Worksheets with activities designed to support the teaching of Dennis Kelly's DNA for the Literature GCSE. Contains: 4 worksheets with activities for students to work through concerning key quotations from the play, the dramatic actions taken by the characters, questions used by the characters and their significance and the importance / symbolic effect of Leah's speeches. A simple summary of the play 1 powerpoint with the key quotations which supports the worksheet.

A powerpoint which can be used and adapted over and over to get pupils used to looking at teacher's marking of an assessment, celebrate their successes and work out how they can improve further next time. Can be used generically with any assessment or easily adapted to be more specific depending on the skills being addressed in the piece of work.

A test based on an extract from 'My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress: Memories of an Irish Childhood' by Christina McKenna. Aimed at year 7, 8 and 9 pupils, the test focuses on questions which will prepare students for the new GCSE-style examinations. The four questions look at selecting information, inferring and deducing information from the text, commenting on the writer's intentions and analysing the effects of the language used. Contains: The test itself The relevant extract A comprehensive mark scheme

A test based on an extract from Lemony Snickett's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' (taken from the chapter entitled 'A Bad Beginning'). Aimed at Year 7 and 8 pupils, the test focuses on questions which will begin to prepare pupils for the new GCSE-style examinations. The four questions look at selecting information, inferring and deducing information from the text, commenting on the writer's intentions and analysing the effects of the language used. Contains: The test itself The relevant extract A comprehensive mark scheme

A challenging test based on the extract from 'The Red Room' chapter of Jane Eyre. Aimed at Talented, Able and Gifted pupils, the test focuses on questions which will prepare pupils for the new GCSE-style examinations. The four questions look at selecting information, inferring and deducing information from the text, commenting on the writer's intentions and analysing the effects of the language used. Contains: The test itself The relevant extract A comprehensive mark scheme

A set of three lessons using extracts from Darren Shan's 'The Demon Thief'. Allows younger pupils to engage with a modern horror writer which they find accessible. Uses relevant resources for three subsequent lessons and aims to teach pupils to recognise, analyse and use various creative writing skills: sentence structure, personification, effective vocabulary choices. Final lesson contains a creative writing assessment for pupils to display the skills they have learnt throughout the sessions. Contains: 3 Powerpoints with complete lessons: starter activities, varied discussion, reading and writing tasks and plenaries 3 worksheets with relevant extracts from The Demon Thief

A set of texts gathered around the theme of Horror / Gothic Fiction aimed at guiding pupils in Years 7-9 through the range of text-types they will need to be familiar with to be successful when studying the new GCSE curriculum. Including extracts from Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and Henry James and classic poems like Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven, but also more modern, accessible texts such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, Darren Shan's Demon Thief and Roald Dahl's The Witches, this collection aims to provide a wide range of texts through which to study the range of skills vital in the new curriculum, such as pre-19th Century Literature, poetry, comparison of theme and time period, language and structural features. Could also easily be used with a GCSE group in preparation for their literature examination. Contains: A booklet with a range of extracts taken from 13 different texts centred around the theme of horror, including modern fiction, pre-19th Century fiction and poetry.

An entire unit of work based around Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. Includes detailed lesson plans for an entire term, all of which include a starter, several shorter tasks and a plenary. Regular homework tasks are set and the scheme also links to several pre-1914 texts as well as some poetry. It is aimed at bridging the gap between KS3 and KS4 in terms of pupils' knowledge and understanding of older texts with more complex language. It has regular short and longer assessment-style pieces and contains a range of tasks linked directly to the requirements of the new GCSE Language exam. Contains: A powerpoint with more than 230 slides which can be easily subdivided into single lessons Copies of 4 poems taught within the scheme Copies of the Pre-1900 texts focused on in the scheme A comprehensive breakdown of the scheme, lesson by lesson Clear starter activities for all lessons Clear plenary / exit ticket ideas for every lesson

A set of five lessons which aim to introduce pupils to the ideas of utopias and dystopias, based around the film Wall-E and the opening chapter of The Hunger Games. Each Powerpoint contains a SPAG-based starter, activities based around the central text for the lesson and a plenary which allows pupils to review their learning. Easy to follow with no additional work required. Contents: 5 Powerpoints containing different activities based around introducing pupils to dystopian fiction.

A set of 8 lessons using Roald Dahl's Boy as the inspiration for Philosophy for Children, linked closely to fiction texted aimed at extending children's literacy levels. Through reading of a range of texts linked to autobiography and childhood, pupils engage in discussions centred around issues linked to growing up and childhood. The reading materials supplied contain excerpts from fiction, non-fiction, prose, play, poetry and modern / Pre-Twentieth Century texts and are a useful introduction to more challenging, older texts required in the new curriculum in the form of small, manageable extracts. For use with Year 7 or 8 Contains: 8 self contained PowerPoint presentations which include entire lessons - excerpt from Boy, plus short discussion tasks leading into a number of potential Philosophy for Children questions. 8 Resource sheets containing the excerpts used with each PowerPoint lesson

A set of texts gathered around the theme of Childhood aimed at guiding pupils in Years 7-9 through the range of text-types they will need to be familiar with to be successful when studying the new GCSE curriculum. Including extracts from Dickens, Bronte and Shakespeare, but also more modern, accessible texts such as Willy Russell's Our Day Out, Harry Potter and Roald Dahl's Boy, this collection aims to provide a wide range of texts through which to study the range of skills vital in the new curriculum, such as pre-19th Century Literature, poetry, comparison of theme and time period, language and structural features. Could also easily be used with a GCSE group in preparation for their literature examination. Contains: A booklet with 17 different texts centred around the theme of childhood, including modern fiction, pre-19th Century fiction, a play excerpt and poetry. A suggested list of tasks to accompany the texts

All the resources for a workshop I did with visiting primary school children aimed at enthusing them to write their own piece of Creative Writing using a range of techniques. It lasted two hours and at the end each student had created their own descriptive piece to take back to their primary school. Covers sentence structure, selecting premier league descriptive vocabulary, imagery, using effective verbs, adjectives and adverbs as well as the senses to create detailed description. Contains: PowerPoint of the entire workshop Plan of the workshop and resources required Worksheet on the senses Worksheets for whole group sentence structure activity

A scheme of work which covers the whole of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas novel. Includes a scheme overview, 20 Powerpoints with activities taking pupils through the novel, chapter by chapter, with starter activities, plenaries, a wide range of activities and some assessments covering character, theme and language. Everything you need to teach the book effectively. Covers the full range of literature assessment criteria for a middle ability Year 8 group. Contains: 20 PowerPoint presentations: each focuses on a chapter of the book, in order - all self contained with a range of activities An overview of the whole scheme 2 separate worksheets with activities to accompany the lessons