An amazing activity for KS3 and 4 students! They have to escape the room answering questions based around the book ‘Ghost Boys’ by Jewell Parker Rhodes.

Symbolism worksheet for the book Lord of the Flies for the chapter painted faces and long hair.

A worksheet based on the character Uncle Mark from the book Long Way Down.

Essay question with small extract on how the character of Roger is presented. Includes prompts, challenge and writing frame.

Writing a letter from Uncle Mark to Will. Letter template - Long Way Down.

A worksheet based on symbolism linked to the character Uncle Mark from the book A Long Way Down.

A worksheet with questions around chapter two of Lord of the Flies.

This worksheet is designed to recap over language techniques. Students are prompted to give an example and a definition of a range of language techniques.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for An Inspector Calls. Instructions: Students simply roll the dice twice in order to land on a section of the grid. They then answer the question in the square of the grid that they land on. They then roll again and continue the same process. This is a great way to incorporate retrieval practice into the classroom and can also be used as a revision game.

A Virtual Reading Corner for students to come and access online Ebooks, get an update on what you are reading and have a safe space in which they feel inspired to pick up a book and read.

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 PowerPoint goes through the poem discussing context and language techniques. This can be used as a full lesson. The PowerPoint uses the VIPERS method of analysing poetry and teaches students skills such as: Inference, explaining effects of language and thinking about writers intentions.

This is a bundle of PowerPoints that introduces students to cultural poetry. It includes the poems: Blessing, Island Man and Night of the Scorpion. The Powerpoints are designed to help students to gain skills such as: inference, thinking about the writers intentions, picking out key themes etc. All of the PowerPoints are designed as full lessons.

A lesson focused on improving students debating skills. Students look at images to improve inference skills, explore arguing both sides of an argument and what a good argument looks like.

This lesson focuses on improving narrative writing. Students are asked to create a realistic character that they can drop into a scenario. Brilliant lesson for focusing on skills for language paper one question five on the AQA exam. Only PowerPoint included.

A full lesson focusing on Romeo and Juliet Act 1 and Act 2 Romeo’s soliloquy. This is the next lesson following on from ‘Act 1’ and looks more closely at how Shakespeare presents different kinds of love. The lesson provides a dual coding activity, summaries of key parts of the play and a chance to explore Romeos soliloquy and comparing this to Juliet’s speech.

A full lesson exploring Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet. Explores the downfalls of both Romeo and Juliet, Includes a quick fire test and a chance to explode a quote that has been preselected to give learners the opportunity to explore and analyze Shakespeare’s language.

This resource contains seven weeks worth of home learning tasks aimed at KS3 students. The theme follows Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rodes with each week of home learning containing three unique tasks that include dual coding, essay style questions or language terminology focus. This is sure to save you time planning and this resource could also be used as a stretch and challenge or extension activity for learners.

This lesson focuses on chapter nine and ten in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The resource contains multiple comprehension activities. Learners will look at Simon’s character, how leadership changes on the island and respond to an essay style question, explore metaphors in the novel and complete a dual coding/symbolism activity. With seventeen slides worth of activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

A lesson covering The Lord of the Flies - Sound of the Shell. This lesson covers: An analysis on a description of the island. Language anlaysis of utopia and dystopia. Two essay style questions with guidance. Key quotation analysis.