Aimed at low to mid ability KS4, this extract to whole question about poverty, takes students through an exam question. First, students will look at the extract part of the question. Secondly, the whole novel will be covered. Includes a brief example response and an annotated copy of the extract.

With step by step instructions, students will create a job role and character for themselves within a Victorian town of the class's own creation. This aims to further understanding of the working Victorians of the time and to be clear about the differences between the rich and poor. This can be taken further to develop characters and roles, and also used to facilitate descriptive or narrative writing.

Students should produce a word cloud on what they know of Victorian society so far. They are then asked to match the image with the children's job from this era. More information is given about different child jobs and then students use this to write their own job adverts, using given examples. See other lessons for sale.

Aimed at higher ability KS3 or 4, this lesson provides a range of WW1 poetry related tasks. Students are asked to consider what they already know about WW1 and create a colourful wordle (word cloud). Then, using stills from WW1 in Lego, students match lines from famous WW1 poems to the images. Finally, students decorate a template of a poppy (choice provided), with images and quotations from their learning. This could be provided as a competition. Possible introductory lesson to WW1 poetry.

Aimed at KS3 but could be used at KS4, these four lessons introduce the idea of researching and presenting a job / career that students would like to do in the future, after looking at some celebrity jobs. Includes an interactive whiteboard game to emphasise key speaking and listening skills. Peer and self assessment are part of the lessons.

These worksheets provide a handy outline of things to keep in mind when writing a narrative or a description. Could be given out to students as revision aids.

Using Anthony Horowitz's re-telling of the story, these couple of lessons look at the relevance of the four seasons and ask pupils to consider how they affect people in everyday life. This starter activity helps them understand the ending of the story later in the lesson. Following more reading, there is a 'What do we learn about Hades' Q2 type task, with given answers for use with peer or self assessment. Then, students examine Demeter's feelings for her daughter by selecting evidence to support a number of given inferences. After discussion of the ending, pupils are asked to invent a fifth season and a god / goddess to control it.

This resource contains 4 x complete lessons using a variety of recent High Street Store Christmas adverts as stimulus. It also contains 3 x home learning tasks with corresponding 10 minute DIRT / follow-up class activities for peer marking. Merry Christmas!

This resource is made up of 3 extracts which all describe three famous detectives - Sherlock Holmes, Mma Ramotswe from the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency and Poirot. These extracts are perfect for students to use their inference skills to work out the characters of these detectives. They could use this as a springboard for creating their own fictional detectives.

This is an assessment comprising of one question on A Christmas Carol and one question on Jekyll and Hyde. Includes extracts for both and written in the style of AQA English Literature Paper 1. Also contains a Section B for English Language Paper 1. In this case two descriptive writing options, one with a stimulus.

USEFUL FOR BROADENING KNOWLEDGE AT A LEVEL. CAN BE PRINTED OFF FOR STUDENTS TO HAVE AS A REFERENCE GUIDE.

Seven lessons (the first three of which look at the context for the story) covering up to the end of Stave 1. Aimed at MA but contains tasks for all abilities. Easily differentiated.

Four lessons focusing on Stave 4.

3 lessons covering Stave 2 - Ghost of Christmas Past.

Six lessons focussing on Stave 3, The Ghost of Christmas Present. Includes a step by step approach to analysing an exam question - How does Dickens present the importance of family? Relevant extract included.

Two lessons focusing on Q2 and Q4 of AQA English Language Paper 2 (one lesson each) using Rory Stewart’s Afghanistan travel extract and an extract from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals.

This is a step by step (1 - 2 lessons) guide to Remains by Simon Armitage. Contains 2 quizzes on content and techniques, a guided task on considering how the poem relates to the themes of power and conflict, and a step by step process of writing a response on the theme of power. Worked very well with middle ability Y9 but would also be suitable for higher sets.

This resource contains a lesson on using CLAPS (content, language, atmosphere, poetic devices, structure) as either a way of ordering an exam response or using it as a checklist. There is an example response on Remains to read and then several slides asking students to add a linking sentence to the example in order to answer the given essay title. Then groups can work on aspects of CLAPS to produce a response to a question on War Photographer to practice both the concept of CLAPS as a way of responding to a poem and the importance of linking ideas back to the question. An assessment on War Photographer (on conflict) is included, along with a Key Stage 3 marking and feedback sheet which could be used if desired. This feedback sheet contains prompts to help students to DIRT their answers.