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For students studying AQA’s ‘Worlds and Lives’ anthology or for Unseen Poetry this worksheet identifies poetic devices and asks student to comment on their effect.

This worksheet can be used in guided teaching or as a homework task to help students interpret, analyse and annotate their copy of the anthology poem ‘Walking Away’ by Cecil Day-Lewis.

Students should follow the questions on the sheet to develop their interpetation of Hardy’s ‘Neutral Tones’.

Used for AQA’s ‘Worlds and Lives’ anthology, this worksheet guides students through annotating the poem ‘Like an Heiress’ by Grace Nichols.

‘Odd Word Out’ and ‘Describing China’ use images of China to encourage students to write and think creatively.

This collection of starters and tasks considers: Aristotle’s Tragic Hero Witchcraft in Jacobean England King James

This worksheet is designed for students to independently annotate Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Before You Were Mine’ and develop their poetry analysis skills.

These two worksheets focus on clear lettering for capital and lower case letters.

Here are four starters used with my KS3 Literacy group. The focus of these activities are: Building Vocabulary Working with synonyms Using apostrophes

This lesson is based on the opening to Suzanne Collin’s novel considering how the characters are presented in both the film and the book. Students will build their inference and language analysis skills.

I created this resource for my Year 10 class studying AQA’s ‘Love and Relationship’ anthology. Ideal for flipped learning or homework!

Designed to be used as starters, here are 6 short extracts with accompanying answers. Ideal as a ‘do now’ task, starter or for general literacy comprehension.

This task is ideal for homework or cover work for students revising the play. The extract (and a modern translation) are provided along with seven questions for students to answer independently.

This resource comprises of the extract (Marley’s Ghost) and a scaffolded worksheet. Students share ideas to consider how Marley is presented, there is then a scaffolded model paragraph (“I Do”) and scaffolded sections for class writing (“We Do”) and independent writing (“You Do”).

This scaffolded sheet encourages students to consider how Scrooge is presented in different points of the novella.

This two page quiz is an ideal starter task covering plot, character, context and quotations.

Reading model paragraphs on ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’ students consider the difference between analysing and explaining. On the second sheet students are given paragraphs on ‘Macbeth’ which are explanatory. Using the first sheet as a model they must then write analytical paragraphs.

As part of our World Poetry exploration, students compare a Scots Gaelic poem with a modern translation. There are four comprehension questions and a challenge task.

Ideal as a KS3 homework task. Students must define, use in a sentence and spell various ambitious vocabulary words which can feed into their creative writing.

Students must define and practice spelling the words. Designed with KS5 Language students in mind but I have used with more able G.C.S.E classes.