This is a comparison of the description of the Radley house in chapter one, with an extract from a Charles Dickens short story describing a haunted house. Three questions follow it, allowing for analysis and personal response, plus metacognitive reflection

Descriptions of the characters which the pupils have to name without referring to their books. Can they analyse specific details in these?

I use these notes to teach the Edexcel A Level English Literature. I have spent many hours preparing this detailed document which provides the main points of connection/ important things to note for these two novels, although I mainly lead with Splendid. The page references refer to the Bloomsbury edition of Splendid and the Penguin Classic of Tess.

A helpful worksheet to help revise vocabulary from the early chapters. Pupils can also make their own in this format.

This worksheet can be used to direct pupils towards the interesting nuggets of language within chapter one of When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle.