A comprehensive planning sheet and tasks to help KS3 students plan better mystery stories. These lessons focus on the concept of the discovery of a mystery object which somehow reveals a secret. Students begin with physical objects (a shoe, a jewelry box- anything you have) and imagining their histories. After this, they come up with a few ideas of mystery objects and then plan out a short narrative using ‘set up, build up, climax, resolution/cliffhanger’. This is very successful with weaker groups who need clear direction, but also works well for curtailing the ambition of some budding novelists!

A collection of 5 different posters to get staff to display what they’re reading in classrooms, perhaps as part of a whole school reading drive. Especially good for the secondary environment. They work well when laminated so that each teacher can update their poster regularly.

A collection of 17 quick quizzes for Macbeth to aid recall of quotations. Grouped by image , act and theme. *If you like the image for this resource, you’ll probably like it too!

A useful step by step to guide students through responses to passage based questions. Key reminders based on examiner reports.

Simple, but active spelling strategies. Useful for display or to stick in the front of spelling books.

Example essay on gender in ‘Twelfth Night’ for AQA Lit. Band 4/5 example.

A simple breakdown of questions to ask in an unseen poetry exam, as a handy flashcard. Aimed at WJEC Eduqas, but easily transferable.

A selection of writing tasks related to the novel with prompts. Eg) Write a boxing commentary of Lennie and Curley’s fight, using the boxing vocabulary listed below. Can be used as a homework booklet or as lesson resources.

Stories of Ourselves A* example essay on The Moving Finger with exam question.

A worksheet to help students see examples of effective openings to exam questions. They can use the mark scheme to annotate and then continue the answers themselves.

Mocked Up exam paper poetry and prose- Songs and Stories of Ourselves 0475

A useful graphic organiser to aid students in textual analysis for Media Studies A Level.

A fun activity to encourage students to identify common cliches in their narrative writing. Helpful for exam prep for WJEC and AQA.

Lesson starter quiz to introduce Shakespeare’s stories.

Worksheets to aid narrative planning for section B of the exam. Tasks focus students on the characteristics of successful answers by asking them to ‘upgrade’ poor plans and to continue exemplar openings. Works well as a class or as independent homework tasks. Includes poster with key reminders which is a useful revision tool.

Useful posters for introducing the IGCSE First Language English Paper for the new 2020/2021 specification. Includes tips on how to answer each question. Works well stuck into books for students to refer back to or printed as classroom posters.

A mocked up exam paper using articles about unconscious bias.

An exam paper in the style of CIE A Level Literature with an exemplar answer drawing attention to the key requirements of the question for students to compare to their own responses.

Success criteria, examples and explanations to aid students in preparing for their response to an article coursework for IGCSE English language 0500.

A simple and versatile collection of quotations to pair and analyse from across the play.