A walking talking mock lesson and handout for the AQA Specimen Language Paper 1 paper (Jamaica Inn) - amended to reflect the 2026 specification changes. Includes WAGOLLs, answer structures and scaffolds.
A collection of WAGOLLs / Model answers for AQA English Language Paper 1 Q5 (new spec 2026).
Descriptive Writing all include: zooms in and out, shift and cyclical structure
Narrative Writing all include: in media res, flashback, flashforward, dialogue
All written by teacher - no AI generation.
Descriptive Writing - A mountain scene (with notes in margin of how it meets the success criteria)
Descriptive Writing - description of a gateway
Narrative Writing - opening of a story set in a forest
Narrative Writing - opening of a story with a new beginning (character conflict)
Narrative Writing - focussing on foreshadowing and effective endings (meeting a murderer) (with notes in margin of how it meets the success criteria)
Narrative Writing - opening of a story where a character is left alone
Structure Strip for Descriptive Writing
Structure Strip for Narrative Writing
The Q5 mark scheme for AO5 and AO6 presented in student friendly language to easily enable students to self assess and peer assess their own writing or to evaluate WAGOLLs.
An oracy task for the first lesson of Power and Conflict Poetry scheme of work (AQA English Literature). This gets students thinking deeply about the concepts of power and conflict and introduces them to high quality vocabulary which they can use to powerful effect to talk about the 15 poems in the anthology.
A resource to demonstrate to students how to make powerful points / what statements to open their paragraphs in their AQA Literature Paper 2 Power and Conflict Poetry essays. Includes lots of examples of high quality vocabulary. Focusses on power, conflict and memories.
Covers the motifs of fire, light and dark, eyes and food with four key quotations from across the novella for each and space for students to write what the motif is being used to represent at each key moment.
A five week big quotation challenge for the lead up to AQA GCSE exams.
Each week includes 5 key quotations for students to memorise for exams.
There is a quotation explosion grid to complete for each quotation including: language techniques and effect / making links across text / historical context / word connotations and links to themes in the text.
The grid has been completed for ‘sharp ring of the doorbell’ from AIC as an example.
There are hints for tricky quotations to help with the quotation explosion.
A scaffold to stretch and challenge high achieving students for AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 3 (Structure) with questions the student should ask + potential sentence starters for the beginning / middle and end of the text.
An I do/ We do/ You do exercise to teach students how to write powerful introductions to A Christmas Carol GCSE essays.
Follows this structure:
Link the question theme to Scrooge’s transformation
Refer to the historical context
Link to author’s intentions
Includes model answers and sentence starters
A teacher written model answer (timed conditions) including plan to an Ignorance and Want AQA GCSE Christmas Carol essay question. Includes a powerpoint which walks students through step by step the exam strategies used and how the model answer meets the assessment objectives.
For each of the 5 Birling characters, a PPT with key moments in the play including questions to deepen understanding and analysis with a focus on writer’s methods (language and structure). Each character also has a slide with 2/3 key moments to help explore whether they have changed throughout the play. The slides could be used for lessons or revision (individual or in class).
A model essay for AQA GCSE English Literature - Inspector Calls on the question ‘How oes Priestley present the role of women in society’
Uses the structure:
Introduction: Throughout, Perhaps, Ultimately
3 x main paragraphs (What / How / Why ) - each paragraph covers a different character
Conclusion
Nine key quotations from An Inspector Calls for GCSE English Lit AQA revision.
Each quotation has:
One slide with questions aimed at developing analysis including links to themes and language analysis
One slide with model answers to each question for students to use to check own work.
This resource could be used for lesson activities, revision (in class or independent) or as a display around school in the run up to exams.
14 lesson Scheme of Work for Key Stage 3 on Twelfth Night. Includes powerpoint and booklet of resources.
Makes reference to the NT Live production of Twelfth Night (with scene timings) available on drama online (but would be fine to use another production or just the text!)
Covers: gender (masculinity and femininity), conventions of comedy, themes (love, deception, gender), subverting and conforming to expectations. Lots of thought given to place within a spiral curriculum preparing students for GCSE study of Shakespeare.
Range of activities including quotation explosions, deeper thinking questions, pair talk, independent writing, drama and performance, group work.
Includes assessments - one on reading skill of evaluation and one on writing newspaper reports.
Booklet includes relevant scene extracts (sometimes abridged to fit in lesson time) with glossaries (prepared on rewordify.com), model responses and storyline summaries.
