An assessment to help assess the reading and writing ability of Year 8 students. Produced in a template examination paper to give students the feeling of completing an official test.

This scheme of learning introduces the GCSE literature text, aimed at fast-forwarding the GCSE and making sure there is enough time for skills development.

A scheme of learning that introduces a strategy for introducing the skills of poetry analysis. These skills are drilled into the student to help them analyse unseen poetry in the examination.

A worksheet that takes students through the process of coming up with an idea and then structuring the idea into paragraphs.

A worksheet that helps students understand how the tasks are constructed by the examiner and begins to introduce some of the choices they should make in the nonfiction question.

This is a worksheet that helps students through the process of using vocabulary to have an effect on the reader. It introduces some strategies that help students to impact on the reader.

This lesson focuses on the skill of asking questions to add detail to responses about poetry. The material for the lesson is Belfast Confetti - though the focus of the lesson is less on the content of this poem and more on the skill of using Socratic questioning methods to add depth.

This worksheet helps students to work through the issues and ideas in the poem. It also encourages students to focus on patterns of language and then revise the comparisons with the other poems.

This is a PDF booklet covering all the poems in the Power and Conflict cluster. Each poem is dealt with in a different way, offering lots of study ideas for addressing poetry in this cluster. There are also strategies for revision comparisons between the poems. Word version bundle - editable - is availble for £7.50

The worksheet helps students understand the poem but also guides them to understand how a reader can interpret texts in different ways.