I am an English teacher who designs resources for KS3, 4 and 5 students with particular focus on AQA GCSE and A-level courses (both literature and language). My resources range from revision booklets to full schemes of learning, and I pride myself on high-quality resources which are engaging and accessible to a range of learners.
I am an English teacher who designs resources for KS3, 4 and 5 students with particular focus on AQA GCSE and A-level courses (both literature and language). My resources range from revision booklets to full schemes of learning, and I pride myself on high-quality resources which are engaging and accessible to a range of learners.
This quiz contains 60 questions, and is ideal for revising students’ knowledge of ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B. Priestley. It is designed to cover key aspects of the poems in a way that is fun and engaging and includes questions relating to all 15 poems in the cluster. It is packed with key quotations and the slideshow is complete with onscreen timers.
This is a great resource for cover lessons, GCSE revision and recall, supporting KS3 literature study, and end of unit/end of term quizzes.
The quiz contains 5 rounds and a bonus round:
1- Characters
2- Missing Words (key quotations)
3- Context
4- True or False?
5 - Dramatic Devices
Bonus - The Inspector
This plug-and-play file includes everything you need for this quiz:
a fully resourced slideshow of questions and animated answers
You will simply need to hand out paper and pens and keep score :)
This quiz contains 60 questions, and is ideal for revising students’ knowledge ofthe Edexcel Relationships Poetry Anthology. It is designed to cover key aspects of the poems in a way that is fun and engaging and includes questions relating to all 15 poems in the cluster. It is packed with key quotations and the slideshow is complete with onscreen timers.
The quiz contains 4 rounds:
1- Poems and Poets (matching poets to poems)
2- Missing Words (key quotations)
3- First or last line (key quotations)
4- Time Tunnel (linked to historical context)
This plug-and-play file includes everything you need for this quiz:
a fully resourced slideshow of questions with onscreen timers
a student answer sheet (PDF version and editable Publisher version)
I hope you find this resource useful :)
This quiz contains 60 questions, and is ideal for revising students’ knowledge ofthe Edexcel Conflict Poetry Anthology. It is designed to cover key aspects of the poems in a way that is fun and engaging and includes questions relating to all 15 poems in the cluster. It is packed with key quotations and the slideshow is complete with onscreen timers.
The quiz contains 4 rounds:
1- Poems and Poets (matching poets to poems)
2- Missing Words (key quotations)
3- First or last line (key quotations)
4- Time Tunnel (linked to historical context)
This plug-and-play file includes everything you need for this quiz:
a fully resourced slideshow of questions with onscreen timers
a student answer sheet (PDF version and editable Publisher version)
I hope you find this resource useful :)
Designed to support GCSE students when analysing different types of literature texts, these colourful A4 glossaries are perfect for laminating as classroom tools or for sticking into exercise books as a revision resource. You will receive an editable Publisher version as well as a ready-to-print PDF version.
These are a great way to scaffold students’ knowledge and provide them with support with their independent writing. These resources are particularly useful to close gaps after absence and support SEN needs.
You will receive:
Shakespeare glossary (Shakespearean language, dramatic devices, useful vocabulary)
Poetry glossary (Parts of a poem, words to describe mood/tone, poetry techniques)
Novel analysis glossary (Parts of a novel, Words to describe a setting / object, words to describe a character
Modern text glossary (Parts of a play, words to describe the effect on the audience, other useful vocabulary)
This bundle contains twenty different starter activities designed to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet at GCSE. They explore key quotations, wider context, literary methods, aspects of the plot and more.
Each activity is designed to be completed and reviewed in ten minutes using the comprehensive feedback slides. These activities require only a projector/printer (to display the activities), a pen and paper so they are great for Entry Actitivies/Starter Tasks.
Each is professionally presented and designed to be ‘plug and play’. They are ideal for GCSE classes studying the text for the first time and also for Year 11 revision activities and end of term quizzes. The 10-minute design means they can be easily slotted into existing schemes of learning.
This booklet consists of 10 ‘5-A-DAY’ worksheets designed to encourage your GCSE students to revise their knowledge of Blood Brothers.
Each worksheet encourages students to RECALL important characters and events, REMEMBER key quotations, REDRAFT an example sentence to practise their SPAG skills, REVISE how to plan for an essay question and REACT to a critical statement using their knowledge of the text to justify their opinions.
These sheets can be completed in 10-15 minutes and make a great starter activity or homework task. The booklet also comes with an answer page for every worksheet making them also ideal for cover lessons (by encouraging students to write their response to the example essay question they planned in the REVISE section of the worksheet).
