A workbook that will help students with revision to improve creative writing. It guides students through the major points of the mark scheme.

This lesson focuses on how the student creates ideas in their mind. The lesson takes the student through a series of activities - including a guided imagination/ questioning/ shared work - to produce a piece of creative writing.

A worksheet to guide students through the demands of AQA paper 2 question 4.

An assessment to help assess the reading and writing ability of Year 8 students. Produced in a template examination paper to give students the feeling of completing an official test.

This worksheet guides the student through two different approaches to this question. The aim is to help students achieve the detached critical judgement of a Level 5 - as well as evaluating the techniques of the writer.

This PDF guide takes students through each question on the examination. It gives practical tips about how to carry on the revision process beyond the tasks in the guide. This is a skills approach to the paper and covers both reading and writing.

This worksheet takes students through the needs of question 6. It guides students to have an opinion about the text and then focuses their attention on how to build a paragraph.

The aim of this unit is to teach the metalanguage of poetry and give students a critical voice when writing about the choices in poetry. The poets used can be tailored to your class but some poems are suggested in the unit. The outcome of the unit is a comparative analysis of poems.

This is a lesson plan for a thirty-minute lesson that would work in an interview lesson. The focus is on making effective vocabulary choices and encourages practical application of grammatical terms. Students are encouraged to make choices with impact on the reader in mind. The lesson plan includes suggested differentiation and possible extension to a one-hour lesson.

This is a simple worksheet that asks students to puzzle out the persuasive devices. This is suitable for all ages, as revision or as an audit of knowledge before beginning work on nonfiction writing.

These PowerPoint lessons are not sequenced in any particular order but focus on the reading and analysis of nonfiction texts. The approach in the lessons leads towards a teaching of skills and an increasing independence in asking appropriate questions. You will need to adapt the work in these lessons to match the examination board you are using.

This is a worksheet that guides the student through the poem - and helps them to challenge and question their perceptions about context and about what a poem actually is. The worksheet encourages debate and discussion about this poem.

A worksheet that aims to help the student puzzle out the poem independently. It focuses on looking at the form and creating questions that challenge the choices made by the writer.

This worksheet takes students through the skills needed to compare the two texts. It shows them how to build from a topic sentence, using comparative connectives. It then explores how to move between the two texts, whilst comparing.

This worksheet guides students through the process of answering Question 3 on Paper 1. The students explore techniques and how to explore these techniques.

This PDF revision guide will take students through the different questions of the examination paper - Section A and Section B. The aim is to skill students up to be successful on this examination paper.

This unit is perfect to deliver just before the summer holidays. The end assessment is speaking and listening and students are encouraged to take on a topic that they feel passionate about. The unit focuses on persuasive devices but also takes the Rotary Club presentation format, to give students a taster of formal public speaking.

This unit focuses on reading short stories and writing a comparative essay. The unit focuses on the guided reading of the literature and then how to build towards an extended essay. The unit works best if there is a theme such as gothic literature, women's voice or the creation of suspense. Stories are suggested in the unit but any stories can be used, adapting for the class you are working with.