A comprehensive collection of posters to immerse students in thematic and topical extracts across non-fiction and fiction. Each month has a collection of extracts linked to the day/event. Designed to be spread across the school, especially in canteens and common areas in menu holders, hence the name of ‘Snack Bite Reading’.

A sequence of lessons testing LP2 Q3 and Q5 skills through the darts speech in Apple TV show, Ted Lasso, and building up into a methodical construction of an inspiring speech.

A series of lessons exploring an extract from ‘The Children of Men’ with a focus on LP1 questions.

Exploring the murder of King Duncan, the role of sybmolism and how to analyse key scenes.

A sequence exploring the role of Jacobean women, linking this to ‘Macbeth’, and exploring the wider theme of masculinity in society and the play as a whole.

An academic reading, pre-reading booklet to study ‘Macbeth’.

A PRE-READING booklet for ‘A Christmas Carol’ GCSE study.

A fully-resourced, contextual booklet compiling of PRE-READING activities to lay the foundations for an initial reading of ‘An Inspector Calls’.

A fully-resourced, challenge booklet compiling of POST-READING activities to to apply knowledge and skills

A collection of 5 fiction short stories from the AQA telling tales section followed by space for active reading activities and comprehension tasks.

Weekly reading lessons to complement an adventure non-fiction scheme of learning. 5 MA - HA non-fiction texts followed by space for comprehension activities selected by the teacher.

An eighteen-page feedback sequence breaking down the June 2021 paper (Sweets - Australia vs Victorian era located on AQA website) after a mock exam.

A comprehensive full term’s collection of weekly reading texts. Once a week, students read aloud a selected text/extract and then complete carefully selected active reading tasks based on their individual needs (predominantly identified by Accelerated Reader, but easily adapted to suit needs of your cohort).

POST-READING booklet of ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Academic Reading)

A booklet comprising of response tasks and exam strategies tackling the exam question: How does Priestley present Mr. Birling as self-centered in ‘An Inspector Calls’?

A feedback booklet responding to the Language Paper (Mr. Fisher) tackling key skills and exam strategy techniques.

A unit of work exploring ‘Ghost Stories’ and tackling reading skills for individual classes/students. This booklet has room to develop ideas, challenge, and differentiate tasks (we do this based on Accelerated Reader data). Through these lessons, students develop: annotation skills, comprehension skills, decoding, tackling tier-2 language, and many other skills. The final task is a competition where students create and perform their own ghost story based on the extracts and short stories they have read each week.