A planning template for transactional writing. Particularly made to support students at GCSE level writing a newspaper article for Language Paper 2 section B.

This resource makes a great homework or revision resource to get the students thinking about wider concepts explored in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. In addition to the reading is tasks and questions to complete to check students’ understanding.

Extract and Question in exam format. Can be used as a mock exam or practice for the Shakespeare element of the exam.

A full mark example of a persuasive speech relating to social media and key ideas in ‘Lord of the Flies’. This example contains a range of persuasive devices, sentence structures and structural features for effect and punctuation. There is a clear awareness of form and audience. Attached is a highlighted version of the techniques used which can be used as support for low ability students or visual aid. You can use this example to demonstrate the mark scheme being executed or as inspiration for a debate/speech. Students can highlight and annotate what devices are being used and why they are effective. They can then use this example to help structure/guide their own writing.

This planning sheet encourages students to plan their structure, devices and vocabulary to ensure they are meeting the mark scheme. Also, questions at the top encourage students to create a more original and well-thought-out speech e.g. writing from a different perspective, as well as, matching the tone, style and register to purpose and audience. This structure also ensures students follow the conventions of a speech to ensure they are awarded marks. A great resource for any ability as the plan will become their writing support. Great for Language Paper 2 and Speaking and Listening Endorsement. Good preparation for practicing oracy.

This resource contains two grade 9 essays in response to the question: How does Kelly present the relationship between Phil and Leah?

Gap fill activity to recall the student’s memory and synthesis of Stave 3 in ‘A Christmas Carol’.

This is a lesson with additional lessons to continue the exploration of Percey Shelley’s ‘Love Philosophy’. The resource has annotated questions to allow the students to write their own annotations and interpretations but guided. This has the context, form, language and structure completely explored with the key information for students to recall highlighted.

Ambitious vocabulary for students aiming for the highest levels. This resource provides students with a wide range of specific and high level vocabulary to meet the top of the assessment criteria. It challenges students to demonstrate their understanding of these terms by writing the meaning and using it in a an example answer. Students should then feel more confident and get used to using ambitious vocabulary and key terms in their written responses. Extension task encourages students to identify where these terms can apply to other Literature texts. Support is given in the form of examples and more challenging meanings completed for them.

All of the information (and more) students need to understand the context and plot of Animal Farm and the character Napoleon. The starter highlights the importance of context in Animal Farm and addresses some misconceptions and common exam mistakes. This lesson covers: Overthrow of the Tsar (revolution) The Bolsheviks General Secretary Totalitarian state Use of the secret police Five year plan Collectivisation Purges and praises Orwell’s views These slides can be made into revision cards or notes. Students should make links between the context points and the novella.

This resources is a complete exploration of the context, from, language and structure of the poem ‘Sonnet 29- ‘I think of thee!’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This contains the key terminology and multiple interpretations and readings of the poems’ form, language and structure. This covers a couple of lessons and so has starter activities testing students’ recall. The final slides consist of the key quotations that students should remember for the AQA Literature Paper 2 exam.

Includes: Pre-reading task on Victorian relationships Active reading starter activity with challenges and extension tasks. Recall activity on the poem ‘Before You Were Mine’ to gain an understanding of the similar themes in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ with challenge an extension. The poem is split into nine sections with prompts for thoughtful analysis.

An activity for students to consolidate their learning of Act One - An Inspector Calls. This a complete summary with embedded references of Act One with gaps to challenge students to recall key words, characters and events.

Students solve the riddle to find a word in the dictionary and answer the question about it. The first section, students will find the answers in the dictionary, the second the thesaurus and the third in the classroom. You can edit questions or add. This took one lesson for my year 7s to solve. I had them working in pairs and gave the winning pair small easter eggs. Students found it challenging but competitive and fun!

A planning sheet to help students meet the assessment objectives for Literature Paper 2 Section A.

Key quotations to analyse for thh Last of the Three Spirits - a ghost often forgotten in essays on ‘A Christmas Carol’.

A 40/40 students creative writing piece used to get the students thinking about how to structure their narratives in interesting and engaging ways but also explain the effect of writer’s structural choices.

Practice question 4 from Language Paper 1. Not a past paper. Potential question. Encourages the students to give a personal response and group methods/ideas together.

A revision activity to get students to understand and show understanding that the writer is making deliberate choices (AO2).

A 36 question gap-fill quiz that checks students’ memories of the family poems in the ‘Love and Relationships’ cluster. Peer-assessed and answer sheet included.