A fun and pretty display to hang around your classroom. Homemade bunting reminding students of their upper and lower case letters, using Harry Potter style font and 'royalty free' images

A fun, fast paced and exciting lesson on personification using lots of images to explore how to personify, and what it is. Starting with a riddle to get them thinking, it moves on to learning how to define personification before creating examples. Finishing with planning and writing a description, this lesson worked really well with year 7 in a mixed ability set.

Following the structure, format and wording of the WJEC/EDUQAS literature exam paper, I have created a mock paper using Afternoons by Philip Larkin for students to practice exam responses. Included in the resource is an essay planning sheet to help students consider their answer and time their writing.

A nice P4C (philosophy for children) lesson exploring the theme of love using a poem written by John Clare called 'first love'. A range of paired, group and whole class discussion classes as well as some written tasks as well.

A fun, active P4C (Philosophy for Children) lesson on animal rights, using drama, p4c and speaking and listening skills whilst improving reasoning and justification in the classroom. Suitable for all ages of English students

A fun, interactive and fast paced lesson complete with all resources, learning objectives and success criteria. Focus on ISAFOREST language techniques, identifying them and analyzing the effect. Use of whiteboard games, fast paced identification and then annotation of the headlines. A great lesson for year 7, 8 or 9 to assess and improve students' recognition, understanding and analysis of persuasive language.

A P4C lesson focusing on the media and reality TV, encouraging the students to consider the morality of some of the television that is publicized. A great one to go with dystopian fiction, especially The Running Man, The Hunger Games and Red Blood Road. Complete lesson in powerpoint. Very effective and really engaging.

A fully printable and adaptable revision aide for GCSE students studying the EDUQAS/WJEC poetry anthology. (You will need to get your own cups and ping pong ball). A range of great revision questions, forfeit cards and instructions included. Macbeth Forfeit cards included! Fantastic for engaging disengaged students.

A fully printable and adaptable revision aide for GCSE students studying Macbeth. (You will need to get your own cups and ping pong ball). A range of great revision questions, forfeit cards and instructions included. Fantastic for engaging disengaged students.

A fun way to engage students in creative writing and story telling. This tool can be used for both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. It is also very accessible for SEN students in lower KS4. Using these cards, students are given a story task. They need to use all six of their emoji's within their story, and can even cut out their stickers to use within their writing. A really fun exercise for students and something that stops the 'writers block' that young people often suffer.

A Philosophy for Children, P4C lesson based on Ruby Bridges and the civil rights movement in America. A discussion based lesson on whether one person can truly make a difference.

An exciting lesson encouraging students to write a narrative as if they are travelling through space. Whole lesson planned and resourced within powerpoint. SC and LOs included.

A fun and engaging P4C lesson discussing the hunting of animals, with a simple newspaper article as stimulus. A good article to analyse for non-fiction text alongside novels as well. A great way to get students talking. The entire lesson is planned with resources, Learning Objectives and Success Criteria. Good for encouraging communication, justification of ideas and listening skills. Students really enjoy P4C and it is structured in a way that means all children can achieve.

A fun and easily accessible lesson for students studying The Manhunt by Simon Armitage. Designed to be the introduction of the analysis of the poem, as well as the contextual information, this lesson works really well with lower ability students. Resources, Learning Objectives and Success Criteria are all included.

An easy to use selection of cloze paragraphs for Hound of the Baskervilles. More coming soon!

A planned lesson allowing students to research Victorian History and the invention of Christmas Cards. Students are able to identify, label and apply presentational features whilst learning more contextual information about Victorian life. This lesson has all learning objectives, success criteria and resources available in one PowerPoint, as well as 'real life' links. Any students studying Charles Dickens or other Victorian Authors could use this lesson as a Christmas lesson whilst ensuring students are engaging in contextual resource.

A lesson looking at the setting of Macbeth and why the places are important. Map created with important locations labeled. All success criteria, learning objectives, real world link and resources are included in the powerpoint. A fun lesson for students to understand where Macbeth is set.

A selection of 21 ready to print resources that can be used as Do Now or Plenary activities for your classes. These can also be used online if you convert to a google doc. The do now selection covers: capital letters full stops commas in a list commas to separate clauses apostrophes discourse markers verbs and adverbs adjectives and nouns prefixes and suffixes ellipses to shorten quotations there, they’re and their where, wear and were the verb to be past V present tense superlatives colons semi-colons synonyms antonyms prepositions

A printable revision card teaching students how to answer each question in the IGCSE Cambridge English Language exam

A fun, colourful display reminding students of often common mistakes within English. Colourful and easy to understand, it is a fun way of reminding students to check their mistakes themselves. All images and font have been checked and only 'free to use or share commercially' images have been used.