King Lear Revision Materials for A-Level contains two different resources that have been proven to support exam practice and revision for A-Level students, in particular for whole text responses where the text isn’t allowed into the exam. This is 15 pages of support, in total. This includes: A thorough narrative summary detailing key events, divided by Acts/Scenes, including a character-web activity at the end A comprehensive quote pack including quotes characterised by character, theme and imagery/language If this is useful to you, have a look at the ‘Critical Approaches’ resource in my shop, which also support A-Level teaching of the play.

English Anagrams 1-3, includes three different anagrams worksheets and the answer sheets. These worksheets are designed to help KS3 pupils develop their language skills (such as the alphabet) and extend their vocabulary. The anagrams on each worksheet have a common theme and are listed in alphabetical order. Each sheet will take 10-20 minutes to complete, depending on the age/ability of the class. In these tasks, pupils will unscramble the letters to identify the words. Once they have unscrambled a few, they will be able to identify the common theme. They will also be required to apply their knowledge of the alphabet and elements of language to help them unscramble less familiar words. An answer key for staff is included for all three worksheets. There is also a bundle available containing English Anagrams 1-6: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934233

‘A Christmas Carol’ Colour by Number is a revision activity to support recollection of key characters and plot points. Whilst learners of all abilities can complete this activity, it may support revision amongst lower ability pupils best. It will take 15-30 minutes to complete, depending on the learner’s level of confidence with the book. An answer key is included for both elements of the worksheet. If you like this activity, have a look at the other ‘A Christmas Carol’ resources in my shop: Revision activities Quotes revision Extract analysis There is also a board game, which I find particularly useful in engaging learners in revision in a less traditional form: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845

‘Of Mice and Men’ revision worksheets includes ten different worksheets for learners to complete after studying the novel. Some encourage learners to think critically about the text, whilst others test their recall of key events, characters and quotes. The time taken for each activity will vary, depending upon the level of confidence. Times are likely to vary between 5-20 minutes. Worksheets could be given as individual resources or used to produce a revision booklet for learners. Answer keys are provided for all tasks, where needed. Activities require: sequencing of key events sequencing of key quotes linking quotes to characters considering mood and atmosphere thinking critically of characters and their personality traits £2.50 for the resource means that each activity costs only 25p! You may also be interested in these resources: Narrative tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970442 Essay structures: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970873

King Lear A-Level Critical Approaches brings together some key quotes and views of the plays from various critics. The work pack is set out so that students can make notes about what the quotes/views mean, and also so that they can identify key acts/scenes/events that this approach is relevant to. The first three views have notes next to them as examples to guide students in their notes. The resource is five pages. This is particularly helpful for students who have to engage with critical approaches as part of their exam responses, such as WJEC GCE English Literature Unit 4. If this resource is helplful, have a look at the King Lear quote pack and summary in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/king-lear-revision-materials-for-a-level-12969963

GCSE English Language Writing Tips & Tricks (WJEC) is intended to give specific instructions for less confident students to follow to help improve their mark for accuracy in the written elements of the exams. In my experience, this has a positive impact, in particular, with learners who have C targets or below. It includes some very specific rules to follow to help show accuracy with some aspects of spelling, punctuation and grammar that were recurring issues amongst some of the learners in key classes. It includes: some key spellings aspects of sentence structuring including different vocabulary/language features If you are interested in this resource, you may also want to look at the detailed GCSE English Language exam revision pack also available from my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12969501

GCSE English Language Individual Researched Presentation Booklet (WJEC) This eight page resource supports students whilst they prepare their individual researched presentations, worth 10% of their English Language GCSE (in Wales). This can be used as a resource with the whole class to ensure they consider all required elements during the planning stages. This is also a useful resource for any student who is absent from preparation lessons, as they can still be guided through the stages of planning through accessing this booklet.

Heroes by Robert Cormier Narrative Overivew is a four page account of the novel. This is particularly useful to give to GCSE English Literature students prior to reading the text, to provide them with an overview of key characters and events. This is also helpful during the revision stage when students can get confused about the order in which events appear in the text as the narrative isn’t linear.

