This lesson focuses on language skills and could also be used for paper 1 question 2. It comes with question breakdown, mark scheme understanding, peer and self assessment, model answers with review, success criteria and tracking. Full lesson plans also included.

A series of lessons for the FS Level 2 reading unit.

This 2 lesson resource reviews the reading skills for both papers (Inference, Analyse, Identify, Explain , Comment, Summary). Students have to identify what skills are necessary for which exam questions and with the short answer questions in the lesson, they also identify and reflect on which skills they used to answer it. There is also a language style question (Paper 1 Question 2, Paper 2 Question 3) that can be answered and peer assessed.

This is a creative writing series of three hour long lessons, focussing on descriptive writing. These lessons can be used to gauge students’ abilities in order to help determine areas of focus for further revision. They focus on showing rather than telling, using similes and metaphors, and breaking up an image when writing. The lesson plan breaks down areas for extension, differentiation, discussing British values, and also links in to the themes of the week which at the time was drugs or consent.

A lesson (or could be 2) which guides students to writing their own mock questions for the source “Rebecca.” Students are also to create bullet point answers to their questions, so that they are able to mark their partner’s answers. This is a great way of testing students understanding of how the questions are set up. Also included in a full pre-made mock to support weaker students (or to be used as an actual mock) , as well as a teacher’s copy with possible answer points.

A short video aimed at GCSE students explaining what connotations are and how they should be using them in their language analysis.

A Paper 2 walkthrough of questions

Creative writing practice focussing on structuring answers, sentence types, and using the senses.