This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a non-fiction text. Activities include comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. This is a useful text which gives information about the working life of binmen (refuse collectors) and give students an insight into the problems househould waste brings. There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with 2 writing options.

This non fiction extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a topical text. The text is about the effects of Sport on Global Warming and what can be done to minimise the impact of large sporting competitions. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives students an opportunity to write a transactional response based on the theme of the text. This resource follows the style of Paper 2 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. This lesson can easily be edited for the Edexcel exam specification.

This versatile resource gives students an opportunity to build a bank of higher level vocabulary around a picture, then use their word choices in an original writing task. Sentence starters, punctuation exercises and perspective shifts allow students of all abilities to attempt some original writing using a picture stimulus. Suitable for KS3 or KS4, but particularly focused on skills needed for GCSE writing. Easily adapted for AQA or Edexcel.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. This lesson can easily be edited for the Edexcel exam specification. It is also suited to an able KS3 class studying the Gothic genre. There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with appropriate writing options linked by theme.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. This lesson can easily be edited for the Edexcel exam specification. It is also suited to an able KS3 class studying the Gothic genre. There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with 2 writing options.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. However, this resource is easily adapted to suit the Edexcel syllabus. It can also be modified to suit KS3 students, as an introduction to the writing style of Conan Doyle or the detective fiction genre. There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with 2 writing options. One option is a narrative based task, the other is a picture stimulus question.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The text is about a group of boys aimlessly messing about in a river when one of them is badly bitten by a pike. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. The tasks can be made more challenging for an able group at KS3, or adapted for use as a GCSE style extract. There is also a writing activity which involves a shift of perspective - GCSE original writing style task.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a non-fiction text. This is an extract about Easter, with lots of factual information, looking at the build up to Easter, and why Easter is so significant. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part is a writing activity to include vocabulary building, with the focus linked the theme of the non-fiction text.

This is a useful fact sheet about Rameses II which provides contextual information for the study of the Conflict Poem Ozymandias. It gives a brief overview of the life of Rameses, along with some comprehension questions which allow students to gain an insight into Rameses and his view of himself. This resource helps student understand the relationship between Rameses II and Ozymandias.

This extract from the novel ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. It can easily be adjusted to suit an academic, able group. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. It can easily be modifed to be used with the Edexcel specification There are exam style writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with 2 writing options. First writing with a picture stimulus, second writing follow a prompt linked to the theme of the extract.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a non-fiction text. It can easily be modified to make it more or less challenging to suit the ability of the class. This is an opinion extract about Easter, with lots of factual information, looking at the contrast between the spiritualism and commercialism of Easter. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part is a writing activity to include vocabulary building, with the focus linked the theme of the non-fiction text.

This extract from from Chapter 1 of Jamaica Inn the gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The genre of the text is Gothic and it provides opportunities to revise features of this particular theme. It can easily be adjusted to suit an academic, able group. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. It can easily be modifed to be used with the Edexcel specification. This lesson is also easily adaptable for a bright KS3 class looking the Gothic genre.

A useful resource with activities on using personification, pathetic fallacy and active verbs to describe a fire moving through a house. Task includes a story starter and a picture stimulus to aid the process of imaginative writing. Challenging vocabulary is included to stimulate students to use a wider range of interesting words. Useful as a KS3 resource, but easily adapted to be used as GCSE preparation for both AQA and Edexcel.

This exam style question provides 2 poems linked by the theme ‘The Seasons’. This resource is suitable forYear 11 as GCSE revision or Year 10 as an introduction to Literature questions. The lesson is formatted for AQA, but can easily be adapted for Edexcel.

This extract from Printers Devil by Susan Hill the gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The genre of the text is Gothic and it provides opportunities to revise features of this particular theme. It can easily be adjusted to suit an academic, able group. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. It can easily be modifed to be used with the Edexcel specification

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. It can easily be adjusted to suit an academic, able group. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. It can easily be modifed to be used with the Edexcel specification There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with 2 writing options. First writing with a picture stimulus, second writing follow a prompt linked to the theme of the extract.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. It can easily be adjusted to suit an academic, able group. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. It can easily be modifed to be used with the Edexcel specification There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with 2 writing options. First writing with a picture stimulus, second writing follow a prompt linked to the theme of the extract.

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a non-fiction text. This is an extract about Mary Seacole, looking at her contribution to nursing during the Crimean War. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part looks at language analysis. There is a writing activity to include vocabulary building, as well as the a writing activity, with the focus linked the theme of the non-fiction text.

These extracts gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing and comparing two non fiction texts. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 2 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and considering the viewpoints of the writers. This can easily be edited to suit the Edexcel specification There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity.

These extracts gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing and comparing two non fiction texts. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 2 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and considering the viewpoints of the writers. This can easily be edited to suit the Edexcel specification There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity.