This is a whole lesson which guides pupils to write their own poem about Christmas, using the outline and focus technique. This is ideal for KS3 pupils of all abilities, as it can be differentiated by adding a word bank or sentence starters. The success criteria encourage pupils to craft and improve their writing, to build resilience. This lessons requires no preparation and is ideal as an end of term lesson.

This is a selection of task which could be used for a whole lesson, following a piece of extended writing. This is ideal as cover work, or the peer assessment tasks can be used as a starter and DIRT tasks as a homework. These activities are ideal for a middle ability KS4 group, but could also be used with KS3. Very little preparation is needed, just printouts of the worksheet. This could also be laminated for future use.

This resources provides a convention guide for speech writing and an exam style question with writing guide based on the EDUQAS GCSE specification. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work, or homework. The sheet includes the mark scheme for band 5 to enable pupils to self assess their answers.

This quick quiz is ideal as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare and is suitable for KS3 or KS4. Pupils are encouraged to guess whether words were invented by Shakespeare, or if they are modern 'fakespeare'. I have selected words that are still widely used to demonstrate how the study of Shakespeare is still relevant.

This resources provides 7 sample transactional writing questions in the style of the EDUQAS GCSE specification. They have not been taken from the specimen materials, so is ideal if you are looking for last minute practice questions that you have not already covered. I have also included the appropriate mark scheme for the task. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work, or revision homework.

This resources provides a convention guide for formal letter writing and an exam style question with writing guide based on the EDUQAS GCSE specification. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work, or homework. The sheet includes the mark scheme for band 5 to enable pupils to self assess their answers.

This resources provides a convention guide for review writing and an exam style question with writing guide based on the EDUQAS GCSE specification. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work, or homework. The sheet includes the mark scheme for band 5 to enable pupils to self assess their answers.

This resources provides a convention guide for writing a lively article and an exam style question, with writing guide, based on the EDUQAS GCSE specification. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work, or homework. The sheet includes the mark scheme for band 5 to enable pupils to self assess their answers.

This is a set of two lessons getting pupils to plan, write and improve their own lively article. I use this set of lessons as a revision of the form to keep the conventions fresh in pupil's minds. I planned these lessons in line with the EDUQAS Language paper 2 tasks, but there would be no significant adjustments required for any other exam board. No additional resources are required for these lessons, but you will need to mark the work that they produce between lesson one and lesson two. For the DIRT lesson to work with the presentation, pupils need a comment, a question, a target and accuracy marking.

This resources provides a sample exam question and extract for Jekyll and Hyde in the style of the EDUQAS GCSE specification. It has not been taken from the specimen materials, so is ideal if you are looking for last minute practice questions that you have not already covered. I have also included the appropriate mark scheme for the task to enable pupils to self or peer assess their work. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work or revision.

This lesson, covers the conventions of speech writing and includes a speech writing task. This is ideal for middle to high ability KS4, but could be easily differentiated to suit your group. The lesson is ready to use and requires no additional resources. The peer and self assessment tasks are based on the requirements of Component 2B of the EDUQAS Language exam, but could be tweaked to suit your exam board.

This is a quotation explosion worksheet focused on a short section of the end of Part One. The task is scaffolded to enable pupils to annotate and analyse the writer’s use of language and to infer information from the text. Pupils will also refer to prior knowledge of the plot, so this can be used as a review activity at the end of Part one. This activity would work well as an independent task and could be set as cover work or homework.

This is a selection of tasks for revision of Jekyll and Hyde in preparation for Component 2A of the EDUQAS GCSE specification. These tasks could be used within a lesson, or could be set as cover work, or homework. The sheet includes the mark scheme for bands 3, 4 and 5 to enable pupils to self assess their answers.

This worksheet is great for middle to low ability KS4 and can be used with any speech that will engage your group. I have used this with speeches from Obama, James Cordon and Matt Damon in preparation for the spoken language task on the EDUQAS specification. This worksheet gets pupils to break down the purpose of the speech and how it has been achieved. It can be used whilst watching the speech, or could be completed retrospectively.

This resources provides a sample exam questions for both the extract and essay sections from the EDUQAS GCSE specification. They have not been taken from the specimen materials, so are ideal if you are looking for last minute practice questions that you have not already covered. I have also included the appropriate mark schemes for each task and a selection of revision activities. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work, or revision homework.

This resources provides a sample exam questions for both the extract and essay sections from the EDUQAS GCSE specification. They have not been taken from the specimen materials, so are ideal if you are looking for last minute practice questions that you have not already covered. I have also included the appropriate mark schemes for each task and a selection of revision activities. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work, or revision homework.

This resources provides a sample exam question and extract for Jekyll and Hyde in the style of the EDUQAS GCSE specification. This is a character question encouraging pupils to write about the presentation of Hyde. It has not been taken from the specimen materials, so is ideal if you are looking for last minute practice questions that you have not already covered. I have also included the appropriate mark scheme for the task to enable pupils to self or peer assess their work. These tasks could be used within a lesson, set as cover work or revision.