A lesson aimed at a high ability year 8 group guiding them to write a Level 7 PEA paragraph about one of the key characters from 'The Hunger Games&'

Typed up from the Longman edition, a handy summary of what happens in each section/chapter to help students remember what happened and when.

I (painstakingly, from scratch!) designed this for my boy heavy class to help engage them with the AQA Language Fiction Paper. It takes an extract from a story about a young boy interested in football (an easy read text) and I've created AQA exam style questions on it. As you can tell, I designed it with current sporting events at the time in mind, but could easily be adapted. Hope you find this useful!

A resource using images from the Luhrmann version of 'Romeo and Juliet' to support students with revision of key plot moments. The image prompts them to identify key quotes, link them to themes and context, and to also consider audience response. Designed for KS4 students. 15 images/tasks included in chronological order.

Designed for KS4 students taking the AQA exam. A step by step work sheet on how to approach the extract exam question. Also includes an essay plan to help students structure their response based on the step-by-step planning. Accompanying PPT to guide students through the process with a PQA checklist and some good/bad examples to assess.

A fully resourced lesson designed to support students through how to respond to each question in the Fiction Language paper using an extract from 'The Woman in Black'. Includes top tips on how to approach each question, sentence starters and some exemplar answers. Links are provided to clips from the film to be used as a stimulus. Student copy of Section B mark scheme so they can self assess their strengths and weaknesses for creative writing.

I designed this for my Year 11 class taking the new AQA exam to boost their writing skills for the descriptive/narrative writing task. A range of activities, including some examples from fiction to assess, and a student friendly mark scheme they can use to rate their own confidence against the skills required to succeed.

A range of AQA exam style question practice featuring all of the Literature texts for the extract question (Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet) and also modern text questions for Blood Brothers and Curious Incident. Each sheet features an extract from the text, and some planning grids to help students select quote from the extract and the rest of the play. Also contains personalised sentence starters for each exam Q. I've also included my 'perfect PQA checklist' which features all the criteria needed for a strong response. Perfect for Year 11 revision lessons and/or homework.

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!

A fully resourced lesson introducing the poem 'Island Man' designed for KS3 students, focussing on imagery and techniques used. Includes a PPT and accompanying worksheets.

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 lesson after marking mock exams so students were given feedback and this lesson aimed to address their weaknesses. There are some sample comparative responses to Remains and War Photographer where student discuss good and bad responses and try to extend them. They then complete a carousel - teacher places a poem at each station and students compare it to a poem of their choice. just a brief PQA on a piece of sugar paper. Works well as they move round as they can respond to other student answers.

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.

I created this as a revision lesson for 3 Literature texts being taught at my school. There is an overview of the exam, AOs and top tips, including a practice exam question for Romeo and Juliet, Jeckyll and Hyde, and A Christmas Carol.

A complete and fully resourced series of lessons for teaching ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. Created with low ability KS3 in mind but could easily be used for KS2. Includes: a visually engaging PPT for every lesson with success criteria scaffolding to support lower and higher ability documents with scanned key extracts documents with colour images of front covers for discussion All you will need are copies of the book! I taught this last year and the students really enjoyed the term studying this book.

A visual retelling of the poem using images and key lines from the poem to help students understand the content and message. Followed up with some comprehension tasks that ask students to refer to a quote when answering. They are then prompted to make comparisons to Ozymandias.