AQA Explorations in Creative Writing - Descriptive writing. Could be used for KS3 or KS4. A stand alone worksheet to help student plan and write a descriptive piece of writing based on an image.

A collection of essay planning sheets for AQA GCSE Literature. These help students become familiar with the structure of Literature questions and gets them thinking about AO1, AO2 and AO3. They work well during after school revision sessions, homework and also cover work. There are questions on: Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ AQA Anthology Power and Conclict. A generic plan on Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ which can easily be adapted for other questions.

AQA Explorations in Creative Writing - Descriptive writing practice. Could be used for KS3 or KS4. Good for cover work and homework. A stand alone worksheet to help student plan and write a descriptive piece of writing based on an image.

AQA Explorations in Creative Writing - Descriptive writing practice. Could be used for KS3 or KS4. Good for cover work and homework. A stand alone worksheet to help student plan and write a descriptive piece of writing based on an image.

Based on AQA Language Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing - this example paper uses an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. Used to help identify a language grade while teaching Literature. The extract is from the end of Stave Two, therefore a good assessment point in the middle of the autumn term. Used with Year 10, but could make good revision material for Year 11 as well.

AQA Explorations in Creative Writing - Descriptive writing. Could be used for KS3 or KS4. A stand alone worksheet to help student plan and write a descriptive piece of writing based on an image.

A series of four lessons created for Year 8 which explore the poem ‘Campsie Fells’ by Imtiaz Dharker. Lessons are sequenced context, language analysis, structure analysis and analytical writing. Worksheets can be printed as a booklet. Key vocabulary taught: Migration, community, rhetorical question, anecdote, family, enjambment.

These lessons were created for a brief unit for Year 9 looking at writing to argue and persuade. There are a number of whole lessons with handouts which cover articles and speeches. There is also a question 5 assessment taken from the KS3 AQA test papers to test their skills in the same format as the new GCSE.

Using AQA style Key Stage Three tests, this is a lesson and final assessment for a piece of descriptive writing using an extract from 'The Great Gatsby' as stimulus. Original idea stemmed from the masked ball in Much Ado About Nothing, this activity could easily be incorporated into other SoW. There is also a homework task which fits with the unit.

Two descriptive writing tasks that helps GCSE English AQA Language students practice for Question 5 on Paper 1. The two tasks are image based, but include six extra objects to include in their writing to encourage planning. Each object needs to be used in a new paragraph and so reinds students of the need to paragraph. These tasks also work well for English/Literacy cover lessons for both KS3 and KS4.

Created for Year 9, these lessons can be used for more able Year 7 and 8 as well as KS4. The lesson helps students to explore the poem 'At The Border' by Choman Hardi by offering focused questions which they answer around the poem. From these explorations they consider the theme of conflict and consider other scenarios where characters may be 'at a border'. This leads onto a descriptive piece of writing which draws from the poem and images which are explored in the lesson.

This lesson explores the poem 'According to my Mood' by Benjamin Zephaniah. This is a good Key Stage 3 poetry lesson as a way to introduce the theme of conflict and of free verse and 'poetic licence'. Links to the ideas of emojis and using symbols to communicate with others. Focuses on the new GCSE skills AO2 - analysing language, structure and form. The handout which accompanies this lesson works well on A3 and creates some excellent display work as well!

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