This booklet consists of 10 ‘5-A-DAY’ worksheets designed to encourage your GCSE students to revise their knowledge of A Christmas Carol
Each worksheet encourages students to RECALL important characters and events, REMEMBER key quotations, REDRAFT an example sentence to practise their SPAG skills, REVISE how to plan for an essay question and REACT to a critical statement using their knowledge of the text to justify their opinions.
These sheets can be completed in 10-15 minutes and make a great starter activity or homework task. The booklet also comes with an answer page for every worksheet making them also ideal for cover lessons (by encouraging students to write their response to the example essay question they planned in the REVISE section of the worksheet).
This bundle is ideal for teachers following the AQA GCSE syllabus. It contains two quizzes - 1 x A Christmas Carol quiz and 1 x Power and Conflict Poetry quiz.
These quizzes are ideal for revising students’ knowledge of A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) and Power & Conflict Poetry (AQA Anthology) and is appropriate for KS3, 4 and 5. They are designed to cover key aspects of the text in a way that is fun and engaging. It is packed with key quotations and the slideshow is complete with onscreen timers.
This file includes everything you need for both quizzes:
a fully resourced slideshow of questions with onscreen timers
a student answer sheet (PDF version and editable Publisher version)
I hope you find this resource useful :)
This quiz contains 60 questions, and is ideal for revising students’ knowledge ofthe AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology and is appropriate for KS3, 4 and 5. It is designed to cover key aspects of the poems in a way that is fun and engaging and includes questions relating to all 15 poems in the cluster. It is packed with key quotations and the slideshow is complete with onscreen timers.
The quiz contains 4 rounds:
1- Poems and Poets (matching poets to poems)
2- Missing Words (key quotations)
3- First or last line (key quotations)
4- Time Tunnel (linked to historical context)
This file includes everything you need for this quiz:
a fully resourced slideshow of questions with onscreen timers
a student answer sheet (PDF version and editable Publisher version)
I hope you find this resource useful :)
This quiz contains 47 questions, and is ideal for revising students’ knowledge of A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) and is appropriate for KS3, 4 and 5. It is designed to cover key aspects of the text in a way that is fun and engaging. It is packed with key quotations and the slideshow is complete with onscreen timers.
The quiz contains 4 rounds:
1-Story Puzzle (key events from the text)
2- TRUE or FALSE (focused on Stave 1)
3- Name that ghost (key quotations from the ghosts)
4- Who said what? (key quotations from other characters)
This file includes everything you need for this quiz:
a fully resourced slideshow of questions with onscreen timers
a student answer sheet (PDF version and editable Publisher version)
I hope you find this resource useful :)
This bundle of six worksheets helps students to revise key quotations for all main characters in An Inspector Calls (Arthur, Sybil, Sheila, Gerald, Eric and Inspector Goole). It is ideal for KS3, KS4 and KS5 students studying the play for GCSE or A-Level. The worksheets are not exam board specific so are relevant for AQA, Edexcel, and OCR.
Each sheet chooses 3 key quotations and encourages students to recall key vocabulary using anagram puzzles, and explain the relevance of the quotations to the play overall. The worksheets also contain an ‘essay-style’ CHALLENGE prompt.
This resource includes:
6 worksheets with CHALLENGE activities - PDF versions and editable Publisher documents
6 answer sheets
I hope you find this resource useful :)
This worksheet is a great way to revise Shakespearean historical context (with KS3, KS4 and KS5) and embed numeracy into English lessons. The worksheet contains an equation with numbers missing. Students must use the clues about Shakespeare’s life (all with numerical answers) to correctly complete the equation.
This is ideal for all GCSE and A-Level specifications including AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduquas.
Included in this resource:
worksheet and answer sheet (PDF version and editable Publisher version)
Hope you find this resource useful :)
This bundle of five worksheets helps students to revise key quotations for all main characters in Macbeth (Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Witches, Macduff and Minor Characters). It is ideal for KS3, KS4 and KS5 students studying the play for GCSE or A-Level. The worksheets are not exam board specific so are relevant for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduquas.
Each chooses 3 key quotations and encourages students to recall key vocabulary using anagram puzzles, and explain the relevance of the quotations to the play overall. The worksheets also contain an ‘essay-style’ CHALLENGE prompt.
This resource includes:
5 worksheets with CHALLENGE activities - PDF versions and editable Publisher documents
5 answer sheets
I hope you find this resource useful :)
This bundle is ideal for students on the AQA A Level Literature course for Paper 1B (Aspects of Tragedy). It contains flashcard templates for key quotations from both DEATH OF A SALESMAN and the KEATS POETRY CLUSTER to aid students in memorising them before their closed-book exam.
