Welcome to "Lit and Lang Learn: Your Ultimate English Education Hub"! My online shop is dedicated to providing comprehensive teaching materials, lesson plans, visual aids, handouts, worksheets, assignments and related teaching resources for English Literature and Language across various English curriculums, including but not limited to Key Stage 3 4 5, GCSE, AS/ A-Level and IB.
Welcome to "Lit and Lang Learn: Your Ultimate English Education Hub"! My online shop is dedicated to providing comprehensive teaching materials, lesson plans, visual aids, handouts, worksheets, assignments and related teaching resources for English Literature and Language across various English curriculums, including but not limited to Key Stage 3 4 5, GCSE, AS/ A-Level and IB.
Fantasy fiction employs a variety of language techniques to create vivid and immersive worlds that captivate readers’ imaginations. Descriptive language is paramount, allowing authors to paint detailed pictures of fantastical landscapes, magical creatures, and otherworldly phenomena. Imagery and sensory details transport readers to these realms, engaging their senses and evoking powerful emotions.
Moreover, figurative language, such as metaphors and similes, enhances the storytelling by drawing parallels between the fantastical elements and real-world experiences, adding depth and resonance to the narrative. Dialogue serves not only to advance the plot but also to develop characters and their relationships, often reflecting the unique cultures and languages of the fantasy world.
Additionally, symbolism and allegory are frequently employed to convey deeper meanings and themes, enriching the story with layers of interpretation. By skillfully employing these language techniques, fantasy authors create rich and immersive narratives that transport readers to realms of endless possibility and wonder.
This handy visual aid and resource will help teachers and students in the classroom and beyond as a checklist for fantasy fiction language features.
This Resource is really handy and helpful for teaching how to analyse movie posters when students are leaning how to evaluate cinema and movies adapted from Literarure. It is suitable for classes on English Language Learning, Linguistics, English Language Arts and Media Studies. Analyzing movie posters can be an interesting and insightful activity, offering clues about the film’s themes, genre, and target audience.
This Victorian Literature Text List is handy and helpful as a handout for students of th British Curriculum who wish to acquaint themselves of the Victorian Literature and its timeless examples. It can be used as a class resource or a visual aid or as an inspiration or starter for a Literary Project or Victorian Language Project.
This rose-illustrated version of the classic poem, ’ The Sick Rose’ by William Blake is useful for poetry lessons and to distribute as handouts to students of all Year groups. It is perfect to go along with the English Romantic Poetry Lesson Plan. Also there is plenty space to annotate the document with poetic language and structural features.
Perfect document for visual learners as well across the English National Curriculum
This poem is a part of the poetry anthology for IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL)
Will prove and excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem as well as an accompaying essay worth 15 marks (taken from a past paper)
This helpful handy resource is a great visual aid to motivate students to write a persuasive speech/letter/article on the topic, ‘Should teenagers take up some sort of Arts?’
It can be used to inspire kids and help them brainstorm ideas on a persuasive writing prompt and helps them organise ideas into three to four paragraphs.
This persuasive writing mindmap is suitable for all curricula, GCSE, OCR, EDEXCEL, Cambridge, etc. It is an excellent resource to brainstorm ideas for a persuasive writing topic ‘Should teenagers take up at least one sport?’
It can prove handy for a persuasive writing lesson plan and has various persuasive writing features such as rhetorical questions, opinions, repetition, facts, statistics and anecdotes.
This handy resource is an excellent addition to a persuasive writing lesson plan and is very well-integrated and organised for all curriculms.
It has exampes of alliteration, triad, rhetorical questions, facts and statistics for thr persuasive writing prompt: ‘Should Teens use social media?’
It can be used by teachers for persuasive writing lesson planning as well.
Students get inspired by the colourful and illustrated version of the worksheet and this can add a visual aid for classrooms too
This resource is handy for all IGCSE and GCSE or other boards that do English Language that ahs papers like Transactional Writing, Non-ficiton Writing, Speech Writing, etc.
Very helpful for pupils and students alike for lesson plans and quick revision strategies.
This resource is really handy for students, pupils, private exam takers and teachers or tutors to teach or revise journals and has helpful for a quick recap.
It can be uses for CIE IGCSE 0500 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1 REVISION and has examples for each technique mentioned to get that top score in your journal essay!
This handy resource for both CIE IGCSE English Language students and teachers is the perfect lesson plan for a whole class on journals and for that quick revision to recap journals.
It has sentence starters, GAPSS analysis, annotation of a past paper question and a model response to it.
