Used as part of a Year 7 ‘Myths and Legends’ Unit. Two page summary of the story, plus three reading DART tasks.

**AQA Paper 1, Questions 1 & 2 and Paper 2, Questions 1 & 2 ** Source A: Lost at Sea (Guardian) Source B: I Fell Through The Arctic Ice (Gary Rolf) Exam style for all four questions.

4 Excel 4 x 3 grids of quick-fire starters or bell tasks, covering: Common spelling errors Literary devices Punctuation Parts of speech Suitable for KS3 or as revision for KS4.

A 25 page pupil booklet to support teaching poetry ballads and sonnets. Contains: 2 ‘warm up’ or starter tasks Sonnet 130(Shakespeare) poem and task Sonnet 116(Shakespeare) poem and task Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)poem and task My Last Duchess (Browning) poem and task What has happened to Lulu? poem / task The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond poem and task That Time Again (Birtles) and The Captain’s Daughter (Fields) poems and tasks Exerpt from The Highwayman (Noyes) and task Useful for KS3 classes, in particular SEND or lower ability. Used to compliment a year 8 unit of work by the same name for over ten years.

The Little Book of Essays An A5 booklet of essay titles, suitable for AQA GCSE Literature, Paper 1 and Paper 2: A Christmas Carol (4 essay titles, including extracts) Macbeth (5 essay titles, including extracts) An Inspector Calls (5 essay titles) Power and Conflict Poetry (6 essay titles) Each essay page allows pupils space to bullet / spider diagram plan their response to a similar essay in the actual exam. Helpful for GCSE revision in class or at home.

AQA GCSE LITERATURE GUIDE TO WRITING AN UNSEEN POETRY ESSAY 133 slides covering: What to expect in the exam How am I assessed? What should I do before I write my essay? How do I write my essay? What about the comparison question? Slides animated with transitions, for easy use on whiteboards.

Two A4 page grids of key information for the following poems: ‘Ozymandias’ ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘Remains’ ‘Storm on the Island’ ‘The Emigree’ ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ ‘Kamikaze’ ‘Bayonet Charge’ Blank grids included also, for setting as homework. Coloured and black and white grids, as well as PDF uploaded. Handy for revision.

KS3 ‘The Witches’ (Roald Dahl) pupil booklet, to accompany teaching the text. Updated 2024. Suitable for KS3 (particularly year 7 or LA year 8). 17 pages. Range of reading, writing and quiz tasks. PDF uploaded also.

An 8 page feedback document Makes an ideal A3 booklet Used successfully with my year 11’s during a learning walk focussed on feedback to pupils after their mocks. Outcome considered ‘Excellent’. Activities ask pupils to ‘Review’, ‘Reflect’ and ‘Repsond’ to exemplar material and their own responses. The mock Literature question was: In ‘Scaffolding’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about their relationship? … but the template could easily be adopted to other poems / texts.

KS3 Class Text ‘Buddy’ by Nigel Hinton Pupil Booklet A 28 page booklet, covering a range of reading and writing tasks to accompany reading the text. Updated version, using Open Dyslexic font. Suitable for LA pupils or year 7 / 8. PDF and Word version uploaded. Accompanying PowerPoint available on request.

AQA GCSE English Literaturee - How to write a ‘Macbeth’ (William Shakespeare) essay. An 89 slide PowerPoint covering: What to expect How am I assessed? How to plan How to structure How to write a paragraph Introductions and conclusions Used with my Year 10 and Year 11 mid-ability classes. Uses transitions and animations, for use on whiteboards.

A simple one page plenary activity for AQA GCSE Literature pupils to record notes on each AO for the Conflict and Power poetry.

EDUQAS GCSE MEDIA STUDIES COMPONENT 1, SECTION B: THE ARCHERS Teaching PowerPoint (320 slides) and accompanying pupil booklet (18 pages) Includes: Part 1: Introduction to radio Part 2: Social, historical and cultural contexts Part 3: Funding, regulation and production process Part 4: Convergence, Technology and webiste Part 5: Audiences Part 6: Episode study (Helen and Rob) Part 7: Revision and recall Part 8: Assessment PDF and Word version of the pupil booklet included. Plenty of AFL, recall and differentiation along the way. Save yourself the planning time!

‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: PUPIL WORKBOOK - LA or SEND A 20 page workbook for lower ability or SEND pupils to work through the basic plot of the play. Example tasks include: Storyboarding Annotation of short extracts Staging ideas Comprehension on plot summaries Uploaded as a PDF also.

EDUQAS GCSE MEDIA STUDIES THIS GIRL CAN Teaching PowerPoint (270 slides) divided into three sections: PART 1: Contexts PART 2: Media language (including media theories) PART 3: Representation and comparing two texts Pupil workbook (17 pages) to accompany tasks in Parts 1 - 3 of the PowerPoint. Pupil booklet uploaded as a PDF also, to retain formatting. Will save you loads of planning time!