their understanding of the mark scheme.

A student's essay completed in timed conditions. An excellent resource to use with your class to help them understand how to meet the assessment criteria. You could easily incorporate this into a lesson whereby students work to improve this response, therefore showing and demonstrating their understanding of the mark scheme.

A student's essay completed in timed conditions. An excellent resource to use with your class to help them understand how to meet the assessment criteria. You could easily incorporate this into a lesson whereby students work to improve this response, therefore showing and demonstrating their understanding of the mark scheme.

A student's essay completed in timed conditions. An excellent resource to use with your class to help them understand how to meet the assessment criteria. You could easily incorporate this into a lesson whereby students work to improve this response, therefore showing and demonstrating their understanding of the mark scheme.

A notional A grade essay response completed in timed conditions. This would be an excellent resource to use with your class to model essay writing, how to meet the AOs and to help students standardise their own work.

A teacher model to show how to structure a paragraph to meet the criteria of all A-Level AOs.

Student's essay written to explore how justice is presented across the play. A-Level standard.

A handy resource that collects together a number of critical interpretations of "King Lear". These could easily be incorporated into classroom discussion when teaching students to engage with others' viewpoints (AO5) or be used as part of a lesson where you are teaching students how to incorporate critical quotes into their written responses.

Student's essay considering the role of Regan in the play. A-Level standard.

A handy copy of the mark sheet for each component of the NEW A-Level AQA English Literature course. This mark sheet can be attached to the front of any student's piece of work and contains a space for teachers / other students to write their feedback. It also contains a space for student to act upon the advice they have been given to show them making immediate progress and responding to your marking and feedback - a clear Ofsted priority at the moment.

The departmental handbook for my English Department. This handbook outlines all of the policies of my department and contains all the relevant advice for any teacher working within my department. This resource is comprehensive and approved by Ofsted and is guiding and starting point for any HOD looking to write / overhaul their own departmental handbook. This can easily be amended and customised to meet the demands of your school.

This is a 12 lesson scheme of work which aims to fully introduce students to the new AQA A A-Level Literature course. However, it could easily be amended to be appropriate for all new exam boards without a lot of effort required! This SOW would be ideal for teaching in the first few weeks with your new Year 12 students. Lesson plans are full and detailed, with all required resources included, enabling you to introduce students to the new Assessment Objectives and clearly teach them how to structure their written work, including teaching them how to construct and shape an argument - all skills which represent a step-up from GCSE. These lessons provide students with a clear strategy for how to tackle the different elements of the course and will ensure that they produce A-Level standard work from Day 1 - success rate from teaching this, this year has been very high with all students feeling confident at producing written work from the beginning! Exemplar work for Paper 2 is included to help students understand the standard they are aiming for, from the beginning, enabling you to set the standard high! This scheme of work culminates in students producing an essay response to put into practise the skills they have learnt, allowing you to gauge from the beginning their ability to write A-Level standard responses and intervene with students where necessary. There is nothing else like this available on the Internet!

Fully annotated copies of teacher's poems with detailed analysis. This will make your teaching of this anthology so much easier. This resource is designed to complement the complete SOW and resources that I have produced for teaching Feminine Gospels over 40 lessons., aimed at A-Level standard for the NEW AQA-A specification. Save time with this unique resource! Poems annotated: The Long Queen Beautiful The Map-Woman The Diet, The Woman who Shopped Work Tall Loud History Sub The Cord, The Light-Gatherer Wish Death and the Moon North-West.

Exemplar band 5 essay comparing two poems for the NEW A-Level AQA A Paper 1 Section B question. This resource could easily be used with a class to model essay writing structure and how to meet the AOs when comparing poems.

A planning tool for teachers. With the removal of coursework and the majority of our focus on the end exam, there is the need to assess students regularly through timed essay practise. This resource models a way of dividing assessments across Year 12 to check students' progress throughout the year as they tackle the units from the AQA A English Literature specification.

An exemplar that you could use / adapt with your A-Level class, showing students how to meet the Assessment Criteria for the NEW A-Level AQA A specification. I have taken the sample question from specimen Paper 1 and modelled how a chapter from Jane Eyre could be used in response. This exemplar is modelling how to get top marks by meeting all of the band 5 criteria.