A Dickens: Oliver Twist comprehension and associated writing tasks: Suitable for KS3 or 4 English / English Lit: Will build knowledge suitable for KS4 GCSE Literature but works as stand alone. AO1 AO2 (Reading) Marks per question indicative of amount to write. only.Writing section offers range of tasks:Would take an hour or so for most pupils in the age range to complete . Suitable for one off cover .

A resource with a multi-choice quiz based on poems from the AQA Other Cultures Anthology - with answers to in some places with some questions designed to get a debate going on the meaning of poems: some questions v basic, some v challenging- done in a rush for this year’s exam

Basic worksheets on Edexcel anthology poem with some differentiation produced for mixed ability year 11 GCSE class. Suitable for years 7-11 probably though.

The Tripods by John Christopher. Used with year 9. Used to introduce dystopian literature. Far from a scheme. Contains chapter one with embedded questions then a series of related challenge activities.

Suitable for image based inspired by this picture write … type AQA GCSE task ( 2019) syllabus . Colourful interesting images with vocabulary to use in the task.

A wordle on the very start of A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens short story for children Contextual reading for A Christmas Carol. A 3 page word document version of a short story. Usual Dickens focus on children, mortality, kindness. Suitable for readers 10plus

Collects cover all Tybalt’s speeches into one page and frames analysis with a single three part question . Potentially useful for revision for the exam text or simply to pull together impression of a key character using his own speeches alone,

Structured worksheet for “inspired by this image” write a description or narrative based on … type of writing. Has basic prompts to guide those who might need it .

Designed for use with the now defunct AQA GCSE specification this uses a play format to teach about how to analyse the poem Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika while talking through how to write increasingly well for that specification. Could easily be adapted for use with an Unseen poetry markscheme or none.

To Be Read at Dusk was first published in Heath’s Keepsake. An interesting, unusual piece of Dickens of interest to anyone studying A Christmas Carol as a GCSE set text. Ghosts.Dusk, the Continent all combine in the narrative , as five couriers talk outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass These are overheard by the narrator as two of their group’s members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons her husband for a man who had previously appeared in her nightmares, and another of a man who sees an apparition of his brother, and is thereby warned of the latter’s death.