An extensive list of book recommendations for year eight students to read. Would be great to add to your library or use alongside a book club.

Four different worksheets that cover: Language Change (The seven stages) Descriptivist vs Prescriptivist approach Standardisation Morphological Derivation These worksheets contain various cartoon characters and colour to make them engaging for your students.

This lesson explores Lord of the Flies context and introduces students to the underlying themes of the novel. The lesson looks at a Banksy image an refers this back to the novel, it asks students to look at various book covers and infer what the novel might be about, it also explores context of William Golding and looks at the Coral Island as his inspiration. Students are also asked to consider the nature vs nurture approach. In the second lesson students read the first chapter of the book and consider what makes a good leader and do a brief character analysis. These are two full lessons that can be used with students or as a revision lesson.

Can you sort the nouns in the table into the correct noun group? This worksheet encourages students to identify abstract, concrete and common nouns. An activity that can be adapted to suit any age group. The worksheet is pokemon themed and is great to encourage students.

These A Level terminology flashcards are such a versatile resource. They can be used to teach your students key words on the curriculum or be turned into a fun revision game!

This activity could be used as a bell ringer or exit ticket activity. Students are prompted to sum up what they know about a topic in the form of a tweet…don’t forget to include a fun hashtag!

A simple worksheet that can be differentiated for students, that explores classifying the -s pronoun. Students place the words on the first worksheet into the correct category. The second worksheet can be adapted for students to include words that you choose or can be adapted for students to make their own quiz for peers etc.

This resource contains two worksheets. One that students can use to practice their spellings either at home or in school with their teacher and another to complete a ten word spelling test. This resource can be used by any teacher in any grade to help students with their spellings.

Three fully planned lessons that center on creative writing. A lovely introduction to ‘A Monster Calls’ scheme of work or as a fun creative writing project for your students. The first lesson looks at Monsters in Literature, the second lesson looks at creating a monster and the final lesson brings everything together when students compare their own creations to those in literature.

This quick and fun activity will be sure to have your students engaged! Using the worksheet students will select a word from categories A through to C in order to create a Shakespearian insult. This could be used as an icebreaker activity or as a fun way to start or end your lesson…who can come up with the best insult?

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.

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 resource contains seven weeks worth of homework tasks! These activities are aimed at KS3 and KS4 learners and center around the theme of Romeo and Juliet. Each week contains three fun activities to stretch learners and get them thinking outside the box. Activities include dual coding, essay style questions and language technique recaps as an example. This will save you so much time with your planning and will hopefully encourage your learners to get their homework in on time!

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.

A complete lesson covering the plot and context of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson explores symbolism, the main plot and has a range of activities for students to complete. A great lesson for KS3 and KS4 and can be adapted to fit students needs.

Comprehension questions on the Graveyard book alongside a character profile activity. A concise PowerPoint that could be used as a filler lesson, starter activity or reading intervention.

This is a straight forward creative writing task based around the BLM movement. This is a great activity for KS3 and KS4 classes and can also be a brilliant cover or filler lesson.

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.