A display showing various people in the public eye caught reading, before having 12+ celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, James Franco, Daniel Radcliffe and Rachel McAdams talk about their favourite books. A nice display to encourage students to read, and more importantly- not be ashamed or embarrassed about reading.

A complete lesson analysis including copy of the poem. A youtube link to a recording of the poem is useful as images of Mumbai slums are shown as well. Students are given a range of tasks to help analysis of poem. Part of Eduqas poetry anthology.

A fun one off lesson getting students to plan, consider and create ghost stories using first person. Can be used in conjunction with any other scheme of work or as a one off cover lesson. A good introduction to creative writing or drama. Worksheet with pictures of different haunted settings included to help students who struggle with creative writing.

A fun and interactive lesson teaching students how to use similes and metaphors. Whiteboard games, writing tasks and quick fire questions ensure your students understand how to use a simile and a metaphor, and why they are important. A useful one off lesson to ensure key skills are understood and secure. A writing task and differentiated levels are present throughout lesson.

A complete lesson on Mickey and Linda's relationship in Blood Brothers and how it changes. This is very much formatted to ensure success at GCSE in the Eduqas exam for English Literature. The lesson begins with a Do Now, before practicing skills for the springboard essay where students are given an extract and need to complete an essay using the whole text. This lesson guides students to find key quotes from other parts of the play as well as annotating the extract given. Students are then given a mock exam question to practice. All success criteria, learning objectives and resources needed are within the PowerPoint.

An A3 document that talks students through some key devices and technique to use throughout their written narrative to help them gain top marks. Students are given a list of useful devices, as well as a definition and an example. Students then can either pick out the devices used in any drafts or ideas, or come up with key examples that can be woven into any narrative they can write in their exam. Students are also given a useful 'Story Opener' guide, talking them through 7 popular ways to begin a short story, what benefits it has and an example. This sheet was useful for lower ability sets who struggle to embed creative writing devices within their work as it gave them some key sentences that they could use.

A full lesson including powerpoint, learning objectives, success criteria and resources. A fun and engaging way of exploring the cratchits in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The lesson starts with a 'Christmas Carol Crossword' where they need to identify and recall the family members' names, before moving on to extract analysis. The first extract is modelled already on the powerpoint, but this can easily be removed and embedded timers are on the slides already. Think, Pair, Share opportunities are in the lesson too, with students needing to match up the quote to the description of how Bob Cratchit feels (slide 6 and 7-this will need printing). I have taught this lesson to three different classes and all classes have showed rapid progress and a real engagement in the lesson.

An engaging and colourful 'key quotes' display for the classroom with all the important quotes needed to be memorised in preparation for the Eduqas English literature exam.

A set of two lessons analyzing the poem Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy. A range of tasks including picture association, analyzing poetry and written analysis. Lots of short tasks and an optional worksheet to ascertain understanding for weaker students. All learning objectives, levels and success criteria on the powerpoint.

A range of resources and a lesson on Marxist Criticism and how to apply it to an analysis of A Christmas Carol for GCSE. Students learn the basics of Marxist criticism and use this to improve close analysis of key scenes in A Christmas Carol. Great for top band students looking to boost their performance in essays and exams.

This powerpoint has been created to encourage confidence in unseen poetry, and to teach students how to analyse and plan for the WJEC/EDUQAS unseen poetry question timings. The first five slides are resources for the class. Slide 1 - a breakdown of each unseen poetry question - colour coded - to explain expectations from examiner, timings, what the question is asking you to do. Slide 2 - a reminder bookmark to give students to take home to practise with at home. It has 8 key questions students should ask themselves to ensure clear and detailed answers when responding. Slide 3 - The first poem handout with annotation boxes (colour coded). This is advisable to be printed in A3 so they have a decent amount of space to write notes in. Slide 4 - The second poem handout - this one has the original poem and the poem they have to compare it with on- with annotation boxes (colour coded). This is advisable to be printed in A3 so they have a decent amount of space to write notes in. I normally print slide 3 and 4 back to back Slide 5 - an optional print out slide with a breakdown of what to write in each paragraph, as well as possible sentence starters/cloze paragraphs to use. This masterclass uses the poems ‘Leisure’ by W.H Davies and ‘The Lesson’ by Maya Angelou. Slides 6,7,8 and 9 talk you and the class through how to quickly annotate with timers to keep the pace. The poem analysis is broken down into sections with written prompts to show on the board. This is the second masterclass, after the students requested to do another. The format of the slides is really easy to edit, so you can use this repeatedly and just change the poems in the middle.

