A 20 quiz recapping key ideas/concepts/terminology/quotes from four areas of AQA literature paper 1 and paper 2 focus: J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, Conan Doyle’s The Sign Of The Four, Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Power and Conflict Poetry. These are quick simple questions designed to boost and strengthen the knowledge of KS4 students studying the four texts. Created for and successfully delivered to mixed ability KS4.

A lesson designed for KS3 students to explore. examine and analyze monologues as part of an extended writing scheme. This lesson focuses on examining the monologue from Jaws. All resources, levels and tasks included.

A lesson and collection of resources to span a week of English lesson. The lesson attached explains the key aspects of what students need to complete while the booklet contains all of the necessary information to help students create the relevant resources for presentation. Each task has a simple and developed brief, easy to follow and allowing for students’ creativity and imagination to have free reign. Aimed at and successfully taught to mixed ability KS3 but skills are transferable and aspects could be used to prepare KS4 students for AQA Language P2 Q5- speech writing.

A lower level model response designed to showcase how to approach and answer a GCSE literature question focusing on the character of The Inspector in An Inspector Calls. The essay comments on the Priestley’s viewpoints, character interactions and contextual connections. This could be used as an example essay for students to use as a jumping point or as class resource to review and edit.

A resource comparing the power of nature in the poems: Exposure by Wilfred Owen and Storm On The Island by Seamus Heaney both taken from the AQA Literature Power and Conflict Anthology. Aimed at and used successfully with mixed ability Y11. Resource could be used in a teacher led activity or given as an independent revision resource.

A resource based on chapter 5 (Double O Nothing) from the novel Stormbreaker. The lesson is part of a reading scheme and contains; , a Frayer model examining the word “training", discussion questions on the chapter title and relevant comprehension questions for the chapter. Aimed at mixed ability KS3, all resources are attached and ready for delivery.

A booklet of independent work based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The booklet contains a range of 10 tasks that can be completed without internet access including: reading and comprehension activities, extended writing opportunities, research tasks and a wordsearch. The booklet is set out as a police investigation to make it more engaging. Created for mixed ability KS4 home learning. Suitable for homework.

A success criteria resource designed to help lower ability students to understand the key skills needed for the AQA language Q5 both discursive and narrative. The resource is designed to allow lower ability students to self-assess their work in student friendly language in an attempt to extend their responses further and in detail. Successfully trailed with lower ability KS4.

A worksheet designed to help students revise the key plot and characters of the GCSE literature texts; An Inspector Calls, The Sign of The Four and Macbeth. It contains some useful scaffolds designed to make it accessible for lower ability students. This worksheet could be set as homework, used to create a revision lesson or set as revision.

A resource based on chapter 3 (Royal & General) from the novel Stormbreaker. The lesson is part of a reading scheme and contains; a Frayer model examining the word “curious", discussion questions on the chapter title and relevant comprehension questions for the chapter. This lesson also has a PEAL paragraph question to go through with the class. Aimed at mixed ability KS3, all resources are attached and ready for delivery.

An booklet of independent tasks based around Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The booklet contains 9 tasks that can be completed within the booklet without internet access. These tasks include reading and comprehension activities, independent writing tasks and research tasks. Created for home learning with mixed ability KS4. Suitable for homework.

A quiz designed to help students recap and revise some of the key contextual information connecting to An Inspector Calls. The quiz helps revise key dates and key themes. This could be used as revision homework or as a lesson starter. Successfully used with a low ability year 11 group.

A poetry comparison sheet focusing on comparing fear in the two poems; Storm On The Island by Seamus Heaney and The Prelude by William Wordsworth. Both of these poems are featured in the AQA Literature Power and Conflict poetry cluster from Paper 2. This resource is aimed at and successfully taught to mixed ability Y11.

This lesson focuses on planning a piece of description around the theme of a chocolate factory. The key focus is on including effective and ambitious vocabulary such as adjectives, verbs, adverbs, personification and nouns but with particular emphasis on ambitious adjectives. All resources needed are attached. Lesson was developed for and successfully taught to mixed ability KS3 but does have skills and areas of focus that can be used for KS4 particularly AQA Language P1/Q5.

A lesson examining and analysing a brief speech by Muhammed Ali. All resources required are attached in order to make it accessible for any member of staff to teach. The skills and activities included where designed and successfully taught to KS3 but could easily be differentiated to be delivered for AQA English Language P2 Q5: writing a non-fiction piece. The lesson is straight forward and focuses on identifying techniques used in a short Muhammed Ali speech.

A lesson analysing a descriptive extract taken from the Roald Dahl classic; Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. This resource contains three basic steps: step 1 define terminology, step 2 identify and analyse the use of adjectives and step 3 creation of an analytical response. All necessary resources are attached including structure strips and a differentiated handout of the extract. Successfully taught for an observation to a mixed ability Y7 but contains skills relevant for majority of KS3 and could be altered to be used with KS4 particularly AQA Language Paper 2 Q5.

A resource based on chapter 7 (Physalia Physalis) from the novel Stormbreaker. The lesson is part of a reading scheme and contains; a recap starter task, a discussion question on the chapter title and relevant comprehension questions for the chapter. Aimed at mixed ability KS3, all resources are attached and ready for delivery.

Two leveled model paragraphs answering the question: How does Conan-Doyle present Mary Morstan throughout The Sign Of The Four. These could be used to scaffold responses or help students understand the leveling process.

A simple and basic resource used to encourage students to create character profiles for the following characters; Lenny, George, Curley, Curley’s Wife, Slim and Candy from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This resource was created to assist mixed ability KS3 with the reading of the novel but could easily be used to support lower ability KS4 with relevant GCSE revision.