I use this resource to guide GCSE students through Macbeth, focusing on key moments and language, such as the ‘raven is hoarse’ and ‘out spot’ monologues. There’s focus on the witches, fate, guilt, language and plot too. Hope you find it useful. Good preparation for GCSE exams.

This PowerPoint takes you through the first part of the novel, with tasks around foreshadowing, vocabulary, reading and PEE formula. I use this a lot with years 9, 10 & 11. Lots of striking images and related themes to build the atmosphere as you read. Enjoy.

A detailed PowerPoint with lots of activities as you read through the novel. Character analysis, motivations, survival, creative writing, non-fictional writing, discussion tasks…

This large PowerPoint has well over a hundred slides with words encountered across the school curriculum, broken up into sound segments with prefix, suffixes and root morphology explained, along with definitions. Improve your students’ vocabulary and spelling with this tried and tested resource.

A series of probing questions about the language, meaning, context and cultural value of the poem; The Charge of the Light Brigade. Designed to test your students’ knowledge and provide insight to further research. Ideal for those approaching English Literature exams.

PowerPoint activities, worksheets, nonsense words, word segment builders. Lots of tried and tested resources that really help improve students’ phonic knowledge and progress their ability in reading words and common word segments aloud with confident automaticity. Also included, a large, detailed resource for developing writing stamina along with improved spelling. Lots of phonics resources and useful activities. Students encouraged to see words as SOUNDS and build their understanding of how sounds BLEND. Phonic understanding, syllabic awareness, MEANINGFUL SOUNDS. All phases covered, plus beyond phonics. Understanding vowels, word segments, blending and syllables. READING WRITING SPELLING

This is a full and detailed programme for the developing of Speaking & Listening skills, either across a particular cohort or even a whole school or more. Lots of information about the importance of oracy skills, how lockdowns and social distancing may have affected pupils, and a great many suggested activities from paired, to small and large groups of all ages. Looking to help improve speaking and listening in your pupils? Want to develop a whole-school oracy strategy? It’s all here, done for you. Feel free to alter as required.

A detailed, week by week, plan for the teaching of all English Literature and Language topics to KS3, with an alternating three year cycle. Never have to write more plans, it’s all here for you. Texts have been chosen because they are challenging enough to help develop pupils’ skills and knowledge leading up to tackling GCSE texts. Created by a teacher with lots of experience of teaching KS3 and KS4 pupils.

A full PowerPoint presentation that takes you through the events and ideas in the Ele Fountain novel, Boy 87. Key moments and themes. All covered. Basic knowledge required and key words. Tasks and information. Use and alter as you please. Good for KS3 or 4 and SEND pupils.

Full planning for 3 years of English Literature and Language for GCSE. Week by week detail. Aimed at Edexcel GCSE but can be for any exam board or other literature and English language course. Detailed 3 year cycle. Never have to create more plans. Alter as you like. 19th century texts, post 1914 texts, non-fiction, poetry, Shakespeare, everything covered.

This learning ladder is to help inform planning; giving suggestions of stories, facts, ideas and skills to help pupils develop a range of knowledge and abilities, and a wide vocabulary, for improved understanding and progress in English literacy. The purpose of the Learning Ladder is to help ensure pupils develop a wide range of useful subject knowledge, general knowledge and academic skills which will enable them to make strong progress at all stages, and succeed to the best of their individual ability in primary, secondary school and beyond. The skills suggested for each Key Stage are a sample selection of those most essential for progression in literacy and are the ones which often hamper confidence and progress in later Key Stages when they are insufficiently developed. This resource will allow teachers to develop a fully sequenced and well thought out curriculum for the teaching of English Literacy.