Based on an extract from Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' here is a further exam style paper to use for revision as you prepare students for the GCSE reading paper exams. Written using the Edexcel (9-1) English Language Specification.

This lesson takes you through a theory based lesson using music to learn quotations from texts. This lesson has proved to be a highly enjoyable, alternative and effective approach to last minute quotation learning, even for students who struggle to retain information. Using this method of learning quotations, students are able to write more sustained responses and in turn access higher grades. If you find this useful please do leave a review. More Brain Training lessons to follow.

An in depth study of Act 2 of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. This is designed for GCSE teaching and includes a range of activities including: explanation and exploration of iambic pentameter, links to the theme of distrust, drama activities, quotation finds, matching activities, debate and written tasks. This is 4-6 hours of teaching and includes everything students need to know for their exams in an accessible and fun format.

A scene by scene study of Act 4 of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. This is designed for GCSE teaching and includes a range of activities including: matching quotations exercises, creative responses, questions that demand higher level thinking, summaries and notes to advance engagement with the overall structure, both of this scene and this scene in the context of the whole play.

This resource includes a systematic example of how to analyse language in an extract with supported tasks and exemplar responses. It also includes comprehension questions, character analysis and prompts to consider the themes of fear, entrapment and being hunted alongside overarching structural observations of this text. Book 1 resources already available as a bundle, Book 2 will be released shortly...if interested follow me...

This resource covers Book 2, Chapters 3-6 of the narrative and includes a range of inclusive and challenge activities to ensure students are engaged and stretched. This lesson includes reference to theories relating to the text to enable students to access the grades 8 and 9 together with more accessible and relatable activities for lower ability.

A complete 4 week Transition or Introductory Unit of work for KS3. This is engaging with lots of interesting activities to complete and ending with the creation of a 'Detective Game Board'. My students loved this scheme of work and it enabled us to set classroom rules for learning within a relaxed bubble of learning. The resource includes week by week powerpoints plus extracts, homework and an easy to follow scheme of work.

These resources introduce students to the themes contained in this text, explores the characterisation of Silas Marner and uses some engaging kinaesthetic activities (Human Weaving Machine and Court Room) to capture the imaginations of students who might find studying 19th century fiction more difficult. Chapter 2 is also included here and concentrates predominantly on teaching students 'how to' analyse extracts at GCSE level. If you like this resource please follow me as more resources are being prepared on this text and will be released very soon.

Is Curley's Wife really that bad? This lesson includes some outstanding resources that use differentiated questioning and focus to meet the needs of ALL learners. The activity worksheets are classified in target grades so that you can group students according to ability and includes a 'Magpie' activity for your very most able. This lesson draws on a range of pedagogical practices in order to achieve outstanding progress for ALL. If you like this resource and want more on OMAM follow me here and on Twitter @jomarsh1.

This Literacy Programme is 1 of 3 for use with year 8s across an entire term and forms part of a newly written programme that builds on the strengthened demands of the KS2 literacy skills and the Year 7 Programme also available on TES. This resource includes a PDF version of the programme plus an Adobe version that is editable so that the name of your school/behaviour policy can be incorporated into the documents. The powerpoint presentation is used to test the weekly skills gained by your students and allows you to track progress and build in additional intervention for areas of shortfall post completion. The subsequent booklets for use in this Programme and year 9 will be posted imminently.

Following the success of the first resource I created on 'The PIcture of Dorian Gray' I have now created this second resource based on an extract from 'Oliver' by Charles Dickens. It is ideal for use with the Edexcel (9-1) English Language Specification. Due to the shortage of past papers to use in the classroom I have constructed this paper for use by teachers using this specification. The resources includes the extract, questions, mark scheme and indicative content. If you like this resource please do leave a review as am happy to construct more.

An extensive powerpoint that works through the entire play including contextual information, activities and assessment tasks that are aligned with the GCSE (9-1) specifications. This is a detailed unit of work that supports KS3 students through the study of a play text and has proved to be an excellent training ground for GCSE studies.

An exploratory powerpoint that poses questions, engages readers and seeks to secure understanding of the language, structure, sub text and thematic links across these chapters.

An engaging lesson that includes a range of activities including: clozed activities, quotation finding, creative response, oral discussions and close textual analysis. Further resource and bundles to follow on the rest of the novel.

This lesson starts with an engaging visual activity that engages students with the concept of tone in art before then asking them to apply this thinking to some literary extracts. The lesson continues to draw on the DIRT strategy to improve and assess work and establish success criteria for using the right tone when writing an article. This is an excellent revision lesson to refine techniques for writing Transactional Writing pieces for the GCSE exams.

A close analysis of a key GCSE extract in Macbeth covering literary terminology and means of analysis for all three elements required to achieve a secure grade 5: Language, Form and Structure.

This Literacy Programme is 3 of 3 for use with year 7s across an entire term and forms part of a newly written programme that builds on the strengthened demands of the KS2 literacy skills. This resource includes a PDF version of the programme plus an Adobe version that is editable so that the name of your school/behaviour policy can be incorporated into the documents. The powerpoint presentation is used to test the weekly skills gained by your students and allows you to track progress and build in additional intervention for areas of shortfall post completion. The subsequent booklets for use in this Programme for years 8 and 9 will be posted imminently.