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.

Ten rounds of fun for students to revise their knowledge of the AS OCR English course. The quiz contains round that quiz students on: key words, theorists and word classes etc. This quiz contains both questions and answers!

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

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

A revision crossword with clues based on the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet.

Three pages of questions based on Romeo and Juliet Act One, Scene Five. Can be used as part of a lesson, cover work or homework.

Students sort statements about the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet into true or false piles. This is a great game for revision, consolidating knowledge or homework.

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

A Christmas Carol Scrooge initial character profile and analysis.

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

Two versatile question mats linking to Power and Conflict Poetry. Students can use these to play roll and retrieve, question bingo etc.

Students answer questions that link to the story A Christmas Carol. Students pot a red ball, then select a coloured, then go back to red. So on until all the balls are potted.

Introduction To Shakespeare - Dual coded knowledge orgainser which includes contextual information, key terms and key plays.

Worksheet containing multiple words related to rhetoric/persuasive writing. Students have to give a definition and an example of the key words on the sheet. Can be used as a starter activity, an introduction to rhetoric or as a homework task.

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.

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!

Roll the dice and explain how the image is linked to the text. Roll again and link the two images together! This is a great resource for revision, introducing students to links across the text and is a fun an interactive resource!

Pages to print out for students that contain a range of images linked to Lord of the Flies. These are versatile sheets, students can link them to key symbols, key quotes etc.

A worksheet working through the five stages of grief and exploring how people feel when grieving.