This works so well across the age range, but especially with my GCSE students. It summarises what descriptive writing is, offers the students lots of interesting and varied vocabulary, scaffolds a sample introductory paragraph and sets a structured writing challenge: describe a journey through the dark forest. Students can extend themselves further by giving their writing a Gothic or a Fantasy slant to it. Images included in the pack help them to achieve this. There is also a two sided worksheet of image prompts and wider vocabulary combinations, encouraging more adventurous use of nouns, compound adjectives, verbs and adverbials. Would also be ideal cover or revision work for students already familiar with this style of writing.

A series of overview slides, student tasks and contextual background points on Portia and her role in the play. Ideal for showing to the students as they first encounter her in the play on the first reading. Differentiated questions which allow students to respond to her on various levels. Please see the others in this series.

A thorough lesson - enough for a double - which explores the appeal of the villain in narratives, using some more topical examples (students could then go off and find examples of their own.) Multimedia slideshow. It also examines the way Jews were stereotyped. Good slideshow which primes students into becoming more critical readers as they embark on reading the early Acts of 'The Merchant of Venice'.

An ideal resource to help GCSE or IGCSE students understand the many complex language and structural choices which go into a newspaper story. Lots of focussed tasks to help with class control - ideal for NQTS! The slides structure the lesson, but you could easily add in worksheets and Q and A to customise the resource. I got the students to undertake their own research into newspaper leader pages - some slides show how this can be displayed to the rest of the class. I used this for IGCSE and also (slightly adapted) AQA GCSE Language students as they struggled to grasp what newspaper techniques and language were. Task 1 of the 0500 course often asks them to write newspaper reports, so I used this as a taster to help familiarise them with genre. Newspaper extracts are also common in the GCSe Language courses. Note on slide one: 'P.A.L.S' stands for 'Purpose of text, Audience and readership, Language choices and stylistic features.

This is ideal for anyone wanting a better overview of Romanticism before launching into the topic in school. It summarises what the poetic movement was and defines tricky ideas such as the Romantic epiphany, the sublime and redeeming the Fall. Also lots of images and clear bulleted points to break it down better for students. After playing this, you would have no problem launching into Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' or Wordsworth's Lucy poems. It is ideal contextual background for the Wordsworth Prelude extract and Blake's 'London' poems in the AQA power and conflict anthology.

Over 8 slides of clear and visually varied slides. Each covers a different historical, contextual or literary aspect of Henry V, helping students to get an understanding of Henry V and his actual historical source. Lots of images of recent and classical images of the monarch, taken from film and historical sources. More coming in this series - add me to your follow list!

Fun and naturally differentiated word search,where students have to find as many of Shakespeare's plays as possible. Can you get them all?!