A similes worksheet, comprising of a number of 'as' and 'like' sentences that must be completed.

Enormous word search on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Great as a starter/ plenary. Aimed at lower ability students so you may need to adapt to suit your class.

Extract and questions to assess students understanding of the novel.

Great as a starter or a mini-plenary to re-focus students and to remind them of the correct spellings. This was aimed at a lower ability group so you may need to adapt to suit your class.

Develop relationships with your students with this ice-breaker activity for new classes. Students collaborate to create a display, or decorate their exercise books whilst learning about each other. Used as an ice-breaker. Student colours in their intial (s) They then add all the interesting facts about themselves around it.

Used as an introduction to the play and /or set for cover. The activities get the students to explore the prologue and it's possible significance. Aimed at middle to lower ability students so you may need to adapt to suit your group.

Great as a settling activity or as a starter. Students can revise spellings as they identify them in the wordsearch.

Adapted for the NEW AQA (from 2010 onwards) Speaking and Listening assessment - easy to highlight so students can see how to improve. This one is for the 'Interacting and Responding' criteria. Useful for ys10/11.

Powerpoint activity that allows students to form an opinion on a certain topic. You could then snowball the debate by getting them to discuss in pairs, then fours then 8s then one side of the class versus the other. Useful as a speaking and listening activity for KS4 assessment.

Printable handout worksheet including a list of homework tasks to cover a whole half term of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. Could be used as it is, with dates adapted, or just used as an ideas sheet to inspire your own homework setting.

Adapted for the NEW AQA (from 2010 onwards) Speaking and Listening assessment - easy to highlight so students can see how to improve. This one is for the 'presenting' criteria. Useful for ys10/11.

Use this to word snow ball or as revision. Students must complete the final column of the sheet with the names of poems that use that technique.

Powerpoint that explores chapter 8 -10 of Jekyll and Hyde. Aimed at middle ability students so you may need to adapt to suit your class.

A series of printable question worksheets that get the students to explore what happens in this scene of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and helps consolidate their understanding of the play. Differentiated version included however you may need to adapt them to suit your class.

Scheme of work that explores a series of Greek myths and you will need access to these (they can be found online here: http://www.greekmythology.com/ You may need to adapt to suit your classes but a useful starting point.

Activities and worksheet on myths and legends and creating their own. Zeus, King of the Greek Gods, guides students through various activities.

Scheme of work on Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce aimed at y7 pupils as a transition unit from Primary school to Secondary. Differentiation is included but you may need to adapt to suit your classes.

Students match up the points made to quotations from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. They then write their own explanations parts (ext: they could then link to the next PEE paragraph) This was aimed at a lower ability group so you may need to adapt to suit your class.

Two lesson plans and a poster for a drama lesson around 'Darkwood Manor', a haunted house. Emphasis on character development.

Spoken Language Controlled Assessment - y10/11 AQA

A printable worksheet with a series of questions that get the students to explore what happens in Act 1 Scene 2 of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare and helps consolidate their understanding of the play. Answer sheet is included. You may need to adapt them to suit your class.