Full Scheme of Work - perfect to prepare students to move on to GCSE level analysis. Complete scheme that contains Power Points, reference to key scenes and worksheets. Covers creative writing, speaking and listening and language analysis. VISIT MY SHOP HERE FOR ALL NEW RESOURCES: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/AndrewJ056

Empower your GCSE Eduqas students with this Key Poems Student Guide, a concise and accessible resource for mastering the post-1789 poetry anthology. This guide provides: • Contextual insights for all key poems, including The Manhunt, Ozymandias, Living Space, and more, highlighting historical, social, and cultural influences. • Clear explanations of themes, language, and structure for each poem, designed to support students in developing comparative and analytical skills. • Exam-focused content, including links between poems, example comparisons, and key quotes to prepare for Eduqas assessment objectives. • Student-friendly design for independent study, classroom support, or revision, ensuring content is accessible while maintaining academic depth. This guide is perfect for equipping students with the tools to confidently analyse, compare, and write about anthology poems.

Enhance your students’ understanding of key poems and prose texts with this Context Booklet for Eduqas GCSE English Literature. This resource provides a comprehensive exploration of contextual factors, helping students develop deeper insights into the works and their historical, social, and cultural influences. Features include: • Contextual notes for key poems from the post-1789 poetry anthology, including The Manhunt, Ozymandias, London, and more. • Detailed insights into major prose texts such as A Christmas Carol, covering themes, historical background, and authorial intent. • Exam-focused guidance to link context to quotes, supporting high-level analysis and meeting Eduqas assessment objectives. • Student-friendly language, ensuring accessibility while offering academic depth. Perfect for classroom teaching, homework, or revision, this booklet provides everything students need to excel in their understanding of context for Eduqas GCSE English Literature.

Full scheme of work and extra lessons/resources to support reading this novel.

This unit introduces Year 7 students to the essential skills of reading, analysing, and writing non-fiction texts. It covers a wide range of non-fiction materials and uses reciprocal reading strategies to help students build confidence in understanding and evaluating these texts. A key focus is on how writers use language to convey meaning and structure their work to create impact. Students will also learn to produce various styles of non-fiction writing, using analysed texts as models. Key Skills • Systematically track texts using reciprocal reading strategies. • Select appropriate evidence. • Make inferences. • Use the ‘suggests’ formula for analysis. • Focus on reading skills: select, retrieve, and evaluate information. Key Concepts • Author’s purpose • Transactional writing • Summarise and synthesise information Assessment • Praising Stars assessment focusing on evaluative skills and detailed feedback on ‘Craft of the Writer’ questions. Weekly Breakdown Week 1: Identifying Non-fiction Text Types • Learning Outcomes: Identify differences between non-fiction text types; explain language techniques used. • Activities: Buzz and go activity to name non-fiction types, carousel tasks for text type identification, group presentations. • Support and Challenge: Mixed ability groups, language analysis. Week 2: Understanding Author’s Purpose • Learning Outcomes: Identify accurate evidence; explain the author’s purpose. • Activities: Discussions on video games, comprehension activities using reciprocal reading (RR) strategies. • Support and Challenge: Sentence starters, modeling predictions and summaries. Week 3: Analysing Language Use • Learning Outcomes: Analyse language use; independently identify information. • Activities: Debates on gaming addiction, tracking articles with RR strategies, writing responses to language questions. • Support and Challenge: Sentence starters, zooming in on language. Week 4: Craft of the Writer • Learning Outcomes: Explain the author’s use of language; identify appropriate evidence. • Activities: Discussions on heroism, RR strategies, writing ‘comment evidence this suggests’ paragraphs. • Support and Challenge: Predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarising strategies.

A template to support with long term planning for English units of work.

A task to support students with introducing Sherlock Holmes.

A range of lessons to support a reading of The Little Mermaid

Dive into the intriguing world of Elizabethan literature with “Unraveling the Mystery of Shakespeare’s Authorship,” an engaging educational resource designed for secondary school students. This comprehensive guide challenges the widely accepted notion that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote his famed plays and poems. Through a series of thought-provoking tasks and activities, students will explore alternative theories suggesting that Christopher Marlowe or Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, might be the true authors. Featuring detailed information sheets, interactive media, and critical thinking exercises, this resource fosters analytical skills and a deeper understanding of Elizabethan history and literature. Perfect for classroom use, “Unraveling the Mystery of Shakespeare’s Authorship” inspires curiosity and debate, encouraging students to form their own conclusions about one of literature’s greatest mysteries. Engage with historical contexts, evaluate compelling arguments, and become a literary detective in this captivating journey through time.

A summary of the whole play to aid students’ revision.

A lesson designed for students to understand the extract question by creating their own. Students can use the planning sheet to create their own questions and then they can swap with their peer so they can practice the question.

15 lessons with a range of activities and support during guided reading.

To help with analysis and revision of a novel.

A 14+ slide Powerpoint, covering 3 to 4 lessons, on the poem ‘James Honeyman’ with analysis of the structure, language and the form. A range of handouts help secure understanding of this challenging poem.

A great activity for securing knowledge of key narrative techniques using the quiz, quiz trade activity.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Full Scheme of Work covering over 150 slides. This full SoW covers the entire novel and each chapter is broken down for you to work with your students. Each lesson includes a starter, a range of tasks linked to the chapter being read and a suitable plenary. There's a range of research tasks for the students to investigate the events linked to the novel. The end of unit assessment is a review and there is a range of slides that explain what is needed for a successful review. Everything is planned for you and you can pick it up and go.

A lesson that covers the key ideas around narratives and how to approach and analyse a piece of fiction.

Key messages for every question with reference to key timings - vital to revise with Year 11.

A range of thematic grids in The Great Gatsby that covers themes such as decadence, ambition, ego and many more.