‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: PUPIL WORKBOOK - LA or SEND A 20 page workbook for lower ability or SEND pupils to work through the basic plot of the play. Example tasks include: Storyboarding Annotation of short extracts Staging ideas Comprehension on plot summaries Uploaded as a PDF also.

AQA GCSE LITERATURE GUIDE TO WRITING AN UNSEEN POETRY ESSAY 133 slides covering: What to expect in the exam How am I assessed? What should I do before I write my essay? How do I write my essay? What about the comparison question? Slides animated with transitions, for easy use on whiteboards.

AQA GCSE English Literaturee - How to write a ‘Macbeth’ (William Shakespeare) essay. An 89 slide PowerPoint covering: What to expect How am I assessed? How to plan How to structure How to write a paragraph Introductions and conclusions Used with my Year 10 and Year 11 mid-ability classes. Uses transitions and animations, for use on whiteboards.

KS3 ‘The Witches’ (Roald Dahl) pupil booklet, to accompany teaching the text. Updated 2024. Suitable for KS3 (particularly year 7 or LA year 8). 17 pages. Range of reading, writing and quiz tasks. PDF uploaded also.

An 8 page feedback document Makes an ideal A3 booklet Used successfully with my year 11’s during a learning walk focussed on feedback to pupils after their mocks. Outcome considered ‘Excellent’. Activities ask pupils to ‘Review’, ‘Reflect’ and ‘Repsond’ to exemplar material and their own responses. The mock Literature question was: In ‘Scaffolding’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about their relationship? … but the template could easily be adopted to other poems / texts.

KS3 Class Text ‘Buddy’ by Nigel Hinton Pupil Booklet A 28 page booklet, covering a range of reading and writing tasks to accompany reading the text. Updated version, using Open Dyslexic font. Suitable for LA pupils or year 7 / 8. PDF and Word version uploaded. Accompanying PowerPoint available on request.

A simple one page plenary activity for AQA GCSE Literature pupils to record notes on each AO for the Conflict and Power poetry.

Taskmaster KS3 Fun Whole Class Games A PowerPoint with 33 slides and 20 fun tasks. Could be used as a plenary ‘treat’ or an end of term ‘fun’ lesson. (i.e. 'Sir, can we have a fun lesson today?) Some tasks need a couple of props, others need nothing. Feel free to add your own challenges! I’ve had great fun with these!

A detailed (103 slides) PowerPoint walking pupils through: Part 1: What to expect in the exam Part 2: How am I assessed? Part 3: What should I do before I write my essay? Part 4: How do I plan? Part 5: How do I structure my essay? Using PowerPoint transitions to animate slides when in full screen mode.

Two A4 page grids of key information for the following poems: ‘Ozymandias’ ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘Remains’ ‘Storm on the Island’ ‘The Emigree’ ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ ‘Kamikaze’ ‘Bayonet Charge’ Blank grids included also, for setting as homework. Coloured and black and white grids, as well as PDF uploaded. Handy for revision.

AQA GCSE LITERATURE DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES IN AN INSPECTOR CALLS A straightforward one page A4 grid of dramatic, structure, form and language techniques used in the play ‘An Inspector Calls’. Helpful for revision, especially when blown up to A3. PDF and Word versions uploaded (colour and black and white).

AQA English Literature Key Vocabulary Four A4 landscape pages of vocabulary for: Macbeth A Christmas Carol An Inspector Calls Power and Conflict Poetry Handy for revision with year 11. PDF and Word document included.

Eduqas GCSE Media Studies NEA Component 3 Horror Film Posters (Cohort 2025 brief 2) Basic pupil booklet for pupils to research and plan their DVD and film poster. Includes pages for pupils to make their notes on: typical codes and conventions of horror typical iconography example horror film posters to annotate space to plan out a DVD and film poster blurb their coversheet notes a checklist of what to include in their products

A KS3 pupil booklet covering covering a range of reading and writing tasks. Close links made to GCSE English Section A and B. Focus text extracts: ‘The War of the Worlds’ (H.G.Wells) ‘The Woman in Black’ (Susan Hill) Most suitable for year 9.

A pupil workbook to accompany reading ‘Buddy’ by Nigel Hinton at KS3. Covers a range of reading and writing tasks, linked to GCSE English / GCSE English Literature. Best suited to LA / SEND. Includes self /peer assessment and ‘Stretch and Challenge’ tasks.

Pupil booklet introducing fiction texts. Includes: Writing openings to short stories Assessing sample pupil extracts against GCSE writing criteria Focus on ambitious vocabulary and sentence variety writing skills Reading tasks linked to ‘The War of the Worlds’ and ‘The Woman in Black’ Writing to describe tasks

The Little Book of Essays An A5 booklet of essay titles, suitable for AQA GCSE Literature, Paper 1 and Paper 2: A Christmas Carol (4 essay titles, including extracts) Macbeth (5 essay titles, including extracts) An Inspector Calls (5 essay titles) Power and Conflict Poetry (6 essay titles) Each essay page allows pupils space to bullet / spider diagram plan their response to a similar essay in the actual exam. Helpful for GCSE revision in class or at home.

The Little Book of Quotes An A5 pupil booklet of key quotations, appropriate to AQA GCSE English Literature, Paper 1 and Paper 2: Macbeth (by Act) An Inspector Calls (by character) A Christmas Carol (by character) Conflict and Power Poetry (by poem) Helpful for year 11 revision.

The Little Book of Literature Quotes Key quotes for year 11 to revise (Cohort 2019) covering the following set texts: A Christmas Carol Macbeth An Inspector Calls Conflict and Power Poetry Produced for LA Year 11 AQA GCSE Literature.**

A 25 page pupil booklet to support teaching poetry ballads and sonnets. Contains: 2 ‘warm up’ or starter tasks Sonnet 130(Shakespeare) poem and task Sonnet 116(Shakespeare) poem and task Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)poem and task My Last Duchess (Browning) poem and task What has happened to Lulu? poem / task The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond poem and task That Time Again (Birtles) and The Captain’s Daughter (Fields) poems and tasks Exerpt from The Highwayman (Noyes) and task Useful for KS3 classes, in particular SEND or lower ability. Used to compliment a year 8 unit of work by the same name for over ten years.