A homework booklet with activities which looks to develop analytical and literacy skills. Extracts come from a range of dystopian novels. Ideal for students in KS3, especially Year 8 and Year 9. It can be used in and out of lessons. It also includes a homework choice menu at the end of the booklet.

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

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

A-level English Literature lesson for Edexcel on the poem, To my Nine-Year-Old Self by Helen Dunmore.

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.

This Boy in the Tower SoW was created for a mixed ability virtual classroom. It can be adapted very easily to suit a classroom setting, replacing ‘Breakout Rooms’ with ‘table groups’. The mini-scheme of work includes 6 lessons, an assessment, tasks and videos. SoW works on KS3 English skills such as inference, analysis, analytical paragraphs and word and structural analysis. Some keywords have been provided in Arabic - though they can be easily removed or replaced. Reading assessment is included.