Of Mice and Men Essay Structures provides two different types of structures for learners, depending on ability/level of confidence with the novel. These have been tried and tested with groups of differing abilities in preparation for the Unit 1 Literature exam (WJEC). The first set of essay structures is for pupils who don’t have much exam practice. It provides them with a detailed scaffold for some of the key ideas they may want to discuss and in which order. There are spaces for them to add notes about context and key quotations to include. There is an essay structure for each character and for the theme of ‘loneliness’. This has worked very well with C/D borderline learners. The second set of structures are brief notes for learners who are more confident with writing essays, or as a quick revision tool. There is an essay structure for each character, in addition to three thematic structures. This has worked well as a revision resource for all abilities, and as a lighter form of scaffolding for B+ grade learners when beginning to produce essays. You may also be interested in the following: Narrative tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970442 Revision activities: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12945645

Cross-curricular Literacy Anagrams includes six worksheets and answer sheets aimed at supporting GCSE students with subject-specific vocabulary. Six subjects are covered in these anagrams: English Numeracy Science Geography History Physical Education There are twenty anagrams per subject. These are ideal as form time activities or starters, taking 10-20 minutes each, depending on the learners’ confidence with subject-specific terminology.

The Merchant’s Tale (Chaucer) annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. There are three versions of each sheet: blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils There are five annotated extracts: 33-54: presentation of January 318-341: presentation of marriage 611-638: presentation of January 948-972: presentation of January 1108-1133: presentation of January and May If you haven’t seen it already, there’s also a free annotated extract available - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13030820

Valentine’s Day Literacy Activities for High School These Valentine’s Day inspired literacy activities will keep your learners engaged having been back at school for a few weeks since the break. Including three different literacy-based activities, there’s something here for each ability level. Two of the resources are just print-and-go, while the other can be laminated and reused multiple times, not just for Valentine’s Day! Included in this resource, you will find: Anagrams Worksheets: students need to unscramble the names of 12 famous couples in literature. These range from classics, such as Pride and Prejudice, to more contemporary offerings, such as Divergent. There are also worksheets where students have to link the characters to their text, and the option for you to go easy on them - name the 12 books - or give them an additional challenge - just name the authors! Love-themed Wordsearch: this 34 word wordsearch will keep students engaged and there are two small bonus activities once all words have been found. Writing Prompts: there are six different sets of words to provide creative writing prompts for students. This means multiple possibilities for stories! Print & laminate so that they can be reused, and you can also take away the seasonal slant to use these throughout the year.

Valentine’s Day Love in Literature Activities for High School with answers These Love in Literature activities will help engage your high school learners this Valentine’s Day by providing a range of activities with a common theme: love. All are meaningful activities that will support skill development. Including three different activities, all with a literary theme, there is something here for what you need: a starter, a lesson and a more sustained activity. The tasks are all print-and-go, and can be used all year around, not just for Valentine’s Day. Included in this resource, you will find: Analysis of two poems by Keats: the two poems are Bright Star and La Belle Dame sans Merci there are three versions of each poem: blank, highlighted and fully annotated the blank and highlighted versions provide instant differentiation for the annotation task the answer sheet can be used by you to guide class discussion there’s also the added bonus of a support sheet for you which provides some pointers about the context and form of each poem Anagrams Worksheets: students need to unscramble the names of 12 famous couples from Shakespearean plays there are also worksheets where students have to link the characters to their play, and the option for you to go easy on them - by giving them the starting letter of each word in the title - or give them an additional challenge - see how many they can name with no help! Romeo and Juliet plot & characters task: students work in groups they read through the narrative of the play and answer the questions on the sheet differentiated sections - must, should, could, extension answer sheet included for self-marking standalone task or build it in to your unit on Romeo & Juliet

Keats Revision Sheets for Key Poems contains key points and notes for nine of his poems: Bright Star Burns’ Tomb Chapman’s Homer Imitation of Spenser La Belle Dame Sans Merci On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again On the Sea To Sleep When I have fears that I may cease to be These are useful overviews when initially reading one of these poems, and are also useful revision sheets once poems have been studied. They contain a copy of the poem itself, in addition to notes on content, analysis, context, language and form.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Narrative Overview for High School Save yourself time by adding a comprehensive narrative overview of Sense and Sensibility to your resources. This thorough narrative overview includes key events from each volume and chapter. Character names are put in bold to signal the introduction of a new character, helping you and your students to keep track of who is who. This has multiple possible uses for students: as a soft introduction to the text and its narrative as a quick reference during lessons/when writing essays as a revision resource once the novel has been studied in its entirety This is also a really useful resource for teachers, especially those new to the text. Remind yourself of key events when planning lessons. You can also have it on your desk during lessons to help you answer student questions about plot and sequence.

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Narrative Overview for High School Save yourself time by adding a comprehensive narrative overview of The Time Machine to your resources. This thorough narrative overview includes key events from each chapter. This has multiple possible uses for students: as a soft introduction to the text and its narrative as a quick reference during lessons/when writing essays as a revision resource once the novel has been studied in its entirety This is also a really useful resource for teachers, especially those new to the text. Remind yourself of key events when planning lessons. You can also have it on your desk during lessons to help you answer student questions about plot and sequence.