This poster adds a splash of colour to your classroom walls whilst fostering an environment where kindness flourishes and encouraging students to think before they speak; especially when it comes to gossip, rumours and bullying. Appropriate for all age groups.

An exercise designed to get your students thinking critically about the main themes and storyline of “Romeo and Juliet”. Print a copy of these statements for each student and give then 5 minutes to decide and indicate how strongly they feel about each statement. Follow this with group or class discussion.

INCLUDES TEACHER’S COPY This workbook consists of 20 pages of work for students to do when and after watching the Baz Luhrmann version of *Romeo and Juliet. * The film study is designed to be used as an activity following a first reading of the original play and to get students thinking about Shakespeare’s techniques and asserting an informed opinion on techniques used by both Shakespeare and Luhrmann in his 1996 adaptation. It includes characterisation and focus questions on some of the main scenes. It also lists some of Luhrmann’s “Easter eggs” hidden in the film for students to hunt for whilst watching.

*UPDATED TO INCLUDE AN EXTRA SET IN PRINTER- FRIENDLY BLACK & WHITE! (PRINT ON COLOURED CARD FOR THE SAME EFFECT) This vivid set of 26 posters offers tips to help your students to have a successful and less stressful exam period. Suitable for Secondary/ High School age groups. They can be printed and laminated and used year after year in your class, displayed altogether to create a striking, alluring and informative wall or brought out individually and used as interchangeable classroom decor. There is no set order they need to be displayed in. Also INCLUDES a mind map poster and additional exam day tips. (The full set of 52 posters are available for download in a Zip file; additional copies are included so that you can view a sample before purchase)

An eye- catching brainstorm style poster on how to create a mind map. Print, laminate and display in classrooms or use as part of a revision/study skills unit. Suitable for Secondary School If you find this useful please take a second to review it! See my complete set of study skill posters in my store! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/26-pre-exam-revision-tips-posters-11925026?theme=0

This 30 slide PowerPoint presentation is fully editable so that you can customize it to suit your needs. It includes a memory experiment, a self assessment activity so that your students can find out what kind of learning style suits them best and tips on how to study according to their learning type. Suitable for high school students.

This 15 page workbook introduces students to the use of PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link) to write a detailed Literature Essay. Using Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” students first annotate and then complete a series of topic statements to create PEEL paragraphs in a scaffolded poetry analysis essay. Students then cut out and unscramble the completed paragraphs to create a coherent essay, adding in additional information where necessary and writing their own conclusion. The resource includes an additional poster-making activity and template and a suggestion on other ways that PEEL can be implemented in self- assessment activities, as well as a choice of **5 bright PEEL posters **which teachers can print for classroom display. Follow me on Instagram: teaching_underthedesk

Make the catch- up process easier on the absent student. Take the pressure off the teacher. Foster a sense of responsibility and peer duty in class! A simple black and white template to guide students in writing notes for their buddy on what was missed when absent. Includes instructions on use for teachers. Buddy up everyone in your class and when someone’s buddy is absent from school they grab a form and fill in the details of what is covered in class that day, as well as taking any worksheets or handouts for them.

A classroom poster which will constantly evolve as you add new words to it. Put words on trial and send them to Siberia! This resource gives an overview of the idea and contains printable templates to get you started. This can be used with a wide range of ages, just adapt the display accordingly.

This 19 slide PowerPoint presentation is an excellent introduction to Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. It provides a basic biography, a line-by- line analysis of the poem including points of interest and discussion, and ends with an IGCSE/GCSE style essay question. It could also be used for revision and recap purposes.

This 10 slide PowerPoint is great to accompany a first reading of Nichols’ “Praise Song for My Mother”. It offers biographical information and then contains a stanza by stanza break down with points of interest which can be discussed either altogether in class or as a small group activity. It ends with a GCSE/ IGCSE style essay question and a series of bullet point questions to serve as scaffolding and guidance in writing the essay.

A series of templates in** 6** different designs (including black and white for ink friendly printing). Designed for teachers to create “warm and fuzzy” compliment bookmarks for end of year or Valentine’s gifts for students. These involve an activity done in advance where the teacher orchestrates a lesson in which students write kind words and compliments about their classmates. Step by step instructions included. Bonus use- templates can also be used a fun and creative book labels and spines! **These are a hit with all ages and a memento which can be treasured for years **

This 5 page worksheet is a break- down of the STILTS acronym which is a useful and easy tool to arm students with when analyzing a poem for the first time. This worksheet gives an overview of how STILTS works and then asks students to apply it to Maya Angelou’s “Africa”. It rounds off the exercise with a sample unseen Cambridge style essay question (Syllabus 0486 Paper 42) where the student is asked to plan the essay using the analysis techniques described and practised in the worksheet. Updated to include a teacher’s copy with basic answers to guide the lesson!

This 8 page resource introduces the main devices found in the poem including the main features of an Italian and Shakespearean sonnet, iambic pentameter, imagery, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia and a Cambridge- style essay question at the end in which the understanding gathered from the various activities can be applied to write the essay. This would be a great resource for a first reading and teaching of Owen's poem with the focus on revising the literary devices found in the poem and building up an informed response to the writing which can then be used for the cumulative task of writing a Cambridge style essay.

Missing work acknowledgment form for students to fill in when work has not been handed in. Designed to create accountability in learners, they fill in this form to acknowledge and explain their actions and sign off on the consequences. These can be stuck into work books or kept on file for the teacher’s own records. There is also a space for students to suggest what they could do in the future to prevent the same from recurring, thus encouraging reflective learning.

A series of Cambridge- style essay questions on all 15 poems from "Songs of Ourselves" Vol 1 Part 5 , (Because I Could Not Stop for Death, etc) made up by my two IGCSE classes. Great for revision and essay skills.

A collection of IGCSE essay- style questions made up by my class (and edited by me) for revision purposes on poems 1-6 from Volume 1 Part 5 of “Songs of Ourselves” (Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” through to Nichols’ “Praise Song”- examinable 2017). Not a particularly pretty handout, but I hope you’ll find it useful!