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This is a Crime and Horror themed assessment intended for the end of a scheme of work looking at this genre. There are two questions: one on the writer's language and one on the use of the writer's structure. There are two differentiated options: one for higher ability and one for lower ability students. This resource also comes with detailed indicative content for marking and the relevant sections of AQA's English Language Paper 1 mark scheme.

This lesson starts with an introduction to stock characters and a wide range of other descriptive writing techniques using a written description of a scene in a doctor's waiting room. Students answer a set of questions which ask them to identify the writer's techniques and explain the effects. Next, students plan their own descriptive writing using given planning sheets, a range of prompts and some images of a fairground.

Six lessons focussing on Stave 3, The Ghost of Christmas Present. Includes a step by step approach to analysing an exam question - How does Dickens present the importance of family? Relevant extract included.

Four lessons focusing on Stave 4.

Fully resourced scheme, including step by step look at two exam style extract questions, aimed at MA ability KS4. Easily differentiated up or down.

This is a step by step (1 - 2 lessons) guide to Remains by Simon Armitage. Contains 2 quizzes on content and techniques, a guided task on considering how the poem relates to the themes of power and conflict, and a step by step process of writing a response on the theme of power. Worked very well with middle ability Y9 but would also be suitable for higher sets.

This is the first four lessons aimed at Y7 or 8 for working in pairs or groups to create their own theme park. Lessons 1 and 2 include some engaging activities to consider the idea of themes and look at examples of existing theme parks. They watch clips, name rides and create 3 rides for a blank dinosaur theme park. Lessons 3 and 4 are geared towards them creating their own theme park map after looking at Chessington World of Adventures’ example and answering some questions to illustrate the importance of a clear and informative park map.

In this lesson, aimed at middle to high ability Y9 or KS4, the stanzas of the poem are divided up with prompts to be given out to pairs or groups of students. Once students have thought about their individual stanza, they can feed back to the class and everyone can complete the A3 copy of the poem (with spaces for notes) to provide themselves with revision notes. The accompanying ppt provides a structure for the teacher to use when facilitating feedback.

Copy of poem Remains is provided. First ppt begins with students reading the poem and completing a short quiz. Slides 7 and 8 provide visual or written prompts to enable students to write a detailed summary of the poem, depending on what type of learner they are. Next, students consider how the poem fits into the two themes of ‘power’ and ‘conflict’. Name the technique from the poem quiz followed by step by step writing of analytical paragraphs. Final task is to write one on their own. Second ppt introduces the idea of CLAPS (context, language, atmosphere, poetic devices an structure). Example paragraphs given for each aspect of CLAPS and students encouraged to link the examples back to the question, to ensure the answer is clear. Teacher can then choose another poem from the anthology for students to look at, using CLAPS to analyse it.