Addressing the most challenging grammar topics introduced at KS2 and revisited at KS3, this pack is essential for teaching and consolidating grammar in years 5-8. The comprehensive teaching notes provide a valuable curriculum support for teachers, while the wide range of resources and activities ensures that students have high-quality opportunities to apply and extend their learning – including in cross-curricular contexts. Each topic also includes KS2 SAT style questions in preparation for the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (Paper 1) at the end of year 6. What’s included? The grammar topics are organised into three sections (teach, practise, apply), and each topic includes the following: definitions and explanations for teachers PowerPoint presentations student-friendly teaching resources extended writing opportunities. The pack is organised in the following topics: Relative clauses Modal verbs and adverbs Adverbials Perfect forms of verbs Parenthesis Commas Passive verbs Subjunctive verb forms Colons and semi-colons What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-6) Relative clauses (pages 7-33) Resource - people, places and things Resource - improve by adding a relative clause Resource - possessive relative clauses Resource - relative clauses of time and place (when and where) Resource - the unusual suspects Modal verbs and adverbs (pages 34-50) Resource - strengthening and weakening Resource - school rules Resource - be the detective Adverbial phrases (pages 51-71) Resource - identify adverbials Resource - painting a picture Resource - narrative Perfect forms (pages 72-95) Resource - find the perfect verb form Resource - perfect verb forms in texts Resource - time-travelling verbs Resource - perfect verb form timeline Resource - job application Resource - my day Resource - perfect form dice Resource - ‘of’ or ‘have’ Parenthesis (pages 96-115) Resource - using brackets to indicate parenthesis Resource - using commas to indicate parenthesis Resource - extending simple sentences using parenthesis Resource - nicknames as parenthesis Commas (pages 116-140) Resource - the Oxford comma Resource - add the comma Resource - combining sentences Resource - ambiguous meaning Passive verbs (pages 141-165) Resource - rainbow writing Resource - conversion Resource - food chains Resource - snakes and ladders Resource - don’t blame me! Subjunctive verb forms (pages 166-185) Resource - identify the infinitive Resource - subjunctive poem Resource - subjunctive sentences Resource - subjunctive speeches Colons and semi-colons (pages 186-199) Resource - spot the colons and semi-colons Resource - combining clauses Resource - using colons and semi-colons Resource - semi-colon poetry

A KS3 pack designed to help students understand and identify persuasive techniques and apply them to their own writing. The pack is split into sections and features a range of practical and engaging activities aimed at familiarising students with persuasive writing, including: speeches, letters and leaflets, articles, argumentative writing, revision and exam preparation. What’s included? KS3 curriculum assessment objective map Lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources. What’s inside? Each lesson plan contains detailed teaching notes with: Suggested starter activities Suggested main activities Suggested plenary activities Suggested additional creative activities Assessment Objective map (pages ii-v) Introduction - summary of the pack (page 1) Teaching notes and lesson plans (pages 2-14) Route through – part one: familiarising students with persuasive writing Route through – part two: speeches Route through – part three: letters and leaflets Route through – part four: articles Route through – part five: focusing on argumentative writing Route through – part six: revision and exam preparation Teaching resources and activities for persuasive and argumentative writing (pages 15-135) Persuasive role play Persuading your parents Can you sell a house? Flog that house! Planet perfect! Save my dog! Persuasive techniques bingo What’s your learning style? Winston Churchill speech excerpt Comparing persuasive speeches Cats are better than dogs England riots persuasive speech analysis Writing a speech Young people’s council meeting Rewriting for audience and purpose Analysing a leaflet Kick-start discussion slides Recipe for a formal letter Rat o’burger ‘Send a cow’ practice questions and answers Preparation of a leaflet Theme park persuasive writing leaflet Self-assessment review Writing to persuade checklist Fact or opinion Tabloid or broadsheet? Newspaper bias Lead articles Analysing an opinion article Writing a feature article Why use quotations? How to use quotations effectively Using a newspaper as a stimulus Editorial decisions Summarise that! Categorising connectives Hinges, bolts and sealers Effective introductions Building an argument Writing for different purposes The man on the wall story problem To argue or persuade Literacy placemat Speed dating revision Writing revision fan Top grade persuasion All fun and games revision Card template Domino template Fishing template Analysing persuasive texts Room 101

