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The resources on this page have been selected by Teachit’s editors ( all experienced teachers). We hope you find them useful when teaching the reformed GCSE, AS and A-level specifications for English. They are all free so please help yourselves!
For more information about the reformed specification, go to AQA’s GCSE English page or to AQA’s AS and A-level English page.
The island - Cultural capital projectNew!
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Originally used as a case study at the AQA training hubs, this
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KS3 KS4 | Prose | Reading | Writing | Published: 20/09/2019 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Descriptive writing | Imaginative writing | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Getting started with your language investigation: selecting a topic
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Get students thinking about suitable and possible topics for
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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
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Students consider what to analyse in a child’s written text by
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KS5 | Published: 30/10/2018 | From the resource collection(s): Language diversity | AQA | Language and gender
Flex your lexis!
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A vocabulary building exercise for studying literature at A-level.
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KS5 | Plays | Prose | Reading | Published: 30/10/2018 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Reading novels | Reading plays
AQA Love and relationships cluster study guide
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Detailed questions for each poem in this cluster, as well as
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KS4 | Poetry | Published: 15/05/2017 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Love and relationships
AQA Power and conflict cluster - guess the poem
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Students work in groups to play a game to identify the poems
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KS4 | Poetry | Published: 23/01/2017 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Love and relationships
Understanding a 19th century text
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Suitable as a way in to challenging 19th century non-fiction,
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Exam question template: love poetry through the ages
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A planning resource to help students approach the poetry question
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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
Tackling question 1 of the AQA English Language exam
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A series of activities to help students tackle question 1 of
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England riots persuasive speech analysis
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Suggestions for using a word analysis quadrant to help students
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KS3 KS4 | Writing | Published: 17/07/2013 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Argument and persuasive writing and featured in our teaching pack(s) Argue and persuade pack
Creative writing challenges
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Ten challenges for descriptive or narrative writing, encouraging
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KS3 KS4 | Writing | Published: 28/01/2013 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Imaginative writing
Ways into a text
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A series of open questions designed to get students thinking
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KS4 KS5 | Prose | Reading | Published: 11/05/2012 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Reading novels
Links in a chain
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A great idea! Students fill in the Birlings' actions and motives
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KS4 | Plays | Published: 27/04/2009 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley and featured in our teaching pack(s) 6 week teaching pack - 'An Inspector Calls'
Literary criticism viewpoint cards
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Eight cards assigning pupils to a particular literary theoretical
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KS5 | Published: 24/03/2006 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Approaches to literature | Synoptic unit
Critical readings of Othello
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Comments by critics about Othello, as a resource for group discussion
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Close reading techniques: descriptive writing extracts
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A focus on close reading and language, using extracts from a
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KS3 KS4 | Reading | Published: 09/11/2004 | From the resource collection(s): AQA | Critical reading | Fiction texts | Reading skills