This resource is designed to have a copy of Heaney’s poem in the middle (removed for copyright reasons). There are numbered boxes around the outside with notes to help students revise. The resource can be adapted easily as some notes can be removed for the pupils to fill in themselves or some words can be removed to create a gap fill activity to support the less confident. There is also a scaffolded planning sheet for an essay on the poem.

Introductory PowerPoint for ‘King Lear’ context.

Detailed notes on Dharker’s poem ‘Blessing’. Can be used to prepare a lesson or can be given to students for revision.

A PowerPoint going through ‘War Photographer’ stanza by stanza asking guided questions. Homework task at the end.

This sheet is designed to have a copy of the poem in the middle but I have removed it for copyright reasons. There are numbered boxes around the outside (one for each line), which contain questions to guide candidates through annotating the poem. Can be used for revision.

A scaffolded resource taking students through the basics of writing a PEA paragraph in response to Sassoon’s ‘Attack’. Two PEA examples have been done already but can be deleted to allow students to fill in their own ideas.

PowerPoint that introduces Gothic fiction before taking students through activities for the first 6 chapters of The Woman in Black.

An essay plan designed to help students examine the complexities of Stanhope’s character. Each topic sentence is provided in bold, followed by guidance on where to look for evidence within the text.

A scaffolded resource primarily aimed at OCR H472/01 revision. The stages of essay writing are written down and the various stages are colour coded. Points and evidence have been added in to help less confident students (plus critical terminology) but can be removed if required.

A scaffolded plan for students to write a diary entry for Clovis at the end of Chapter 8 of the novel.

Complete analysis of Boey Kim Cheng’s poem ‘The Planners’. For copyright reasons, I have had to remove the poem itself from the sheet but this can be added back in very easily and all the notes are in boxes around the outside.

A PowerPoint with detailed, line-by-line analysis to enable students to get to grips with Blake’s ‘The Tyger’. *Please note that, because of copyright restrictions, I have had to remove the text of the poem from the middle of two slides. This can easily be added back into the space available. *

A PowerPoint designed to help students appreciate the importance of in-depth analysis (no more, ‘It makes the reader picture it in their head’ responses). The quotations are taken from the wonderful ‘My Family and Other Animals’. There a 5 quotations in total, three of which have analysis provided on the slides, the other two are for students to do on their own or in pairs.

This sheet takes students through the steps of writing a convincing GCSE essay, and includes a step-by-step model paragraph based on Sujata Bhatt’s ‘A Different History’.

This story (about a lovable squirrel) contains 42 basic SPAG errors for students to find and correct. As an extension, they can continue the story as a creative task. There is a ‘mark scheme’ at the end.

A passage with 35 SPAG mistakes for students to identify and correct. A great homework task.

This is a fun starter for a class studying a book about the Amazon rainforest. There are 6 funny pictures of animals, each with a speech bubble, and students have to come up with the most creative and hilarious caption for each one. Could be used as a springboard into a creative writing piece or a drama sketch.