An activity for students to consolidate their learning of Act One - An Inspector Calls. This a complete summary with embedded references of Act One with gaps to challenge students to recall key words, characters and events.

Students solve the riddle to find a word in the dictionary and answer the question about it. The first section, students will find the answers in the dictionary, the second the thesaurus and the third in the classroom. You can edit questions or add. This took one lesson for my year 7s to solve. I had them working in pairs and gave the winning pair small easter eggs. Students found it challenging but competitive and fun!

A revision activity to get students to understand and show understanding that the writer is making deliberate choices (AO2).

Task: Cut out and order the moments in Act 3. Stick them onto an A3 sheet leaving space for key quotations. Challenge: add contextual links. Option: You could get them to plots them onto a tension graph deciding which is the most tense reveal/moment for the audience. 1-2 lessons to complete - can set as homework/ revision to finish.

Key quotations to analyse for thh Last of the Three Spirits - a ghost often forgotten in essays on ‘A Christmas Carol’.

This resource makes a great homework or revision resource to get the students thinking about wider concepts explored in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. In addition to the reading is tasks and questions to complete to check students’ understanding.

Gap fill activity to recall the student’s memory and synthesis of Stave 3 in ‘A Christmas Carol’.

A planning sheet to help students meet the assessment objectives for Literature Paper 2 Section A.

Question created for A Christmas Carol. Not past paper.

A practice paper one a question and extract that hasn’t come up yet.

An extract from Stave 3. Question on the importance of family. Differentiated. Suitable for all abilities.

This resource contains practice exam questions for Language Paper 1 provides guidance to ensure they are focusing on the question and not writing about elsewhere or writing too much. Extension tasks are included to stretch and challenge their understanding of question 1 and even give them a chance to be creative.

A “fun” project for students to revise the plot of Macbeth. Tasks are differentiated with support, challenges and extension tasks. This encourages students’ independent learning on a very teacher-led topic.

Poetry comparison response and activities. Including exam question, poem and mark scheme (AQA).

A 20 question quiz on the play ‘DNA’. Questions that range and encourage critical thinking.

Extract and Question in exam format. Can be used as a mock exam or practice for the Shakespeare element of the exam.

A full mark example of a persuasive speech relating to social media and key ideas in ‘Lord of the Flies’. This example contains a range of persuasive devices, sentence structures and structural features for effect and punctuation. There is a clear awareness of form and audience. Attached is a highlighted version of the techniques used which can be used as support for low ability students or visual aid. You can use this example to demonstrate the mark scheme being executed or as inspiration for a debate/speech. Students can highlight and annotate what devices are being used and why they are effective. They can then use this example to help structure/guide their own writing.

In student voice, year 11s expressed that a weakness of theirs was analysis of key quotations for ‘A Christmas Carol’. I put a quotation on the board that lent itself to analysis. We annotated this as a class really picking apart language and writer’s methods. The students were amazed at how much we could write about one quotation. We had great discussions about what questions we could use this quotation for, what other quotations we could link this to, Dickens’ intentions etc. We repeated this again with another key quotation with a more student-led approach. A question that these two quotations had in common was: Scrooge’s attitude to money. Therefore, I wrote this on the board and asked students to turn one of their annotated quotations into an analytical paragraph. I did the same for the first key quotation. Then, I shared my analytical paragraph and explained my structure and thought process. Students then made edits to their paragraphs but most were successful in achieving a developed analytical paragraph. This resource is the model section of an essay with the key quotations analysed.

Lesson(s) exploring the poem ‘A Poison Tree’ by William Blake. Can be explored as part of the GCSE or A Level syllabus or as practice for Unseen Poetry. Includes pre-reading activities, exploration and analysis, prompts and plenaries.

This template can be used for plays, novels, creative writing etc. 6 SECTIONS PER PAGE. Can print again for longer plays.