This resource provides a list of over 40 common literary symbols and their common connotations. This resource is ideal for students who struggle with making connections, providing them with a starting point in analysing texts with rich imagery. It can be used in class or as a revision tool.

Use these glossaries in class or as independent revision. An excellent resource for helping students to understand some of the big ideas in the texts they cover. Can be applied to other texts within the same genre. This resource provides glossaries for the following topics: An Inspector Calls The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Romeo and Juliet AQA Power and Conflict Poetry General terms relevant for studying English

This resource contains 30 PowerPoint slides with quotes and prompt questions and some answers. These can be used as starters or recall activities in class or as flashcards for students to use independently.

This resource contains over 50 PowerPoint slides with quotes and prompt questions and some answers. These can be used as starters or recall activities in class or as flashcards for students to use independently.

This resource contains over 25 PowerPoint slides with quotes and prompt questions and some answers. These can be used as starters or recall activities in class or as flashcards for students to use independently.

This resource can be used as a lesson or as part of students’ independent study. The PowerPoint begins with a true or false quiz (animated) on key events from the play. In the following worksheet, students are given basic questions to support their recall of key information from the plot of An Inspector Calls. All students should be able to answer these questions, though some may be stretched to consider the purpose of these events/characters. They could make links to key quotes and context.

This resource provides an excellent display with 5 alternative phrases to ‘Makes the reader want to read on’ to encourage students to be more precise with their analysis.

A fun and engaging lesson for students to revise the poems of the AQA Power and Conflict Poetry anthology. No pens required! The resources provided include: A lesson plan with starter, two main activities and plenary. These contain suggestions on how the activities can be completed or adapted where necessary. 8 questions for each poem from the anthology. Tokens for the poems and themes. Resources simply need to be prepared and the lesson is organised! An excellent lesson for the last day of term!

This resource provides a crossword activity in which students identify key vocabulary that could be related to the key character featured. It also features a challenge task for students to consider which word best applies to the character. Each document features both the empty and completed crossword for teacher reference. This would be ideal as a starter and is great for expanding students’ vocabulary, supporting them in clearly articulating their response to the task/text (AQA AO1).

This resource provides a crossword activity in which students identify key vocabulary that could be related to the key character featured. It also features a challenge task for students to consider which word best applies to the character. Each document features both the empty and completed crossword for teacher reference. This would be ideal as a starter and is great for expanding students’ vocabulary, supporting them in clearly articulating their response to the task/text (AQA AO1).

This resource provides a crossword activity in which students identify key vocabulary that could be related to the key character featured. It also features a challenge task for students to consider which word best applies to the character. Each document features both the empty and completed crossword for teacher reference. This would be ideal as a starter and is great for expanding students’ vocabulary, supporting them in clearly articulating their response to the task/text (AQA AO1).

This resource provides a one hour lesson for revising key ideas about the characters from Macbeth. The pack contains: A PowerPoint with a character related starter, instructions for the silent debate and a plenary A3 sheets with statements about each character for students to respond to as part of their debate A worksheet for students to collate key ideas about each character after the silent debate

This one hour lesson gets students to look at an example poem before creating their own. It features challenge tasks to push students and encourages them to consider language and structure in a creative way. This lesson could be ideal for an interview!

This resource provides a one hour lesson for revising key ideas about the characters from A Christmas Carol. The pack contains: A PowerPoint with a character related starter, instructions for the silent debate and a plenary A3 sheets with statements about each character for students to respond to as part of their debate A worksheet for students to collate key ideas about each character after the silent debate