A lesson based on the duality of characters in A Monster Calls with specific focus on Lily. There is a great creative writing task and character exploration activity.

Link the symbols on the worksheet to different events and themes in the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet.

A fun and dynamic worksheet which helps students create a utopia of their own.

This worksheet is based on students finding synonyms to some basic vocabulary that is used everyday. This is a fun way of introducing synonyms or allowing students to expand their vocabulary.

A worksheet to help students build tension in writing. Paragraph structure prompts included.

A lesson based on the visualisation of the yew tree in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

This fun and engaging lesson on the first tale in “A Monster Calls” encourages students to become storytellers themselves while exploring the concept of truth in stories. The activities promote creativity, empathy, and critical thinking, fostering a deeper connection with the themes of the novel.

A comprehensive lesson plan for introducing Key Stage 3 (KS3) students to creative writing and the key skills required to write a story.

A comprehensive scheme of work for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” play script for GCSE requires careful planning. Here’s a suggested breakdown into individual lessons, including activities and assessments, split over two terms. Please note this is just a sample SOW and should be adapted to fit your students needs.

War lexis lesson - Language Change. For A level OCR English.

An amazing activity for KS3 and 4 students! They have to escape the room answering questions based around the book ‘Ghost Boys’ by Jewell Parker Rhodes.

A worksheet based off exploding (analysing) quotes from the Lord of the Flies chapter ‘Painted Faces and Long Hair.’

Essay question with small extract on how the character of Roger is presented. Includes prompts, challenge and writing frame.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for An Inspector Calls. Instructions: Students simply roll the dice twice in order to land on a section of the grid. They then answer the question in the square of the grid that they land on. They then roll again and continue the same process. This is a great way to incorporate retrieval practice into the classroom and can also be used as a revision game.

This PowerPoint is designed to go through the poem Night of the Scorpion. The PowerPoint follows through the method of VIPERS and teaches students key skills such as: inference, explaining effect and the writers intentions.

A comprehensive PowerPoint going through the poem Island Man. This includes information about the poet, activities for students to complete and an analysis of the poem.

This is a straight forward creative writing task based around the BLM movement. This is a great activity for KS3 and KS4 classes and can also be a brilliant cover or filler lesson.

This PowerPoint goes through the poem discussing context and language techniques. This can be used as a full lesson. The PowerPoint uses the VIPERS method of analysing poetry and teaches students skills such as: Inference, explaining effects of language and thinking about writers intentions.

This resource contains two worksheets. One that students can use to practice their spellings either at home or in school with their teacher and another to complete a ten word spelling test. This resource can be used by any teacher in any grade to help students with their spellings.

A revision mat for the topic Lord of the Flies. This covers: Key quotes Key themes Characters Setting