A full essay/model answer comparing 2 poems from the anthology; a checklist for self-assessing an essay; a grid to help compare how the poems have used AO2 techniques for Language, Structure and Form.

A practice question and attempt at an answer. Students can annotate the essay and link to mark scheme. What makes it good? What else could they add? etc...

An activity to help students learn the main quotes of R+J by act. It encourages them to highlight/sort quotes by character, theme and linguistic features

A revision resource for helping students understand a character’s narrative arc across the whole text. Uses A Christmas Carol as an example but adapted for any LIT text

A useful set of ppts for introducing some of the langauge and techniques used for effect in Much Ado about Nothing - at my school I used these very successfully with year 7.

Does what it says. literacy: paragraphing, spelling, conjunctions and punctuation

A collection of poems that I have collated that can be used for comparison in the style of the WJEC Lit exam. The poems are also designed to raise student interest in poetry (I made it clear that some of these poems would never be chosen as exam texts). I used the poems as a starter each lesson, drip feeding in skills.

Various resources from context to evaluating

Some tips for preparing for the exam

A quote sheet with some words taken out to test for closed book revision A Ppt for progressing beyond PEE

step by step last minute guide

Some resources looking at the title of the text and also using motifs.

Using the question - ‘explain how Shakespeare presents Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s reactions to the murder of King Duncan.’ from Act 2.2 A guide to planning or improving work

Resources to help with the unseen poetry comparison

Creating a character sketch using a series of prompts and literacy ideas (these are after the exemplar)

A slow writing ppt for structured writing - narrative of an avox

Some worksheets for R+J independent learning

Using famous authors notably Ray Carver to look at how writing goes through various processes before it is complete

Have you ever noticed how slow year 11s are when reading exam texts? Here are some basic ways to help them read quicker and with more focus.

A prompt sheet for building PEE by providing the P

A lesson plan for teaching the idea of 'a story within a story in relation to The Hunger Games.