An extensive list of book recommendations for year eight students to read. Would be great to add to your library or use alongside a book club.

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.

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 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.

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.

This worksheet helps students have an overview of the poem 1916 Working In Red and prompts students to create a summary, focus on techniques and draw images based on the poem.

This worksheet helps students to break down the poem ‘The Wound In Time’ asking specific questions and encouraging students independence with unpicking the meaning of the poem.

Exploring Conor’s character and how tension is built in chapter one.

How is conflict presented in chapter three of A Monster Calls.

Each table will be given some quotes working together they annotate the quotes. This links in perfectly with the sentence type lesson - chapter four. Comes with quotes to explode worksheet.

How did Patrick Ness use sentence types for effect in chapter four in A Monster Calls.

What is the purpose of the first tale in A Monster Calls. A lesson based around plotting mood in chapter nine.

How does Ness use foreshadowing in chapter eleven of A Monster Calls. This lesson contains opportunity for students to explode quotes, zoom into language use and complete and essay style question.

A PowerPoint to go alongside chapter six of A Monster Calls - students are taught what a monologue and character perspective is and are then prompted to write a monologue of their own. Includes monologue writing worksheet.

A lesson based around preparing students for an essay question based around chapter eight of A Monster Calls. The lesson explores exploding quotes, zooming into key language choice and responding to an essay question based on the first tale.