Our GCSE revision guide for students studying Macbeth covers all the key acts, characters and themes with active revision strategies and practice exam questions and answers for all exam boards. Perfect for independent study and remote learning, it includes a helpful overview of the play, an act by act summary of events and guidance on key quotations. Revising Macbeth also helps to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding through self-checks, quizzes and a detailed exploration of character, setting, Shakespeare’s language and the play’s tragic structure. What’s included? Covers key themes (ambition, the supernatural, guilt, gender and relationships, appearance and reality) plus a summary of the play. Includes practice exam questions for all exam boards and suggested answers. Features active revision strategies to build students’ knowledge. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Synopsis of the play (pages 5-8) Overview revision activities (pages 9-20) Theme: ambition (pages 21-31) Revision activity - Arguments for and against killing Duncan Revision activity - Tale of two kings Revision activity - Why does Macbeth kill Duncan? Revision activity - Exploding quotation Theme: the supernatural (pages 32-42) Revision activity - Animal imagery Revision activity - Banquo’s version of the meeting with the witches Revision activity - The witches Revision activity - Writing an incantation Theme: guilt (pages 43-53) Revision activity - Exploding quotation Revision activity - Innocence Revision activity - The murder: before, during and after Revision activity - Blood and symbolism Theme: gender and relationships (pages 54-65) Revision activity - Family circle Revision activity - How to be a man/woman Revision activity - Tale of two marriages: the Macbeths and the Macduffs Revision activity - Exploding quotation Theme: appearance and reality (pages 66-75) Revision activity - How to be a perfect hostess Revision activity - The power of asides and soliloquies Revision activity - That’s ironic Revision activity - That’s sensational

Our GCSE revision guide for students studying Romeo and Juliet covers all the key acts, characters and themes with active revision strategies and practice exam questions and answers for all exam boards. Perfect for independent study and remote learning, it includes a helpful overview of the play, an act by act summary of events and guidance on key quotations. Revising Romeo and Juliet also helps to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding through self-checks, quizzes and a detailed exploration of character, setting, Shakespeare’s language and the play’s tragic structure. What’s included? Covers key characters and themes (love, fate, family, death, conflict, roles of women) plus a summary of the play. Includes practice exam questions for all exam boards and suggested answers. Features active revision strategies to build students’ knowledge. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Plot summary (pages 5-7) Overview: whole play revision activities (pages 8-17) Terminology – language and structure WYOO (What’s your opinion on …?) Love revision activities (pages 18-28) Revision activity 1: Types of love Revision activity 2: A love timeline Revision activity 3: Stickman summary Revision activity 4: Structure (and language) analysis Love practice exam questions Fate revision activities (pages 29-39) Revision activity 1: True or false Revision activity 2: Close analysis Revision activity 3: The Prince’s perspective Revision activity 4: The wheel of fortune Fate practice exam questions Family revision activities (pages 40-50) Revision activity 1: Rules were meant for breaking? Revision activity 2: Surrogate parents Revision activity 3: All the married ladies (all the married ladies …) Revision activity 4: Exploding quotations Family practice exam questions Conflict revision activities (pages 51-62) Revision activity 1: Types of conflict Revision activity 2: Ordering the fight scene Revision activity 3: Context and conflict Revision activity 4: Analysing Juliet’s inner conflict Conflict practice exam questions Death revision activities (pages 63-75) Revision activity 1: The ‘extra’ deaths Revision activity 2: Understanding the key elements of tragedy Revision activity 3: Romeo’s imagery Revision activity 4: The families unite Death practice exam questions Roles of women revision activities (pages 76-90) Revision activity 1: Juliet’s change Revision activity 2: What did Shakespeare think? Revision activity 3: Strong or weak? Revision activity 4: Close analysis Roles of women practice exam questions

