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Worksheets created to analyse the poem ‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage. Focus is on meaning and understanding, as well as analysis of techniques. I have found that my classes would identify techniques in a poem but not say much about them! In these worksheets, the techniques have been given to them (which will help with their understanding of a range of techniques - not the same ones time and time again that they seem to go for!), with questions aimed at analysis why the writer has used said technique, as well as further questions exploring specific language choice. i.e. why ‘life’, why not ‘body’? etc. Also includes storyboard type images, to help with dual coding. If you like this resource, please check out my storyboard activities for this poem too: /teaching-resource/remains-storyboard-language-analysis-and-revision-tasks-12207507

A set of 3 (potentially 4) lessons you could easily set as cover (as I have done so!) if a teacher is likely to be absent for a few days. Lesson 1: Implying information based on the image of a door. Lesson 2: Describing approaching the door (rising action / building tension) Lesson 3: The other side of the door (climax) Lesson 4 (optional): Neat write up of their 3 part description of the door ‘for display’ The lessons indicate that the writing should IMPLY, not state (i.e. my take on ‘show, don’t tell’), whereby certain rules are included such as 'you cannot use the word ‘door’. Lessons include examples / models; scaffolding and success criteria; peer assessment tasks.

Includes 6 weekly set homework tasks based on key themes, context, conventions and genre of Blood Brothers. Tasks have been created in such a way that the work can be self/peer assessed within the lesson on hand in day, to limit/reduce teacher marking workload, but still able to ‘assess’ students progress and add to your data/markbooks :)

As the title says, chapter summaries for all chapters in Catherine Johnson’s novel ‘Sawbones’.

A series of 7 worksheets which can be printed and left for cover work. Each sheet has a break down of tasks leading to a piece of independent writing at the end. An example of one of the worksheets: TASK ONE: Inferring information from an image TASK TWO: Write up of inferences. TASK THREE: Write a short story, inspired by this image and what it infers. Each task has scaffolding (writing frames / vocabulary etc) to support understanding and completion of the tasks.

An introductory lesson to persuasive speeches, using Room 101 tv show.

Worksheets created to analyse the poem ‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir. Focus is on meaning and understanding, exploring the key imagery with lots of prompts and scaffolding to guide pupils. This has been created for LA pupils, where I am trying to steer away from simply identifying techniques and move further into WHY specific techniques/words have been used and what imagery it suggests. Resource includes: PRE-READING tasks: Context/Summary/Glossary page READING tasks: Each stanza broken down with tasks to explore the imagery and a challenge task to complete. POST-READING tasks: Deeper thinking questions; Lang techniques task; Themes based task; Essay style question.

A complete lesson giving a comprehensive contextual background in preparation for studying the play Blood Brothers by Willy Russell. This would work for KS3 or KS4 first time study of the play or revision. Ares covered: Willy Russell Liverpool City Liverpool Culture Marilyn Monroe The Play Housing

An unofficial adapted paper created for the Lang P1 exam series from 2026, with the changes to Q wording. Section A only. MS for Q1 also included.

A complete unit of work / a term’s worth of lessons for the KS3 novel ‘Sawbones’ by Catherine Johnson, with a strong focus on reading skills. Lessons are well planned and resourced on one PPT (145 slides total). First slide has the MTP with each lesson hyperlinked for easy navigation, as shown in the image.

AQA 2019 Language Paper 2 DIRT tasks, section A: Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives A series of lessons that reflect upon questions 2-4 of 2019 Paper 2, advising pupils where they may have missed marks and how to improve. AQA 2019 Lang Paper 2: ‘The Crossing’, an extract from James Cracknell and Ben Fogle’s autobiographical account of crossing the Atlantic and ‘Idle Days in Patagonia’, an extract from W H Hudson’s travel writing.

A powerpoint and two worksheets exploring the role of women in Shakespeare, with a specific focus on Lady Macbeth.

A 5 lesson walkthrough of AQA Language Paper 2, section A on the topic of ‘Hunting’ (the Q paper itself is not my resource, and can be found for free, but the lessons are my own). Can be used for first time teaching of the paper as the lessons indicate how pupils should approach the paper, highlighting how each question builds onto the next, and ‘photos’ of teacher’s copy to model how to annotate their own extracts and prepare to answer. All questions come with model answers for pupils to mark against skill descriptors, with lessons culminating in pupils given the opportunity to ‘magpie’ ideas and improve their own responses. If you like these resources, please do leave a review, so other teachers can find my resources too - much appreciated :)

A task to get pupils to explore the time period that the play was written and set, to clearly understand where the play ‘fits’ in relation to key historial, social and technological moments. Pupils should be given the ‘blank’ timeline, with only the years on, and have to work in pairs to write where they think each ‘event’ occurred. The answers have also been provided for self/peer assessment and to aid further discussion.

Article writing task on the topic of Boxing. Perfect for AQA Language Paper 2, Q5 practice. This ppt includes lots of ideas and information for pupils to read and make notes on before formulating a viewpoint for themselves and presenting in the form of a broadsheet newspaper. This ppt does NOT overly go over article features. This lesson is best suited as a lesson to apply and demonstrate what they have learned about article features. Alternately, this could be used as baseline assessment, prior to teaching article features.

Included is a storyboard of the poem, with some instructions on how you could use for Yr 11 revision: pupils to put them in order, from memory see if they can write a quotation from the poem for each of the images, pupils then to check back with the actual poem and add any quotations where needed, then begin to identify and analyse language. I have also used the story board to teach first time round, especially with lower ability pupils to help them visualise the poem better. Also included, is a storyboard image sort & language identifying task which is an A3 sheet. It consists of a copy of the poem, with space for the images to be sorted and stuck in and a table which gets pupils to identify key language techniques in the poem. The table can easily be adapted to add more advanced level techniques for idenitification, but as it currently stands is suitable for low to mid ability.

A 1 slide presentation, writing task - writing to describe with a narrative frame to guide the pupils.

Handout, outlining creative writing task, with paragraph structure suggested. Based on an image: fire.

Shakespearean language Starter activity - Thou, thee, thine and thy Activity Task, with answer slide.