This resource scaffolds A* close language analysis of the presentation of gender in Chapter 8 of Great Expectations. Prompts help focus students on providing in depth analysis and build towards independent responses to the text.

This is a worksheet to boost the higher order thinking skills of your students and develop their confidence and skills in close language analysis, considering alternate readings, forming perceptive personal responses and evaluation. Targeted questions prompt students to make progress in reading skills. The worksheet can be used to organise students' notes in order for them to write an analytical essay.

These are comprehensive close language analysis notes (21 pages) for the entire novel that will enable your students to develop A* sophisticated analytical skills. If you are looking for fresh approaches to the narrative, this resource will hopefully inspire you and add stretch and challenge for your most able students. The word level analysis integrates highly relevant but rarely discussed contextual factors such as Steinbeck's work as a Marine Biologist, his interest in Darwinian theory and the relevance of the Eugenics movement in California at the time.

This is a 'Stretch and Challenge' worksheet to boost the higher order thinking skills of your students and develop their confidence and skills in close language analysis, considering alternate readings, forming perceptive personal responses and evaluation. Targeted questions prompt students to make progress in reading skills. The worksheet can be used to organise students' notes in order for them to write an analytical essay on the extract.

This is a worksheet to boost the higher order thinking skills of your students and develop their confidence and skills in close language analysis, considering alternate readings, forming perceptive personal responses and evaluation. Targeted questions prompt students to make progress in reading skills. The worksheet can be used to organise students' notes in order for them to write an analytical essay.

This is a structured grid worksheet to develop your students' skills in using the full range of sentence forms and punctuation for effect. It provides modelled examples for them and sets clear challenges at each point in the narrative where they should demonstrate their grammar skills. By the end of the lesson, all students should have made demonstrable progress in being able to craft sentence forms and punctuation for impact.

This is a worksheet to boost the higher order thinking skills of your students and develop their confidence and skills in close language analysis, considering alternate readings, forming perceptive personal responses and evaluation. Targeted questions prompt students to make progress in reading skills. The worksheet can be used to organise students' notes in order for them to write an analytical essay.

This is a worksheet to boost the higher order thinking skills of your students and develop their confidence and skills in close language analysis, considering alternate readings, forming perceptive personal responses and evaluation. Targeted questions prompt students to make progress in reading skills. The worksheet can be used to organise students' notes in order for them to write an analytical essay.

This worksheet is crafted to boost the quality of your students' close language analysis skills and perceptive personal responses. Targeted questions enable students to add detail in their word level analysis and move towards applying these skills independently. The grid format helps students to organise their notes to produce an extended analytical essay on the title 'How does Katherine Mansfield create sympathy for the Kelveys in ‘The Doll’s House’?'

This grid will enable your students to develop confident close language analysis skills that integrate dramatic context and evaluative skills. The format helps students to organise their notes to write an essay on 'How are different kinds of authority presented in Act 4, Scene 1? This resource is useful across KS3, KS4 and KS5 groups.