Our Festivals and celebrations comprehension practice year 6 teaching pack is designed to help children recap, practise and consolidate comprehension and writing skills in preparation for KS2 SATs. The pack is divided into nine lessons aligned with the Y5/6 English Programme of Study. Each lesson is based on a text extract or poem relating to a particular festival or celebration. Lessons feature a starter activity, a whole class teaching activity with PowerPoint slides, paired/group or independent tasks, assessment opportunities and a plenary, with accompanying resources. Comprehension questions are KS2 SATs-style. Answers are included. Festivals and texts included in the pack: Lesson 1: Halloween – Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lesson 2: Bonfire Night – ‘The Fifth of November’ (English Folk verse) Lesson 3: Diwali – Prince of Fire by Jatinder Verma Lesson 4: Hanukkah – ‘Season of Skinny Candles’ by Marge Piercy Lesson 5: Christmas – ‘A Visit from St Nicholas’ by Clement C. Moore Lesson 6: Chinese New Year – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman Lesson 7: Easter – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Lesson 8: Earth Day – My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Lesson 9: Eid al-fitr –’Yusuf and the Great Big Brownie Mistake’ by Aisha Saeed You may also like our Festivals and celebrations maths challenges teaching pack. An extract from the resource: Read the extract from The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman on PPT slides 32-34). Then provide each child with a copy of the extract (Chinese New Year resource 1) and ask them to reread it, underlining all the different ingredients for fireworks. Take feedback and compile a list on the board. Ask: What makes these ingredients sound exciting? Draw out that the author has paired ordinary words such as powder and grains with attention-grabbing words such as thunder, fly-away and scorpion. In groups, ask children to plan their firework recipe poem using the scaffold in Chinese New Year resource 2: Firework recipe. First, they must create a list of exciting ingredients, then some powerful imperative verbs. Then children use these as an idea bank to write a recipe poem for an explosive new firework! What will be the name of their firework?

If you’re teaching year 3, Spellings for year 3 could be just what you need. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The pack also includes ideas for spelling games and useful templates. What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 – words ending with -el/-il/-al (pages 5-8) T1, week 2 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 1) (pages 9-13) T1, wk 3 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 2) (pages 14-17) T1, wk 4 – words that contain y as a vowel (pages 18-20) T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 21-24) T1, wk 6 – common exception words from year 2 (pages 25-27) T2, wk 1 — words containing -dg/-dge (revision from year 2) (pages 28-31) T2, wk 2 — words containing -ou (pages 32-35) T2, wk 3 — words beginning with dis- (pages 36-39) T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ation (pages 40-43) T2, wk 5 — word families (pages 44-46) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (pages 47-49) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with gn-/kn- (revision from year 2) (pages 50-52) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with in- (pages 53-56) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ly (part 1) (pages 57-60) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -sion (pages 61-63) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 64-66) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 67-70) T4, wk 1 — words ending in -ness/-ment (revision from year 2) (pages 71-74) T4, wk 2 — words beginning with il- and ir- (pages 75-79) T4, wk 3 — words ending with -sure/-ture (pages 80-82) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 83-87) T4, wk 5 — word families (pages 88-91) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 92-96) T5, wk 1 — compound words (revision from year 2)(pages 97-101) T5, wk 2 — words ending in -ly (part 2) (pages 102-106) T5, wk 3 — words beginning with im- (pages 107-109) T5, wk 4 — words containing ch that sound like hard c (pages 110-112) T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 113-116) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 117-120) T6, wk 1 — words ending in -less/-ful (revision from year 2) (pages 121-124) T6, wk 2 — words beginning with re- (pages 125-127) T6, wk 3 — words containing sc that sound like s (pages 128-132) T6, wk 4 — words containing eigh that rhyme with ay (pages 133-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 138-140) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 141-143) Spelling games (pages 144-146) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 147) Word of the week template (page 148) You might also like Spellings for year 4 and Spellings for year 5.

