A advent calendar that provides a new book recommendation everyday on the run up to Christmas! All books are based around the festive season and are aimed at KS3 to KS4 students within secondary school. A fun way to engage students in reading and promote pleasure for reading in school over December. This can be used as a whole school reading strategy and adapted to fit the reading needs of your students.

A worksheet designed to help students track music in A Christmas Carol. This worksheet was designed to go alongside my PowerPoint on music in A Christmas Carol which can also be found on this platform.

Racing against the clock students have to fill in the definitions and give examples to all of the language devices listed. Can your students beat the clock?

Can you define and give an example of the language devices in the table. This worksheet is great to use as a started activity, AFL or homework.

This is a full lesson walking students through how to write a monologue. This is based around the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It allows students to embody the character and retell events from their view.

A collection of short stories collated into a booklet for students to enjoy. Great for reading for pleasure, reading for meaning and general whole school reading.

Exploring how Ness creates suspense in Chapter two.

A lesson for chapter five of A Monster Calls that focuses on the symbolism of the yew tree. Comes with worksheet provided, students will need access to the internet for this lesson.

How does Ness build up tension in chapter seven in A Monster Calls.

This lesson focuses on chapter twelve of a monster calls exploring Conor and Grandmas relationship.

Students explore creative writing an writing from a characters perspective after reading chapter sixteen of A Monster Calls.

A lesson based on the duality of characters in A Monster Calls with specific focus on Lily. There is a great creative writing task and character exploration activity.

An activity centered around revising key characters and themes from Macbeth. Students can race against the clock to see what they can remember or take extra time in adding as much detail as they can to each section.

An exam walk through and revision tips for students sitting the OCR Exam Paper for English Language. This is a walk through of both paper one and two.

A booklet full with first chapters of beautiful books that promote LGBTQ. Great for tutor time reading, English lessons or home learning. Whole school literacy for Pride Month.

A fun and dynamic worksheet which helps students create a utopia of their own.

This worksheet is based on students finding synonyms to some basic vocabulary that is used everyday. This is a fun way of introducing synonyms or allowing students to expand their vocabulary.

A worksheet to help students build tension in writing. Paragraph structure prompts included.

A lesson based on the visualisation of the yew tree in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

This fun and engaging lesson on the first tale in “A Monster Calls” encourages students to become storytellers themselves while exploring the concept of truth in stories. The activities promote creativity, empathy, and critical thinking, fostering a deeper connection with the themes of the novel.