This bundle includes a Banner for your classroom, a powerpoint game of PictoWord, a Christmas Wordsearch, a Christmas Mad Lib activity and a Word Ladder Activity. There is something for everyone here, including some challenges for those most able students. These are great literacy based quizzes to end the term with that will keep your students focused until the very end. This bundle is easily one full lesson if not a little more and would suit a range of year groups at secondary level. Merry Christmas!

This lesson teaches students the STILT(s) acronym for poetry comparison, this could be used to teach comparison skills as well as teaching specific comparison points on these two poems from the Edexcel Relationship Collection. The lesson is challenging and aims to take students grades to the top levels. It includes engaging 'thunks', activities, guidance, exemplar paragraphs and guided questions and processes that could be applied to other pairs of poems. More comparison lessons to follow shortly, so if you like this follow me here or on Twitter @jomarsh1.

This resources introduces KS3 and International students to the skills required to read a novel for meaning and construction. This resource includes differentiated activities including constructing a family tree, investigation of irony, consideration of intertextuality and character and thematic studies. This Man Booker Prize Winning text is an excellent text to promote reading more broadly whilst introducing students to literary devices and methods in an engaging, active and fun way. This is the first of 5 resources on this text. This resource would take between 6-10 hours teaching time.

This resource explores the third Part of this curious novel investigating literary devices, close textual reading, character studies, intertextuality, an excellent SMSC task inference, comprehension and a concluding activity involving creating a cartoon storyboard to support students engagement with the structure of this section of the novel., This powerpoint offers inks to International Mark Schemes (if required). This book is unusual and engaging, as such it would make an excellent Reading Group study, Extra Curricular Reading Study, Stretch and Challenge, independent novel study, exemplar of ‘how to’ teach a novel for an NQT and a great resource to use for KS3 tutoring or teaching alike.

This resource includes 3 Edexcel style 19th century fiction papers together with indicative content for each. These are perfect for use by teachers, supply, tutors, parents and students. These can be bought as an individual resource or as part of a bundle from my shop (at a discount of 50%). Follow me for more revision resources over the coming weeks.

This resource is for use with the Edexcel (9-1) specification and includes a constructed exam paper in the style of the Edexcel paper 2 on non fiction. Two extracts, focusing on war experiences, have been used for this paper. This resource is available individually or as part of a bundle with a 50% discount. It is perfect for use by teachers, parents, students, homeschooled learners and tutors alike.

This resource takes students through a step by step study of this fascinating novel. Activities are differentiated, essay are guided with supportive notes and preparatory activities, close reading is modeled and exemplars offered to ensure that students are inspired by a high standard of work. This resource covers Part 5 of the novel and includes character studies, close reading, thematic and structural studies, hot seating, creative writing, group work, peer assessment and DIRT activities, all with a nod to SMSC. This can be purchased individually or as part of a bundle from my shop. The mark scheme used in this resource is the New Zealand one, as this was originally devised as part of a commission for a New Zealand school, although these slides could easily be edited to reflect your own mark scheme/specification.

These newly constructed questions are designed to reflect the higher challenge of the new 9-1 specification. These can be used as homework tasks, tutoring activities, discussion groups, oral essays or written exam practice.

This assembly considers 21st century problems in a humorous way before considering what Children in Need does, who it helps and challenges students to ‘Do their thing’. 50% of the proceeds from this sale will be donated to the Children in Need Charity, so please ‘Do your thing’.

This complete lesson is aimed at IGCSE students, but is equally suitable for use as an Unseen Poem, and encourages students to become increasingly independent in their learning. Small group tasks are set to encourage all abilities to be able to access this poem and the requirement to present their findings and set a fun task for their peers ensures that the focus is on enjoyment and ‘game play’ as much as learning. For less able groups questions are proffered to open discussion and then annotated stanzas are included either for use at face value or to top up the presentations. This lesson closes with some thought provoking questions that only make sense once the text has been studied. This is an engaging and active learning lesson that my students have always enjoyed for both its sense of freedom to find answers and support in finding out if they were in the right ball park.

