Four differentiated activities focusing on an extract from A Christmas Carol (“Are there no prisons?..”). Could be used as homework or as part of a lesson.

A revision grid for London by William Blake with exam length essays comparing London to Ozymandias or Checking Out Me History.

5 key moments from the novel, Pigeon English, to be used for revision and analysis.

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.

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

An image and past questions to support students in revising macro imagery within the play. Questions are coloured to reflect confidence levels link to an editable Google slide is included in 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.

Two non-fiction text extracts to support students’ contextual understanding of Ozymandias. Each extract accompanied by multiple choice and short response comprehension questions, and questions to support critical thinking. Extract pair also accompanied by questions in the style of AQA English Language Paper 2. Further questions support students to make connections between the texts and the poem. Can be used as an independent pre-reading resource or one to use with students in class.

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 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.

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')

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.

A learning mat to take students through Paper 2, Question 3 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.

An AO4 style exam question on an extract from A Christmas Carol. Included: Extract Question Marking and Feedback Sheet for DIRT.

An example of “grade 3/4” descriptive writing with an activity that allows students to reflect on what makes higher level descriptive writing.

Allow students to choose their homework tasks for a module/unit of work with this Burger Bar template.

A resource exploring the AO1 questions on both question papers. This can be used as the basis of a lesson or for independent work. This resource includes 2 19th Century extracts with questions in the style of: 1x "find four things..." 2x "tick four things that are true" 1x "summarise the similarities between..." UPDATED: there was an error on the line numbers on one of the questions. This has been amended.

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.

Allow your students a choice of homework tasks across a module/unit of work with this coffee shop template.