Worksheet containing multiple words related to rhetoric/persuasive writing. Students have to give a definition and an example of the key words on the sheet. Can be used as a starter activity, an introduction to rhetoric or as a homework task.

With the World Cup 2022 games about to begin, I have created this reading challenge to encourage students to get reading! The challenges are themed around football and are aimed at encouraging students to get reading and broaden where they find reading materials. This is a fun way to get students motivated and involved in reading and can be used as part of a whole school reading strategy! Can your students score a reading goal!

A Christmas Carol Scrooge initial character profile and analysis.

A worksheet that explore the preface and first like of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.

Are you and your students up to the challenge? Read three books in the month of January and give them a star rating…who will be the first to read a five star rating book? This is a great way to promote reading both whole school and at home, it’s a fun and engaging way to get students talking about what they are reading!

This worksheet contains a range of quotes from George Orwell’s 1984. The aim is for students to explode these quotes by annotating them for language devices or word choice being used. A great resource to use along side the text or as part of a dystopian scheme of work.

This resource contains five different word grids. These words grids can be used by students of any ability, simply give the students a topic and its their job to link all the words on the grid back to that topic. This is a great way to promote vocabulary and can be used as a starter or plenary activity.

Students can have fun creating their own perfect dystopian character. This resource can be adapted to include a challenge task of your choice for students (example is provided.)

This online virtual library contains over 250 books for students to read. By clicking on a book cover students will be directed to a pdf version of the text. This is a great way to encourage reading within school, providing students with a wide range of reading material and promoting reading for pleasure.

These flashcards contain a range of important key quotes from A Christmas Carol stave one for students to revise from. The images on every flashcard help with memory and recall. These are the perfect revision tool for GCSE students of English Literature 9-1.

These flashcards include important quotes from A Christmas Carol stave two. The images on each flashcard help with memory and recall. These are a great revision resource for GCSE English Literature 9-1 students.

These flashcards contain important quotes from A Christmas Carol stave three. The images on each flashcard help with memory and recall. These flashcards are a great revision resource for GCSE English Literature 9-1 students.

These flashcards contain important quotes from A Christmas Carol stave five. The images on every flashcard help with memory and recall. These are a great revision tool for GCSE English Literature 9-1 students.

These flashcards contain a range of key quotes from A Christmas Carol stave four. The images on every flashcard help with memory and recall. These are a perfect revision tool for GCSE English Literature 9-1 students.

When it comes to fighting discrimination, violence is needed to be truly heard. Do you agree or disagree with this statement and why? This is a perfect lesson to do as part of a Noughts and Crosses scheme of work focusing on discrimination.

This fun and engaging resource is suitable for any age group. Students work to check squares off their bingo sheet once they have completed the activity. This can be used to get students talking about reading and help aid in whole school reading. You might as a teacher give a small reward for any student who completes the whole bingo sheet.

Within this lesson students write a diary entry from the perspective of Odysseus. The lesson shows students a brief diary extract from the epic poem, gives them ideas of what they could include in their own diary entries and then shows an example of how students can lay out their final drafts. To make this lesson really immersive, I tea stained some paper to make it look old and gave this to students to write their final drafts on.

Shylock’s developing character in the Shakespeare play Merchant of Venice. Focusing on act four.