This booklet it designed to encourage students to engage with Reading for Pleasure in their own way, while fostering creativity, expansive vocabulary and inference skills. Ideal for KS3, either pick which tasks you wish to complete or allow students to dictate their own learning by selecting the tasks most suited to their books.

Challenge your students with this worksheet, enouraging them to think about how a successful exam response is put together while improving their own writing. Ideal as a revision task or pre-assessment tool so students can determine their areas of strengths and weaknesses

A booklet encouraging students to engage with some classic works of literature. Most activities are based around comprehension skills and skills required for AQA’s Language Paper 1 including language analysis and creative writing. Perfect as a series of short tasks completed as homework, in form time or as revision tasks. Ideal as a KS3 to 4 transition piece.

A mock paper using an extract from The Great Gatsby where Daisy and Gatsby are reunited for the first time in 5 years. Includes a Language Paper 1 Section B task. Ideal for KS4 as a mock or as an independent task for revision.

A simple worksheet allowing students to think about how analysis is put together and encouraging them to build their own analysis. Aimed at lower ability Y9 Uses the format of AQA’s literature paper 2 to help with GCSE transition

A series of lessons and resources guiding students through Q2, 3 and 5 of language paper one. Engaging activities that stretch the critical thinking of students while giving them an accessible text. this boots confidence and ultimately exam performance.

A board game designed for Y7 studying Dracula as a playscript. Students roll die to determin which task the complete. They either give a response verbally or record answers in their books.

A quick postcard designed to aid students in their analytical and evaluative vocabulary for AQA’s Language Paper 1. Ideal for most able students looking to break into the top band

An extract and worksheet looking at The Hunger Games, focusing students on the character and behaviours of Katniss as well as understanding the plot of the novel.

A selection of resources designed to engage students with creative writing tasks, using Of Mice and Men as a starting point. Includes a feedback task getting students to focus on the use of possessive apostrophes

A lesson designed to get students thinking about the small details that build a character and the deliberate choices a write might make. Deisgned for a KS3 as a lead into creative writing activities.

A series of lessons designed to guide students through the opening of I am Legend with the questions from P1 Section A included. Also incorporates a question three using the opening of the film. Some nice activities to challenge student and encourage discussion. There is also a MAD time (reflection) lesson following on from Q2. Ideal for KS4 or high ability KS3

A lesson enabling students to use their imagination and investigation skills to create their own spy character. An engaging and fun set of activities leaving the students in charge of their learning and development. Includes a reflective lesson encouraging students to redraft and rework their creative writing. It uses the AQA Language Paper 1 criteria as a basis for success criteria. Ideal for KS3

A set of lessons and resources adapted from other authors and sources, but worked really well for my own KS4 groups. Plenty of engage tasks which suit a variety of abilities.

A selection of resources designed to support KS4 students in revising for AQA’s literature paper 1 A. Ideal for both independent work and class lead activities. This includes a structured workbook designed to test students’ knowledge and all them to think in alternative ways to promote originality within exam responses

A revision psotcar enabling students to revise the character of Macbeth in the first part of the play. Ideal for KS4 students as pre essay revision. Created with the AQA markscheme in mind.

A postcard crammed with information about the Weird Sisters in Macbeth. Ideal as a revision aid, for essay writing or for look-cover-recall activities. Complete with two essay style questions. Designed for my KS4 classes in line with the AQA assessment objectives. Why not get these printed on card and post home!

A lesson guiding students through reflective time on literature paper one exam for AQA. The questions were: ‘How is the theme of social responsibility shown in An Inspector Calls’ or ‘How does Priestley use the character of the Inspector to show how society shoudl change’. 'Compare the ways the poets present ideas about loss and absence in ‘Kamikaze’ and one other poem In ‘Autumn’ how does the poet present the effect of the season of autumn?’

A postcard crammed with information about the Weird Sisters in Macbeth. Ideal as a revision aid, for essay writing or for look-cover-recall activities. Designed for my KS4 classes in line with the AQA assessment objectives. Why not get these printed on card and post home!