Free AQA resources – English KS5

These free resources have been designed to support your teaching of the AQA specification and cover a range of skills.

For more information about the reformed specification, go to AQA’s GCSE English page or to AQA’s AS and A-level English page.

Getting started with your language investigation: selecting a topic

Get students thinking about suitable and possible topics for  … read more

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KS5 | Language Investigation | Published: 30/10/2018 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Investigation principles and practices

Gender stereotyping in children's texts

Students consider what to analyse in a child’s written text by  … read more

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KS5  | Published: 30/10/2018 | From the resource collection(s): Language diversity | AQA | Language and gender

Flex your lexis!

A vocabulary building exercise for studying literature at A-level.  … read more

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KS5 | Plays | Prose | Reading | Published: 30/10/2018 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Reading novels | Reading plays

Exam question template: love poetry through the ages

A planning resource to help students approach the poetry question  … read more

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KS5 | Poetry | Published: 04/04/2016 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | AQA AS and A level anthology: love poetry through the ages

Ways into a text

A series of open questions designed to get students thinking  … read more

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KS4 KS5 | Prose | Reading | Published: 11/05/2012 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Reading novels

Literary criticism viewpoint cards

Eight cards assigning pupils to a particular literary theoretical  … read more

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KS5  | Published: 24/03/2006 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Approaches to literature | Synoptic unit

Critical readings of Othello

Comments by critics about Othello, as a resource for group discussion  … read more

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KS5 | Plays | Published: 01/07/2005 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Othello