Spellings for year 5 offers year 5 teachers all they need for weekly spelling tasks. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 – words beginning with -in/-il/-im/-ir (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 – words ending in -cious/-tious (pages 8-10) T1, wk 3 – words ending in -cial/-tial (pages 11-13) T1, wk 4 – words ending in -ant/-ent (pages 14-18) T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 – year 5/6 word list 1 (paages 23-26) T2, wk 1 — words ending in -ation (pages 27-31) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -able (pages 32-34) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -ible (pages 35-37) T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ance/-ancy/-ence/-ency (pages 38-42) T2, wk 5 — homophones ending in -ce/-se (pages 43-45) T2, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 2 (pages 46-49) T3, wk 1 — words ending in -ly (pages 50-52) T3, wk 2 — adding suffixes to words ending in -fer (pages 53-56) T3, wk 3 — hyphenated words: prefixes and root words (pages 57-59) T3, wk 4 — hyphenated words: compound words (pages 60-62) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 63-65) T3, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 3 (pages 66-69) T4, wk 1 — words ending in -sion/-tion/-ssion/-cian (pages 70-72) T4, wk 2 — words containing ough (pages 73-75) T4, wk 3 — words containing ei (pages 76-80) T4, wk 4 — words with silent letters: t, u, w (pages 81-83) T4, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 84-87) T4, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 4 (pages 88-91) T5, wk 1 — words ending in -ous (pages 92-97) T5, wk 2 — words with silent letters: b, c, g, h (pages 98-100) T5, wk 3 — adding prefixes (1) (pages 101-105) T5, wk 4 — adding prefixes (2) (pages 106-109) T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 110-114) T5, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 5 (pages 114-117) T6, wk 1 — words ending in -ture/-sure (pages 118-120) T6, wk 2 — words with silent letters: k, l, n, p, s (pages 121-123) T6, wk 3 — mix and match reminders (1) (pages 124-127) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (2) (pages 128-130) T6, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 131-133) T6, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 6 (pages 134-138) Spelling games (pages 139-141) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 14) Word of the week template (page 143) You might also like Spellings for year 3 and Spellings for year 4.

If you’re teaching year 4, Spellings for year 4 does your spelling planning for you. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 — plurals with words that end in -y (revision) (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (pages 8-12) T1, wk 3 — words beginning with mis- (pages 13-15) T1, wk 4 — adding -ly to words ending in -le (pages 16-18) T1, wk 5 — homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (Pages 23-25) T2, wk 1 — words containing g or -ge that sound like j (revision) (pages 26-28) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -eous (pages 29-33) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -sion (pages 34-36) T2, wk 4 — words beginning with sub-(pages 37-41) T2, wk 5 — homophones (pages 42-45) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 46-48) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with wr- (revision) (pages 49-53) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with anti-(pages 54-57) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ssion (pages 58-61) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 62-65) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 66-69) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 70-74) T4, wk 1 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in consonant +y (pages 75-78) T4, wk 2 — words ending in -ious (pages 79-81) T4, wk 3 — words beginning with inter- (pages 82-85) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -gue or -que (pages 86-88) T4, wk 5 — words families (pages 89-92) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 93-96) T5, wk 1 — adding suffixes to words ending in -e (revision) (pages 97-100) T5, wk 2 — words beginning with super- (pages 101-104) T5, wk 3 — words containing ch that sound like sh (pages 105-107) T5, wk 4 — words ending in -ly (pages 108-112) T5, wk 5 — homophones (pages 113-115) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 116-119) T6, wk 1 — contractions (revision) (pages 120-123) T6, wk 2 — words ending in -cian/-sion (pages 124-126) T6, wk 3 — words beginning with auto- and aero- (pages 127-131) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (pages 132-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 136-139) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 6 (pages 140-144) Spelling games (pages 145-147) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 148) Word of the week template (page 149) You might also like Spelling for year 3 and Spelling for year 5.

Enchant, amuse and inspire your children with our first whole-school teaching pack – Poetry for all. The pack features 14 poems and a range of engaging teaching ideas and resources for Reception through to year 6, saving you precious time searching for age-appropriate poems and activities. Including activities for comprehension, drama, creative writing and art and design, this pack is perfect for encouraging your children to respond imaginatively to both modern and classic poems. What’s included? 53 quality teaching resources, alongside 14 carefully selected poems seven PowerPoints complete with illustrated versions of each poem SAT-style comprehensions, when appropriate, including answers links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) Statutory requirements (pages 4-10) Reception (pages 11-23) Ye Spotted Snakes by William Shakespeare Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth Year 1 (pages 24-41) Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson Please Do Not Feed the Animals by Robert Hull Year 2 (pages 42-67) The Months by Sara Coleridge Granny Is by Valerie Bloom Year 3 (pages 68-87) Silver by Walter de la Mare Vegan Delight by Benjamin Zephaniah Year 4 (pages 88-112) The Jumblies by Edward Lear Extinct by Mandy Coe Year 5 (pages 113-139) From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson The Door by Miroslav Holub Year 6 (pages 140-164) Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll His Nine Sympathies by Carol Ann Duffy

