An introduction to spelling and punctuation. Are you using semi colons correctly?

Work great as a bookmark and act as handy reminders to students across the curriculum.

A powerpoint including activities on the comparison of poems Bookends and The Road Not Taken. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 GCSE students.

Looking at Curley's Wife, Clara and Susy. Full essay response.

Can be used for all subjects. Lower, middle and higher examples.

Elephants remember everything! What will your students remember from each lesson? Great, quick, plenary.

A full essay response, based on two of the poems by Wilfred Owen.

An insight into the adaptation of Hamlet, into Disney's Lion King.

What is the difference between narrative and descriptive writing?

Getting students familiar with extended metaphors.

Designed to get students thinking about the use of senses in descriptive writing, through the use of sherbet lemons.

A powerpoint including activities on the poem The Road Not Taken. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 GCSE students.

Adaptable for any poems. This grid is blank, so that you can just add your poem titles at the top and off you go! Focuses students thinking onto the content of the poem, the ideas that the poet is trying to convey, the mood and atmosphere, analysis of language and structure and their own personal responses to the poems, before concluding by identifying similarities and differences. Brilliant for scaffolding, before an essay.

Getting students to think about the use of senses in descriptive writing, using fresh flowers.

Ideal for both KS3 and KS4 students. Explores the themes of homelessness. A great class read by Robert Swindells.

A powerpoint including activities on the poem Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 GCSE students.

A great introduction to poetry. Includes 4 lessons on the Pied Piper, 1 on Katy Perry's Firework, looking at the use of imagery and another on One Direction. Redacted poetry resources and lesson also included, along with worksheet.

Ideal for both KS3 and KS4 students. Explores the themes of homelessness. A great class read by Robert Swindells.

A powerpoint including two full lessons worth of activities on the poem Not My Business by Chinua Achebe. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 GCSE students.

Ideal for printing double sided and backing on coloured card. Key terms including metaphors, similes, sibilance, alliteration, rhetorical questions, mood, tone etc.