Specifically designed to add an extra dimension to students' practice revision essays. Students can also use them to help them to annotate the text - great to set for cover work during the poetry unit. Can be printed as a revision booklet just before study leave.

Independent learning activity Ideal for G&T top set students

A variety of revision materials ranging from lessons to quick quizzes and example exam questions. Students could use them to decide on key passages to revise or draw mind maps of points for each question.

The first two weeks of lessons on Romanticism. Week 1 study Blake, week 2 Wordsworth, week 3, 4 and 5 Coleridge. A work in progress but the lessons have worked really well with top set G&T students.

This selection of one off grammar, spelling, punctuation and skills consolidation lessons are designed as revision lessons. The quick fire activities can be timed to give challenge and to give an exciting competitive element to revising basic SPAG skills. Slides can also be printed to use for short homework tasks. Ideal for Key Stage 3.

Worksheets on use of the colon, semi-colon and apostrophes. May be printed to be used as part of a DIRT lesson to improve writing.

These can be used to save you time when researching the poems to teach or issued to students to help them whilst preparing for their controlled assessments or the literature exam.

Designed to guide towards the controlled assessment - writing to persuade 2015 radio script.

Lesson plan and resources based on an extract from Maggie Gee's 'The Ice People'. Designed to help middle set students extend their writing. Lesson is differentiated and encourages peer assessment.

Powerpoint on parts of speech, sentence types and punctuation. Can be downloaded for students to use themselves to remind them of the basics as part of their independent learning.

A lesson focusing on the resolution of the novel. Suggested reading for background and discussion points.

This session allows for students to consolidate their learning. The activity requires students to look closely at a few short passages exploring how Bronte presents nature in the turning point of the novel.

A series of lessons to guide students through the Thornfield section of the novel. Offers suggestions for background reading, passages to analyse and possible essay questions and creative tasks for section A or B of the examination.

Highlights key passages to analyse - suggested background reading to increase students' general knowledge about critical essays and gives example questions for homework tasks.

Developed to teach middle ability students a basic introductory frame of analysis. Easy to adapt for either top or lower ability. Encourages team work and independent learning. Lessons based on 'The Song of the Old Mother' by William Butler Yeats.

Again, linked with PSHE on body image, this week focuses on 'writing to argue&'. The &';debatabase' website is extremely useful for students to pick a topic to explore and it gives both the argument and the counter-argument to really push the G&T students.

Weekly lessons including a market place activity for students to learn reading and writing skills for non-fiction texts. Links in with PSHE covering body image. Works really well with top set year 9 students or even year 10 students who need to learn non-fiction analysis ready for their language exam.

Lesson on improving commentary writing for the text production task. Ideal for exam revision - encourages independent learning and reflection time. Also encourages students to use coaching skills.

A series of lesson desiged to aid the teaching of Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons'. Gives basic analysis with a language focus in order to help use the spoken language framework for ELLA 2 part B examination. May also be used as a revision aid for the students.

A tutorial on body image. I've used it with year 8 - a double PSHE lesson, but it can be used for other year groups. Includes little activities for students to complete in small groups.