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A Christmas Carol annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCSE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts, each one from a highly significant event in the plot: Stave 1 - first description of Scrooge Stave 2 - when he tries to extinguish the light from the Ghost of Christmas Present Stave 3 - Ignorance & Want Stave 4 - the graveyard scene Stave 5 - description of Scrooge If you have found these useful, take a look at the revision materials that accompany the text, also available in my shop: /teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845 - a board game is a brilliant way of engaging learners with revision without it feeling like work! /teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-worksheets-12942672 /teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-12938348

GCSE English Language Exam Revision Pack - WJEC Exam Board This resource contains eight pages of revision notes for learners sitting the GCSE English Language exams in Wales. This has been used successfully to support revision prior to the exam, in addition to completing exam practice questions in class. It can be used to teach/remind learners of success criteria, support the transition from modelled/supported activities and aid independent revision. They can be used as individual sheets or copied together to provide a support pack for learners. The pack includes: an overview of what to expect on Unit 2 an overview of what to expect on Unit 3 two pages of notes guiding learners through different reading skills a page of notes guiding learners through success criteria for Unit 2 writing a page of notes guiding learners through success criteria for Unit 3 writing a suggested method for planning non-fiction writing (one of the most useful exam preparation tools I have shared with my learners) a list of language features that could be used

GCSE English Language Individual Researched Presentation Booklet (WJEC) This eight page resource supports students whilst they prepare their individual researched presentations, worth 10% of their English Language GCSE (in Wales). This can be used as a resource with the whole class to ensure they consider all required elements during the planning stages. This is also a useful resource for any student who is absent from preparation lessons, as they can still be guided through the stages of planning through accessing this booklet.

Heroes Essay Structures provides essay structures for learners who are fairly confident with writing essays, or as a quick revision tool. There is an essay structure for each character, in addition to four thematic structures. This has worked well as a revision resource for all abilities, and as a lighter form of scaffolding for B+ grade learners when beginning to produce essays (GCSE - Wales).

King Lear Revision Materials for A-Level contains two different resources that have been proven to support exam practice and revision for A-Level students, in particular for whole text responses where the text isn’t allowed into the exam. This is 15 pages of support, in total. This includes: A thorough narrative summary detailing key events, divided by Acts/Scenes, including a character-web activity at the end A comprehensive quote pack including quotes characterised by character, theme and imagery/language If this is useful to you, have a look at the ‘Critical Approaches’ resource in my shop, which also support A-Level teaching of the play.

King Lear annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts, one from each act. Act 1 - Lear banishes Cordelia Act 2 - Lear’s knights are taken away from him by Goneril and Regan Act 3 - Lear facing the storm Act 4 - Lear reawakens after being rescued by Cordelia Act 5 - Edgar enters to challenge Edmund to a duel If you have found these useful, take a look at the revision materials that accompany the text, also available in my shop: Revision PowerPoint: /teaching-resource/resource-13013430 Revision materials: /teaching-resource/resource-12969963 Critical Approaches: /teaching-resource/resource-12970159

GCSE English Language Writing Planning (WJEC) is a resource to support learners with preparation for the writing section of Unit 3. It is particularly useful as a revision activity for learners at the C-D borderline. There are four separate writing tasks included in this resource, three sheets per task. Sheet 1 - a blank worksheet with the writing task at the top for learners to fill in Sheet 2 - scaffolding with general advice on planning Sheet 3 - an exemplar essay plan for the task There are two ‘persuade’ tasks and two ‘argue’ tasks. The genres covered include: article speech formal letter If you find this resource useful, you may want to look at the other GCSE English Language (WJEC) resources in my shop: Revision Pack - /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-exam-revision-pack-wjec-12969501 Writing Support for C/D Borderline Learners - /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-writing-tips-and-tricks-wjec-12969667 Reading Skills Card Sort - /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-reading-skills-wjec-12979433 Individual Presentation Preparation Booklet - /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-irp-booklet-wjec-12970177

‘Heroes’ revision activities includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after reading the novel. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters thinking critically of characters and their personality traits considering essay structures for the exam (WJEC) £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p! If you find this resource useful, you may be interested in other Heroes resources available in my shop: Essay structures - /teaching-resource/heroes-robert-cormier-essay-structures-12973423 Narrative Overview - /teaching-resource/heroes-by-robert-cormier-narrative-overview-12970174

Christmas Wordsearch | Aimed at KS3/11-14 Year Olds This Christmas wordsearch contains 45 seasonal words to find. Once they have been found, there are instructions for how to colour-code the remaining spaces to reveal a Christmas-related image. This resource includes: the list of words and instructions for the whole activity the word grid a completed example of the wordsearch, including the colouring of the image This worksheet could be used in the following ways: as a quiet, individual activity during a lesson or form time as a paired/group activity to include a competitive element as a ‘reward’ task before the holidays or for completing all other work You may also be interested in this Christmas literacy activity pack, which contains 20 seasonal tasks: /teaching-resource/resource-13128246 I also have some festive anagrams available: /teaching-resource/resource-12942667

