A homework task asking students to write an essay on an unseen poem. Also includes an essay plan for students to follow and a separate glossary of key terms for analysing poems.

10 A Level English Language theories that link to sociolects, on one handy sheet, with short descriptions for each. Great for revision.

Knowledge Organiser for a KS3 study of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes key vocabulary lists and contextual information. On the back, there are lists of helpful sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs and descriptive writing. These are great for laminating and handing out during lessons! More are available for other topics on my TES shop.

8 Macbeth posters with quotations and arresting images!

10 posters with quotations from ‘An Inspector Calls’, with an attractive (AI-created) image for each in a vintage style!

Knowledge Organiser for a KS3 study of Macbeth. Includes key vocabulary lists and contextual information. On the back, there are lists of helpful sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs and descriptive writing. These are great for laminating and handing out during lessons! More are available for other topics on my TES shop.

Knowledge Organiser for a KS3 study of Journey’s End. Includes key vocabulary lists and contextual information. On the back, there are lists of helpful sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs and descriptive writing. These are great for laminating and handing out during lessons! More are available for other topics on my TES shop.

Knowledge Organiser for a KS3 study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Includes key vocabulary lists and contextual information. On the back, there are lists of helpful sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs and descriptive writing. These are great for laminating and handing out during lessons! More are available for other topics on my TES shop.

Knowledge Organiser for a KS3 study of Animal Farm. Includes key vocabulary lists and contextual information. On the back, there are lists of helpful sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs and descriptive writing. These are great for laminating and handing out during lessons! More are available for other topics on my TES shop.

Knowledge Organiser for a KS3 study of Romeo and Juliet. Includes key vocabulary lists and contextual information. On the back, there are lists of helpful sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs and descriptive writing. These are great for laminating and handing out during lessons! More are available for other topics on my TES shop.

Knowledge Organiser for a KS3 study of Oliver Twist. Includes key vocabulary lists and contextual information. On the back, there are lists of helpful sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs and descriptive writing. These are great for laminating and handing out during lessons! More are available for other topics on my TES shop.

A power point on how to write an effective thesis or introduction, broken down into 3 easy steps. Includes: what examiners say about the importance of a thesis an easy 3-step guide to writing an effective thesis or introduction to a Literature essay examples from An Inspector Calls and Macbeth.

A board game that is made up of two A3 sheets, that helps students revise key quotations from the play! Print this board on two sheets of A3 paper and teams can move around the board and annotate key quotations or do the fun challenges! If one team lands on a square that has already been annotated, they have to add more analysis. Use a coin as a dice: heads = move one square, tails = two squares. A fun and different revision activity.

A double-sided A3 revision sheet that outlines the language methods such as: word classes, sentence types, phrases, clauses, and key terms for lexis and semantics, graphology and discourse structure. This sheet is a good guide to remind students of these essential grammtical key terms that they need to satisfy the A01 assessment objective across the English Language A Level exam.

A double-sided sheet with short summaries of 26 CLA theories on one side, and language features listed under the linguistic methods on the other side. My students have found this to be a helpful revision tool. They can research each theory in more depth, tick off the ones they have revised and use the grid to help them write example essay plans. There are a range of theories from the more well-known to modern, lesser-known theories. The back of the sheet can also be used as a checklist to ensure practise essays cover a range of the language methods and to revise key terminology.

A summary of 26 Language and Gender Theories, organised into Deficit, Dominance, Difference and Diversity approaches, and theories around gendered language and masculinity. My students find this double-sided sheet a useful tool for revision and for referring to when planning practise essays on language and gender. It includes dates for most of the theories, and these range from older, established theorists to modern ideas about gender.

Power point with tips on how to write an effective and engaging speech for AQA English Language Paper 2 Section B. Includes a range of examples of language features, including how to: address your audience throughout use powerful anecdotes and quotes to make the topic personal widen your perspective on a topic engage your audience with humour and personality There is also a slide with reminders of how to achieve highly for technical accuracy. You can use these slides again and again when teaching speeches on a range of topics.

Three comparison questions in the style of AQA’s question 3 on Paper 1. Each document contains two texts that are linked by topic, but have different representations of the topic and different modes, as in the AQA Paper 1. These can be used for assessments, homework or class tasks.

A complete lesson where students use an image of the masked ball from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as inspiration for a piece of descriptive writing. Includes: image with task, prompts and success criteria word bank support with structuring descriptive writing figurative language prompts self-assessment slide

An A3 context knowledge organiser and worksheet on context in An Inspector Calls. The worksheet helps students to learn how to phrase contextual links. Students match 10 essay topics to the contextual links on the other side of the sheet. I have found this really helps students to understand how to write about context in an academic style. I also stock context sheets on Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde and A Christmas Carol.