Besides, it is written and typed on a beautiful journal page as well designed particularly for class teachers who might want to use it as a Powerpoint in their lessons.
This resource is handy and helpful for almost Year 7 and Year 8 British curriculum students who are taught films, movies and cinemas adapted from literature books.
Students study the elements of Movie Posters and design one themselves after studying it.
The resource is an unannotated set of Prose and Poetry Fiction Extracts. This is an excellent resource for KS2/3/4 GCSE English Literature and Language students that has prose and poetry extracts typed on aesthetic pages that are ready to be printed out and annotated for language features and poetic techniques. This along with the TPCASTT anslysis can be used to annotate the extracts with language features and figurative devices or other linguistic and structural tools. Teachers will also find this extremely helpful as a visual aid along with their usual lesson plans.
It has the following extracts in that order:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling
The Sick Rose by William Blake
Still, I Rise by Maya Angelou
The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
Tyger by William Blake
A Literary Heritage Text refers to a work of literature that is recognized as being of significant cultural, historical, or artistic value, often forming part of a country’s or culture’s literary canon. These texts are typically regarded as classics and have stood the test of time, contributing to the understanding and appreciation of a language, society, or literary tradition. They are often included in educational curricula due to their enduring themes, language, and insights into the human condition. Examples are “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” by Homer, “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, and “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy.
This comparison Grid will help students of the British Curriculum compare and contrast two or more Victorian or Literary Heritage Texts using the following parameters:
Overall Structrue
Characters
Setting
Conflict
Themes
Also included is a Visual Aid with examples of Victorian Heritage Texts such as the follows:
Gulliver’s Travels
Ozymandias
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Listeners
Wuthering Heights
Spellbound
A lesson plan for teachers and a comprehensive PDF aimed at helping pupils and teachers to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in extracts from several parts of the novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. These model sample answers are written for all major UK curriculums and contain long sample answers that are also totally exam-style. The PDF has 14 full-length model answers on the novella, adapted and sourced from past papers. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Literature (AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR) for an instant last-minute revision or for an intense past paper response writing throughout the year. Besides, they are all A* and top-notch answers written by an expert.
This is a Practice Exam Paper: GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing made from scratch.
A lesson plan (including Mock Paper 1, Insert and Mark Scheme) for teachers and 3 comprehensive PDFs aimed at helping students taking GCSE English Language Paper 1 to analyse the literary techniques, language features, themes, structural tools and characters in the extract from ‘A Taste of Death’ by P.D. James. The mark scheme is also designed and written for GCSE and is exam-style.
The mock Paper 1 GCSE English Language with the accompanying mark scheme and insert will help students revise Paper 1 for exam practice. It closely mirrors the style required to ace GCSE English Language for an instant last-minute revision or an intense past paper response writing throughout the year.
These 60 Minute Lesson plans help to revise and give a recap template of the Transformation of Texts and Modern Retelling of stories, an excellent way to teach students the way stories can be converted into other genres such as poems, songs, recounts, comics, reports, lyrics, talks, speeches, diaries, etc. These lesson plans can be used as visual aids, lesson plans, worksheets, revision material and printouts.
Also is a bonus PowerPoint on Macbeth which is a fun and informative way to teach the themes of ambition, love and power. It has been retold from a modern point of view, with Macbeth becoming Mac and Lady Macbeth becoming Lady Mac. The entire tragedy of Macbeth is rewritten from a modern perspective, letting students understand the story or plot in a more engaging and engrossing way.
These English Language lesson plans are addressed to Years 7, 8 and 9.
This poem, ‘Slow Reader’ by Vicki Feaver is not a part of the poetry anthology for IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question.
It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure and an accompanying start to the essay worth 15 marks (taken from a past paper).
This poem, ‘Geography Lesson’ by Brian Patten is not a part of the poetry anthology for IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question.
It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure and an accompanying start to the essay worth 15 marks (taken from a past paper).
This beautiful ancient, archaic vintage-themed GCSE Macbeth Model Answer on violence is a perfect exemplar. It adds to the effectiveness of learning and revision for GCSEs and exam time. Print it out and distribute it to the students in your class or send them an email with its attachment and it is obvious, that students will love it because it is an A* sample response for GCSE. Also, it has two sample responses for the price of one and discusses various literary techniques, drama devices and structural techniques used in the Tragedy of Macbeth. The answers are on the themes of violence, evil and brutality and the extract is from Act 1 Scene 2.