Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, Meet Scrooge
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Free resources
Lesson 3 of every scheme, four more free sheets, a Raising Achievement drill for every scheme and AQA's past questions. No sign-up needed: read them here, or download them for your classroom.
Lesson 3 of every scheme
Teacher notes, slides and student pages at all three levels of support. Try one with a class before you decide.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, Story of the door
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, The witches
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, Do you bite your thumb at us
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, The Birlings at dinner
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, My Last Duchess
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, The shape of a poem
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, Images and senses
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Lesson sampler: Lesson 3, Words with a purpose
Teacher notes and student pages at all three levels.
Four more free sheets
A thesis builder and a revision plan for students, a guide for parents and carers, and a quotation a day for A Christmas Carol in December.
Guide for parents and carers
The four GCSE English papers, the three levels and how to help at home.
Raising Achievement: a free drill for every scheme
Short intervention sessions of about 25 minutes: a Do Now, an extract, one quotation or skill, an exam question and a green-pen check. Drill 1 of each set is free; the full set of 30 is on the Resources page.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
Raising Achievement: drill 1
A free 25-minute intervention session, with the slides, the student sheet and the teacher guide.
AQA past questions
Every question AQA has set for GCSE English Literature since 2017, grouped by paper and section, and the Language papers series by series. We do not make predictions: any part of a text can come up.
AQA Literature Paper 1 past questions
Every question set from 2017 to 2025 for Section A (Shakespeare) and Section B (the 19th-century novel).
AQA Literature Paper 2 past questions
Every question set from 2017 to 2025 for Section A (modern texts), Section B (the anthology) and Section C (unseen poetry).
AQA Language past papers, 2017 to 2025
Paper 1 and Paper 2, series by series: what each source was about and the writing tasks.
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