This worksheet is designed to stimulate analytical consideration of the key images, symbols, and themes of J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. The task is flexible: teachers may ask pupils to surround each image with quotations, words, themes, or general ideas from the play. For example, around the picture of the golf ball, pupils may write: “I don’t play golf” or ‘Birling’s luxuries and leisure as antithesis of the Inspector’, etc. Images inevitably link together and overlap, which is a great prompt for students to connect the key ideas from across the play.

This crossword on Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ provides an enjoyable but academic activity for pupils to test their knowledge of the play. It always works as a great starter or plenary task.

An A4 landscape poster all about similes - perfect for your classroom or corridor display. Useful for helping students remember key linguistic vocabulary.

This crossword on John Boyne’s ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ provides an enjoyable but academic activity for pupils to test their knowledge of the novel. It always works as a great starter or plenary task. Ideal for KS3 and high-attaining KS2 pupils. Note: answer to the question of Shmuel’s religion is ‘Judaism’ not ‘Jewish’ or ‘Jews’, etc.

This word search is a fun and stimulating activity for those studying ‘An Inspector Calls’ to help consolidate knowledge of characters, key themes, and their spelling.

Poster explaining the concept of pathetic fallacy in a fun visual way. Perfect for your classroom or corridor display!

This crossword on Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ provides an enjoyable but academic activity for pupils to test their knowledge of the play. It always works as a great starter or plenary task.

A worksheet which presents students with visual stimuli to prompt critical thinking about the key themes and imagery in Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. Students annotate the worksheet with their knowledge of the theme; they may wish to write down key quotes, important ideas, or significant plotpoints/staves of the novella which apply to each image. It’s up to you how you use this versatile resource. This is an ideal starter or revision activity for studying the text.

A wordsearch designed to support the study of Stevenson’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’.

This word search is a fun and stimulating activity for those studying ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to help consolidate knowledge of characters, key themes, and their spelling.

This crossword on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ provides an enjoyable but academic activity for pupils to test their knowledge of the play. It always works as a great starter or plenary task. Ideal for pupils from KS3 to KS5.

This three-part workbook on the key themes of ‘Macbeth’ is an ideal revision or consolidation task. The first page asks students to annotate images representative of key themes in the play. Students could surround each image with words, quotations, analysis, etc. The second page asks students to retrieve key quotations from the play linked to each theme. The third page is another series of images, this time linked to key quotations from the play. Students are asked to write down the quotations beside the image.

Portrait and landscape posters featuring a quote from J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series: “Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic”. Perfect for classroom and corridor displays, and promoting literacy across the school.

A great double-sided lesson worksheet or homework task designed to consolidate students’ understanding of apostrophes (denoting both contraction and possession). Ideal for UKS2 as well as KS3.

This crossword on Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ provides an enjoyable but academic activity for pupils to test their knowledge of the play. It always works as a great starter or plenary task. Quotations and spellings are based on the Michael Meyer translation, eg. ‘Christine’ not ‘Kristine’. Ideal for KS4 or KS5 students.

This crossword on Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ provides an enjoyable but academic activity for pupils to test their knowledge of the play. It always works as a great starter or plenary task. Note: When the answer to a question is ‘Lady Bracknell’, it should be written as one word, ie: ‘LADYBRACKNELL’.

This word search is a fun and stimulating activity for those studying ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to help consolidate knowledge of characters, key themes, and their spelling.

This word search - containing names and vocabulary from Roald Dahl’s most famous children’s stories - is a fun and engaging activity for students who know and love the author’s work.

This word search on GREEK GODS & GODDESSES is a fun and engaging activity for teaching/consolidating knowledge of Greek mythology. An extension task would be for pupils to write down who exactly each God/Goddess is in their books/notes.

An analytical summary of how Gradgrind’s language changes throughout ‘Hard Times’. Gradgrind’s famous character metamorphosis is a key part of the novel; one way to mark his significant change is through his language. This is an excellent resource for challenging students.