With the World Cup 2022 games about to begin, I have created this reading challenge to encourage students to get reading! The challenges are themed around football and are aimed at encouraging students to get reading and broaden where they find reading materials. This is a fun way to get students motivated and involved in reading and can be used as part of a whole school reading strategy! Can your students score a reading goal!

A Christmas Carol Scrooge initial character profile and analysis.

A revision clock based around the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.

A worksheet that explore the preface and first like of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.

A sheet that allows students to explore and analyse Act One, Scene Two from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

A comprehensive booklet containing six different extracts from both fiction and non fiction texts. All have questions for students to answer alongside them. Can be used as a reading comprehension activity, homework booklet or as a reading strategy within lessons. Extracts included are below: Pole to Pole by Michael Palin The Pet The Storm Chocolate The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

This structured worksheet helps students to embed all neccessary elements into a Language Paper One question five response. The image can be edited to suit the needs of your students and can be used as part of lessons, homework or revision.

Are you and your students up to the challenge? Read three books in the month of January and give them a star rating…who will be the first to read a five star rating book? This is a great way to promote reading both whole school and at home, it’s a fun and engaging way to get students talking about what they are reading!

This worksheet has room for students to write about key characters, themes, quotes and authorial intent. It also breaks down the family tree of the main characters within the play.

Students sort a range of stative and dynamic verbs into the correct place on the table. A great activity for introducing, teaching or revising these word classes. Can be used for GCSE English Language or A level English Language.

This activity is based around the skill of zooming into key details and allowing students to focus on the finer details. This sheet contains four images and a video link to a clip from Narnia so that students can embed their ideas into creative writing.

This worksheet contains a range of quotes from George Orwell’s 1984. The aim is for students to explode these quotes by annotating them for language devices or word choice being used. A great resource to use along side the text or as part of a dystopian scheme of work.

This resource contains five different word grids. These words grids can be used by students of any ability, simply give the students a topic and its their job to link all the words on the grid back to that topic. This is a great way to promote vocabulary and can be used as a starter or plenary activity.

Students can have fun creating their own perfect dystopian character. This resource can be adapted to include a challenge task of your choice for students (example is provided.)

This online virtual library contains over 250 books for students to read. By clicking on a book cover students will be directed to a pdf version of the text. This is a great way to encourage reading within school, providing students with a wide range of reading material and promoting reading for pleasure.

A time line to use alongside the play Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Students can use this time line to track Callum and Sephys relationship and how it grows and develops over time.

An extract from the maze runner alongside an exam style question on structure. Can be used for an in class assessment or for AFL at the end of a module.

These flashcards contain a range of important key quotes from A Christmas Carol stave one for students to revise from. The images on every flashcard help with memory and recall. These are the perfect revision tool for GCSE students of English Literature 9-1.