All you need to develop children’s reading comprehension skills and prepare them for their KS2 reading assessments. Inspire a positive attitude to reading and consolidate those all-important comprehension skills ready for KS2 English SATs. Featuring six fiction and non-fiction texts alongside engaging lesson plans, reading comprehension activities and worksheets, this pack will encourage your children to build the comprehension strategies of information retrieval, drawing inferences, making predictions, identifying and summarising ideas and analysing language and structure. What’s more, this pack is editable, meaning you can tweak questions to suit your UKS2 learners. What’s included? six original texts and 21 supporting teaching resources, including comprehension questions and answer sheets includes lesson plans, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the National Curriculum Programme of Study for English. What’s inside? Introduction (pages3-6) Unit 1 – Five Children and It (pages 7-20) Resource - picturing the Psammead Resource - that’s Greek to me Unit 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (pages 21-33) Resource - pass the parcel words Resource - he said, she said Resource - Seen the movie? Now read the book! Unit 3 – Alice in Wonderland (pages 34-47) Resource - illustration by Sir John Tenniel Resource - Alice grows Resource - comprehension chatterbox Unit 4 – Odin’s Reward (pages 48-59) Resource - pairs game Resource - comic strip format Unit 5 – Samuel Johnson biography (pages 60-70) Resource - Dr Johnson’s wonderful words! Resource - my biography notes Unit 6 – Newspaper report (pages 71-78) Resource - fact or opinion? Resource - complete the headline

Help children to develop their understanding and enjoyment of stories and non-fiction with our Comprehension pack for lower KS2. Featuring six texts alongside engaging comprehension tasks, questions and answers, this pack will encourage your children to retrieve information, draw inferences, make predictions, identify and summarise ideas and analyse language and structure. All you need to address these key skills! What’s included? six original texts and 17 supporting resources, including comprehensions and answer sheets includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-6) Unit 1 – The Little Prince (pages 7-16) Resource - unlocking words Unit 2 – The Velveteen Rabbit (pages 17=25) Resource - old-fashioned to modern day Resource - what’s in the bag? Unit 3 – The Little Mermaid (pages 26-36) Resource - underwater similes Resource - through the eyes of a mermaid Unit 4 – Robin Hood (pages 37-48) Resource - retelling Robin Hood Resource - Robin Hood’s arrows Unit 5 – Four square (pages 49-56) Resource - instruction text detectives Unit 6 – A letter (pages 57-64) Resource - a letter in reply Resource - letter-writing ideas

Embed key reading strategies and comprehension skills in your younger learners. This beautifully-designed pack focuses on 10 key skills: listening; sequencing; using what you know; checking for sense and self-correcting; making inferences; answering and asking questions; making predictions; discussion; identifying cause and effect and role-play. What’s included? 12 texts and 72 engaging resources, including answer sheets where relevant supporting PowerPoint presentations opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-7) Unit 1 – Listening skills (pages 8-21) Session 1 - Retelling Rapunzel Session 2 - Using precise language Resource printouts Unit 2 – Sequencing skills (pages 22-36) Session 1 - Sequencing Rapping Rapunzel Session 2 - Story map Resource printouts Unit 3 – Using what you know (pages 37-51) Session 1 - Birds of Prey Session 2 - An Owl Called Alfie Resource printouts Unit 4 – Checking for sense and self-correcting (pages 52-66) Session 1 - The reader’s tool kit Session 2 - Character traits Resource printouts Unit 5 – Making inferences (pages 67-84) Session 1 - Reading detectives Session 2 - Character traits Resource printouts Unit 6 – Answering and asking questions (pages 85-101) Session 1 - Stone Soup – Asking questions Session 2 - Stone Soup – answering questions Resource printouts Unit 7 – Making predictions (pages 102-120) Session 1 - What happens next? Session 2 - Jane the Giant Killer Resource printouts Unit 8 – Discussion (pages 121-138) Session 1 - A trip to the zoo Session 2 - Zoo complaint Resource printouts Unit 9 – Identifying cause and effect (pages 139-160) Session 1 - Cause and effect Session 2 - Exploring cause and effect with stories Resource printouts Unit 10 – Role play to explore characters (pages 165-171) Session 1 - Role play: An Owl Called Alfie Session 2 - Role play: The Forgotten Princess Resource printouts

