This is a collection of GCSE English language paper 1 writing resources. These are assessment style activities, developing a students creative writing skills by drawing on their experience of unusual times and challenging circumstances. Channel your students creativity by using these resources to discuss their experiences and develop them into something more spectacular, which they can relate to the skills required for the GCSE English language paper 1 exam.

This resource contains an extract from the first installment of The Lord of the Rings series: The Fellowship of the Ring. It has an AQA exam style extract layout and questions 1 to 4 (AO1, A)2, AO3 and AO4) and comes in an easily editable and printable format.

Need an easy way to reduce marking time and engage students in the feedback process? These resources provide a student friendly breakdown of the AQA reading mark scheme (one for each paper) for students to reflect on reading tasks and mock exams. Students can tick how high they feel they have achieve for each skill and then reflect on what went well and what they need to improve for each question. These resources also provide a student friendly SWOT analysis grid, with scaffolding questions to enable students to plan their progression/how they will improve.