Our co-constructed marking/feedback policy for English. Lots of ideas borrowed from research and great schools (all referenced). A good starting point for developing your own policy or for NQTs to think about good feedback.

A progress tracker for students to complete to keep track of assessment targets and their reported grades to encourage a focus on progress rather than attainment.

A broad range of passage based exam questions (aimed at Cambridge English Literature 9695) which can be used as lesson resources, mock exams or a full set of revision questions for students to complete independently.

A useful step by step to guide students through responses to passage based questions. Key reminders based on examiner reports.

A fun activity to encourage students to identify common cliches in their narrative writing. Helpful for exam prep for WJEC and AQA.

Worksheets to aid narrative planning for section B of the exam. Tasks focus students on the characteristics of successful answers by asking them to ‘upgrade’ poor plans and to continue exemplar openings. Works well as a class or as independent homework tasks. Includes poster with key reminders which is a useful revision tool.

A simple breakdown of questions to ask in an unseen poetry exam, as a handy flashcard. Aimed at WJEC Eduqas, but easily transferable.

Useful example essays to stretch more able students. Clear overview ppts for lessons on the genre of comedy and on the performance history of the play.

A bundle of ‘A Christmas Carol’ example responses and extract questions. Designed for WJEC/Eduqas exam, but useful for teaching key passages of the novel.

Useful example essay on Macbeth’s role as a gothic protagonist. Excellent for high achievers to annotate with success criteria or use as a model.

A grade 6 example answer on ‘Hawk Roosting’ and ‘To Autumn’. Students can annotate with success criteria and use as a model for future responses.

Fun starter for introduction dystopian fiction. Fact or fiction worksheet. Students must guess which are real news stories and which are dystopian fiction.

A band 5 passage based response on Act 1 Scene 1 of ‘Twelfth Night’, written by an examiner. Students can annotate with assessment objectives or use as a model for their own responses.

Exemplar essay on dark undercurrents in ‘Small Island’. Great for students to annotate with successes or against assessment objectives. Useful preparation for Paper 1b.

A good grade 5 example formal letter, with a focus on clearly organised paragraphs. Useful at GCSE for transactional writing preparation.

A Trump inspired short dystopian story. Useful example for preparing students for narrative writing in controlled time frames. Estimated grade 8.

Sheets explaining comma splicing and fragmented sentences, with exercises to fix these common GCSE errors.

Example controlled descriptive pieces. Aimed at WJEC/Eduqas GCSE, but would work for other specifications.

Simple, controlled narratives as examples for GCSE narrative writing. Aimed at WJEC/Eduqas, but could be used for any GCSE specification narrative tasks.

A detailed revision booklet for AQA Literature B. Detailed suggestions for our texts: ‘Twelfth Night’, ‘Earnest’ and comic poetry. Easily adapted to other texts and genres.