My students struggled with how to annotate a non-fiction source, so I annotated it myself with prompt questions for them to respond to when reading. This was really effective and helped them engage with the sources more, resulting in improved written responses. Hope you find it just as useful!

I designed this fully resourced lesson to help improve extended written responses to the two Literature papers. It includes a PPT with top tips, a check list, and a scaffolded essay plan to help students develop an extended response (focussing on Romeo and Juliet, but could be easily adapted) . Perfect for mixed ability classes.

Made these starters for my Year 11 to start recalling previous knowledge from An Inspector Calls and the Power and Conflict poetry cluster. There's 6 in total, easy template to use to create your own.

I designed this 'quote quest' activity as a regular starter for my Year 11s to help them learn and consolidate key quotes from the poetry cluster. Worked really well. Easy template to add more quotes of your own.

A lesson focussing on an extract from Stave Two, whilst introducing students to metacognition (thinking about thinking) includes a student review to see which strategies they liked best and to evaluate whether or not it improved their written responses. I did this lesson with Year 10 and the reviews were extremely positive.

A lesson aimed at a high ability year 8 group guiding them to write a Level 7 PEA paragraph about one of the key characters from 'The Hunger Games&'

Typed up from the Longman edition, a handy summary of what happens in each section/chapter to help students remember what happened and when.