For the carousel larger quotes were placed around the room on sugar paper and students moved around to annotate these before being given a sheet with all quotes on and annotating them from class notes.

Placemat including sentence openers and vocabulary into relevant categories. Since using these students’ work output has increased.

This resource was used with a high ability Y9 group as part of a unit on Current Affairs. It could also be adapted to use for A level English Language. The PP builds towards writing a comparison essay.

Concise revision sheet for the AQA literature exam. Students can find it hard to remember information when going between papers and language revision, therefore I wanted everything in one place.

Planning a new AQA GCSE answer on a Christmas Carol.

Paper 2: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives Looks at planning answers for Paper 2. The students look at the general ideas behind how to answer each question. This can then lead on to them writing full answers. My class get easily overwhelmed and I found that this broke things down for them. The extract is taken from somebody else and not my own, however I created the activity. Section B revision sheet helps students to quickly brainstorm ideas and reminds them of the mark scheme.

A collection of 4 papers and grid sheet for students to find techniques. I then asked students to select two and compare. Part of a sample answer and sheet with sentence openers is also attached,

A half term worth of homework for KS3 creative writing.

2 hour session looking at borrowing and producing a Q3 and 4 answer.

PP will last up to 2 weeks depending on class ability and how long you want to spend on developing writing and peer assessing. The skills numbers match up to Doddle skills however these could easily be changed as the skills are very universal. Focus on improving vocabulary and peer/ self assessment. Images are emotive focusing on 9/11, war and Chernobyl.

Students learn about Chernobyl with the aim of completing a piece of creative writing. There is a link to a useful clip and self assessment grid included.

Practice on writing from another perspective, focus on a butterfly flying over London. Includes a potential image for a class model answer.

Booklet that I created to allow students to understand the exam paper through creating their own questions and mark scheme.

An introduction to phonology looking at A01 terminology types of error, IPA and relating ideas back to theory.

Macbeth revision quiz with three rounds including vocabulary, quotation catchphrase and the plot. Also, a literacy task looking at exam skills needed for the literature exam- used as a starter,

Walk through Act 2:4 focusing on pathetic fallacy and questioning students. Includes starter to prompt debate and essay template. Use with an MA class. We read the whole Scene as part of this lesson but zoomed in on key areas.

Lesson used as part of a unit of preparing for Crafting Langauge coursework Edexcel- could easily be adapted for other exam boards/ ages. Uses Everybody’s Free and J K Rowling’s Harvard speech.