A handy revision sheet with the conventions of each transactional writing type on there. The back of the sheet has suggested openings and closings for students.

This lesson looks at a past exam question that focuses around the songs and music in the play Blood Brothers. You can access the CD for the songs for free on YouTube to accompany this lesson.

A series of statements that show where Lady Macbeth takes control within the play Macbeth

Some structured questions for students to consider when hot-seating

As the title states

Colourful key quote that can be easily displayed in the classroom.

This resource includes group work questions that focus on the females within the novella: Belle and Fan. The resource also includes an extension task, which involves an empathetic response based on the questions just answered

As above

These worksheets takes students through the process of developing simple sentences in a variety of ways including; adverbial openings, compound sentences, complex sentences, 'ing' openings and fronted clauses.

Structured revision sheet for The Emigree. Best printed on A3.

This mat can be used when students are writing a descriptive piece. It offers students prompts when writing and includes a checklist.

A WAGOLL that I created and used with my top set year 11 group for the Language focused question.

A structured grid for students to begin to understand the relationships between characters in Romeo and Juliet.

A full lesson dedicated to focusing on Scrooge's past and Christmas at Fezziwig's when Scrooge was an apprentice The first section deals with the challenging language There's a link to a short video link to use as a visual aid Then the main activity is for students to find key quotes and discuss what they reveal about Scrooge's character - worksheet is on the last page of the PowerPoint

Starter image with thinking questions on for students Group work activity follows Students will focus on different members of the Cratchit family and the opinions that they form of them At the end of the PowerPoint there is an image, whereby the language term 'juxtaposition' can be taught Students could then spend time noting down where juxtaposition occurs elsewhere in the novel and how this links to the moral ideology of Dickens

checklist to use alongside narrative writing This has a gothic theme but can be easily changed

Descriptive writing WAGOLL with lots of ambitious vocabulary

Exactly as the title suggests

structured tasks that can be used for intervention with this question type

Modelled teacher response at a very basic level. Improvement it written below, showing pupils how ideas can be developed and how sentence variety can impact