Get your students out of their seats and develop their 19th Century vocabulary with this Quiz, Quiz, Trade game. It uses challenging vocabulary from Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short story, The Tell-Tale Heart (the word class is also included). You can either have your students play it before they approach the short story or after having read it. If you don’t know how to do Quiz, Quiz, Trade, there are short instructional videos on YouTube.

This is a mini-scheme of work teaching Morpurgo’s Beowulf. It is made up of five lessons for an extremely mixed ability class. It was specifically designed to teach online, but can be adapted to suit your setting (breakout rooms becomes table groups). Some keywords are also provided in Arabic, but these can be easily removed to suit your own students. Easily adaptable, targets KS3 English skills and also includes a couple of literacy tasks to support low ability learners. Skills such as analytical paragraphs using sentence starters, inferential and analytical skills are also developed. Reading assessment is included.

Support your students through a series of Do-Nows. Great for pre-teaching vocabulary before reading A Christmas Carol. Uses eleven words from Stave 2 and a few words from Stave 1. Words include:- Irrepressible Haggard Despoil Brigands Dowerless

Support your students through a series of Do-Nows. Great for pre-teaching vocabulary before reading A Christmas Carol. Uses sixteen words from Stave 1. Words include:- Hallowed Emphatically Caustic Dirge Shrewdly

Easily adaptable lesson on selecting and retrieving evidence, using an extract from Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boys. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

Students are required to read a variety of different extracts from dystopian literature and make inferences and deductions about the anti-heroes and how the author chooses to present them. Anti-heroes they’ll analyse: V from V for Vendetta Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series Flora 717 from The Bees Winston from 1984 Montag from Fahrenheit 451

This is great for those teaching poetry at KS4 and KS5. My students make an abundance of notes in their anthologies, and so this double-sided A3 sheet helps them transfer their notes for revision to be used before their exams, consolidate their learning and help ME see where the gaps are in their knowledge. I’m sure it’ll help you too!

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with Year 9s in mind. They would usually complete this during a unit on autobiographical writing. This can be used throughout KS3 though and maybe up into KS4 depending on your group’s ability.

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with our Year 8s in mind; they would be studying Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice whilst doing these. These can be used across KS3 though and for any units.

A lesson which seeks to develop letter writing skills.

Collected from across the internet.

Copied and pasted from SparkNotes and put onto a Word Doc. Full credit goes to the SparkNotes team. I cut them out and laminated them and made a display for the English corridor with them. Both students and teachers have enjoyed them!

Some funny tweets either made by myself or adapted from Twitter. I think the teachers appreciated them more than the students though!

Just a PPT with a batch of book covers. I used them for a display encouraging students to pick up the books of the films they've watched.

Owned by SparkNotes. I use these for displays and in lessons.

Collected from across the internet.

Collected from across the internet.

Collected from the internet.

These belong to SparkNotes. I downloaded them to use them for a display board.

From SparkNotes. Downloaded to use as a display.