This Gothic scheme of learning will introduce KS3 students to the key elements of the Gothic genre, while building their reading, writing and comprehension skills. You’ll find extracts from some of the most celebrated Gothic novels to share with students in this engaging teaching pack, as well as Gothic poems and ghostly short stories from the 18th and 19th century to the present day, including The Castle of Otranto, Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Hound of the Baskervilles, ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe. There is also an extract from the exciting new YA series, City of Ghosts, to celebrate contemporary gothic fiction and encourage more reading for pleasure. The key stage 3 lesson activities are designed to provide an overview of Gothic genre conventions, tropes, settings and character archetypes, and anticipate the key themes in Gothic literature to prepare students for GCSE English Literature prose texts. To develop students’ exam skills for GCSE English Language, the teaching pack also includes a range of comprehension tasks to build students’ unseen fiction and unseen poetry skills and their confidence with new texts and new vocabulary. There are also exciting stimulus ideas for creative writing tasks for students to develop their fiction writing skills and comparative tasks looking at two texts. The 94-page pack is student-facing and aimed at year 7-9 students, and includes a range of engaging teaching resources, worksheets and PPTs. There are differentiated activities, with stretch and challenge extension suggestions as well as more supportive ‘ladder up’ tasks, such as sentence starters and scaffolded resources. What’s included? There are 14 lessons and lesson plans for English teachers which include: Do now activities Starter activities Main activities with embedded formative assessment tasks, learning checks and reading comprehension questions Plenaries Homework tasks. Each lesson is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, and the teaching pack also includes the lesson tasks and classroom worksheets along with answers for self or peer marking in class. Several lessons include a focus on writing analytically, using the PETER paragraphing framework. The teaching pack culminates in a GCSE-style summative assessment task, which will help you to assess students’ progress in reading and writing. There is also a detailed and comprehensive 15-page scheme of learning to integrate into your KS3 curriculum plans.

World War One inspired the war poets to respond to the horrors and brutalities of war in new ways, writing some of the most vivid, profound and powerful poetry in English Literature. Help your year 7, 8 and 9 students to appreciate their sacrifices with this thoughtful and engaging scheme of learning. This student-facing pack includes 8 lessons with a range of classroom resources and activities to develop students’ understanding and appreciation of poetic form, structure and style, while building their core reading, writing, comprehension, vocabulary and oracy skills. What’s included? Each lesson includes starter activities, followed by 5-6 main activities, and an extension or homework task, with answers for self- or peer marking in class. There are 8 PowerPoint presentations to help you to deliver each lesson, and a summative assessment with an accompanying PowerPoint to review and check students’ progress and learning. Activities in this scheme of learning include: scaffolded writing tasks to develop students’ analytical writing skills comparative tasks looking at two poems and approaches to tackling unseen poems comprehension questions to check students’ understanding discussion tasks, reading aloud and performance ideas to build oral skills and reading confidence word decoding tasks, glossaries and word banks to build students’ vocabulary formative assessment tasks and low-stakes quizzes. There are also carefully scaffolded and differentiated poetry analysis tasks to help students understand how to use World War I poetry quotes in their written work. The pack aims to bring the context of the poems to life, with a range of historic texts including propaganda posters, soldiers’ diaries and letters sent home, as well as facts about the Great War. There are 13 famous World War I poems to explore, including ‘The Troop Ship’ by Isaac Rosenberg, ‘Futility’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ by Wilfred Owen, ‘First Time In’ by Ivor Gurney, John McCrae’s ‘In Flanders Fields’, ‘Owl’ by Edward Thomas and ‘Recruiting’ by E.A Mackintosh, as well as poems by Henry Smalley Sarson. Women’s poetry from World War I is also recognised, including ‘The Gift of India’ by Sarojini Naidu, ‘Who’s for the Game?’ by Jessie Pope, May Wedderburn Cannan’s ‘August 1914’ and Sara Teasdale’s ‘Spring in War-Time’. Taking a thematic approach to war poetry throughout the lessons, students will consider the start of the war, propaganda, recruitment and the call-up, before exploring life at the front, the horror of war in the trenches and the camaraderie between soldiers who served on the frontlines. There is also a focus on women’s lives on the home front and a lesson on the significant contribution of British Empire soldiers, looking at Caribbean, Indian and black British recruits. This 78-page teaching pack includes everything you need to explore the context, power and impact of World War I poetry with KS3 English Literature students.

