My students struggled with how to annotate a non-fiction source, so I annotated it myself with prompt questions for them to respond to when reading. This was really effective and helped them engage with the sources more, resulting in improved written responses. Hope you find it just as useful!

Designed for year 10/11 studying the AQA Power and Conflict poetry anthology to encourage deeper analysis of key quotes. Could be easily adapted for other quotes too. It really helped my students improve their analysis! I've also included an essay guide with sentence starters on how to answer an exam style question.

I created this resource to encourage my Year 11 students to analyse quotes from the Poetry cluster in more detail. The worksheet could easily be adapted to any quote, could also be set as a homework task. I have used this multiple times and have always been impressed with how detailed student responses become, they can then apply this to their extended poetry responses.

A fully resourced mini project covering the novel, play, and film of 'The Woman in Black'. Includes a detailed PowerPoint and accompanying student work booklet, with additional display materials. Students have always found this very engaging. Designed to be used alongside copies of the book and the film.

A lesson designed for Year 9 students for an assessed piece of writing in which they choose a character to analyse. PPT and accompanying worksheets included.

I designed this fully resourced lesson to help improve extended written responses to the two Literature papers. It includes a PPT with top tips, a check list, and a scaffolded essay plan to help students develop an extended response (focussing on Romeo and Juliet, but could be easily adapted) . Perfect for mixed ability classes.

Made these starters for my Year 11 to start recalling previous knowledge from An Inspector Calls and the Power and Conflict poetry cluster. There's 6 in total, easy template to use to create your own.

A lesson focussing on an extract from Stave Two, whilst introducing students to metacognition (thinking about thinking) includes a student review to see which strategies they liked best and to evaluate whether or not it improved their written responses. I did this lesson with Year 10 and the reviews were extremely positive.