A fully resourced, differentiated, originally illustrated and engaging scheme of work for A Christmas Carol covering all staves in detail and aiming prepare students for both language and literature skills in the GCSE AQA exams.
A Christmas Carol - AWARD NOMINATED: EVERY LESSON for Charles Dickens' text. 20x fully differentiated and resourced lessons to prepare KS3 and KS4 students for AQA GCSE English Literature questions on Charles Dickens' classic novella. All created by a Tes Bev Evans Award nominated author 2017.
Includes the following lessons:
1) Introduction to the text
2) Historical context
3) Stave one language analysis
4) Fred and Scrooge character analysis (Stave One)
5) Marley's Ghost - language analysis (Stave One)
6) Marley's message (Stave One)
7) The Ghost of Christmas Past (Stave Two)
8) Fezziwig (Stave Two)
9) Fan and Belle (Stave Two)
10) The Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave Three)
11) The Cratchits (Stave Three)
12) The Next Visits (Stave Three)
13) Stave Four - Part One
14) Tiny Tim and Scrooge - Stave Four
15) Stave Five - The End
16) SCHEME OF WORK - NEW!
17) Exam practice pack (10 questions)
18) Exam question review
19) Key quotes
20) Knowledge organiser for revision
Please note: When downloading a bundle each resource must be downloaded separately. If you have any issues downloading the resources please email me at info@englishgcse.co.uk and I will help you.
HUGE A Christmas Carol GCSE revision guide for English Literature that includes:
Plot summary
Revision activities
Key quotation pack
Character notes and key quotes
Key context information and links
Exam practice question
Exam answers
Jargon-free mark scheme
Model paragraph
Self-reflection sheet
Perfect revision for Year 10 or Year 11 students for both mocks and the final exams.
A really useful lesson for students preparing for AQA English Literature Paper 1 and other exam boards like EDUQAS, WJEC, Edexcel, OCR and more as we study Charles Dickens’ novel.
Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources.
AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
Ideal for both KS3 and KS4 students, this fully resourced and differentiated lessons looks at the way Dickens presents Scrooge as an outsider and supports students in writing notes on the whole novella around a central theme. A great lesson for Y7 right the way through to Y11 and easily adaptable. Recently revamped and includes both models and scaffolds for writing analytical paragraphs around A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol 2025 revision for English Literature Paper 1 revision lesson on characters and themes. We explore all of the major characters in Charles Dickens’ novel and consider how they tie in to key themes, helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2025 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets (printer symbol), differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, incredibly detailed revision sheets that can be shared with students and more.
A really useful way of revising this novel in time for the Paper 1 exam in May 2025.
A Christmas Carol 2025 revision for English Literature Paper 1 revision lesson on themes, characters and messages. We explore some of the key themes in the five staves of Charles Dickens’ novel and consider how they tie in to the messages Dickens wanted to convey to his readers, helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2025 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets (printer symbol), differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising this novel in time for the Paper 1 exam in May 2025.
Leave a review and we’ll send you another masterclass for free! Just email us at info@englishgcse.co.uk after you’ve left your review.
Three worksheets targeted at helping students memorise and analyse key quotes from ‘A Christmas Carol’. Can be used as a whole class activity or as revision documents.
Check out my shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3 & KS4, Literacy and whole school resources.
A Christmas Carol Stave One Fully Annotated
A Christmas Carol Extract and Worksheet Booklet
A Christmas Carol Knowledge Organiser
A Christmas Carol Themes A3 Poster
A Christmas Carol Themes
A Christmas Carol Quotation Table
A set of ten, well organised and easy to use worksheets that aim to support students in their revision of the characters, themes, key quotations and plot of A Christmas Carol. These include a range of revision tasks including mind mapping, quotation retrieval, Venn diagrams, time lines and much more.
Check out my shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3 & KS4, Literacy and whole school resources.
A Christmas Carol Stave One Fully Annotated
A Christmas Carol Extract and Worksheet Booklet
A Christmas Carol Knowledge Organiser
A Christmas Carol Quotation Revision
A Christmas Carol Themes
A Christmas Carol Quotation Table
A 49 page revision booklet with:
- information on Dickens
- information on context
- Key extracts
- tables to complete on themes
- a key quote challenge
- 10 practice questions
- sentence starters for writing responses
A fully differentiated and resourced lesson that introduce students to the Victorian period, workhouses, philanthropy and how Dickens uses Scrooge and A Christmas Carol to get across his agenda of philanthropy and providing welfare for the poorest in society. A really useful lesson for both KS3 and KS4 students. Fully differentiated throughout.
Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources.
AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
A Christmas Carol 2025 revision for English Literature Paper 1 revision lesson on context (AO3) and how this ties into ideas and interpretations (AO1). We explore the world of Charles Dickens’ novel and consider how context helps us to better understand the messages Dickens wanted to convey to his readers, helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2025 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets (printer symbol), differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising this novel in time for the Paper 1 exam in May 2025.
Leave a review and we’ll send you another masterclass for free! Just email us at info@englishgcse.co.uk after you’ve left your review.
Revise A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens hrough an engaging ‘escape room’ lesson! It is filled with codes, puzzles and activities to get students to revise characters, themes and contexts as they work in groups or ‘escape crews’ to get out of the locked counting house! Includes answers for every mystery and puzzle (see the notes attached in the PowerPoint) and is a brilliant way to help students in their revision for A Christmas Carol and AQA English Literature Paper 1 - but works for all over exam boards, too including OCR,WJEC, EDUQAS, Edexcel and so on.
A Christmas Carol annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCSE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity.
There are three versions of each sheet:
blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment
differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations
highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils
There are five annotated extracts, each one from a highly significant event in the plot:
Stave 1 - first description of Scrooge
Stave 2 - when he tries to extinguish the light from the Ghost of Christmas Present
Stave 3 - Ignorance & Want
Stave 4 - the graveyard scene
Stave 5 - description of Scrooge
If you have found these useful, take a look at the revision materials that accompany the text, also available in my shop:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845 - a board game is a brilliant way of engaging learners with revision without it feeling like work!
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-worksheets-12942672
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-12938348
A Christmas Carol revision pack for the 2025 exams. Includes the following masterclasses:
Characters
Plot
Themes
Structure and Form
Context
Football manager revision session
This is the perfect pack for preparing for the English Literature Paper 1 exam, recapping all of the key specification areas for the examination.
It provides adaptive learning approaches, key information sheets for revision, modelled examples and more.
Find the pack useful? Leave a review and we’ll send you another resource of your choice for free. Just send an email to info@englishgcse.co.uk after you’ve left your review.
Fantastic value! 44 pages included in this resource, along with over 400 detailed and useful annotations covering:
Language devices
Themes
Symbolism
Context
and more!
Well organised and visually appealing, this resource can be used as a revision tool, for SEN / EAL differentiation, home learning, prep, reluctant writers and much more.
A Christams Carol
L1: How is Scrooge Introduced in a Christmas Carol’?
Bundle SoW:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-carol-12901222
This SoW is designed in detail and is both differentiated and engaging, and allows you to move pupils through content efficiently.
Made to the highest standard and constructed using current research, both dual coding and retrieval practices are at the heart of this unit. A colour scheme also runs throughout to ease both your delivery and students comprehension.
SoW: A Christmas Carol
L1: How is Scrooge Introduced in ‘a Christmas Carol’?
L2: What was the Context in Which ‘A Christmas Carol’ was Written?
L3: What is the Purpose of the Character ‘Fred’?
L4: What is the Significance of Marley’s Ghost?
L5: What is Important Marley’s Message to Scrooge?
L6: What Message is Sent by the Ghost of Christmas Past?
L7: What is the Role of Fezziwig in ‘A Christmas Carol’?
L8: What is the Role of Fred and Belle?
L9: Why is the Ghost of Christmas Present Significant?
L10: What do the Cratchits Add to the Story?
L11: How does the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Evolve the Story?
L12: What Does Scrooge’s End Look Like?
L13: How Does a Christmas Carol End?
If you leave a review of any of our resources, you can claim any FREE single resource from our ever growing library. Simply message the above email, which is monitored daily.
teachercentralltd@gmail.com
Best FREE Resources (Teacher Central)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/britain-losing-and-gaining-an-empire-12973075
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/financial-literacy-12898983
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-12908635
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/shakespeare-12908634
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-gcse-12863697
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-free-sow-12942163 (FREE SoW)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/slavery-sow-12843084 (FREE SoW)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/russia-1917-91-from-lenin-to-yeltsin-12834552
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TeacherCentral?sortBy=lowestPrice&p=5
I hope you find this SoW useful. If you have, I have created a series of resources.
You can check them out here.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TeacherCentral
A knowledge organiser for A Christmas Carol - plot, characters, themes, quotes, context etc.
Not all my own work - it is a compilation of different resources found free on the internet.
A worksheet to revise the ghosts in A Christmas Carol. Analyse the description, explore key quotations and explain the relationship between Scrooge and the ghost (KS4)