A comprehensive and engaging SOW for 15-20 lessons focusing on Gothic Literature. Works well at KS3 as a good intro unit before teaching Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and could also be used at KS4. Tasks focus on a mixture of developing reading skills, analysing writer’s methods and effects and producing effective creative writing within a specific genre. This also works really well for improving Language Paper 1 Q5 skills for AQA.

A set of practice exam questions and lessons to revise the main themes and characters in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These lessons cover about 6 hours of teaching time and can be differentiated for students of varying ability.

A lesson on using homophones.

A word search based on Great Expectations handy as a starter or entrance activity.

A word search based on Romeo and Juliet. Handy as a starter or entrance activity.

A set of seven practice papers to consolidate and revise English Language Paper 2 reading skills.

A collection of Literacy posters focusing on parts of speech, punctuation, poetic techniques and other key terminology. Brightly coloured, easy to read and clear they brighten up any classroom and make an excellent resource for students to use to help their own understanding.

An extended selection of Q5 tasks to get students writing to argue and/or persuade. Very useful for class debates, developing essay writing skills and exam prep.

A range of English Language Paper 2 Q5 tasks to get students thinking and writing.

A lesson (graded as outstanding for an observation) on analysing sentence structures. Aimed at high ability groups but easily differentiated for lower down the attainment scale.

A text based activity that asks students to identify the different types of sentences in an extract. Key for annotation provided and can work to consolidate understanding of sentences types or as a creative writing exercise to see how sentence structures work together to create effects.

A short activity to get students to identify simple or compound sentences. Useful as a starter, plenary or a revision activity.

This is a comprehensive set of seven English Language Paper 1 style exam papers covering all five questions on the paper. The papers use a range of texts and work well as a revision booklet, individual lesson exam practice or a homework bundle.

A set of lessons and an extract to approach the AQA English Language Paper 1 exam.

A set of lessons covering 6 weeks that focuses on non-fiction. Geared towards the AQA Language Paper 2 specification but covers skills of inference, analysis, summary and comparison.

A set of 3 English Language Paper 1 practice papers and feedback lessons. Can be used as individual questions or mini mocks for students. Feedback lessons allow them to peer assess questions, or they can be used to respond to teacher marking.

A series of extracts with question stems for creating practice papers. This activity can also be completed by students to create their own exam papers as revision.

Revision of the sentence types that leads into an AQA Language Paper 1 Q5 style task. Could be used at KS3 or KS4.