This resource offers a creative lesson for students studying English Language on papers that require students to ‘find’ information. This lesson is centred around earning Exit Passes (lolly sticks) and a Blind Style learning Activity to ensure that the most able are able to construct mark schemes and all students work in a supported environment. This lesson offers an imaginative route into a question that can otherwise be a little dry: it also works towards ALL students achieving full marks on this question and offers a range of 10 texts on which to practise this skill, including answers to all questions.

This resource has been an absolute labour of love. Having created chapter resources on this text, I set myself a challenge to create a revision or learning resource that covered aspects on context, quotations, links within the text, linguistic devices and narration whilst students are actively engaged. The tasks in this resource start with some straightforward questions and build towards quotation reconstruction before finishing on an analytical question. To ensure you have a clear winner in your groups I have included a Bonus Question for use in a tie break situation. The questions and answers are included with this resource along with the digital link to the online Escape Room: all you will need is a laptop and a hot cup of tea! This resource is available as a stand alone product or can be purchased as part of a bespoke package where you can also request an escape room for another text you are studying: all I would need is the questions and answers and I will do the techy side of it. (This product comes with a warning: once your students have done one of these they will be forever requesting more!). I will add the link for that product as soon as I have added it to my shop, in the meantime follow me so that you keep up to date with all the other new resources that are in the pipeline!

This 12 slide powerpoint takes students on a journey of realisation in which they discuss the definitions of fiction and fable, consider the context against which this novel was written, read some fables and decide what lesson is to be learnt and then apply this understanding to this text through a creative activity. This powerpoint is designed to ensure that context is never again merely ‘bolted on’ in an exam response. This lesson works well at any stage in the teaching of this novel as it is designed as much to teach, as it is to ‘fill gaps’ in terms of revision. This resource is the first of a range of resources on this text, so do follow me if you want to keep up to date on what is available.

This resource draws on a range of teaching methods to nurture a love of literature in your students. This resource is all you need to teach Chapter 1 of this GCSE literature text. This resource covers a study of the characters and themes, through creative writing, non fiction reading, discussion, homework tasks, and a quiz and utilises discretely differentiated outcomes and targets that are in turn used to assess your students’ knowledge. As a teacher, I wholly believe in learning by ‘doing’ and this lesson promotes that style of teaching, it is perfect for newly qualified teachers (who need a guide into teaching a novel) and for experienced teachers looking to save a little time on planning for that new text that’s now on your timetable. This resource is equally useful for students wanting to learn at home, with parents who are not so familiar with the text, activities easily translate to home study tasks or intervention activities. If you like this please do follow me so that you can keep up to date with more new resources that are currently being created.

This resource offers a step by step guide to this poem and covers all the detail required by the new GCSE 9-1 specifications. There are slides on context, form, language and structure, interspersed with activities to ensure students enjoy this lesson. This lesson also includes SMSC links which are overtly indicated and an exam style question as a plenary.

This powerpoint takes you through a step by step analysis of each stanza, the background to the title and a potential comparison with My Last Duchess through a wide range of oral, active, written and thought provoking ideas, questions and images. This is everything you would need to teach this poem. Other poems in this collection are also available in my TES shop as is a bundle including all poems in the collection at a discounted rate.

This resource takes a step by step approach to considering language, form and structure in this text through engaging activities, music, video clips, group and individual tasks alongside supported and extension activities. This poem is part of a collection of poetry resources based on the Edexcel Relationships Collection and can be purchased individually or as part of a bundle through the link below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/relationships-poetry-bundle-11607210 If you want a personalised bundle created from the resources I have available please message me via twitter @jomarsh1.

If you only buy one lesson in this series, this would be a useful one to begin to tie together the use of structure, narrative, themes and characters. This lesson is differentiated (Group 3 is definitely harder than any of the other group tasks) and facilitates students' engagement with the real purpose of this chapter through paired and group question led activities.

A couple of handy activities to focus your excited students. Based on literacy skills these draw on festive language. Merry Christmas!