A helpful list of texts that could be given to any English Literature / prospective English Literature student to help them with their wider reading.

A detailed and full lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources to help A-Level teachers introduce the Literary Canon, so A-Level students develop necessary skills which will help them meet the AO3 and AO4 Assessment Criteria.

A booklet of extracts all on the theme of Courtly Love to help students improve their contextual understanding of writers' treatment of this theme. This will help students with their AO3/4 marks on Paper 1 - Love through the Ages.

A series of tasks to be completed by Year 11 students in advance of starting an A-Level in English Literature. The tasks are designed to challenge students, so that you can assess and evaluate the strengths of your group immediately. These tasks work as an introduction to the new AQA A English Literature course, but could easily be relevant or adapted to other courses.

Student's essay considering the role of Regan in the play. A-Level standard.

A handy resource that collects together a number of critical interpretations of "King Lear". These could easily be incorporated into classroom discussion when teaching students to engage with others' viewpoints (AO5) or be used as part of a lesson where you are teaching students how to incorporate critical quotes into their written responses.

Students' essays completed in timed conditions. An excellent set of resources to use with your class to help them understand how to meet the assessment criteria. You could easily incorporate this into a lesson whereby students work to improve the weaker responses, therefore showing and demonstrating their understanding of the mark scheme.

Detailed, lesson by lesson scheme of work with resources for teaching Othello as the Shakespeare text on Paper 1: Love through the Ages. Lessons are objective-led for the outgoing specification but the material is fully customisable for the new AOs and is still current in helping students to develop their range of reading skills in readiness for A-Level Assessment Objectives.

A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all relevant resources for teaching The Boy in the Striped PJs as a text for KS3 students. All lessons are objective-led and will help students to develop a range of reading skills in preparation for GCSE.

A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all relevant resources to teach students to be able to write in the travel writing style. Lessons are objective based and help them develop a range of reading and writing skills. Assessments are included within the scheme.

A booklet that lists all activities that students need to undertake in order to be fully prepped for their exam on WW1 Literature.

A handy resource that outlines a foolproof exam strategy for students so they know how to use their planning time in the exam to craft and shape a top band essay response. This resource could easily be incorporated into your scheme of work!

A handy resource that outlines a foolproof exam strategy for students so they know how to use their planning time in the exam to craft and shape a top band essay response. Applies to all texts being taught as the core text on Paper 2 of the AQA A course - the only thing you would need to change is the title of the document.!

A handy resource that outlines a foolproof exam strategy for students so they know how to use their planning time in the exam to craft and shape a top band essay response. Applies to all texts being taught as the companion texts on Paper 2 of the AQA A course - the only thing you would need to change is the title of the document!

A handy booklet to support A-Level students with their wider reading. In the requirements for AO4 to make wider connections, students need to be reading widely around their core texts. This booklet makes those expectations clear to students from the beginning of the course and provides them with a convenient place for them to log what they have been reading and to reflect on the ways in which they can use their wider reading in comparison to their set texts. A great resource to hand out to students at the beginning of the course!

An exemplar that you could use / adapt with your A-Level class, showing students how to meet the Assessment Criteria for the NEW A-Level AQA A specification. I have taken the sample question from specimen Paper 1 and modelled how a chapter from Jane Eyre could be used in response. This exemplar is modelling how to get top marks by meeting all of the band 5 criteria.

A three lesson scheme of work, fully resourced and with powerpoints that work as the introduction to the genre of tragedy. Suitable for AQA B English Literature A-Level specification.

A fully-comprehensive handbook to be given to students at the beginning of their A-Level studies. This handbook was created to introduce students to the AQA B English Literature specification but could easily be adapted to any specification.

A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources included to teach students how to analyse and how to write their own newspaper articles. All lesson plans are objective led to help students develop a range of reading and writing skills.

A full and detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources included to teach KS3 students about autobiographical and biographical writing. All lessons are objective-led to help students develop a range of reading and writing skills.