Of Mice and Men Essay Structures provides two different types of structures for learners, depending on ability/level of confidence with the novel. These have been tried and tested with groups of differing abilities in preparation for the Unit 1 Literature exam (WJEC). The first set of essay structures is for pupils who don’t have much exam practice. It provides them with a detailed scaffold for some of the key ideas they may want to discuss and in which order. There are spaces for them to add notes about context and key quotations to include. There is an essay structure for each character and for the theme of ‘loneliness’. This has worked very well with C/D borderline learners. The second set of structures are brief notes for learners who are more confident with writing essays, or as a quick revision tool. There is an essay structure for each character, in addition to three thematic structures. This has worked well as a revision resource for all abilities, and as a lighter form of scaffolding for B+ grade learners when beginning to produce essays. You may also be interested in the following: Narrative tasks: /teaching-resource/resource-12970442 Revision activities: /teaching-resource/resource-12945645

Christmas/Festive Anagrams includes two different anagrams worksheets all connected to Christmas and the answer sheets. These worksheets are designed to help KS3 pupils develop their language skills (such as the alphabet) and extend their vocabulary. The anagrams on each worksheet are listed in alphabetical order. Each sheet will take 10-20 minutes to complete, depending on the age/ability of the class. In these tasks, pupils will unscramble the letters to identify the words. They will also be required to apply their knowledge of the alphabet and elements of language to help them unscramble less familiar words. An answer key for staff is included for both worksheets. General anagrams are also available in the following: Anagrams 1-3 Anagrams 4-6 Anagrams 1-6 (bundle)

GCSE English Language Reading Skills (WJEC) This card sort contains the success criteria for the main reading skills that feature in the GCSE English Language Unit 2 & 3 exam papers. This is for the WJEC - Wales - specification. A colour-coded version is also included to support with self-/peer-/teacher assessment. The reading skills included are: identifying information interpreting information true/false sequencing summarising explain how explain cause & effect word definitions synthesis comparison This is a useful revision activity in the build-up to exams. It is also a useful progress tracker throughout the course to ensure that learners retain the success criteria.

‘Of Mice and Men’ revision worksheets includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after studying the novel. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters considering mood and atmosphere thinking critically of characters and their personality traits £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p! You may also be interested in these resources: Narrative tasks: /teaching-resource/resource-12970442 Essay structures: /teaching-resource/resource-12970873

Romeo and Juliet Annotated Extracts Get your students analysing some of the most important and iconic scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This pack contains 6 no-prep scenes for students to analyse. With only printing required, you can have students on-task within seconds of walking through the door. Three versions of each extract are included: blank, highlighted and fully annotated. Blank - for those students who will benefit from the challenge Highlighted - for those who may need some support in identifying the quotes on which they should focus Fully annotated - great for self-checking or as part of a revision pack. They are also really useful teacher notes to give you confidence when guiding your students, especially for teachers new to the play. Extracts are taken from: Act I.v - when Tybalt and Capulet argue at the masked ball Act II.ii - the iconic balcony scene Act III.i - Tybalt and Mercutio duel Act III.v - Juliet and her parents argue Act IV.v - Capulet, Lady Capulet, the Nurse and Paris grieve for Juliet Act V.iii - the final scene of the play Prep is quick and easy. Just print and go!

GCSE English Language Revision Checklists (WJEC) These checklists are to support learners in the build-up to mock exams and external exams. They can be used by individuals to identify gaps in their own knowledge, or they can be used on a whole class level to identify areas of concern across the class to guide targeted teaching/learning/revision in the build-up to exams. If a student cannot tick all columns for a skill, they should focus on that skill until they can. Once all columns have been ticked, they can move on to the next row. The first checklist focuses on reading skills required across Units 2 & 3, including the editing section of Unit 2. The second checklist focuses on the writing skills required across Units 2 & 3, including the proofreading task on Unit 2. Once gaps have been identified, some of these resources may be useful in addressing them: Revision Pack: /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-exam-revision-pack-wjec-12969501 Reading Skills Success Criteria Card Sort: /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-reading-skills-wjec-12979433 How to plan writing task responses effectively: /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-writing-planning-wjec-12984776 A GCSE English Language Resource Bundle, containing the above: /teaching-resource/gcse-english-language-bundle-wjec-12986501

Group Discussion Activity Worksheets comprises of two discussion activities. Each sheet is set up similarly to the WJEC GCSE assessment sheets to help students familiarise themselves with the format. There are five sources on each sheet, including two links to audio-visual clips. **Note - your school must have enabled YouTube access for staff for you to access these clips. The first worksheet promotes discussion around the question, ‘What makes a good citizen?’ which is directly linked to one of the speaking and listening topics given by the exam board for the individual researched presentation. The second worksheet leads students to discuss, ‘What makes a hero?’ which can be connected to the novel Heroes for any pupils studying that text as part of the Literature course. Whilst there are strong connections to the WJEC English courses, both resources stand in their own right to support pupils in developing their discussion skills and can be used with higher ability KS3 pupils in addition to KS4 pupils.

Sentence Punctuation Colour by Number worksheet, including answer key. This worksheet is designed to help KS2-3 pupils learn more about sentence punctuation. This resource is suitable for upper ability KS2 and lower ability KS3 pupils. It will take about 30 minutes to complete. In this task, pupils will select the correct punctuation mark to end different sentences. Correct answers will provide a key to use to colour in the image. The image is of a number of presents so is suitable as a general or a festive activity. An answer key for staff is included for both elements of the worksheet.