A powerpoint to support teaching of AQA's A Level Literature B specification for chapter 2 of 'The Great Gatsby'. Many opportunities to link ideas to quotations and offers students the chance to make their own notes, or work together, depending on your preferred teaching style. Links to main themes and ideas as well as providing links to the context. Can lead to an essay question linked to Myrtle Wilson and/or unhappy marriages.

Fully resourced lesson on creating a character to support creative writing lessons. Literacy focus is on temporal connectives here. There is a working sheet for pupils to use throughout which shows assessment levels and indicates to pupils how they can be successful in their work. 5 resources included in this bundle.

Five extracts from the novel which I used with my pupils to have them read through, perform some close text analysis and then decide on questions which could be set by the exam board specifically linked to the extract. A handy revision tool which got them all talking to each other.

Planned this lesson for use with my GCSE group to look at linguistic and structural features in preparation for AQA GCSE English Language paper 1 questions 2 and 3. The extracts to use are from the openings of 'Room' by Emma Donoghue, 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold and 'Notes on a Scandal' by Zoe Heller. Differentiated and allows pupils to work for a more extended period of time on their responses. Used for an observation.

A revision map for 'A Christmas Carol' where pupils can note down pretty much everything they know! The resource is three pages long and includes space for them to note their key quotations, refers to the mark scheme, Dickens' narrative technique with a whole page on themes and where they're shown along with a final page for character details. Useful for putting pupils' minds at ease!

A resource sheet where students need to read through the recipe for F86 DAMM from the book and then use the information found to complete their own recipe. Requires students to use comprehension skills by reading for meaning.

A literacy based lesson looking at the use of comparative connectives to compare witches in disguise and witches when they are not in disguise by taking information from the book, putting it into a table and then transferring the table into comparative paragraphs using the model.

A newspaper template which pupils can use to create a newspaper article once they have read about the treehouse incident in chapter 4. Suitable for pupils with weaker literacy skills in secondary schools or higher level primary pupils. Also requires them to use knowledge from earlier chapters in the book.

An introductory powerpoint outlining the context to 'Macbeth'. Suitable to use as an opening to GCSE study of 'Macbeth'.

A revision booklet for preparation for the English Literature (AQA) exam with the ‘Macbeth’ question on paper 1. The booklet takes pupils through some of the key ideas and principles with some practice questions and planning too.

Week 2 resource following on from week 1 which takes pupils through the preface, Marley's ghost, new poor law, why Dickens would write a ghost story at Christmas and provides an assessment point to look at the language that Dickens uses to describe Scrooge as per the specimen papers provided by the exam board. Useful to use in accompaniment to the plot summary sheet available.

This is a short revision booklet that I created for my year 11 set 9 (it could be used with higher ability pupils too) which takes them through basic revision for ‘An Inspector Calls’, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’. I intend to walk the pupils through this resource and go through the activities and ideas with them in our Easter revision session although it may be useful for independent revision preparation as we enter the final stages of revision. I teach the AQA English Literature specification and have used the specimen 3 question for ‘AIC’ in this pack. Hopefully it may be useful to you and your students!

Three literacy lessons designed to help pupils to stop making mistakes spelling commonly misspelt words!

A series of seven extracts which pupils can use to perform close text analysis before coming up with their own questions which they think mirror what the exam board could give them linked to key themes and characters. A handy revision activity which got pupils all talking to each other.

Selection of structurally and linguistically interesting lines from literature. Used with a GCSE group to get them considering what makes the lines linguistically and structurally interesting. Cut them out, give them one each and then have them ask questions of the lines and feedback to partners about the different features they find. Great way in to analysing language and structure.

An exemplar response to the 'Homework has no value' question 5 on the specimen paper 2. A useful resource to take pupils through how the article format should appear and the types of language features that would be expected. Useful to walk and talk through using the mark scheme where pupils can annotate and pull out features.

A powerpoint which takes pupils through the fundamentals of getting the best SPAG marks possible for question 5 on both paper 1 and paper 2 for the AQA GCSE English Language papers for the new 9-1 specification.

This package of resources includes four practice questions for the singular unseen poem task in section C of English Literature for AQA GCSE. The poems included are ‘In The Orchard After Midnight’, ‘Your Dad Did What?’, ‘In Oak Terrace’ and ‘Names’. The sheets include the poem, question, boxes for planning to write about language, form and structural ideas, have a space for a SOP (Statement of Purpose - which is a response to the poem where pupils outline their initial thoughts in response to the question. There is also an image of the level 6 mark scheme criteria from AQA. I have included both word documents and PDF copies so that should you want to use the template to produce more, you can. The comparative poem practice is on ‘The Pros and Cons’ by Sophie Hannah and ‘The Trick’ by Imtiaz Dharker.

This resource follows on from the first two weeks of resources. Within this powerpoint which can span from 3-4 lessons, students are tested on their ability to order the events to check for understanding. There is also a detailed worksheet on the visit of Marley which is most effective when blown up to A3 to allow pupils to explore in depth.

An eight page document which includes 4 practice questions and copies of the poems alongside planning grids which ask students to add their SOP (statement in relation to the question), and space to plan ‘Big Picture Idea’ responses to the questions with space to add quotations which exemplify the points. This was designed to be printed as two-to-a-page sheets so that the poem sits alongside the question. Questions offer preparation for ‘Poppies’, ‘Exposure’, ‘London’ and ‘The Emigree’. I have included both a word document and a PDF, which is fully formatted, should you wish to adapt and amend in an editable version.