Pupils need to talk and write about many aspects of the texts they use. To do this well they need to be familiar with the major technical terms. B & D Publishing’s two Language for Literature schemes of work spanning key stages 3 and 4 aim to give pupils a sound understanding of many literary terms. These are explained and illustrated by examples. Work is provided for pupils to do on each topic. The literary terms covered include Acrostics, Alliteration, Anecdote, Clerihew, Epic, Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Myth, The Ballad, Fable, Assonance, Autobiography, Cinquain, Cliché, Elegy, Haiku, Ambiguity, Rhyme, Rhythm, Kenning, Legend, Ode, Parable, Parody, Personification, Sonnet, Limerick, Soliloquy, Pun, Spoonerisms, Dialect, Dialogue, Epitaph, Onomatopoeia, Proof Reading, Proverbs, Riddles, Anachronism, Allegory, Diaries and Journals, Dramatic Irony, Hyperbole and much more. Two packs are included - Language for Literature Series One and Language for Literature Series Two, with each scheme of work suitable for KS3 and KS4 students. This bundle also includes Forty Favourite Poems Series One and Two. Forty Favourite Poems Series One and Two each contain forty poems that are essential reading for all lovers of English literature. Series One is suitable for use with students at KS3 and Series Two for students working at KS4 and beyond. The copyright free text plus work on each poem is provided. Forty Favourite Poems Series One includes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Sea Fever, The Eagle, Silver, Inversnaid, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Snake, Cargoes, Sarah Byng and many more. Forty Favourite Poems Series Two includes: To a Mouse, A Case of Murder, Toads, Dover Beach, Stop All The Clocks, Ode to Autumn, The Thought Fox, If, Ozymandias, Leisure, Binsey Poplars and many more. Also available is our Language for Literature and The Sonnet bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-sonnet-bundle-12295518 We also have Language for Literature and Narrative Poems bundles: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-narrative-poems-bundle-12156125 A Language for Literature and First World War Poetry bundle is also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-first-world-war-poetry-bundle-ks3-and-ks4-11930640 Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources and to download free samples of all of our schemes of work, including our extensive collection of Shakespeare resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources or would like to provide feedback please leave a review. The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school.

B and D Publishing’s KS2 English Skills Revision consists of two workpacks containing work on a variety of language topics designed to meet much of the criteria required for the KS2 National Curriculum Test Paper 1: English grammar, punctuation and spelling. Both packs are intended for revision and consolidation of these topics for pupils working at levels 3-5. The worksheets in these packs are also suitable for home learning. NOTE: In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National Curriculum. Also included is B & D Publishing’s KS2 English Reading and Responding, which provides exercises to help prepare pupils for the national curriculum English reading test. On the topic of The Sea, the scheme provides passages of factual writing, poetry and prose followed by questions on the texts to test pupils’ comprehension. Key stage 2 English Skills Revision Series One contains worksheets on: • Capital letters and full stops • Singular and plural words • Question marks • Exclamation marks • Nouns: common, proper, collective and abstract • Compound words • Adjectives • Prefixes • Suffixes • Commands • Verbs and tense • Adverbs • Apostrophe: possession and missing letters • Commas • Prepositions • Word family • Word roots • Determiners • Pronouns • Verbs, nouns and adjectives • Direct Speech • Subject - verb agreement KS2 English Skills Revision Series Two contains worksheets on: • Noun phrases • Clauses: co-ordinating conjunctions, subordination • Relative pronouns • Relative clauses • Verbs: present tense, past tense, progressive, present progressive, past progressive, present perfect • Modal verbs • Parenthesis - brackets • Parenthesis - dashes • Synonyms • Antonyms • Ellipsis • Subject, verb, object • Punctuation • Verbs, active and passive voice • Colon • Semicolon • Hyphenated words • Bullet points • Verb or noun • Nouns and adjectives • Words with more than one meaning • Adverbs • Adverbials • Fronted adverbials KS2 Reading and Responding contents: The Sea - a factual piece describing the history and uses of the seas. Cargoes by John Masefield - poem. A Smuggler’s Song by Rudyard Kipling - poem. Extract from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - fictional prose. The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school. Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources and to download free samples of all of our schemes of work, including our extensive collection of Shakespeare resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources or would like to provide feedback please leave a review.

B and D Publishing’s KS4 Macbeth Scheme of Work and accompanying PowerPoint slides. The slide packs cover all five acts of Shakespeare’s play. This series of lessons for teaching the play at GCSE covers every scene, including commentary on the text, historical context, examination of key soliloquies, language notes and differentiated work on character, themes and imagery. Also included are “Character File” worksheets for pupils to fill out on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Many of the exercises in the slide packs and more are included in B and D Publishing’s full key stage 4 scheme of pdf worksheets (also included in the bundle) on the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CCEA and Eduqas set text Macbeth. This pack is 60 pages long and sample pages are available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-resource-pack-sample-pages-11860541 A slide pack focusing on the scenes in which The Witches appear (Act 1 Scene 1, Act 1 Scene 3, Act 3 Scene 5 and Act 4 Scene 1) is also available for free download: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-the-witches-slide-pack-17-slides-12009565 The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school. KS4 Shakespeare schemes of work are also available for the following plays: Othello; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night; Henry V; Richard III. KS4 Shakespeare resource packs contain scene by scene notes on all aspects of the play, story summaries and differentiated worksheets. Areas typically covered include: character, themes, imagery, language, cloze passages, revision questions, picture pages, written assignments, oral assignments, quiz pages, commentaries, etc. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for home learning and GCSE exam revision. Also available for KS3 students are ‘Starting Macbeth’ and ‘Macbeth in Focus’. The Starting Macbeth scheme of work is a short, simple introduction to the play for KS3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/starting-macbeth-ks3-scheme-of-work-12044679. Macbeth in Focus features classroom display materials and accompanying worksheets, perfect as an introduction to the play for KS3 or as a quick revision resource for KS4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-in-focus-10-lesson-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12022474 Also available is the KS3 scheme of work Introducing Shakespeare. This useful resource introduces pupils to Shakespeare’s England and theatre. The pack includes a simple model of the Globe theatre for pupils to make: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-shakespeare-scheme-of-work-11889714 See our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources or would like to provide feedback please leave a review.