Really handy and effective Act by Act revision resource, covering all the best and most important quotations for each stage of the play.

This is a clear handout designed to support the essay question : 'More sinned against than sinner.' Is this a fair assessment of Shylock? You might like to also buy the three views of Shylock presentation I made which reinforces this handout.

Fun and educational handout on accents and dialects plus a glossary of Scouser words and terms followed by an activity asking students to write phrases for Mickey in Scouser and Edward Lyons in Standard English. I created it to reinforce students’ learning of the play ‘Blood Brothers’, but you could use it just as well as a stand alone resource on accents and dialects. For many kids in southern England, this resource was an eye-opener as language is far more standardised down here. Ideal springboard for further research and creative writing in the authentic ‘voice’ for Mickey Johnston. Kids enjoy the exercise a lot and it’s a good springboard for more work on language and class.

Eh dis is dead good! Ideal resource for supplementing student understanding of 'Blood Brothers' or for any lesson on regional dialect language and accents. Gerrin!

Useful slideshow revising the key areas of punctuation. Funny examples and useful tips!

Useful resource for those teaching this great story. Helps build confident student readers.

This activity can be done in class or set as homework. It was inspired by 'Skellig' and a good opening idea is to show the students David Almind's opening description of the garage. However, it works fine as an independent task. Students have to imagine they are Michael, the lonely and isolated boy described walking through the family's old garage at the start of the novel. The task develops language range ad descriptive skills. Suitable for junior ages and also as extension work for those taking entrance or end of year exams. Could also work well for AQA GCSE students ending to perfect their descriptive skills.

I created this lesson for an observed lesson and it covers both poems in depth and offer them wider contextual points to enrich their answers. Ideal preparation for the comparative skills section of the AQA poetry exam, and for revising Blake. The 'odd one out' activity differentiates by outcome and gets students thinking carefully about the city and what it might represent. Lots of extension tasks and homework opportunies. Over 16 slides and structured to take a lesson.

This handout is ideal for students working on the horror, murder mystery or even detective genre. Students often find it hard to explain WHY and HOW an effect creates suspense; this worksheet helps them to form clear explanations and is an ideal launchpad for their own work on allocated phrases and sections from your focus text. Great for when teaching 'Jekyll and Hyde', 'Dorian Gray' or murder mysteries.

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.

Useful and thorough overview I wrote for the book, over three sides of notes plus quoted examples and analysis.

A good pair of revision packs which cover the lot. Please note that the cover sheet is a separate A4 overview page. You may well want to select what you prefer from each. The cover sheet goes with the 'complete' PDF and the second revision pack looks more at specific revision tasks. The aim is to improve textual understanding and confidence with the play whilst giving students lots to work on.

A full clear slideshow with tasks, getting students to zoom in on the language Richard uses in the play. You might like to then follow this work with my 'Shakespearean insults tournament' and 'Shakespearean grammar' resources, as students will then be more confident with the language and able to create arguments between Richard and his enemeies.

1) A great slideshow lesson with lots of images and colour which focuses on the essay: 'With close reference to his use of language, explain how Richard manipulates and controls his victims.' 2) This file is an ideal way to encourage younger year 8 or 9 students to write paragraphed analysis on a Shakespearean villain. 3) The group tasks encourage students to discuss the language, and there are slides which model suitable language analysis techniques for students to use on their own examples. 4) You can return to the in-depth quotation analysis slides and technical terminology definitions when teaching Macbeth at GCSE; similar skills and techniques appear!

This is an ideal pack for anyone wanting to encourage their students to read widely and perhaps try a different range of books. It is aimed at KS3 age students, mainly year sevens and eights. However, it is just as useful for aspiration Commin Entrance exam students who are keen to brush up on book knowledge prior to interviews. The project can last several weeks and is ideal as both extension or class work activity. The pack contains a useful letter home to parents asking them to support their child with the project, focus tasks on all aspects of the chosen book, tipsnon what makes a good read and a great speaking and listening debate activity- which book would you save from destruction, and why?

Designed to give students a good overview of the historical Richard as well as Shakespeare's own exaggerated and distorted play version. The slides go through the key political details, explain who Richard was, then show students how Shakespeare adapted him for the stage. Clear and lots of targeted questions.

This worksheet focuses students on the plot and language of this difficult scene. Ideal as a cover or revision task. Very detailed. Please also see my shop's revision packs on the play.

Useful revision resource for students with suitable examples. Ideal to base a lesson around.

Just a nice clear grid which pulls together the main types of sentence structures, explaining some of the effects these can have on the writing. Has space in the grid for students to experiment with their own writing as well. By no means an exclusive list, but a useful handout for students struggling to vary their expression or even understand why they should. Works with a range of ages of students, from juniors to sixth formers.