A thorough and attractively designed handout which introduces students to the idea of a lierary motif and gives examples of them in 'Skellig'. Opportunities for extended work and homework. Please do see my other Skellig resources in my hop, 'The Full English'

A very useful resource with a list of 123 substitute synonyms for the dreaded verb 'said', plus example sentences. Ideal for GCSE writers and for any age range. Designed in a clear and easy to follow format with licence options on this version. Enjoy!

A very useful and well-designed resource which is invaluable for creative writing students. Ideal for narrative writing as it offers detailed explanations of the various plot styles and structures you can use in creative writing. Jam packed with a comprehensive list of interesting creative terminology; a lot of them will be the labels for features you knew of but didn't know there was a term for! I have used this with all ages, from GCSE to Common Entrance. I will also update this resource again over summer, so keep following me. Enjoy!

I created this pack for my year eight students, but I have also delivered it very successfully to year nines and tens. It is huge, with well over thirty pages and over twelve sections, such as: Introduction to Orwell, his social and political beliefs Focused chapter comprehension tasks What is an allegory? What is satire and irony? The language of political persuasion Numerous student-centred tasks, from research to speaking and listening, creative writing to political speech-writing. I deliberately designed the pack so that teachers can customise it by intended year group. Older kids will get more from the contextual background materials than younger ones. They do so well on this unit and love the political hustings orals, making a persuasive speech and getting confident with persuasive and satirical language. I prefer the older Halas and Bachelor film to teach alongside this scheme.

An ideal pre-prepared lesson with some great ways to introduce your students to the delights of gothic horror. The files include a copy of the short story, focused lesson plan and a useful glossary list of archaic vocabulary, to help students understand the trickier sections of the story. A great set of resources. Please also see my shop’ s ‘What is the Gothic genre?’ PowerPoint file, and my ‘The Gothic’ slideshow, aimed at older students.

Handy quick reference guide for students. It helps boost their confidence with writing tasks as it shows them how the language has altered, how verb suffixes and primary verbs have altered, and keeps it simple. Also triggers interesting discussions about grammar today! Please see my other Shakespeare resources, which include creative and analytical tasks.

A thorough unit of work with full instructions and a clear mark scheme. Students imagine that they are a well to do Elizabethan lady (or lord!) from the fifteenth or early sixteenth century country shires, visiting seedy Southwark for the first time. Students have to write a letter home to the country Manor House in a suitably formal style, telling their loved ones all about the sights, smells and sounds of Shakespearean London. Included is a good sample response and some useful handouts about the area. Globe education also offer students excellent information too. You could start the students off with the task, get them to brainstorm, research the playhouses and city using the handouts as a starting point, look at the sample letter, then ask them to write their own letters. The responses look great as wall displays. This task will encourage students to enjoy Shakespeare rather than fear him!

A full 30 page resource pack which covers a rich range of this great poet's work, from his famous nature poems to his relationship poems and deeper poems about politics and society. Lawrence was a gifted writer and his poems are no exception. Each section of the pack has an overview of the poems' contexts, key features and useful work tasks for students to focus on. The pack works for both GCSE and A level and is ideal extension work for unseen poetry study.

A very carefully crafted pack which is accessible to a wide range of student ages and abilities. The pack revises and develops knowledge of poetic terminology and gets students to explore different verses of the poem in focus groups. Ideal way to encourage students to focus in on a stanza, make notes, discuss and present findings. Good for GCSE poetry students as there is a poetic terms glossary and the poem could be used as timed practice or compared to another in the Anthology, such as 'Bayonet Charge' or another's animal poem for the unseen option. The pack is a useful planning springboard for a first essay on the poem. There are six groups for each of the six stanzas, and a range of good varied group questions for each group, so every student can contribute.

A clear and attractive presentation which gives students the chance to focus in on key sections of this novel. I use the page numbers for the Penguin edition.

A very thorough and detailed resource which defines difficult terms, provides students with a range of fun and varied examples and explores gender bias in speech and carefully sourced written texts. The scanned pdf is fine and readable, but is an early ‘work’ from when I examined the A level, so is a little old and not full of fancy images and video clips. However, it is a complete teaching pack, ideal for a teacher having to plan this fascinating unit at short notice. I am currently uploading a range of recently created Language and Gender resources this month, so do follow me.

This is a handy glossary sheet of the more difficult language in this excellent short story. It is a real favourite with students of all ages and IDEAL year nine preparation for the GCSE set novel Jekyll and Hyde, as it introduces kids to the main generic features and the complex vocabulary. Stevenson is easier, if anything, so it will really prepare your students for the demands of the Victorian horror story. Also included is a copy of the story.

This is a great extract to consolidate student understanding of the novel, particularly for AQA GCSE, as it is the scene when the three boys climb the mountain and encounter the dead airman. Lots of testing questions to help them understand the text. For younger students, it works equally well as a stand-alone comprehension. Bargain resource! Please see my other resources on the novel.

Ideal resource for extending your most able students, this presentation covers a range of the more challenging questions in the novel...who or what is the 'lord of the flies' and what is the contextual background to the reference, the idea of original sin and how Golding explores this in the story and the religious symbols in the book. Packed with interesting images to maintain student interest!

Loads of focussed tasks here to stretch and challenge your students and ensure confidence with the text. Nicely designed and easy to set as homework or as a big class task in between clips from the DVD!

I have uploaded a number of short revision handouts on key focus areas of the novel, including key symbolic objects, locations and supporting concepts. Have a look at my other handouts. Ideal for Dorian revision! Use them as a starting point to encourage students to make their own.

This is a set of a range of key scenes and likely exam question scenes for the students to revise. Clear, uncomplicated and well designed. Lots of detailed and academic notes on at least ten of the key speeches and soliloquies, complete with cross-textual links, scene links and definitions of tricky language. The cross textual links are really handy as I provide the act and scene references for words, images and ideas which link out to the focus scene. I also contextualise each extract in depth, helping students focus on these key assesment objectives.

This is a great learning pack for this complex A level topic. on Language and Gender, exploring the biases for and against the sexes as expressed in writing. This resource also goes well with my other packs on gender bias within speech. It might also work with able year 11 students as extension or as a pshe activity. The slideshow is a thorough introduction to the topic and the pack includes four files of focus texts which students work through. The texts are very funny and are sure to stretch and involve your learners. In addition, the slideshow has answer section at the end so there is also a plenary. Up to three double lessons of work here, with easy opportunities for extension work following on from it.

It's hard to find good teaching resources on gender biases within written texts, which is why I created these. I used them in an observed lesson and there is enough material here to fill a double, or you could do one text a period. The pack contains: a full slideshow which introduces the topic, explores ideology with fun examples and cartoons, asks differentiated questions and spgets students thinking about the topic. It also has task guideline slides to steer them through their exercise. This is to work through a series of newspaper and advisory texts which may reveal gender bias. Students are encouraged to use linguistic terminology and frameworks. The slideshow also has answers at the end, which helps students improve their textual analysis and annotation skills as they get to see what they missed. The texts themselves are hilarious, especially the tabloid ones! If you teach in a single sex school, this one's a must! Bound to excite good discussions!