This is a roll & retrieve activity for Inspector Calls. Instructions: Students will roll and dice twice to select a topic on the grid and write this in box one. This process will then be repeated for box two. Students will then have the challenge of drawing links between the two topics that they have selected. This is great to use for retrieval practice within class or as a fun, competitive revision activity.

This is made as a PowerPoint to celebrate National Poetry Day but could also be used for tutor time literacy, intervention work or as a fun poetry club activity. Students are asked to look at circle poems with the theme of the environment in mind. This is a fun and versatile activity for all students.

Students read through the extract taken from the book The Faraway Tree. Then colour code the sentence types boxes and hunt for the different sentences within the text. Great for GCSE language revision. Great for OCR and AQA language revision.

A knowledge organsier containing key terms that relate to teaching rhetoric. This can be stuck into students books to refer back to in lesson or as part of homework/revision.

A comprehensive worksheet that aids students with their understanding around the context of Macbeth.

Fill in the blanks of three quotes per poem - Answers included. Bayonet Charge Charge of the light Brigade War Photographer Exposure Remains

A worksheet that focuses on generic reading for meaning/reciprocal reading questions that can be used with any text.

This is a challenge that any age group can get involved with. Fill in every letter of the alphabet with a book title that starts with the same letter. This is a really fun way to get students talking and engaged with reading within school and at home.

This fun and engaging resource is suitable for any age group. Students work to check squares off their bingo sheet once they have completed the activity. This can be used to get students talking about reading and help aid in whole school reading. You might as a teacher give a small reward for any student who completes the whole bingo sheet.

A advent calendar that provides a new book recommendation everyday on the run up to Christmas! All books are based around the festive season and are aimed at KS3 to KS4 students within secondary school. A fun way to engage students in reading and promote pleasure for reading in school over December. This can be used as a whole school reading strategy and adapted to fit the reading needs of your students.

A comprehensive scheme of work for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” play script for GCSE requires careful planning. Here’s a suggested breakdown into individual lessons, including activities and assessments, split over two terms. Please note this is just a sample SOW and should be adapted to fit your students needs.

A fun and engaging lesson for introducing nightmares in chapter one of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Includes an art based activity and two creative writing tasks for students to complete.

A series of five detailed lesson ideas for teaching “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” play script to GCSE drama students. These lessons are designed to engage students, promote critical thinking, and develop their understanding of the play’s themes and performance elements.

Linking the themes from A Monster Calls to the real world through newspaper articles. (Newspapers required for this lesson.)

A lesson based on the visualisation of the yew tree in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

A lesson based on the theme of empathy. Students explore empathy in the novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, looking at a key extract and relating it back to the real world.

This fun and engaging lesson on the first tale in “A Monster Calls” encourages students to become storytellers themselves while exploring the concept of truth in stories. The activities promote creativity, empathy, and critical thinking, fostering a deeper connection with the themes of the novel.

An exam walk through and revision tips for students sitting the OCR Exam Paper for English Language. This is a walk through of both paper one and two.

A fun way of teaching new vocabulary by having students go on a definition hunt! This is a versatile activity that can be adapted to swap and change key vocabulary being taught.

A worksheet that walks through descriptivist and descriptivist views of language change.