Cards are double-sided and allow ample space for students to annotate quotations and discuss significance to the text as a whole. Each card has some key ideas to sign-post important interpretations and a list of key themes in each of the texts is included also.
Also included are some slideshows useful for teachers: an ‘interactive whiteboard version’ of all the flash cards (to model annotations etc.) and a revision quiz version with some key words missing from each quotation to help test learners’ retention.
Included in this file: 4 x slideshows (2 whiteboard versions/2 revision quizzes) and 2 full sets of flash cards (ready-to-use- PDF version and an editable Publsiher file).
Please note there is also a free resource (Keats/ DOAS model answers and writing frame) available in my TES shop to support these resources.
This slideshow was originally made for A-Level students to revise some key quotations from DOAS in a revision session. It looks at four quotations in detai (two from Keats and two from DOAS)l and unpicks the language used, linking this to overall significance and tragic features. There is also an example paragraph on each slide to show how students might write this information up into an exam-style response. There are black template writing frames at the end for students to work through an answer together on the board or have a go at writing their own.
This resource works particularly well with the DOAS / KEATS key quotations flashcards (for sale in my TES shop) as this resource uses quotations and key themes found in those resources.
This resource is designed to enable students to analyse key quotations and memorise them for the closed book exam (AQA Lit Paper 1). This booklet contains lots of key quotations from Death of a Salesman and covers the main characters in the play (Willy, Charlie, Ben, Linda). Each card is double sided: the front side contains the quotations, some sign-posted key themes/analysis ideas and ample space for students annotate and the back side encourages students to consider the significance of this particular quotation to the text as a whole (a key requirement of this paper).
This resource also contains 2 slideshows for teachers to use to revise knowledge of the key quotations. The first is a teacher version of the quotes flashcards and the second is a revision quiz with words missing from the quotations/symbols to allow students to practise their retention of key vocabulary for the closed book exam.
Included in this file: ready-to-print PDF version of the flashcards booklet and editable Publisher version, and Powerpoint slideshows for the teacher-version and revision quiz.
This resource is designed to enable students to analyse key quotations and memorise them for the closed book exam (AQA Lit Paper 1). This booklet contains lots of key quotations from the Keats Poetry cluster and covers all four poems (Lamia, Eve of St Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Isabella). Each card is double sided: the front side contains the quotations, some sign-posted key themes/analysis ideas and ample space for students annotate and the back side encourages students to consider the significance of this particular quotation to the text as a whole (a key requirement of this paper).
This resource also contains 2 slideshow for teachers to use to revise knowledge of the key quotations. The first has every quotation as it appears in the flashcards and the second is a revision quiz with words missing from the quotations to allow students to practise their retention of key vocabulary for the closed book exam.
Included in this file: ready-to-print PDF version of the flashcards booklet and editable Publisher version, and Powerpoint slideshows for the teacher-version and revision quiz.
Everything you need to end the term on a high-note without letting standards slip! This file contains a fully resourced lesson that students can complete either in groups or independently that is FUN, CHRISTMAS-THEME and EMBEDS LITERACY throughout. Included is a powerpoint slideshow (which can be displayed on an interactive whiteboard) and Bonus Round answer grids (ready-to-print PDF version and editable Publisher document). Each round gets progressively harder and focuses on both key authors/characters from GCSE texts and on SPAG skills.
The quiz consists of five rounds:
Literary Xmas Lists (literary characters/plots and themes)
Finish the poem/song (spelling)
Guess the present (spelling / literature knowledge)
Book Reviews from Santa (characters/key events, punctuation)
Advent Calendar (language techniques)
This quiz is ideal for KS3 and KS4 students.
This bundle contains 24 crosswords designed to help students revise key quotations from Macbeth and An Inspector Calls. They will needs to recall specific words and phrases from these quotations in order to solve the puzzle which will help to improve their retention accuracy.
Each bundle is focused around each of the key characters and some key themes.
Files contain both a ready-to-print PDF versions and editable Publisher versions.
This resource is designed to help students learn and analyse key quotations from the AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology in a way that is fun and engaging. Students must allocate words by filling in the gaps as the teacher shouts them out. The design of this resource means that it can be used over and over again with the same classes without getting repetitive as new combinations of words can be used each time. It contains a bundle of thirty different bingo grids (two about each of the 15 poems) that are filled with key quotations and a list of suggested ‘bingo calls’ for teachers (literary terms, key themes, motifs/emotions). It is ideal for KS4 students as a revision resource and for KS3 as an introduction to the texts.
File includes: ready-to-print PDF versions of the documents and an editable Publisher version.
