One Language Paper 1 Question 5 task answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is Question 5, the creative writing task: a description of a busy riverside on the day a boat leaves, or the opening of a story about a message that must reach someone in time. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Language Paper 1 revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (four questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Language Paper 1 scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style Language Paper 2 question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is Question 2: what the two sources, a log cabin in 1873 and a cottage on a small island today, show about living in remote homes in winter. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Language Paper 2 revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (four questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Language Paper 2 scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style Jekyll and Hyde question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is on violence, starting from the extract in Chapter 4 where a maid sees the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section B. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Jekyll and Hyde revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Jekyll and Hyde scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One Language Paper 2 Question 5 task answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is Question 5, the transactional writing task: an article for a magazine for young people on whether anyone today is ever really cut off. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Language Paper 2 revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (four questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Language Paper 2 scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style Jekyll and Hyde question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is on secrecy, starting from the extract in Chapter 7, “Incident at the Window”. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section B. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Jekyll and Hyde revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Jekyll and Hyde scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style Language Paper 1 question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is Question 4: how far a student agrees that the goodbye in the second half of the “Trust” extract is a comic scene. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Language Paper 1 revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (four questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Language Paper 1 scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style Language Paper 2 question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is Question 3: how the writer of Source A uses language to describe the winter and her life in the cabin. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Language Paper 2 revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (four questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Language Paper 2 scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style Language Paper 1 question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is Question 2: how the writer uses language to describe the noise and confusion of the farewell in the opening of “Trust”. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our Language Paper 1 revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (four questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Language Paper 1 scheme of learning is at btl.education.

Five Raising Achievement intervention drills for Language Paper 1, each built for a 30-minute session: “The red grass of the prairie”, “Waiting in the hut on the moor”, “Matthew meets Anne at the station”, “Kew Gardens in July” and “Buck’s first night in the snow”. Each drill comes as an editable slide deck with notes on every slide, a printable student sheet and answers in the teacher guide. Every drill follows the same routine: a Do Now of five retrieval questions, a reminder of what the question asks for, a short read with checking questions, a zoom in on the key words or one quotation, one technique, then the exam question with a plan, a model to compare with, a second task to have a go at, and a green pen checklist. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1. Editable PowerPoint and Word files, with PDF copies. Drill 1 is free in our Tes shop. The full set of 30 Language Paper 1 drills is also on Tes for £17, and our full scheme of learning is at btl.education.

Five Raising Achievement intervention drills for Macbeth, each built for a 25-minute session: “Unsex me here”, “All hail, Macbeth!”, “Vaulting ambition”, “Is this a dagger?” and “When you durst do it”. Each drill comes as an editable slide deck with notes on every slide, a printable student sheet and answers in the teacher guide. Every drill follows the same routine: a Do Now of five retrieval questions, a reminder of what the question asks for, a short read with checking questions, a zoom in on the key words or one quotation, one technique, then the exam question with a plan, a model to compare with, a second task to have a go at, and a green pen checklist. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section A. Editable PowerPoint and Word files, with PDF copies. Drill 1 is free in our Tes shop. The full set of 30 Macbeth drills is also on Tes for £17, and our full scheme of learning is at btl.education.

Five Raising Achievement intervention drills for Jekyll and Hyde, each built for a 30-minute session: “Abnormal and misbegotten”, “Like a monkey”, “I find it in my heart to pity him”, “That child of Hell” and “Smooth-faced man of fifty”. Each drill comes as an editable slide deck with notes on every slide, a printable student sheet and answers in the teacher guide. Every drill follows the same routine: a Do Now of five retrieval questions, a reminder of what the question asks for, a short read with checking questions, a zoom in on the key words or one quotation, one technique, then the exam question with a plan, a model to compare with, a second task to have a go at, and a green pen checklist. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section B. Editable PowerPoint and Word files, with PDF copies. Drill 1 is free in our Tes shop. The full set of 30 Jekyll and Hyde drills is also on Tes for £17, and our full scheme of learning is at btl.education.

Five Raising Achievement intervention drills for A Christmas Carol, each built for a 25-minute session: “Keep its distance”, “Picking a man’s pocket”, “Poor boy!”, “Not a farthing less” and “The chain I forged”. Each drill comes as an editable slide deck with notes on every slide, a printable student sheet and answers in the teacher guide. Every drill follows the same routine: a Do Now of five retrieval questions, a reminder of what the question asks for, a short read with checking questions, a zoom in on the key words or one quotation, one technique, then the exam question with a plan, a model to compare with, a second task to have a go at, and a green pen checklist. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section B. Editable PowerPoint and Word files, with PDF copies. Drill 1 is free in our Tes shop. The full set of 30 A Christmas Carol drills is also on Tes for £17, and our full scheme of learning is at btl.education.

