Ten lessons compiling SPaG starters and close reading skills. All extracts are from fiction extracts, ideal for GCSE prep. Can be used for reading lessons and/or literacy interventions. No credit required - just sharing to save people time!

4 lessons - 1 for each exam - full of revision material. No crossover with SAMs or past papers. Focus is on skills, with examiner feedback included for last minute reminders prior to exams/mocks. WAGOLLs included for Lang, and all materials included in one download. Ideal for HODS or LP looking to centralise and standardise lessons in those crucial last few weeks.

37 question quiz, with answers. Covers the following texts: Othello, The Great Gatsby, Love Through the Ages poems, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Feminine Gospels.

Document outlining each section of the two exams, with links to revision and exam prep videos. Great for pre-mock and exam prep.

Attitudes to Renaissance Art and Literature Relevant texts: Othello and the Love Through the Ages anthology

AQA English Literature, Spec A - course overview for beginners

Pupil friendly resource explaining what each Assessment Objective for AQA English Lit, Spec A entails.

A great resource to give to pupils at the beginning of independent prose study. I have these laminated as a classroom resource. Great prompt for pupils who struggle to do independent research.

An overview of the key poetic movements in poetry over time, including: the metaphysical poets, the Cavaliers, the Romantics, the Victorians, and the Modernists. Includes: poetry quiz Do Now at the start (with answers), an overview of each movement with key charactertics, and a timeline resource at the end which gives pupils a space to map out the poems they are studying. Great place to start for AQA English Literature, Spec A, Paper 1 - Love through the Ages anthology.

Fully comprehensive NEA introduction for Spec A. Includes task overview, exemplar essay titles, 10 text suggestions, and planning and draft tasks. Great resource for pupils to come back to as a support guide.

A step-by-step guide of how to approach the unseen prose section of Paper 2B: Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day. C

Use for: AQA English Lit/ Spec A/ Paper 2/ Unseen Prose Linked to pre-release extract: White Teeth by Zadie Smith Great resource that guides pupils through the extract and links to AO5 to stretch and challenge. Includes intro WAGOLL and free bonus lesson to how the theme in the extract can be linked to two studied texts - Streetcar and Handmaid.

For: AQA English Lit / Spec A/ Paper 2/ Unseen Prose Lesson linked to pre-release extract: Unseen extract 4: Revolutionary Road Includes 4 exploratory tasks, one exam question, a intro exemplar, and the essay planning prompts.

Overview of Feminist Literary Criticism, with questions to support pupils to apply this framework. This then leads to an exam style question.

Great revision for Paper 1 texts - Love through the Ages, Gatsby, and Othello. Includes: overview of types of love (eros, etc), links to texts, comparison task, comparative writing structure, and famous quotes which can be used for AO5.

A comprehensive overview of the four models of Elaine Showalter’s ‘Gynocriticism’. Includes: comprehensive details on each of the four models of sexual difference; links to themes in The Handmaid’s Tale, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Feminine Gospels; an essay title and sample opening paragraph. Fantastic resource to develop AO5 and prepare students to critically analyse and examine texts.

Great resource to introduce/revise the genre of modernism for A-Level English Literature. Includes overview of genre, critics comments, and prompts to develop critical readings of core texts. Ends with an independent task where pupils apply their learning to exam style questions in style of AQA Spec A/ Paper 2.

Introduction to late 19th Century literary movements - Fin de Siecle Decadence Aestheticism Degeneration Imperialism Links to relevant novels - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Revision of Tragedy as a genre, linked to AQA English Lit/ Spec A/ Paper 1 but can also be used for GCSE Macbeth. Includes: genre conventions, critic comments, and links to exam questions and examiner feedback. Ends with independent task linking ideas to exam style questions. Great as intro to genre and revision of in Y13.

12 slide lesson covering: Race Sex and gender Reputation Geography Renaissance performance culture Great as a pre-teach or revision of the text.