A range of examples of setting description extracts from famous young adult fiction novels, with questions for analysis and discussion. Extracts are from: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Shoot to Kill by Steve Cole and Soldier Dog by Sam Angus.

A series of 3+ lessons on the different types of travel writing: guidebook, article and narrative. Model examples given and tasks linked to the extracts.

An introduction to the idea of ‘Genius Hour’ in which students take time to come up with thier own driving questions for a project on a topic of their choice. They are then expected to conduct their own research and present their findings to the class in a format of their own choice.

A range of questions (and answers) that map out a plan to help students answer the essay question, ‘How does Priestley use language and structure to show Sheila’s journey towards social responsibility?’ Students can work through the questions on the corresponding pages and come up with a range of quotes that can be used to answer the question.

A range of questions for students to help them consider what we learn about the characters in Act 1 of An Inspector Calls before the Inspector arrives. Includes questions on Priestley’s view, context and different characters. Answers included on the second slide.

A range of quotes on Sheila to help students plan an answer to the response, ‘How does Priestley use language and structure to show Sheila’s journey towards social responsibility?’

A comprehensive Literacy Skills Booklet with activities on a range of skills including: word classes, sentences types and punctuation and grammar. There are 13 different topics, with each one including a revision activity to demonstrate understanding, a task on the skill and links to popular young adult books with opportunities throughout for students to revisit ideas to ensure consolidation of knowledge. Each activity has space to be marked through peer assessment.

A Challenge Literacy Skills Booklet to follow on from the Literacy Skills Booklet. Includes tasks on 13 different skills including: main and subordinate clauses, adjectival clauses, adverbial clauses, conjunctions, word types and sentence types. Each activity includes revision tasks, opportunities for practice, links to extracts to young adult fiction and space for peer assessment.

A range of 10, 20 and 45 minute revision tasks on the Edexcel IGCSE English Language and Literature. Includes revision of the Anthology texts, unseen poetry and Of Mice and Men, alongside examples of Unseen poems and example model paragraphs.

A resource to inspire students to create their own examples of performance poetry, with video clips from Afra Atiq, Harry Barker and Sarah Kay.

A series of 5 lessons based around the short Pixar film, ‘Piper’. Skills that are covered include: engaging openings, similes, metaphors, building tension and varying sentence starters. Students work through the skills whilst adding a paragraph of their own writing every lesson using ‘Piper’ as a writing stimulus.

A series of lessons based around the book, ‘The Island at the End of Everything,’ by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Includes a research project on the historical context of the book, a step by step approach to writing an analytical response, model answer on Mr Zamora, the symbolism of butterflies and Sister Teresa and example questions.

A lesson analysing the presentation of Lady Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5, including a worksheet with questions to support analysis of her solioquy.

Four different book extract opening from Young Adult fiction with a range of questions to analyse how effective the openings are and how they create intrigue. Extracts taken from: Black Powder by Ally Sherick, Boy X by Dan Smith, Diary of an (Un)Teenager by Pete Johnson and White Rabbit by Tom Pollock.

A series of lessons to help students answer the question, ‘How does Shakespeare use language and structure to present conflict in Romeo and Juliet?’ Focuses on the prologue, Act 1 Scene 1 and Act 3 Scene 1 with the key ideas from the historical context and example analytical paragraphs.

Guidance for students on how to write an introduction for an essay in English. Examples of effective (and less effective) introductions to spark discussion amongst students on what they need to include.

A lesson on what to include when writing a conclusion for an essay in English. Includes a range of examples to spark discussion on the features that should and should not be included in the conclusion to an essay.

Extracts of character descriptions from young adult fiction books, including questions for analysis, to help students plan out their own character descriptions. Extracts are from: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell, Lies by Michael Grant and Northen Lights by Philip Pullman.

A set of activities allowing students to analyse Boris Johnson’s ‘Get Boosted Now’ speech on the latest COVID updates on 12th December 2021. Includes a video clip of the speech, an abridged transcript and a activities on the techniques used for impact.

A short booklet of 6 tasks relating to letter/diary writing on the theme of a haunted mansion. Students are given an image to describe, an example of a letter to annotate and then write a response to. Students can then draw the images described in the letter and label them with quotes, before finding a diary entry from over a hundred years ago that they can annotate and then continue writing. Ideal for exclusion work, for independent work in a cover lesson or to complete at the end of an English unit.