Five Raising Achievement intervention drills for Language Paper 2, each built for a 30-minute session: “Buying Modestine”, “Two nights in Japan”, “Meeting a hero”, “In praise of doing nothing” and “The preposterous box”. Each drill comes as an editable slide deck with notes on every slide, a printable student sheet and answers in the teacher guide. Every drill follows the same routine: a Do Now of five retrieval questions, a reminder of what the question asks for, a short read with checking questions, a zoom in on the key words or one quotation, one technique, then the exam question with a plan, a model to compare with, a second task to have a go at, and a green pen checklist. Written for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2. Editable PowerPoint and Word files, with PDF copies. Drill 1 is free in our Tes shop. The full set of 30 Language Paper 2 drills is also on Tes for £17, and our full scheme of learning is at btl.education.

Five Raising Achievement intervention drills for An Inspector Calls, each built for a 25-minute session: “Just a knighthood”, “The Palace bar”, “Ask for the earth”, “Members of one body” and “Unsinkable”. Each drill comes as an editable slide deck with notes on every slide, a printable student sheet and answers in the teacher guide. Every drill follows the same routine: a Do Now of five retrieval questions, a reminder of what the question asks for, a short read with checking questions, a zoom in on the key words or one quotation, one technique, then the exam question with a plan, a model to compare with, a second task to have a go at, and a green pen checklist. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2, Section A. Editable PowerPoint and Word files, with PDF copies. Drill 1 is free in our Tes shop. The full set of 30 An Inspector Calls drills is also on Tes for £17, and our full scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style A Christmas Carol question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is on the importance of family, starting from the extract of the Cratchits’ Christmas dinner in Stave Three. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section B. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our A Christmas Carol revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full A Christmas Carol scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style An Inspector Calls question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is on the Inspector as a force for change. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2, Section A. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our An Inspector Calls revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full An Inspector Calls scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style A Christmas Carol question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is on how Dickens uses the supernatural to teach Scrooge a lesson, starting from the extract with Marley’s ghost in Stave One. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section B. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our A Christmas Carol revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full A Christmas Carol scheme of learning is at btl.education.

A student knowledge organiser for Romeo and Juliet on three white pages. It sets out the text at a glance (writer, date, form and what the exam asks), short context cards, 11 characters with a two-line summary each, 6 themes with one sentence each, 12 key quotations with who says them, where, and what they show, and 15 key terms with plain definitions. A test-yourself strip at the end gives five retrieval questions, and every answer is on the organiser, so students can cover the right-hand column and check themselves. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section A. Editable Word file and PDF, with white pages so it is cheap to print. Taken from our Romeo and Juliet revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Romeo and Juliet scheme of learning is at btl.education.

A student knowledge organiser for Macbeth on three white pages. It sets out the text at a glance (writer, date, form and what the exam asks), short context cards, 10 characters with a two-line summary each, 6 themes with one sentence each, 12 key quotations with who says them, where, and what they show, and 15 key terms with plain definitions. A test-yourself strip at the end gives five retrieval questions, and every answer is on the organiser, so students can cover the right-hand column and check themselves. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section A. Editable Word file and PDF, with white pages so it is cheap to print. Taken from our Macbeth revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Macbeth scheme of learning is at btl.education.

A student knowledge organiser for the Power and Conflict poetry cluster on four white pages. It lists all fifteen poems with poet, year and the themes each poem belongs to, adds short context cards, sets out six themes with the poems to link under each, and gives 12 key quotations with who speaks, which poem they come from and what they show. Fifteen key terms follow, with plain definitions. A test-yourself strip at the end gives five retrieval questions, and every answer is on the organiser. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2, Section B. Quotations from poems still in copyright are short phrases only. Editable Word file and PDF, with white pages so it is cheap to print. Taken from our Power and Conflict poetry revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full Power and Conflict poetry scheme of learning is at btl.education.

One exam-style An Inspector Calls question answered three times, at Securing, Strengthening and Soaring. The question is on how Priestley uses Sheila to show that people can change. Each answer is labelled with its AQA level and the mark we would give it. Numbered annotations show what each answer does well, a short box explains why it sits in its level, and upgrade tasks send students back to improve their own answer. There is space for students to write their own answer before they read the models. Written for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2, Section A. Editable Word file and PDF. Taken from our An Inspector Calls revision set, which is also in our Tes shop: the full revision workbook, the model answer pack (three questions) and independent practice at three levels. Our full An Inspector Calls scheme of learning is at btl.education.