This crib sheet is perfect for students who may not have done as much revision as they ought to have done, it gives them everything they need to know in one place and would work well for last minute revision sessions before the Transactional Writing Paper.

This lesson takes you through the links between Marilyn Monroe and this play text ensuring that students can discuss this in the context of the themes that this play throws up. This lesson draws on engaging activities, such as quote finds, parallel timelines, research tasks and a quiz that demands higher level thinking. Literary terminology is encouraged throughout to ensure students familiarise with this during teaching.

These resources introduce students to the themes contained in this text, explores the characterisation of Silas Marner and uses some engaging kinaesthetic activities (Human Weaving Machine and Court Room) to capture the imaginations of students who might find studying 19th century fiction more difficult. Chapter 2 is also included here and concentrates predominantly on teaching students 'how to' analyse extracts at GCSE level. If you like this resource please follow me as more resources are being prepared on this text and will be released very soon.

This resource is challenging through differentiation and equally supports the middle/lower ability learners. This powerpoint offers a mix of informative slides, with activity slides to ensure that everyone is stretched and engaged. This lesson concludes with a comparative essay title to enable learners to evidence their understanding of the devices at play in this text. If you like this resource do leave a review and look up my other poetry resources in my shop. Alternatively, contact me on twitter @jomarsh1 to enquire about bespoke bundles, marking services and additional offers available on multiple purchases.

Is Curley's Wife really that bad? This lesson includes some outstanding resources that use differentiated questioning and focus to meet the needs of ALL learners. The activity worksheets are classified in target grades so that you can group students according to ability and includes a 'Magpie' activity for your very most able. This lesson draws on a range of pedagogical practices in order to achieve outstanding progress for ALL. If you like this resource and want more on OMAM follow me here and on Twitter @jomarsh1.

This quiz traverses a range of cross curricular topics including Literature, Art, Dance, Music and Media and contains a variety of question types suited to all KS3/4 students including extension bonus questions. Enjoy!! Mwahahahahahahahaha...

This quiz uses video stills, music, literacy and maths in a fun and varied way to provide an engaging and fully accessible quiz for all learners. This quiz contains tips and visuals to help younger students and as such would work for students at the top end of KS2 through to KS5. A perfect way to end the term and send your students off happy!

This powerpoint incorporates all the skills required by the new GCSE specifications and would be appropriate for teaching this text at both KS3 (top end) or KS4. The resource includes challenge tasks, language, form and structure analysis, dramatic tasks, recreations of scene, engaging use of ICT and nods to including Maths in the English curriculum. This is everything you need to teach this section of the play and would take between 7-9 hours to teach in its entirety.

This resource examples how audiences assume a 'Collective Identity' through a range of images to prompt discussion before then exploring the Critical Debate 'Whatever I say I am' . The lesson concludes with an essay question, peer assessment and DIRT style homework task to build on learning and independent research for this Case Study. This is an excellent lesson for students who need that extra leg up on this more challenging Case Study.

KS5 Tragedy Poetry: This lesson is a guide to this poem offering context, language, form and structure analysis through guided independent learning.

This lesson takes students through a range of questions and foci on Betjeman's poem. This lesson encourages students to refine independent enquiry skills and concludes with a paired and peer assessed essay task broken into segments for ease of access.

This resource is a domino game with the narrative devices introduced at KS5, this is an engaging yet challenging way of getting students to identify what they do/don't know. This can be run as either a whole class game or print a set for each student and race to first completed (the method I prefer!).

This powerpoint covers the latter chapters of Book 1 of this new GCSE text. The powerpoint contains a number of engaging activities to ensure full comprehension of the text as you read and activities to begin to construct revision pages on the themes contained in this text. It also includes a 9-1 exam style 'exploding question' in which extract skills are taught in a supported way before setting up a full essay question.

An in depth study of Act 1 of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. This is designed for GCSE teaching and includes a range of activities including: an activity that breaks down the language used by Shakespeare ensuing that this is not a barrier to learning, drama activities, quotation finds, matching activities, transactional writing activities and debate. This is 4-6 hours of teaching and includes reference to themes, motifs, use of language and structure: everything students need to know for their exams in an accessible and fun format.

A study of Act 5 of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. This is designed for GCSE teaching and includes a range of activities to engage students. The lesson also includes slides on structural devices used within the play (as a key component to achieving a grade 5 or above) and whole text revision activities at the end of the powerpoint.

This resource covers Book 2, Chapters 3-6 of the narrative and includes a range of inclusive and challenge activities to ensure students are engaged and stretched. This lesson includes reference to theories relating to the text to enable students to access the grades 8 and 9 together with more accessible and relatable activities for lower ability.

This Literacy Programme is 1 of 3 for use with year 8s across an entire term and forms part of a newly written programme that builds on the strengthened demands of the KS2 literacy skills and the Year 7 Programme also available on TES. This resource includes a PDF version of the programme plus an Adobe version that is editable so that the name of your school/behaviour policy can be incorporated into the documents. The powerpoint presentation is used to test the weekly skills gained by your students and allows you to track progress and build in additional intervention for areas of shortfall post completion. The subsequent booklets for use in this Programme and year 9 will be posted imminently.

An observation standard lesson including lesson plan and all resources to aid the evidence of progression during the lesson. Includes effective use of music (embedded) to aid engagement with the 'tone' contained in this poem. Focusing on 'colour' as a route to thinking about tone is a strategy that transfers easily to studying other poems as Seen or Unseen.

Based on an extract from Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' here is a further exam style paper to use for revision as you prepare students for the GCSE reading paper exams. Written using the Edexcel (9-1) English Language Specification.