This resource contains a newspaper article centred on the death of Curley’s Wife. This newspaper article is accompanied by eleven analytical questions that will help students to gain a deeper understanding of Steinbeck’s text and an understanding of how to write an effective newspaper article. Students, once having completed this resource, can then write their own newspaper article on a significant happening from Of Mice and Men.

Students, once having read Of Mice and Men, were asked to write an essay centred on this question: “Explore how the character of Curley’s wife is presented through John Steinbeck’s choice of language.” This exemplar essay, which answers this question, allows students to see aspects of Curley’s Wife’s character in new and novel ways. This resource also contains eighteen analytical questions, which will enable students to see how an essay is constructed and also how they can structure their own essay in order to achieve the best grade possible. Several students of mine, once having used this resource, achieved grades that were above their target grade.

This essay plan will help students to answer this question: “Explore how the character of Curley’s wife is presented through John Steinbeck’s choice of language.” Students of mine have used this extensively detailed essay plan to write essays that exceeded their target grade. This four page essay plan contains useful tips on how to write an essay and also includes quotes from the text that will help students further their academic writing skills.

There are three resources that will help students to understand how to write a report effectively. Resource One contains a report written by a student. There are also analytical questions that will help students to understand how the candidate constructed their report and whether their report is effective or not. Resource Two is a PowerPoint, which contains a series of questions that focuses on students giving their opinions on school dinners. The students will then be encouraged to write their own report about their school canteen. Resource Three is to be used after the students have completed their own reports, as it contains a series of self-reflective questions that will allow students to evaluate the effectiveness of their own report.

This resource contains a four-page story and also analytical questions that will enable students to understand how the writer has crafted an engaging story through using metaphors, tension, empathy and so forth. Furthermore, students will be given the opportunity to critique this narrative piece in order to see what they can improve.

This resource contains a short Gothic story that has been inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This resource also contains twenty questions that will help your students to analyse the writer’s craft. Students will also be inspired to conclude this story, or write their own Gothic story, once having read this resource and once having undertaken the tasks. A top set year 9 class of mine wrote detailed, poignant and thought-provoking stories that were full of imagery after completing this resource.

This short, descriptive piece illustrates how a writer can use an extended metaphor, throughout their writing, effectively. This worksheet also includes 9 analytical questions, which allows the students to explore the writer’s craft critically. The aim of this worksheet is for each student to understand how to use an extended metaphor effectively in their own creative writing.

This gap fill task work sheet contains twenty sentences. Students have to fill in the blanks by including the words “was” or “were” effectively. Students can then be encouraged to write their own sentences that contain these words.

This resource features two extracts, that I have written, which will help students to understand how to write an idiosyncratic character. Each extract is accompanied by three analytical questions, which will help students to understand the nuances of a fictional character. Furthermore, these questions, alongside both extracts, will give each student the stepping stones needed to help build a three dimensional character.

This resource asks students to match the literary device with a creative example. For example, students will get an understanding of how to use emotive language, onomatopoeia, rule of three, metaphor, forceful phrases, rhetorical question, extended metaphor, personification and simile in their writing. Grade 4 students, in the past, have used this resource to write a grade 7 piece.

This worksheet is a great introduction to the playwright William Shakespeare, as it asks the students to answer ten questions, which will give them an insight into Shakespeare’s legacy. The students will also use their numeracy skills in answering these questions, as they will have to make educated guesses in order to answer each question effectively.

This worksheet is a great introduction to the author Charles Dickens, as it asks the students to answer ten questions, which will give them an insight into Dickens’ legacy. The students will also use their numeracy skills in answering these questions, as they will have to make educated guesses in order to answer each question effectively.

Students will gain a deeper knowledge of what connectives they can use before embarking on writing an academic essay. This resource has proven effective for students of English Literature.

Students are to match the first half of a simile (located on the left-hand side of this work sheet), with the second half, (located on the right-hand side of this sheet). Students can then be encouraged to write a creative piece that uses a number of these similes.

This resource contains a short story, with analytical questions, that will help students to understand the techniques needed to write a narrative piece effectively. Students will be encouraged to understand what is good about this narrative. However, students will also be able to critique this piece by ascertaining what can be improved.