A creative writing task based on an image inspired by ‘Life of Pi’. However it can also be used as a stand-alone without students needing to know the novel or film. Includes sentence starters, a model, and an assessment criteria.

Sentence starters and analytical stems for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (ASND) by Tennessee Williams. Includes phrases for use in essays, focusing on language and literature, includes useful vocabulary, includes useful criticisms.

A series of activities centered around an extract from ‘The Skin I’m In’ by Sharon G Flake. This includes content for 2-3 lessons, including reading comprehension (and an answer key) and a letter writing task allowing students to demonstrate empathy and understanding.

An introduction to conflict types in literature and some thinking tasks for students to complete.

A very brief explanation of structure and form, with focus on Of Mice and Men (OMaM) and poetry.

A mini lesson designed at introducing Hamlet to students and introducing the theme of conflict. Includes the extract used for analysis (and a summary and mini glossary) alongside PPT slides that guide reading and provide sentence stems for group discussion.

This is a complete lesson that allows students to take part in descriptive writing inspired by the story of ‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Chaucer. Students design their own travelling companion and go through planning and then descriptive writing. This resource includes a differentiated printable copy and two examples of a creative description. The resource also includes peer assessment opportunity.

This document provides an overview in study friendly terms of the WJEC English Language GCSE layout. It includes sections that cross-over from AQA but outlines specific WJEC papers. It includes an activity to complete after reading the relevant information.

This brief includes a learning objective/amcan dysgu and outline on how to research and then present findings in a variety of forms (e.g. notes, presentation or poster).

This is a ‘cheat sheet’ / worksheet on My Last Duchess that encourages students to make notes prior to writing an essay on the poem.

A booklet aimed at Y7 / KS3 students developing literacy skills through the theme of fairy tales and short stories. Includes extracts from The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Chinese Cinderella, Tales from India and Revolting Rhymes amongst others. The booklet also includes descriptive writing tasks, tasks on the start and endings of stories and on story structure. At the end of the booklet are extension activities.

Two PEE grids based on the question of Macbeth’s ambition and its limitations. Includes key quotations and prompts.

This generic poetry comparison grid can be adapted to fit any exam board or set of poems. Students fill in comparisons from simple structural points such as the number of stanzas to complex points such as linguistic similarities.

This grid can encourage students to begin making comparisons between the above poems in preparation for their GCSE English Literature NEA. This could also be used as practice for a comparison essay for unseen poetry.

Students are invited to discuss the ‘metaphors we live by’ and are encouraged to understand everyday figurative language.

This extract on ‘Comic Relief’ includes a series of comprehension, vocabulary, inference and opinion questions. Students are also encouraged to complete a creative writing task after completing their reading task.

This resource includes a PDF and editable word document. There are a series of short quotations from texts on the theme of social media/social media influencers. Students then have a series of questions including comprehension, vocabulary, inference and opinion based. To conclude they are given a choice of creative writing tasks. This resource should form the basis for at least one complete lesson with KS3 students.

Example/model texts on the theme of ‘fast fashion’. These examples can be used for reading comprehension or to teach students about the different forms or text types they might encounter as part of a GCSE English Language exam. Text types include: narrative, descriptive, essay, letter, speech and article. Text types are not categorised by purpose e.g. persuasion, exposition etc.