As a HOD / teacher, promote the sharing of good practise by ensuring that your department is observing each other. Use this proforma to collect peoples' reflections and as the basis for ensuring that evaluative conversations take place within your department. This could easily be added into your school's / department's policy for appraisal!

A document that can be used for the planning of schemes of work. This is a great resource for HODs to introduce to their departments for the writing and re-writing of SOWs. This is user-friendly and will enable the user to create full and detailed lesson plans. From a HOD's perspective, this will enable you to have discussions with your department about the profile of the learner you are aiming to create. Also as HOD, you can relax in the knowledge that your department's schemes of work are fully differentiated and focused around success criteria.

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.

Three essays written on the text "Feminine Gospels" of varying quality - 18-24 marks out of 25. These could be used with your class to get them to develop a better understanding of the assessment criteria, as well as looking at how to structure an essay on this text. No other resources like this on the Internet at the moment!

A list of exam questions that focus on many of the different thematic issues that are covered in this anthology. All questions have been worded to imitate the wording of the NEW AQA A-Level English Literature specification.

A handy resource for when you are teaching a large collection of poems to students. After students have annotated their copies of the poem, they can complete one of these poetry logs for homework, so to help them revise before the exam.

A great collection of resources which provide students with handy step-by-step instructions for how to write the perfect A-Level essay. These resources contain guides to writing fantastic introductions, how to structure paragraphs, templates to help students plan their paragraphs, guides to help them incorporate each AO at top band standard as well as a step-by-step strategy for each of the exam questions on the NEW AQA A specification, showing students how to tackle each question. There is nothing else like these set of resources elsewhere online!

Long term plan for the delivery of AQA A English Literature specification over two years.

A one-off lesson to be delivered to Year 11 students who have chosen to undertake English Literature at A-Level. All resources are included. This focuses students on key issues that will arise out of their study at A-Level for Paper 2: WW1 and its Aftermath as well as enabling them to practise key skills which will be assessed at A-Level.

A one-off lesson with all resources to deliver to Year 11 students who have chosen to study English Literature to A-Level. This lesson introduces them to WW1 texts and gets them thinking about key issues and areas for study which will face them in September.

A complete lesson to be taught as an introduction to English Literature at A-Level. This gets students thinking about the Literary Canon and their reasons for wanting to take on the A-Level. Students will also be required to put to the test, many of the skills they will need to be successful A-Level students.

Ever had a Literature group that just won't speak? Or trying to get students who are naturally quiet to contribute so that others do not dominate? Use these resources! Laminate each resource, several times if necessary and hand to each student as they come into your classroom. They must follow the instruction on the card during the lesson's class discussions. Once they have followed their instruction, they can discard their card. The cards then act as their 'exit ticket' out of the classroom!

An exemplar essay on Journey's End, considering how the theme of camaraderie is presented. This resource was written by a teacher to demonstrate how to meet the Assessment Criteria. This is particularly aimed at KS5 but could be adapted for use with KS4 students.

A wider reading list for the new AQA A specification Paper 2 World War One and its Aftermath.

A booklet that lists all activities that students need to undertake in order to be fully prepped for their exam on WW1 Literature.

A handy resource that outlines a method for students to follow which will help them include contextual comments and comment upon their significance so as to meet band 5 criteria for AO3.