Take a step by step approach to building your students’ confidence in understanding and analysing unseen poems. ‘The way to understand poems, whether unseen or not, is to get under their skin – and that requires active strategies, which this teaching pack and resources provide.’ Trevor Millum, writer and poet This time-saving teaching pack includes seven pairs of carefully-selected poems for comparison alongside a resource workbook, providing you and your students with all you need to prepare for the unseen poetry element of the GCSE exam. What’s included? 7 pairs of poems a resource workbook for students to complete detailed teaching notes for each poem a mix of older and contemporary poems exam-style questions for all exam boards. What’s inside? Introduction Top tips for approaching an unseen poem Unit 1 ‘At the Draper’s’ by Thomas Hardy ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 2 ‘Late Love’ by Jackie Kay ‘Love and Friendship’ by Emily Brontë Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 3 ‘Finding the Keys’ by Robin Robertson ‘October’ by Robert Frost Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 4 ‘Calling Card’ by Tracey Herd ‘For Meg’ by Fleur Adcock Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 5 ‘A London Thoroughfare. 2am.’ by Amy Lowell ‘Frost Fair’ by Rowyda Amin Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 6 ‘Long Life’ by Elaine Feinstein ‘Fish oil, exercise and no wild parties’ by Beatrice Garland Comparison resource Exam questions

This six-week teaching pack addresses the 19th century text elements of the English Literature GCSE and provides students with a practical, accessible route-through the text – and plenty of exam practice to boot. Crammed, as always, with engaging activities and resources – including comprehension, language analysis and creative tasks – plus advice for differentiation and sample exam questions, the pack contains all you need to bring Stevenson’s novel to life. What’s included? assessment objective mapping lesson plans and ideas along with 52 tailor-made resources exam-style questions for all exam boards. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-9) Route through week 1: Pre-reading and introducing Chapter 1 (pages 10-36) Reactions to Victorian London Book cover predictions Gothic mini saga Ethical issues Introducing Mr Utterson Gothic literature – style and language Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – research topics Story of the door Victorian times Stretch and challenge Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Chapter summary table Route through week 2: Finishing Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (pages 37-60) Nightmares Design your own villain Introducing Mr Hyde Speak to the hand Questions on chapters one and two Mr Utterson’s reaction (Chapter 2) Villain cards Reputation, reputation, reputation Practice exam 1 Route through week 3: Chapters 3, 4 and 5 (pages 61-89) Carew colour coding An odd relationship Discussion questions Analysis of ‘Incident of the letter’ (Chapter 5) Bingo! (Chapters 1-3) The detective role? Silence, secrecy and style – developing themes in the novel Structuring analytical paragraphs Evaluating a PEE paragraph PEE Mobile Route through week 4: Chapters 6, 7 and 8 (pages 90-104) Door symbolism Chapter 7 – focused reading Dr Lanyon’s change Questions on chapters 6 and 7 Chapter 8 – true or false The self and society Route through week 5: Chapters 9, 10 and summarising (pages 105-123) Narrative diamond 9 Chapter 9 questions The duality of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 match up Questions that focus on the popularity of the story Evil Practice exam 2 Route through week 6: Revision activities (pages 124-129) The structure of the novel Who said what? Exploring structure The role of Mr Utterson The significance of place in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde RAG rating

What’s included? KS3/4 Mastering spelling punctuation and grammar is a comprehensive SPaG pack containing resources, worksheets and activities designed to help students master the essentials of SPaG and get them GCSE-ready. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar contains: curriculum mapping and guidance for teachers along with further reading and/or useful links and references over 150 pages of worksheets, resources and activities spelling strategies, punctuation rules and grammar games to make the learning stick graphic organisers and A4 posters – perfect for consolidation and/or student revision formative assessments (including self and peer assessments) summative assessments (and suggested answers) to help teachers/students identify future learning targets. As your ‘go-to’ SPaG pack, this will support you and your students from the start of KS3 up to GCSE. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar covers the following: Spelling spelling strategies and games the golden rules of spelling a spelling toolkit of approaches visualising spellings and connecting meaning approaches to recalling spellings spelling lists – KS3 and KS4 Punctuation punctuation recall (including A4 punctuation mark posters) an exploration of what punctuation is (and its future) full stops commas colons and semicolons punctuating clauses Grammar using and controlling simple, compound and complex sentences statements, questions and imperatives the active and passive voice pronouns words that multi-task: verbs, nouns and adjectives prepositions and conjunctions adjectives and adverbs nouns and determiners

