An interactive advent calendar for use in English lessons or as literacy activities in form time. Each day links to a new literacy or English activity such as descriptive writing, comprehension questions, games or critical thinking exercises. These work especially well as 10 minute starters for the beginning of your lessons. Happy Christmas! Leave a review and choose any other resource for free from the LikeAnExpert shop.

A scheme of learning overview document and end of unit assessment for an introduction to poetry; this unit is suitable for key stage 3 (particularly year 7) to build upon what they have learned in key stage 2. It embeds knowledge of poetic techniques, whilst also introducing them to poetic analysis. All the resources for teaching this scheme of learning are available in my shop (some of them are free!) Please leave a review!

A simple match-up activity with 16 poetic terms and their definitions. I keep a couple of sets laminated and use them for speed matching; over time my students have shown a real improvement. If you find this resource helpful, please leave a review and have a look at other resources available in my shop.

A detailed knowledge organiser to introduce students to poetic techniques and structures. It includes the following sections: Influential poets Poetic structures Poetic techniques Poet laureate This knowledge organiser can be used for designing schemes of work, revision mats for students or giving them self-quizzing homework. Please leave a review and check out the LikeAnExpert shop.

A detailed and engaging one hour lesson to introduce the play version of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1. This lesson introduces students to the assessment objectives for the Edexcel Pearson IGCSE as well as exploring the background and context of autism and sensory overload as a way to understand the character of Christopher. This resource contains: A full PPT with teacher instructions included. A KWL grid. A handout for the ‘do it now’/bellwork activity. If you find this resource helpful, please leave a review and have a look at other resources available in my shop.

2 hours of engaging activities and discussion to introduce students to gender roles and gender equality. This could easily be split into 2 or 3 one-hour lessons. It is suitable for students in key stages 3 and 4. These resources are in-depth but made accessible by the different and fun activities. This resource includes: A detailed powerpoint with 2 hours of activities (22 slides). All preparation instructions (these resources are ready-to-teach, but some preparation is required). A worksheet in ppt and pdf form. The session covers three main questions. This could be split into three lessons each addressing one of the questions with very little adaptation required: What is gender and what are gender roles? What is the impact of gender roles and why does it matter? What can we do to reduce gender inequality? Leave a review and choose any other resource for free from the LikeAnExpert shop.

A simple worksheet to help students to plan the creation of their own superhero. Students consider the main character traits that they would like their character to have and then plan backwards to think about how this could be portrayed to the reader through their costume, name, body language etc. This would be helpful when studying characterisation, connotations and superhero conventions. Suitable for KS3.

Worksheet for use in class or homework to prompt students to write a description of household objects. It is included as a word doc and pdf for easy printing and editing.

A detailed knowledge organiser to introduce students to the knowledge needed to study WW1 poetry. It includes the following sections: Influential poets Poetic forms Famous poems Key words Poetic techniques This knowledge organiser can be used for designing schemes of work, revision mats for students or giving them self-quizzing homework. Please leave a review and check out the LikeAnExpert shop.

A detailed and engaging homework menu to be used alongside a horror writing unit. This menu structures homework tasks, but also gives students creative freedom to pursue their own interests. I tend to set one homework per fortnight to ensure that students have sufficient time to produce something of high quality. The deadlines can be set by the teacher to allow more or less time for certain tasks. This has worked exceptionally well with my classes who produced some outstanding homework. All the tasks require student to synthesise the information they’ve researched to present it in a new way. Students of all abilities are able to access this homework and are still challenged by it. It is provided as a pdf for easy printing. Please have a look at some of the other resources in my LikeAnExpert shop.

This is a simple match up exercise containing key literary terms that students need to know to study Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. I use it as a starter revision exercise or I also set it as homework to have students use it to create flashcards for revision. I have included one page of it in colour and one in black and white. Many of these terms are included on the Romeo and Juliet Knowledge Organiser. Please leave a review - I value all the feedback I receive - and have a look at the other free and cheap resources from the LikeAnExpert shop.