A set of personalised certificates - just add name - for a class with awards such as ‘the Hemmingway award’, the ‘mini me award’, ‘the miss congeniality award’. Beautiful when printed on cream card and a real hit with the students. An excellent time saver. Included in the pack is a set of ‘emoji reward cards’ with specific praise for students within English. These cards include: ‘Excellent effort in English’ ‘Much improved reading’ ‘you worked fantastically as part of a team’ and many more. Easy to print and on an adaptable PowerPoint format, your students will love them. I have printed them onto label and used them as a very personalised rewards sticker.

A fun and engaging way to encourage narrative writing, creative writing and effective planning in preparation for GCSE. These story starters were designed for low ability students, with lots of bright colours and recognisable cartoons that can be put together to create a short story. These cards can be used individually, or in multiples. Used with my students as homework with great success.

I have compiled a range of questions for WJEC/EDUQAS in the exam style to cover every theme, relationship or character in the following texts: Blood Brothers A Christmas Carol The Merchant of Venice The poetry anthology. In the documents you will find exam style questions. In the Blood Brothers pack, there are 18 exam style questions, including previous exam questions. All of these include an extract for the springboard essay and cover every theme, character and relationship. In the A Christmas Carol pack, there are 16 exam style questions, including previous exam questions. All of these include an extract for the springboard essay and cover every theme, character and relationship. In the The Merchant of Venice pack, there are 17 exam style questions, including previous exam questions. There are both the 15 mark extract, and 25 mark whole play questions and cover every theme, character and relationship. In the Poetry Anthology pack, there are 9 exam style questions, including previous exam questions. All of these include the poem asked to analyse and compare, as well as both questions.

As part of the WJEC/EDUQAS poetry anthology, students are expected to learn and understand the context of each poem. To make this easier to retain, I have created a context homework sheet for each poem. The sheet is a simple and easy homework that can be tested as a Do Now at the beginning of a lesson. Each sheet has the title, date and name of poet, alongside a ‘Top Ten Facts’ for the poem’s context. This purchase will give you one sheet for each poem - something which I know at times can take hours of research. With these sheets it will save you and your students time, knowing ten top contextual facts that can help secure success for your students.

A complete lessson analysing the poem London by WIlliam Blake. A complete analysis of the context, themes, structure and language/imagery used in the poem. A colourful and engaging lesson to prepare students for GCSE. A second, less detailed analysis lesson is included for lower ability sets.

A complete lesson with all resources, learning objectives, success criteria and poem breakdown. This lesson talks through the context, content, structure, form, language, imagery and tone. With a step by step analysis for the poem, including key questions, students can expand understanding and knowledge. This can be used as a complete lesson, but it can equally be used as a revision aide for students either in or outside of the classroom.

A complete lesson with all resources, learning objectives, success criteria and poem breakdown. This lesson talks through the context, content, structure, form, language, imagery and tone. With a step by step analysis for the poem, including key questions, students can expand understanding and knowledge. This can be used as a complete lesson, but it can equally be used as a revision aide for students either in or outside of the classroom.

A lesson complete with annotated poem, teaching students the context, language, imagery and structure of Cozy Apologia ready to compare to She Walks in Beauty.

A selection of 21 ready to print resources that can be used as Do Now or Plenary activities for your classes. These can also be used online if you convert to a google doc. The do now selection covers: capital letters full stops commas in a list commas to separate clauses apostrophes discourse markers verbs and adverbs adjectives and nouns prefixes and suffixes ellipses to shorten quotations there, they’re and their where, wear and were the verb to be past V present tense superlatives colons semi-colons synonyms antonyms prepositions