How to subvert a genre. Great introduction to English lesson for year seven. Focusing on horror.

A worksheet based around getting to know how your students learn. Aimed at English Teachers!

Great for a pre reading excercise this worksheet focuses on what the book A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds might be based on.

Fear In Literature lesson aimed at year seven, a great introduction to English.

Four different worksheets focusing on word classes.

A worksheet with questions based on checking learning of chapter one.

An amazing activity for KS3 and 4 students! They have to escape the room answering questions based around the book ‘Ghost Boys’ by Jewell Parker Rhodes.

Symbolism worksheet for the book Lord of the Flies for the chapter painted faces and long hair.

A worksheet based on the character Uncle Mark from the book Long Way Down.

Essay question with small extract on how the character of Roger is presented. Includes prompts, challenge and writing frame.

Writing a letter from Uncle Mark to Will. Letter template - Long Way Down.

A worksheet based on symbolism linked to the character Uncle Mark from the book A Long Way Down.

A worksheet with questions around chapter two of Lord of the Flies.

This worksheet is designed to recap over language techniques. Students are prompted to give an example and a definition of a range of language techniques.

A Virtual Reading Corner for students to come and access online Ebooks, get an update on what you are reading and have a safe space in which they feel inspired to pick up a book and read.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for Inspector Calls. Instructions: Students will roll and dice twice to select a topic on the grid and write this in box one. This process will then be repeated for box two. Students will then have the challenge of drawing links between the two topics that they have selected. This is great to use for retrieval practice within class or as a fun, competitive revision activity.

This is a bundle of PowerPoints that introduces students to cultural poetry. It includes the poems: Blessing, Island Man and Night of the Scorpion. The Powerpoints are designed to help students to gain skills such as: inference, thinking about the writers intentions, picking out key themes etc. All of the PowerPoints are designed as full lessons.

A lesson focused on improving students debating skills. Students look at images to improve inference skills, explore arguing both sides of an argument and what a good argument looks like.

This lesson focuses on improving narrative writing. Students are asked to create a realistic character that they can drop into a scenario. Brilliant lesson for focusing on skills for language paper one question five on the AQA exam. Only PowerPoint included.

A full lesson focusing on Romeo and Juliet Act 1 and Act 2 Romeo’s soliloquy. This is the next lesson following on from ‘Act 1’ and looks more closely at how Shakespeare presents different kinds of love. The lesson provides a dual coding activity, summaries of key parts of the play and a chance to explore Romeos soliloquy and comparing this to Juliet’s speech.