A simple poster for reference to the four assessment objectives for the current Edexcel IGCSE English Literature course. I have included it as a pdf (without text titles) for easy printing, or as a PPT file so that you can add your own text choices.

A detailed and comprehensive knowledge organiser/revision mat for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1. This comprises two A3 pages of information. This knowledge organiser contains the following sections: Literary terms Contextual terms Themes Structural terms Theatrical terms I have included it in colour and black and white as a Powerpoint (for easy editing) and a PDF (for easy printing). If you find this resource helpful, please leave a review and have a look at other resources available in my shop.

A detailed scheme of work for three lessons preparing year 6 students for their transition to secondary school. This scheme of work includes: A lesson preparing students for the challenges of secondary school: the resources for this lesson are available for free here. A lesson to help students develop their organisation skills for secondary skills. The resources are available here. A lesson to prepare students for how their friendships might change in year 7 and strategies they can use to protect their mental health. The resources are available here. If you find this lesson useful, have a look at other resources available in my shop. . Please leave a review as I value all the feedback I receive.

A detailed lesson to give students an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper 1. This presentation breaks down what is in each question (giving examples from the specimen paper and adapted examples from past papers) and what knowledge and skills are requires. Students are prompted to consider how to time themselves effectively in this paper. This resource contains a ready-to-teach powerpoint with printing and teaching instructions. Learning Objective: Understand the format and types of questions on language paper 1. **Learning Outcomes: ** Students will understand the purpose, length and question types of Language Paper 1. Student will understand which learning objectives they are being assessed on in Language Paper 1. Lesson Outline: Do it now: Think-pair-share what do you already know about papers 1 and 2. Starter: Detailed overview of paper 1 with key vocabulary shared and teacher questioning to check for understanding. Task one: How should you divide your time? Task two: Consolidation of paper 1 overview with students summarizing what the paper covers and assesses. Plenary: If a friend was stressed about this exam, what would your top three pieces of advice to them be? More Freebies: A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper Two here. Free marking templates for CIE 0500 here. If you find this lesson helpful, have a look at my CIE 0500 Language Paper 1 bundle here or the Language Paper 2 bundle here. If you’re interested in both, there is a combined bundle here which is cheaper than buying them separately. Please leave a review as I value all the feedback I receive, and have a look at other resources available in my shop. **

A spreadsheet plan for an 36 weeks of explicitly teaching word roots. This spreadsheet allocates each week a word root and gives examples of three words that contain this root and are used across a range of subjects across the school. This can support you to explicitly teach students a word root per week to unlock thousands of words for your students. Have a look at this bundle of resources for embedding Word Root of the Week in your school. Related Resources * Word Root of the Week assembly/form time slides for the whole academic year. * Staff CPD on Whole-School Reading Strategies * A bundle of whole-school literacy resources including this CPD, CPD on Reading Strategies and resources for implementing a Word Root of the Week in your school. Please leave a review as I value all the feedback I receive, and have a look at other resources available in my shop.

A fun and addictive ‘Of Mice and Men’ revision tool that lasts 20-40 minutes to help students revise themes and quotes. The game ends differently each time, so this can be played multiple times to support students in revising the themes and ideas in Of Mice and Men. Students play as either George, Lennie, Candy or Curley and the aim is to achieve their dream. They play through 40 event cards, which will give them plus or minus DPs (dream points). If they can achieve positive DPs by the end of the game then they achieve their dream. If they don’t then they are doomed to a migrant worker life of working for other people. This game helps students to revise key events in the book, important quotes and presses them to consider the challenges that characters face to achieve their dreams. Reflection questions for students are included. It is a print and play game. It is quick and easy to cut out. I would suggest laminating for quick further use, however this is not required. The only additional materials you will need are one die per game and scrap paper for students to keep track of their scores. Included: How to play card Character profiles sheet Event cards Reflection questions Leave a review and choose any other resource for free from the LikeAnExpert shop. I have a whole range of Of Mice and Men revision resources available in the shop and a range of revision videos on my YouTube channel (this is linked to in my shop).