Questions about each chapter of Never Let Me Go. Can be used at GCSE or A-Level for post reading of the text or homework to assess understanding.

An extract from Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol with scaffholded questions designed to support students in their understanding of the Ghost of Christmas past.

A resource to support teaching of The Tempest. The worksheet features an extract from act 1, scene 2 which centres around Caliban’s enslavement. The extract is surrounded by scaffolded questions for students to answer. Can be used alongside teaching of The Tempest.

A PPT containing quizzes and answers about each of the AQA Power and Conflict poems. Perfect for knowledge retrieval and starters. Students score points for their answers so there is a competitive element to engage students.

A worksheet with scaffolded questions to support analysis of The Ghost of Christmas Present. The questions surround an image of the Ghost of Christmas Present to allow students to focus on the wider literary ideas rather than becoming too bogged down in word-level analysis.

A lesson designed for students to research the detrimental effect that plastic is having on our environment by watching relevant clips from which they can get information about the subject. Tasks are included to support the writing of a letter to different companies persuading them to discontinue the use of plastic straws. Students in my KS3 class sent off these letters and received a reply from a local business applauding them on their concern for the environment and their passionate writing.

An AQA Language Paper 1, Q4 lesson based around an extract from Winston Churchill’s ‘We Shall Fight on the Beaches’ speech. Used with a Y9 class to introduce them to GCSE content. Lesson includes a feature spotting task and way to approach the question along with WAGOLL and WABOLL.

A lesson focusing on the language used by Alan Sugar in The Apprentice. This lesson was used with a KS3 class as part of a Power and Conflict scheme of work but can be adapted for other purposes. The lesson contains a PPT presentation as well as the accompanying worksheet.

A lesson opening with a starter about Voldemort with an included extract and answers. Images of other children’s characters are then provided for students to attempt character description for themselves. Used with KS3 to build descriptive techniques

A worksheet that can be used as part of a war poetry scheme of work. Jessie Pope’s WW1 propaganda poem is surrounded by scaffolded questions to help further students’ understanding of language used and contextual factors.

A worksheet with scaffholded questions designed to help students understand language and structure in Act 1 Scene 4 of Romeo and Juliet

These retrieval grids focus on recall from each of the staves of A Christmas Carol. The can be used as starters or plenaries to help students sustain their knowledge of the text. Each question is worth points so the grid can be used as a quiz to engage students.

A lesson to build skills towards an AQA language paper 1, section B style response. Lesson includes tasks to improve vocab, punctuation, sentence starters and devices as well as a writing task based on a picture of a soldier. Can be used with KS3 or KS4.

A device match activity including a range of literary and linguistic terms. More suited to KS4 but can be used with a HA KS3 class.

A lesson comparing an extract from Shakespeare’s Henry V to Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’. Both texts have tasks associated with them such as scaffolded questions, WAGOLLs, language analysis and clips to watch. Lesson also includes some integrated SPAG tasks. Can be used in lessons focused on power and conflict, war, Shakespeare or poetry.

A range of poems ideal for unseen poetry revision. Poems suitable for AQA literature paper 2, section C. Poems are surrounded by scaffolded questions to help students approach the unseen section of the paper. Can also be used in KS3 classes to introduce students to different poems. Poems: Dad My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough Brandon Gallacher Medusa The Falling Leaves Come On, Come Back Hawk Roosting Born Yesterday Praise Song for my Mother The Flea

A worksheet to help students recall quotes from across the text. The resource contains a gap fill quote recall activity with answers and a practice essay question.

An extract from Private Peaceful . Students must answer the questions surrounding the extract. Used as part of a Private Peaceful scheme of work. However, could be used to support any learning surrounding war or novels.

Letter to my Mother, written by Wilfred Owen. The text is surrounded by differentiated questions to support learning. This was used alongside teaching AQA language paper 2 as a non-fiction text but could also be used as a KS3 lnaguage analysis task.

A letter from a son to his father during the war. Students must spot features within the letter. Can be used alongside schemes or novels relating to war.

A quote from each poem in the AQA Power and Conflict section with words missing for students to fill in. Useful short starter task or revision resource.