A colourful, appealing and interesting display outlining the achievements and successes of numerous famous authors and poets including David Walliams, Charles Dickens, Jacqueline Wilson, Maya Angelou, Harper Lee, Margaret Atwood, William Shakespeare, Roald Dahl and many more. Facts, recommended books and images are all included.

Two revision documents for year 11 students. Document 1: Create your own transactional writing task. This sheet breaks down PAFT - Purpose, Audience, Format and Topic alongside a list of different purposes, as well as some examples of possible transactional writing questions that could be asked. This means students have 12 varied writing tasks to complete, as well as a grid to help them create as many extra writing tasks as they want. Document 2: Create your own Literature Essay Focus. This sheet breaks down the way questions are phrased for their Literature GCSE exams, with a box at the top with the style of questions posed for character, theme and relationship. There are then three colour coded (and editable) boxes with all of the main characters, themes and relationships in: The Merchant of Venice, A Christmas Carol and Blood Brothers. This means students have all the information to be able to practise any exam question that could come up in their exams.

A fully resources scheme of work looking at sonnets and soliloquies, comparing them to popular music - mainly rap and hip hop. This is created for year 8, but could be used in any year of KS3. This is a lively and engaging scheme of work that looks at the similarities between rap, hip-hop and Shakespeare’s writing. The student have opportunities to learn about the structure and creation of sonnets and soliloquies, with soliloquies from Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth as well as Sonnet 18, Sonnet 55 and Ozymandias (Shelley). As part of the package, you get: A full MTP document with detailed outline of each lesson, tasks, assessment points, LOs and SCs and optional homework. It also has links to any web pages needed. All resources for each week, including assessment resources and grading for speaking and listening assessment opportunities. Resources for each week A full skeleton powerpoint for the whole term. This gives basic guidance through each lesson, with LOs and SCs already outlined. All you need to do is tweak it for your classes/add any photos or images you would like.

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 set of personalised certificates - just add name - for a class with awards such as ‘the Hemmingway award’, the ‘mini me award’, ‘the miss congeniality award’. Beautiful when printed on cream card and a real hit with the students. An excellent time saver. Included in the pack is a set of ‘emoji reward cards’ with specific praise for students within English. These cards include: ‘Excellent effort in English’ ‘Much improved reading’ ‘you worked fantastically as part of a team’ and many more. Easy to print and on an adaptable PowerPoint format, your students will love them. I have printed them onto label and used them as a very personalised rewards sticker.

As part of the WJEC/EDUQAS poetry anthology, students are expected to learn and understand the context of each poem. To make this easier to retain, I have created a context homework sheet for each poem. The sheet is a simple and easy homework that can be tested as a Do Now at the beginning of a lesson. Each sheet has the title, date and name of poet, alongside a ‘Top Ten Facts’ for the poem’s context. This purchase will give you one sheet for each poem - something which I know at times can take hours of research. With these sheets it will save you and your students time, knowing ten top contextual facts that can help secure success for your students.

A complete lesson with all resources, learning objectives, success criteria and poem breakdown. This lesson talks through the context, content, structure, form, language, imagery and tone. With a step by step analysis for the poem, including key questions, students can expand understanding and knowledge. This can be used as a complete lesson, but it can equally be used as a revision aide for students either in or outside of the classroom.

key Stage 3, Year 9 English SOW that has strong links to History. A full half term scheme of work, fully resourced for each week with a detailed medium term plan outlining every lesson. Key vocabulary is outlined for the scheme. A skeleton powerpoint is also provided with 38 slides of basic guidance for teachers for the first week of learning. Each week has a different focus, with key skills worked on throughout the SOW. These skills are: Reading: Comparing texts, synthesising information, analysing writer’s techniques and message and evaluating texts Writing: Using discourse markers, using ambitious punctuation, using writer’s techniques, using the correct layout and writing engaging texts. The scheme of work includes: -an analysis of the language of media looking at cases of police brutality -an exploration of how the civil rights movement started with transactional writing tasks linked to different moments within the Civil Right’s Movement, as well as source analysis -An analysis and comparison of different influential figures - includes extracts of autobiographies, speeches and articles about MLK, Malcolm X, JFK and Emmett Till. Also has a great lesson on the FBI report around Emmett Till’s murder. -Exploration of Civil Rights poetry (June Jordan, Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker -Exploring presidential campaigns and how they are created. This looks at Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and speeches and compares them to different presidents -The final two weeks give students the opportunity to create their own presidential campaign and to create a celebration of Black History Month. These weeks include lots of opportunity for written and spoken assessment, as well as collaborative projects. Each week has a blue highlighted task that can be the assessment task, or a weekly checkpoint task.

A P4C lesson used alongside a Hunger Games scheme of work to discuss the topics in relevance to the real world as well as literature. Great for verbal reasoning, encouraging personal opinion and group work.

A PDF resource for teachers with annotated notes on nine of the poems included in the EDUQAS poetry anthology. Poems annotated are: The Soldier by Rupert Brook As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson Living Space by Imitiaz Dharker Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) London by William Blake She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove. Language, tone form and imagery are all analysed and annotated for, as well as references to other texts that can link to help lesson planning. This links well to the scheme of work also available in my shop.

A complete powerpoint, including all necessary resources, learning objectives and success criteria to teach students how to use apostrophes. A useful one off lesson to ensure key skills are understood and secure. A writing task and differentiated levels are present throughout lesson.

A fun and interactive lesson teaching students how to use similes and metaphors. Whiteboard games, writing tasks and quick fire questions ensure your students understand how to use a simile and a metaphor, and why they are important. A useful one off lesson to ensure key skills are understood and secure. A writing task and differentiated levels are present throughout lesson.

An updated entire terms lesson plans. 31 lessons planned and prepared. Links to scheme of work already uploaded. Resources available with scheme of work, and many are already within the PowerPoint. Included in this download are the three poems listed to be studied alongside the play.

A discussion lesson using Philosophy for Children, P4C, to discuss the topic of greed. Whole powerpoint is included.

A Philosophy for Children, P4C, lesson based on the concept of reality. Encouraging students to question and explore themes such as this and eventually consider within the context of literature.

A fun and engaging lesson helping students improve speaking and listening, debating, justification and reasoning skills. YouTube clip, resources and success criteria are all on powerpoint. Suitable for all ages and easily adaptable.

To engage students I created a Nando's style homework menu. This one targets key stage 4 and assists teaching of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 19th century text often studied for GCSE. There are 25 homework tasks already planned, differentiated by 'spice'. Since using these menus, where the students pick for themselves, the amount and quality of homework has improved in my classes, as well as regularity.

A set of 25 homework tasks based around Romeo and Juliet styled into a Nando's menu. An engaging way to encourage students to learn independently and take responsibility for homework. Students have a range of tasks to select, differentiated by 'Spice'.

An easy to edit certificate to award success in a variety of subjects. Suitable for Key Stage 3, Key stage 4 and primary.

An easy to edit Certificate of Achievement for students. All you need to do is add in what they have done, their name and sign it. great for Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Primary.