A useful planning sheet for GCSE students to use when putting their spoken language ideas together.

A poster with types of punctuation to use as a display poster or learning mat.

This sheet uses an extract from Stephen Kelman’s ‘Pigeon English’. There are revision questions based on the AQA English Language paper/AOs for students to complete independently or as part of a lesson.

A customisable introductory lesson to AO1 (AQA Paper 2, Question 2). Students are asked to infer information about children in Victorian London and Modern London from pictures by John Leech and Banksy (links within the lesson). This is a good lesson for introducing students to the skill of summary and also directing them away from AO3 style answers. UPDATED: link within the Powerpoint for the Banksy picture is no longer working. Picture can be accessed here:

A list of topics students can use when deciding what they might talk about for their GCSE spoken language exams.

A 6 lesson scheme of work that explores knife crime, covering a range of research and writing activities. This is aimed at year 10 students either alongside or as an introduction to Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English. There are links to online resources throughout. It would be very easy to extend this into a longer scheme of work for a younger class.

A complete game to be played in groups, following the rules of Trivial Pursuit. This game is fully differentiated and designed to support and challenge students as part of their revision for Macbeth. Questions are designed to meet the different levels of the AQA 9-1 GCSE. It is designed to be played once students have read the play at least once. Included in this download: Game Instructions Gameboard Differentiated question cards Coloured counters (to replace the 'cheese')

Use the buttons to navigate through the PDF resource. An invaluable tool to help students structure their response to Paper 2 Question 5. Answer is modelled throughout the resource.

2 non fiction extracts to support students in understanding contextual information about the living conditions in the WW1 trenches and feelings towards the British Government. Each text is accompanied with 9 questions to support comprehension. The text pair also includes English Language Paper 2 style questions: How does the writer use language to describe the suffering of the soldiers? (AO2) Use details from both sources to write a summary of what you understand about the similarities between the living conditions in the trenches. (AO1) Compare how the writers convey their attitudes towards life in the trenches. (AO3) Further questions encourage students to make links between the poem and the ideas raised within the extracts. Extracts for the other 14 poems will be available soon. Please purchase for version without watermark

A context sheet for the poem Poppies - to be used as display or resource within lessons. Suitable for AQA 9-1 Conflict Cluster. To download the full set, go to https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-context-sheets-11349297

A context sheet for the poem Remains - to be used as display or resource within lessons. Suitable for AQA 9-1 Conflict Cluster. To download the full set, go to https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-context-sheets-11349297

A learning mat to take students through Paper 1, Question 2 of the AQA English Language paper.This one is based on the sample materials released in August 2016, available on the secure website. This mat challenges students at all levels and is linked to the mark scheme.

A PDF booklet with 31 extracts from A Christmas Carol and 11 exam questions in the style of the AQA exam. Questions could be adapted for any exam board.

Two lessons that explore the poem Remains using descriptive writing as a hook. This is an engaging lesson with support for developing learners. This lesson also encourages students to consider sentence structure and flashback before allowing them chance to engage with the poem.

Context posters/sheets to use as display or as part of a lesson. These could be used as part of a Marketplace style research lesson or individually as an introduction to the poems. They link to AQA Literature A03, with a small amount of information for students to remember. Key ideas are highlighted, related to higher or lower levels. AQA 9-1 Conflict Cluster: Percy Bysshe Shelley -Ozymandias William Blake - London William Wordsworth - The Prelude: stealing the boat Robert Browning - My Last Duchess Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade Wilfred Owen - Exposure Seamus Heaney - Storm on the Island Ted Hughes - Bayonet Charge Simon Armitage - Remains Jane Weir - Poppies Carol Ann Duffy - War Photographer Imtiaz Dharker - Tissue Carol Rumens - The émigree John Agard - Checking Out Me History Beatrice Garland - Kamikaze

A full lesson exploring approaches to the poem Glasgow by Edwin Morgan. This lesson is based on the legacy GCSE but would work well for the 9-1 GCSE with the Unseen Poetry Element. Students are encouraged to work in pairs, groups and individually to develop responses to a poem seen for the first time.

A homework project to allow students to research war poetry. This resource allows students to choose tasks to suit their own choice of challenge as well as allowing them to share their ideas back in the classroom. Students can use these tasks in preparation for unseen poetry or to look across a war poetry scheme of work in KS3.