Designed to develop year 8-9 students’ reading comprehension skills and their confidence approaching an unseen fiction text, Mastering comprehension will help upper KS3 students to make the transition to GCSE English Language study. This teaching pack includes eight literary fiction or prose texts from the 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century. The activities are designed for upper KS3 (years 8-9) or higher attaining KS3 students and should provide a helpful transition to the GCSE/IGCSE assessment focus on unseen literary fiction. You’ll find extracts from celebrated novels and short stories to appeal to younger students, as well as a range of genres, literary and narrative styles, including first- and third-person narration. What’s included? The teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is designed to provide a series of comprehension practice activities for eight one-hour lessons: Each lesson includes: a choice of two pre-reading starter activities (focusing on context, prediction, vocabulary development, inference skills, oracy skills etc.) a set of three lesson activities to build students’ reading comprehension skills and strategies, and comprehension and inference questions and tasks: skimming, scanning, selecting, summarising and synthesising information analysing language, literary devices and structure evaluating the text critically writing analytically an extension writing task to anticipate some of the fiction and non-fiction writing tasks students will complete in their GCSE English Language exams a plenary or formative assessment activity. Each activity includes answers, where appropriate and there is also a summative assessment task, which includes exam-style questions, with suggested answers for self or peer marking, or to support teachers. The resource pack also includes a focus on vocabulary development by building students’ confidence approaching unfamiliar or challenging new words. The lessons can be used in sequence or as one-off English lessons, for cover activities or for independent homework tasks. The pack includes extracts from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Happy-Go-Lucky-Morgans by Edward Thomas, ‘The Story-Teller’ by Saki, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘Invisible Mass of the Back Row’ by Claudette Williams.

Murder and madness; perfect for engaging your KS4 students! Designed for the GCSE English Literature specifications for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas, this pack will develop your students’ critical reading skills ready for the exam. ‘In writing this pack, I aimed to make the resources as varied and interactive as possible, drawing on my own teaching methods and my deep knowledge of the text. I firmly believe Shakespeare texts are accessible to all students and should not be taught solely in a desk-bound manner. This pack offers a menu which teachers can select from and there is something for every learning style.’ Angela Topping, writer Comprising 25 creative lessons, exam-style questions and resources, the work has been done for you. What’s included? 25 lessons exam-style questions for the relevant exam boards activities to develop students’ critical reading skills in preparation for the GCSE exam. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) Specification summaries (pages 4-7) Act 1 (pages 8-47) Lessons 1-5 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 2 (pages 48-82) Lessons 6-10 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 3 (pages 83-125) Lessons 11-15 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 4 (pages 126-158) Lessons 16-20 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 5 (pages 159-183) Lessons 21-25 and accompanying resources Exam style questions

English homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your homework activities for year 7 English in one place. Including differentiated tasks for reading, writing and SPaG, there’s a task for every week of the school year. Whether you use it as a homework workbook or dip in and out, it’s perfect for teachers, home tutors and teaching assistants of year 7 students. The pack is identical to the Home Learning for year 6 – English pack on Teachit Primary: it has been specially adapted for year 7 students to consolidate KS2 prior learning. What’s included 39 photocopiable tasks, differentiated where appropriate mapped to the NC objectives for year 5/6 answers where relevant teacher’s tick list to keep track of work set. What’s inside Teaching notes (page 4) Section 1 – student section Reading resources (pages 5-36) Comprehension resources Book review resources Poetry performance resources Different genres resources Figurative language resources Writing resources (pages 37-67) Resource – proofreading Resource – assessing a piece of writing Resource – describing characters Resource – describing settings Resource – the plot Resource – the big write Resource – a newspaper report Resource – persuasive writing Resource – formal or informal? Resource – a précis Resource – advice for year 6 Resource – your school report Spelling, punctuation and grammar resources (pages 68-100) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – a conversation Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses Section 2 – teacher section Teacher’s tick list (pages 101-103) Answers Reading (pages 104-110) Comprehension resources Figurative language resources Writing (pages 11-112) Proofreading resources Spelling, punctuation and grammar (pages 113-129) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses