This vibrant quiz includes 38 slides, 10 fun and academically engaging rounds relating to both Language and Literature, worth 50 points in total. Answer sheets and winners’ certificates are included (slides 4 and 39). This was one of my most popular resources of 2023, and for those who loved it last year, the format is the same for 2024 but every question is brand new! The quiz aims to consolidate some key concepts learnt throughout the year whilst also injecting some quirky facts about our ever-evolving language. The quiz can take anywhere between 1 and 2 lessons depending upon pace and whether certificates are awarded. Round 1: Punctuate This - do you know your comma from your semicolon? Round 2: Name the Author - who are these 3 contemporary British authors? Round 3: Shakespeare - do you know which pandemic Shakespeare lived through, twice?! Round 4: From Page to Screen - were these 2023/4 movies based on books? Were these books ever made into movies? Round 5: Loan Words - which languages does English borrow these words from? Round 6: Lexical Expansion - which of these idiolect terms were added to the OED this year? Round 7: Strange but True - which of these weird and wonderful facts about English is true? Round 8: Technique Scramble - can you unscramble these weird words to uncover 3 language/literary techniques? Round 9: What am I? If techniques could talk…Guess which technique is describing itself. Round 10: See and Say: create crazy portmanteaus by smashing two words together from the clues given.

A 25-slide, detailed and engaging presentation that covers everything students need to know to successfullly write non-ficiton texts for GCSE/IGCSE, with a specific focus on argue/persuade for Edexcel IG English Language. Slides include: ‘Do Now’ activities (adapt to your specific rubric) ‘Put yourself in the examiner’s shoes’ - explaining the role of the examiner and what they can do to stand out A step-by-step paragraph plan Checklist of everything students need to consider/include in their response Examples of Edexcel IGCSE exam questions Identiftying TAP activities A full exemplar response with annotations

A two-page document that constitutes a whole lesson, demonstrating how to plan and respond to a GCSE/IGCSE English Language non-fiction writing task. Purpose: argue/persuade. The resource: explains how to plan effectively (including exemplar plan) details how to structure the entire piece of writing in 6 stages models how to write the first 4 paragraphs invites students to finish the response using the prompts for the final 2 paragraphs

A 47-slide end of term/academic year English quiz that students will love. It combines fun and challenge, with beautifully designed slides and 10 rounds of questions: Round 1: The History of the English Language Round 2: Guess the Author Round 3: Shakespeare Round 4: Books made into Movies (in 2022/23) Round 5: Loan Words Round 6: Lexical Expansion (interesting words added to the dictionary in 2022/23) Round 7: Strange but True - bizarre English facts Round 8: Technique Scramble Round 9: What am I? Round 10: Answer Smash (questions that encourage students to make portmanteaus) There is a printable answer sheet, slides containing all answers plus bonus info to challenge students, tie breaker round (should it be needed), and a celebration slide at the end that can be printed as a certificate for the winning team. Enjoy!

A comprehensive series of slides that should last for approximately 4 hours of study, guiding students through Giuseppe by Roderick Ford. Slides include: Information about both Ford and historical context. Student-led exploratory activities, such as independent, paired and group analysis. An introduction to post-colonial literary theory. Analysis prompt questions that promote deep thinking for each stanza. A task where students design their own exam-style questions and a self/peer review task using the marking criteria. Accompanying blank mind-map

Comprehensive 42-slide presentation that guides students through how to structure and compose their IGCSE transactional writing exam responses. The first section offers exemplar responses and encourages students to identify what makes the responses high-level. The second section guides students through how to successfully structure a piece of extended transactional writing every single time with a tried and tested essay writing plan in the form of an easy to remember six paragraph poem. The third section offers a detailed and exhaustive checklist of spelling, punctuation, grammatical and stylistic considerations for students to achieve the highest levels, enabling them to check their work against what the examiners will be looking for. The fourth section includes ten past paper Section Bs with accompanying examiners’ reports. The final section includes marking criteria and a self/peer assessment task.

An engaging project that can be delivered as discrete lessons, a mini-scheme to accompany reading, or as a homework project. Designed to develop all core English skills for KS3 learners. Activities include: creating a motto designing a house crest creating a vision statement writing a speech creating spells in Snape’s class designing a maze becoming an effective speaker Could also be used for upper KS2.

A detailed guide, covering everything students need to know in order to write sophisticated responses to Unseen Poetry and Of Mice and Men. The guide includes: How to breakdown and understand questions Approaches to answering questions and structuring responses Exemplar responses Marked responses and commentaries from Edexcel Context for OMAM Character analysis and key quotations Practise questions, indicative content and mark schemes Advice on timings, planning and fluency

A comprehensive exploration of language, form and structure, including: contextual information, detailed analysis of each stanza, questions for further discussion and an exam-style timed response.

A comprehensive exploration of Tim Turnbull’s poem, featuring detailed analysis of each stanza, context, form, structural considerations, questions for futher discussion and Edexcel exam-style practise questions.

A portfolio designed to gather evidence for teacher-assessed grades in response to the cancellation of exams. Colour-coded and separated into sections for each question, it allows students to collate the best examples of their work to assist the teacher in making judgements. Each section has a copy of the markscheme, relevant AO and example question from a past paper.

Complete set of Role-on-the-Wall worksheets. These tasks will encourage students to consolidate their knowledge of characterisation in An Inspector Calls, learn key quotations and forge contextual links. Excellent independent revision tasks or teacher-led consolidation activities.

Role-on-the-Wall templates for the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This activity enhances students understanding of the protagonists, encouraging them to learn character-specific key quotations, contextual links and relationships with other characters. An excellent consolidation activity in class or revision activity.

This 45 slide PowerPoint guides students through the revision process for the AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology. It has been designed to stengthen neural pathways by linking revision notes with bespoke images for each poem. The package includes: A 4-page student booklet that allows students to make notes on all of the key areas of analysis for each poem as well as a comparative analysis exemplar for reference. A comprehensive ppt linking all poems to a bespoke image, along with a fictional narrative to facilitate students’ ability to remember every poem in the cluster. In addition, there are examiner’s tips, a strategic approach to analysis using the SMILE+C method, an exemplar analysing language, student-friendly explanations of the question format and the marking assessment objectives/marking criteria, and a bonus section on approaching unseen poetry with a Grade 9 exemplar. My students love this - I hope yours will too!

This matrix will enable students to make salient thematic links between the pre-1900 anthology poems and The Great Gatsby in preparation for their exam. 4 rows have been completed as a guide for students, including key quotations from both texts. The rest of the grid has been left blank to use as a lesson resource or revision aid, allowing students to make their own perceptive comparisons.

A sequence of lessons based on the premise that the Birlings and Gerald are on trial for Eva Smith’s manslaughter that encourages engagement with the play on a close textual level and improve students’ analytical skills. The structured PPT guides students through the entire process in an emersive way, explaining their role and how to prepare their case. There are slides for every aspect of the trial and an accompanying booklet of resources for students to use whilst they plan/deliver their address to the court. Once the jury have deliberated, students are asked to reflect upon the process of gathering evidence and to consolidate their learning by writing an extended essay.

An exemplar response to Macbeth for GCSE Literature with a comprehensive commentary. Ideal for revision or to use for modelling purposes when teaching the text.

A revision aid based on the principle of the ‘Mind Palace’. Students memorise the respective pieces of furniture and their associated ypoics then recall these in the examination, thus encouraging neuroplascticity and recall in the examination hall. This has proven extremely effective with my KS5 students as a starting point or springboard for their revision.

Critical essay writen by literary critic, poet and A Level teacher, Samantha Roden (author of Roth Through the Lens of Kepesh, 2016, and Catch Ourselves in Glass, 2017) exploring the relationship between The Great Gatsby and the American Dream. Ideal for AQA AS and A Level Literature AO5 and to demonstrate to students how to write academically about literary texts. Abstract: The pursuit of happiness, the most pervasive of American ideologies, is embedded in the American psyche. But for Fitzgerald, the American Dream in its original form seemed as dry as the constitution from which it was born. The idealised view of the dream, which saw honest, hardworking men reap the just rewards of freedom and financial security is far removed from the champagne, bright lights and capitalist hegemony of Fitzgerald’s world. Whilst it could be argued that The Great Gatsby is little more than a critique of the American Dream, signifying its inherent frailties, it is equally apropos to suggest that the novel is symbolic of an American society struggling to free itself from the limitations of social conscience, having been seduced by individualism, material happiness and a more innate form of morality, whereby man is only answerable to his conscience.