Get your students to improve their descriptive or creative writing skills through this detailed lesson that uses the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali to engage them and make them reflect on their use of vocabulary, sentence structures and paragraphing. Includes differentiated activities, a detailed planning sheet, a model answer and peer assessment opportunities. Ideal exam preparation for English Literature examinations but also adaptable for younger students as well. Differentiated throughout.

Over 65 plenary activities designed for English lessons but can be used in any subject area or age group. Sometimes it can be difficult to come up with engaging and useful plenaries, but this pack of over 70 slides crammed full of interesting ideas and approaches to plenaries (all tried and tested in my own lessons) will make sure you never have to worry about coming up with a new idea for a plenary ever again! I’ll be adding to this regularly, so take a look and save yourself some much needed time.

When Lennie and Curley’s Wife talk in Chapter Five, Curley’s Wife shows a lot of different emotions and we see a different side to her personality. We analyse Curley’s Wife’s emotions through key quotations and create detailed analytical paragraphs together before peer assessing them. A really useful lesson for KS3 students with a number of activities helpful for KS4 students, too. Differentiated throughout.

We compare the description of setting in both Chapters One and Six in Of Mice and Men and consider how the writer builds up themes in both chapters, so we can make comparisons between the two extracts. A very useful lesson for KS3 and for building up comparison skills in preparation for GCSE and beyond. Fully differentiated throughout.

A very detailed Science Fiction Escape Room lesson that includes five mysteries that students work together in groups to solve. As they work together to move on to each new mystery, they look at character, plot, themes and more so that they can consolidate their learning and improve their understanding of these key areas. Perfect for engaging students and a lot of fun to teach, too! Includes differentiated activities. Please note: The answers to every puzzle, as well as notes on each puzzle, are found in the notes section of each slide (the grey box below the slide).

A very detailed Of Mice and Men Escape Room lesson that includes five mysteries that students work together in groups to solve. As they work together to move on to each new mystery, they look at character, plot, themes and context so that they can consolidate their learning and improve their understanding of these key areas. Perfect for engaging students and a lot of fun to teach, too! Includes differentiated activities

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, includes a model essay for high ability students and includes differentiated activities for students to complete in order to push them forwards with their analytical skills and essay writing abilities. Students are given top tips for improving their essays and can use the model essay provided to improve their own pieces written as an assessment. Includes tip on using multiple quotes, weaving in context into an answer and ensuring students see characters as multi-dimensional - including Curley’s Wife! Fully differentiated throughout.

From Macbeth, to An Inspector Calls, to A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and Harry Potter, this is the Ultimate English Literature Quiz! This End of Term Quiz is created by a 2017 Tes Award Nominated Author and is aimed at secondary students but could easily be used with upper KS2 as well. The quiz is interactive, multiple choice and answers and scoring sheet for teams included. There are two ways of playing - either as a whole class, or, you can put the quiz on slide view, skip the answers and read them out at the end (if your class would rather compete in groups). The quiz is completely editable too, with all answers included. Enjoy! Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources. AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package AQA English Language Paper 1 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package AQA English Language and English Literature revision package An Inspector Calls whole scheme package An Inspector Calls revision package Macbeth whole scheme package Macbeth revision package A Christmas Carol whole scheme package A Christmas Carol revision package Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package Jekyll and Hyde revision package Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package Unseen Poetry whole scheme package Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources

Marking can be such a time-consuming process without gaining the dialogue you want to have with your students. I’ve put together this approach to marking and DIRT that should hopefully save you some time. Rather than writing out the same comments again and again, this activity uses an alphabet code to do the work for you.

What better way to make punctuation engaging than through a Christmas theme? Includes resources on dashes, semicolons and colons to engage students with high level punctuation - all tied together with a lovely festive theme. Differentiated throughout.

Help your students develop their descriptive writing skills with this Christmas themed lesson that looks at a winter scene and supports students as they analyse a descriptive writing example. Students then use the model to help them create their own pieces of descriptive writing. Fully differentiated throughout. Check out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources. AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package AQA English Language Paper 1 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package AQA English Language and English Literature revision package An Inspector Calls whole scheme package An Inspector Calls revision package Macbeth whole scheme package Macbeth revision package A Christmas Carol whole scheme package A Christmas Carol revision package Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package Jekyll and Hyde revision package Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package Unseen Poetry whole scheme package Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources

As we continue to study Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan, we use Chapter Seventeen as a stimulus for improving our use of punctuation. Includes differentiated worksheets on a number of areas including commas, full stops, capital letters, semicolons, dashes, paragraphs and more! A fantastically detailed and differentiated lesson that can be adapted for other texts and age groups.

As we continue to study Tom Becker’s Darkside, we look at Chapter 13 and how the narrator builds up a sense of fear and trepidation through setting. Fully differentiated throughout and useful activities for both KS3 and KS4 students.

As we look at Chapter 12 from Tom Becker’s Darkside, we analyze Grimshaw’s Beastilia Exotica, develop some contextual understanding with regards to freak shows and Victorian attitudes towards ‘freaks’, as well as answering differentiated questions on the chapter. Fully differentiated throughout.

A very detailed Of Mice and Men themed lesson that supports students to develop their use of punctuation and grammar by providing them with differentiated worksheets on capital letters, full stops, commas, paragraphing, apostrophes, semi-colons and dashes. By the end of the lesson students are given reward badges depending on which challenges that have completed within the lesson. A really useful lesson for KS3 students and some very nifty strategies for KS4 students to use as well.

As we continue to study Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan, we look at Chapters 15 and 16 and the characters of Steve and Mr Crepsley, as well as thinking about what vampires are and how Mr Crepsley is presented to us in these chapters. We also explore the friendship between Steve and Darren. A very useful lesson for KS3 students and differentiated throughout.

A very detailed Science Fiction themed lesson that supports students to develop their use of punctuation and grammar by providing them with differentiated worksheets on capital letters, full stops, commas, paragraphing, apostrophes, semi-colons and dashes. By the end of the lesson students are given reward badges depending on which challenges that have completed within the lesson. A really useful lesson for KS3 students and some very nifty strategies for KS4 students to use as well.

As we study Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, we look at how the characters and themes develop in Chapter Three and then use the extract between Lennie and Curley as a stimulus for creative or narrative writing. Includes differentiated planning sheets and support sheets to help students with their creative and/or narrative writing. Really useful for KS4 as well as KS3 students. Differentiated throughout.

We look at Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan and in particular Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen. We look at how the writer structures these chapters and how the focus changes throughout them.