A series of questions and links to useful websites. I found this particularly useful as a homework / revision tasks for GCSE students studying Robert Cormier’s ‘Heroes’.

Table to summarise each chapter in TGYB and link with allusions to other works e.g. The Jungle Book. Aimed at higher ability KS3 students.

A set of questions based on the film adaptation of ‘Enola Holmes’.

A brief overview of postmodernism in literature, aimed at A Level students.

This is a ‘cheat sheet’ / worksheet on My Last Duchess that encourages students to make notes prior to writing an essay on the poem.

This document provides an overview in study friendly terms of the WJEC English Language GCSE layout. It includes sections that cross-over from AQA but outlines specific WJEC papers. It includes an activity to complete after reading the relevant information.

This table intends to encourage students to think about the techniques and literary features that they use. Any picture can be displayed via projector or simply pinning a picture to a board and students can fill in their table using each technique to describe said picture.

This is a complete lesson that allows students to take part in descriptive writing inspired by the story of ‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Chaucer. Students design their own travelling companion and go through planning and then descriptive writing. This resource includes a differentiated printable copy and two examples of a creative description. The resource also includes peer assessment opportunity.

Students are invited to discuss the ‘metaphors we live by’ and are encouraged to understand everyday figurative language.

This extract on ‘Comic Relief’ includes a series of comprehension, vocabulary, inference and opinion questions. Students are also encouraged to complete a creative writing task after completing their reading task.

This lesson is based on the different types of writing GCSE students might be required to write. They are given a set of texts on the theme of ‘memory’ and asked to identify the G-A-P (Genre, Audience, Purpose). After looking at these examples of different text types (such as essay, speech, letter and article) they are then required to write their own text.

This resource includes a PDF and editable word document. There are a series of short quotations from texts on the theme of social media/social media influencers. Students then have a series of questions including comprehension, vocabulary, inference and opinion based. To conclude they are given a choice of creative writing tasks. This resource should form the basis for at least one complete lesson with KS3 students.

This grid can encourage students to begin making comparisons between the above poems in preparation for their GCSE English Literature NEA. This could also be used as practice for a comparison essay for unseen poetry.

A grid to guide students in writing an essay on Romeo and Juliet and the theme of bravery. The grid includes key quotations, prompts that reference language and literary features, and areas to encourage strong introductions and conclusions.

This grid is essentially a complete essay plan for the above poems from the WJEC, English GCSE curriculum. The grid guides students through comparisons and encourages them to think critically. This grid could form an introduction to poetry comparison in general or as a tool to support students in preparing for their NEA.

This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson on the theme of justice (and injustice) in literature or it can be part of a series in which students read and study the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. Students add key words to their ‘geirfa’ (glossary) and answer inference and opinion questions on the extract.

A series of lessons based on the themse of diversity and inclusion through analysis of ‘The Skin I’m In’ by Sharon Flake and creative discussion and writing. Includes PPT slides, lesson plans, structure slips on letter writing, an extract from the novel and a series of questions on the extract.

This brief includes a learning objective/amcan dysgu and outline on how to research and then present findings in a variety of forms (e.g. notes, presentation or poster).

This worksheet invites students to reflect on their actions in class and provides prompts and questions to answer to do so. This is aimed at secondary school students given a 45 minute or 1 hour after school detention.

This generic poetry comparison grid can be adapted to fit any exam board or set of poems. Students fill in comparisons from simple structural points such as the number of stanzas to complex points such as linguistic similarities.