This booklet contains a range of independent activities for students to complete when reading any book. These are aimed at KS3 students and include activities such as: Chapter overview questions Analysing quotes Freytag models Book cover design Character analysis Plot development Setting And many more! Independent reading general questions.

This pack contains seven weeks worth of home learning tasks, extension or challenge tasks for students. Each sheet contains three different tasks based around the book Lord of the Flies.

Students have a set amount of time (allocated by you) to complete the worksheet. They must provide definitions or examples of the word types on the sheet. An incredible revision resource for the OCR and AQA A level English exam.

Students are asked to spot the sentence elements within the sentences provided. All of the sentence elements are provided on the sheet as a reminder. A great resource for A level language AQA and OCR revision.

This can be used alongside the poem ‘Sadness’ in the book Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds to help with analysis. This worksheet is based on analysing key quotes from the poem. The other resource looks at the five stages of grief and how these link to the poem.

A revision crossword with clues based on the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet.

Students sort statements about the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet into true or false piles. This is a great game for revision, consolidating knowledge or homework.

A advent calendar that provides a new book recommendation everyday on the run up to Christmas! All books are based around the festive season and are aimed at KS3 to KS4 students within secondary school. A fun way to engage students in reading and promote pleasure for reading in school over December. This can be used as a whole school reading strategy and adapted to fit the reading needs of your students.

This thematic approach to A Christmas Carol allows students to track music throughout the novella. Exploring the context of music and Christmas Carols, linking it back t the novella and tracking music across all five staves.

A worksheet designed to help students track music in A Christmas Carol. This worksheet was designed to go alongside my PowerPoint on music in A Christmas Carol which can also be found on this platform.

This activity allows students to take on the role of either the head teacher of HeathCroft school or Callum who is answering the questions as a new student. A great way to promote real world skills in English lessons as well as promoting students confidence in drama and hot seating.

This is a full lesson walking students through how to write a monologue. This is based around the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It allows students to embody the character and retell events from their view.

This lesson leads students through the basics of capital letters and punctuation. This can be used for all years to either act as a teaching the basics lesson or a recap over the key skills. This lesson also goes over similes, sentence types, synonyms and writing.

This reading booklet contains a range of texts based on the theme of ‘representation through time’ alongside discussion questions. This is great for promoting a love of reading within pupils, promoting oracy and discussion.

Students are given George Orwell’s Newspeak and are asked to determine the rules fo the language. When they have determined the rules they are prompted to write a letter to the education secretary stating why they believe that newspeak should be taught instead of our standard English language.

A collection of short stories collated into a booklet for students to enjoy. Great for reading for pleasure, reading for meaning and general whole school reading.

An amazing revision game for An Inspector Calls. This is a game of connect four in which students take turns in answering questions to try and place their mark on the connect four grid. This resource comes with both the question grid and connect four grid - along with instructions of how to play.

These versatile worksheet give students a range of different images/symbols to link to their chosen topic of revision. For example: students could link the images to Macbeth, A Christmas Carol or An Inspector Calls.

Using the poem ‘1916 Working In Red’ students hunt to find the words highlighted in the dictionary. They can then figure out the meaning of the poem based on the newly learned vocabulary.