This resource offers a creative lesson for students studying English Language on papers that require students to ‘find’ information. This lesson is centred around earning Exit Passes (lolly sticks) and a Blind Style learning Activity to ensure that the most able are able to construct mark schemes and all students work in a supported environment. This lesson offers an imaginative route into a question that can otherwise be a little dry: it also works towards ALL students achieving full marks on this question and offers a range of 10 texts on which to practise this skill, including answers to all questions.

This resource has been an absolute labour of love. Having created chapter resources on this text, I set myself a challenge to create a revision or learning resource that covered aspects on context, quotations, links within the text, linguistic devices and narration whilst students are actively engaged. The tasks in this resource start with some straightforward questions and build towards quotation reconstruction before finishing on an analytical question. To ensure you have a clear winner in your groups I have included a Bonus Question for use in a tie break situation. The questions and answers are included with this resource along with the digital link to the online Escape Room: all you will need is a laptop and a hot cup of tea! This resource is available as a stand alone product or can be purchased as part of a bespoke package where you can also request an escape room for another text you are studying: all I would need is the questions and answers and I will do the techy side of it. (This product comes with a warning: once your students have done one of these they will be forever requesting more!). I will add the link for that product as soon as I have added it to my shop, in the meantime follow me so that you keep up to date with all the other new resources that are in the pipeline!

This resource draws on a range of teaching methods to nurture a love of literature in your students. This resource is all you need to teach Chapter 1 of this GCSE literature text. This resource covers a study of the characters and themes, through creative writing, non fiction reading, discussion, homework tasks, and a quiz and utilises discretely differentiated outcomes and targets that are in turn used to assess your students’ knowledge. As a teacher, I wholly believe in learning by ‘doing’ and this lesson promotes that style of teaching, it is perfect for newly qualified teachers (who need a guide into teaching a novel) and for experienced teachers looking to save a little time on planning for that new text that’s now on your timetable. This resource is equally useful for students wanting to learn at home, with parents who are not so familiar with the text, activities easily translate to home study tasks or intervention activities. If you like this please do follow me so that you can keep up to date with more new resources that are currently being created.

This resource is the first in a collection of fun literacy activities for KS2 and lower ability KS3 students based on homophones. The printable slides are best llaminated in A5 and could be used as part of your marking feedback: ‘please complete card 1.2 on homophones as a starter activity next lesson’: in this way these are designed to address specific errors for specific students, individualising learning and offering an immediate start to literacy lessons. This set comprises the 20 most commonly misspelt homophones and comes with a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ offer outlined on the resource. It also includes a teaching list of the options in this collection, for ease of setting the next task for your students. I am hugely excited about this project that offers opportunities for colourful displays, longevity, engaging activiites and most of all, literacy becoming part of an improving habit. As the inaugaural resource this comes with a special offer to be able to contribute to the choice of future resources and give hoenst feedback. The price on this resource is an INTRODUCTORY PRICE that will increase, so make your classroom part of both a metaphorical and literacy based journey. Jump on board the Literacy Bus!!

This resource covers all of the poems and includes a wide range of questions to help refresh and round off learning, it has been designed to increase engagement with language, structure, form and the context of these poems. My own groups have found this resource immensely helpful in the final preparations for the exam this week. This is a perfect resource for very last minute revision, that odd lesson in which you’re not sure where the gaps might be, lunchtime catch ups, after school support, tutors, teachers, supply or parents wanting to help their students/children respectively.

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.

This Literacy Programme is 2 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 two booklets for use in this Programme will be posted imminently as will similar programmes for years 8 and 9.

These resources include a detailed lesson plan, powerpoint, individualised learning objectives that are aligned with the new GCSE 9-1 grades, a game board template together with a set of original and fully differentiated questions (I laminated both the board and the questions to aid longevity as the students loved this game and wanted to play it again and again). This lesson was ranked outstanding on every level when observed as the outcomes demonstrated above average progression for every student in the group. These resources are perfect for use with years 9,10 and 11.

This is a lesson that can be used as a stand alone lesson or built into a unit on Dystopian Fiction that covers the skills required to access the (9-1) strengthened GCSE Non Fiction Reading Paper. The lesson works slowly through each question type offering tips and guidance on how to access secure grades at GCSE level. Two non fiction articles are included.

A thorough exploration of this poem including analysis of form, language and structure, differentiated notes and tasks plus an exam style question including advice on how to respond to the question. This is everything you need to teach this poem at GCSE level.

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.

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.