Words Assonance Dissonance Metaphor Personification Simile Alliteration Irony Hyperbole Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Rhetorical Rhetorical techniques Emotive Pathos Ethos Logos Comma Full stop. Hyphen - Speech Marks “ ” Question Mark? Exclamation Mark! Stanza Enjambment Consonance Alliteration Assonance Consonance Euphony Onomatopoeia Repetition Rhyme Rhythm Meter Iambic Pentameter Common line lengths Allegory Allusion Ambiguity Analogy Apostrophe Cliché Connotation Contrast Denotation Euphemism Hyperbole Irony Metaphor Metonymy Oxymoron Paradox Personification Pun Simile Symbol Synecdoche

This resource links to The Full Play resource and provides an insight for the student into the style and techniques used within Shakespeare's writing for the Elizabethan stage. The exercises provide student with a more Socratic understanding of the 'whole' picture and social climate, rather than just taking notes from the play itself. The resource also compares the role of the stage actor versus the TV/film actor and discusses the delivery of lines and language.

A six-page resource containing word definitions and research prompts. This resource asks the student to define Utopia and Dystopia in their own words and then research and complete their own descriptive piece of writing, as an introduction to their own novel.

Whole seventeen chapter analysis split over six pages and presented in a table with a section for student or teacher notes, to gain a more thorough understanding.

A piece of writing with added questions describing a School Reunion with the author of the piece reflecting on the lives of two students, Anthony and Gin.

A seven-page resource (prints back to back as four) used in class in 2016, leading to students researching a whole range of topics, from Animal Cruelty to Forest Fires to Homelessness to Bullying. The resource includes sections for students to: - Compile internet research into their chosen topic/subject/cause - Create and label the parts of a leaflet they design themselves - Dictionary research, i.e. words such as Compassion, Sympathy, Empathy

A pack containing combined resources to create a complete study-aid for students which includes: New Word Chart / Quotation Booklet / Timeline / Visual-Mapping / Internet-Research Booklet Can be used effectively alongside any Novel or a Play.

A two-page handout to introduce this subject. There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical cohesion which is based on structural content, and lexical cohesion which is based on lexical content and background knowledge. A cohesive text is created in many different ways. In Cohesion in English, M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts:  REFERENCE  ELLIPSIS  SUBSTITUTION  LEXICAL COHESION  CONJUNCTION

A six-page resource, ideal to display via Google Drive, listing more than 50 types of poetry, including a final option that encourages the student to devise their own unique form.

A pack containing combined resources to create a complete study-aid for students which includes: New Word Chart / Quotation Booklet / Timeline / Visual-Mapping / Internet-Research Booklet Can be used effectively alongside any Novel or a Play.

A pack containing combined resources to create a complete study-aid for students which includes: New Word Chart / Quotation Booklet / Timeline / Visual-Mapping / Internet-Research Booklet Can be used effectively alongside any Novel or a Play.

A simple yet effective tool for classroom learning; student-mentoring; counselling; planning. At a personal-level I have had 'fantastic' results from students and individuals I've worked with in a mentoring-counselling capacity, more often leaving them to their own devices to create the detail. A highly-effective revision tool for any student, particularly those preparing for exams, to arrange their thoughts in order and gain that ever-so-important visual perspective of their work.

A resource developed to capture key quotes/passages/lines from Book, Play or Poem. This booklet is well laid out with ample space and a subject line, so the student can use it once, e.g. key quotes from Macbeth, or use the same booklet multiple times and keep it as a revision tool throughout a term. In my personal experience, I print a Quotation Booklet per task, i.e. one for An Inspector Calls; one for The Tempest; one for GCSE Poetry, usually half the size of this one. The resource is set out across 12 pages, so this could be printed back to back as a six page booklet, or added to/reduced as required. The resource provides an example from a scene in Hamlet, in the first table boxes on the first page, to guide the student.

A resource looking at the ‘whole picture’ surrounding MacBeth including it’s Holinshed Chronicle influence; the true to life King MacBeth; the Jacobean Period and King James; Religious Belief of the era; burning of 6,000 witches; Middle Age illiteracy and Macbeth’s seemingly ‘genuine’ initial want to simply celebrate his achievements, until Lady MacBeth’s manipulative ways take control. With focus on the so important (turning point) Act I Scene 7. An eight-page resource with space for student notes and trial-exam attempts. Can link to either AQA or Edexcel.

A 13-page resource. Provides - Background notes on Charles Dickens The origins of A Christmas Carol including: “Dickens dwelt on the terrible sights he had seen among the juvenile population in London's jails and doss-houses and stressed the desperate need for educating the poor. This occasion seems to have put into his mind the idea for a [Christmas Eve tale] which should help to open the hearts of the prosperous and powerful towards the poor and powerless but which should also bring centrally into play the theme of memory that, as we have seen, was always so strongly associated with Christmas for him.” Includes reading and writing exercises and full book analysis with lined tables for student notes throughout.

A six page resource. Students identify parts of language and features of language and then incorporate examples into their own sentences. Ideal for use alongside a play, novel or a poem to unpick the structure.

A 24-page resource containing full play analysis, Author biography, character list, notes on grammar and punctuation, word-meanings, discussion exercises and responses relating to social class, attitudes toward education and character contrasts.

Exploring the meanings of: Figuratively/Literally/Simile/Metaphor/Idioms/Personification Leading to Extended Metaphor and analysing Andrew Waterhouse’s wonderful poem: CLIMBING MY GRANDFATHER

A resource developed to allow for greater student involvement in the assessment process via the monitoring and mapping of their own understanding and experience of key terminology and research pathways in English Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Presenting, Debating and Performing.

Trialled resource this week (June 2016) in class. Students initially read through the introduction and the extract and then identified words they were not familiar with, using a dictionary. From here they are re-reading what was to many of them an unfamiliar text and supplementing with the new word definitions. Thus, a completely non-familiar extract becomes more familiar and they write their understanding of this on the 'draft' page, prior to tackling the main question. They then 'compare' their responses to the exemplar answers provided. I have used this with Year 7's and 8's now and really drilled down into the language - around 3-4 lessons for fantastic results. An eight-page (prints as four page double-sided booklet) resource containing: - Summary of the novella, including previous/original title(s) - An overview of the whole story in eight steps - Single page extract - Space for a student 'draft' attempt - Space for the final draft - Two examples of 'exemplar responses' as a student guide to the level they are aiming for - i.e. a strong response and a top level response Responding to: Explore how Charles Dickens presents Scrooge’s character in this extract.