A thorough and attractively designed handout which introduces students to the idea of a lierary motif and gives examples of them in 'Skellig'. Opportunities for extended work and homework. Please do see my other Skellig resources in my hop, 'The Full English'

Fun and enjoyable resource. Please see my other 'Skellig' resources in the 'Full English' shop. I teach the grammar through literary texts. 'Skellig' is very descriptive so is an ideal way to teach students about the differences between nouns, verbs, adverbs and so on.

This is a short 6 slide PowerPoint with useful summaries of the context to Gothic. Ideal for able younger students aged 11 and up, or as a simple recap for mixed ability GCSE students. It also offers students the chance to think about what generic features are and to complete a fun activity where they imagine as many examples as they can. Handy starter with a task!

Contains: poetic terms knowledge checklist to use as a starter, the main lesson in PowerPoint, including questions and tasks, copy of the poem with some brief context included on the sheet and finally, a set of group work tasks. I created these for another lesson ob. It works well if you show the PowerPoint after you have assessed how many poetic terms the students know (see file for this) and before you get them to read the poem. The slides work as parts of the lesson with Q &A sections on them. Other resources offer students background info on St George and the dragon and on the painting. Overall, a high quality detailed lesson which makes for a great introduction to an enjoyable poem: everything's prepared and ready to go.

I created this lesson for an observed lesson and it covers both poems in depth and offer them wider contextual points to enrich their answers. Ideal preparation for the comparative skills section of the AQA poetry exam, and for revising Blake. The 'odd one out' activity differentiates by outcome and gets students thinking carefully about the city and what it might represent. Lots of extension tasks and homework opportunies. Over 16 slides and structured to take a lesson.

This Is a very through and detailed learning pack which gives students a lot of background biographical detail on Hardy and works through a large amount of his poems. Full textual notes. It is ideal for A level or IB students. It is also great for extending GCSE students and is an equally good resource if you’re looking for unseen poems to do with your GCSE students in preparation for the Literature exams, as the Hardy poems have come up a lot at GCSE and are in easy to compare themes such as relationships, war and nature.

Everything you ever wanted to know about this dark strand of Shakespeare's play but were too afraid to ask. It's all here. Lots of supporting images and some historical context to stretch the most able. A good springboard for students to then link some of the information here to key scenes and quotations.

This PowerPoint is a bit different as it allows students of all ability levels to take control of the task. They see different images from the play and are invited to choose the odd one out - interesting discussion starter! They then work through varied tasks on the characters. Good way to share and discuss a mix of ideas at a fast pace.

This works very well as a means of introducing creative writing. You print out as many copies as you need, trim, and ideally laminate. It can be used in conjunction with my 'descriptive and narrative writing' mega pack available in my shop, or as a stand alone. Give the students all 12 slips in a plastic envelope. Tell them to look at each and rank the 'ingredients' on each slip is order of most importance. It's great fun to do as the students start to realise that structure, clear plot and focus are vital. Also good to see them rearrange and reorder their rank order. Lots of follow ups for this - create their top ten 'things to avoid when writing a story', write a story which covers the 12 top elements to include...have fun!

This activity can be done in class or set as homework. It was inspired by 'Skellig' and a good opening idea is to show the students David Almind's opening description of the garage. However, it works fine as an independent task. Students have to imagine they are Michael, the lonely and isolated boy described walking through the family's old garage at the start of the novel. The task develops language range ad descriptive skills. Suitable for junior ages and also as extension work for those taking entrance or end of year exams. Could also work well for AQA GCSE students ending to perfect their descriptive skills.

Useful resource for those teaching this great story. Helps build confident student readers.

A really flexible pack. Aimed mainly atcovering the Paper 3 skills for IGCSE Language students, but much of this pack would work with other Language GCSE courses too, such as the AQA syllabus. Simply add in some images to help focus the kids on this aspect of the AQA exam. The theory is the same. I have also used this pack with able year 8 and 9 students seeking extension activities to help improve their writing skills. It also works with children aiming for Common Entrance exams and ensures that they are confident with the two different types of creative compositions. Packed with 'meme-like' cartoons, quotations from famous writers and checklists of terms to keep bored boys and fidgety girls on task!

Funky mat I designed with entertaining cartoons and colourful images of the key marks that children need to now. I am happy for this to be shared on a school licence so that lessons can have the file on the screen. You can print these out, laminate them and give them to the students. You can set them a homework of learning all the marks, or writing their own sentences. I also find this helps a great deal if you have booked the I.T room for the students to do a continuous writing task - if in doubt, they just log on and pull out my learning mat file, then start to work out the punctuation for themselves. Time efficient!

Useful slideshow revising the key areas of punctuation. Funny examples and useful tips!

A good varied set of revision questions, designed to test students’ knowledge of a range of plot, character and language features.

Focused questions to ensure that students understand the first Act of this great play

Eh dis is dead good! Ideal resource for supplementing student understanding of 'Blood Brothers' or for any lesson on regional dialect language and accents. Gerrin!

Thorough and clear revision pack for the play with overviews, scene and Act summaries, points on staging and focus questions.

Clear and varied presentation which engages the students and gives them clear facts and points on the playwright's life. The objectives are to give rhe students a historical overview, trigger questions from them, and to test them on on key facts at the end. It establishes a knowledge base for them.The slide with Elizabeth I's Armada portrait is very helpful as there are many images on the pairing that the students can talk about. Ask them: how is the painter of this picture portraying Elizabeth as a powerful queen? Expect lots of varied answers. The presentation is a good differentiator and triggers great classroom discussions whilst enabling the students to have a better grasp of Shakespeare's own life and contextual background. Ideal for any secondary age. I've used it at KS3, GCSE, IGCSE and A level. Bargain!

Fun and educational handout on accents and dialects plus a glossary of Scouser words and terms followed by an activity asking students to write phrases for Mickey in Scouser and Edward Lyons in Standard English. I created it to reinforce students’ learning of the play ‘Blood Brothers’, but you could use it just as well as a stand alone resource on accents and dialects. For many kids in southern England, this resource was an eye-opener as language is far more standardised down here. Ideal springboard for further research and creative writing in the authentic ‘voice’ for Mickey Johnston. Kids enjoy the exercise a lot and it’s a good springboard for more work on language and class.