Useful slideshow revising the key areas of punctuation. Funny examples and useful tips!

Useful resource for those teaching this great story. Helps build confident student readers.

This activity can be done in class or set as homework. It was inspired by 'Skellig' and a good opening idea is to show the students David Almind's opening description of the garage. However, it works fine as an independent task. Students have to imagine they are Michael, the lonely and isolated boy described walking through the family's old garage at the start of the novel. The task develops language range ad descriptive skills. Suitable for junior ages and also as extension work for those taking entrance or end of year exams. Could also work well for AQA GCSE students ending to perfect their descriptive skills.

I created this lesson for an observed lesson and it covers both poems in depth and offer them wider contextual points to enrich their answers. Ideal preparation for the comparative skills section of the AQA poetry exam, and for revising Blake. The 'odd one out' activity differentiates by outcome and gets students thinking carefully about the city and what it might represent. Lots of extension tasks and homework opportunies. Over 16 slides and structured to take a lesson.

Contains: poetic terms knowledge checklist to use as a starter, the main lesson in PowerPoint, including questions and tasks, copy of the poem with some brief context included on the sheet and finally, a set of group work tasks. I created these for another lesson ob. It works well if you show the PowerPoint after you have assessed how many poetic terms the students know (see file for this) and before you get them to read the poem. The slides work as parts of the lesson with Q &A sections on them. Other resources offer students background info on St George and the dragon and on the painting. Overall, a high quality detailed lesson which makes for a great introduction to an enjoyable poem: everything's prepared and ready to go.

An ideal pre-prepared lesson with some great ways to introduce your students to the delights of gothic horror. The files include a copy of the short story, focused lesson plan and a useful glossary list of archaic vocabulary, to help students understand the trickier sections of the story. A great set of resources. Please also see my shop’ s ‘What is the Gothic genre?’ PowerPoint file, and my ‘The Gothic’ slideshow, aimed at older students.

Students of all ages love these, so, as term approaches, treat yourself to my fairground- themed story grid! It works so well and you will be amazed at how much writing previously reluctant scribes can produce.. You need to colour print out the boards then, to recycle them, do get them laminated. Game rules: Split students up into pairs or no more than three. Brighter students can do this independently, but it's more fun in pairs. You need two dice per card. Ebay sell really good cheap foam ones. All the squares show close up details of aspects of a fairground. One child is on the red numbers side and the other one the green. They throw dice to get two numbers, such as 1, 6. Look up 1 and 6 on the board. Where the numbers coincide is your 'focus square'. They then have to write between 3-4 descriptive sentences for that square. They have to link , so they produce, between them, a single continuous piece of paragraphed description. between each other's squares. They will need about 6 focus squares, which means three paragraphs each. Boys get really competitive over besting each other, and soon a really good bit of writing emerges. The aim of the game is that they help each other come up with good words and imagery for each square, but, together, on a single page of paper, they co-author theor masterpiece. They are not allowed to swap squares. Some are harder than others - for example, the text squares ask students to incorporate that phrase into their paragraph. Others are abstract, such as a black hole - good for forcing unimaginative kids to think in abstract and symbolic ways! This works well with my slideshow tips for good narrative writing, also available in my shop. Once the students have done their timed mini descriptive pieces, get them t read out their work to each other. You will see a huge differentiated range. It teaches students loads of skills, from improving their grammar and vocabulary to teamwork, from speaking and listening skills and boosting confidence to creating textual cohesion and good links between paragraphs. It's also lots of fun to play!

This 16 slide presentation was originally created for a comparative essay task and is an ideal way of introducing the genre, introducing new focus texts and covering comparative skills. It goes through the key terms, starting with ‘Utopias’ and defining what they are, with examples and quotations, then moving onto their flipside, the dystopian vision. I used it with my A level students who were studying ‘1984’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’ for coursework, but it would easily transfer across to the other texts such as ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Frankenstein’. This resource explores the same over-arching ideas behind the exam topic and explains a lot of the tricky contextual references and theories.

A good pair of revision packs which cover the lot. Please note that the cover sheet is a separate A4 overview page. You may well want to select what you prefer from each. The cover sheet goes with the 'complete' PDF and the second revision pack looks more at specific revision tasks. The aim is to improve textual understanding and confidence with the play whilst giving students lots to work on.

1) A great slideshow lesson with lots of images and colour which focuses on the essay: 'With close reference to his use of language, explain how Richard manipulates and controls his victims.' 2) This file is an ideal way to encourage younger year 8 or 9 students to write paragraphed analysis on a Shakespearean villain. 3) The group tasks encourage students to discuss the language, and there are slides which model suitable language analysis techniques for students to use on their own examples. 4) You can return to the in-depth quotation analysis slides and technical terminology definitions when teaching Macbeth at GCSE; similar skills and techniques appear!

This is an ideal pack for anyone wanting to encourage their students to read widely and perhaps try a different range of books. It is aimed at KS3 age students, mainly year sevens and eights. However, it is just as useful for aspiration Commin Entrance exam students who are keen to brush up on book knowledge prior to interviews. The project can last several weeks and is ideal as both extension or class work activity. The pack contains a useful letter home to parents asking them to support their child with the project, focus tasks on all aspects of the chosen book, tipsnon what makes a good read and a great speaking and listening debate activity- which book would you save from destruction, and why?

Designed to give students a good overview of the historical Richard as well as Shakespeare's own exaggerated and distorted play version. The slides go through the key political details, explain who Richard was, then show students how Shakespeare adapted him for the stage. Clear and lots of targeted questions.

This worksheet focuses students on the plot and language of this difficult scene. Ideal as a cover or revision task. Very detailed. Please also see my shop's revision packs on the play.

Useful revision resource for students with suitable examples. Ideal to base a lesson around.

I spent a while devising this as the final Act has so many scenes and elements tying together. The two side resource is bound to keep your students occupied for a whole period in your lesson. Or, set a few in class and get them to do the rest at home as a self-test. I found it really helped students identify areas of weakness in term s of plot knowledge, understanding patterns of language and analysing Macbeth's character.

Revision notes on the chapter, ideal for students and to recap knowledge

An interesting sample response to a tough past paper question. I have also been given permission by a former student to upload another essay that they write about the role of the portrait in the novel, which I am sharing for free. These resources really help students to work on essay technique and peer assess with the OCR mark scheme.

Interesting essay which would form a great basis for peer assessment and discussing what makes a good A level essay response.

A thorough and detailed overview of this interesting strand of the story.

Ideally, you enlarge this up to A3. Basically a pre made storyboard grid for the students to fill with their chosen images, text, camera angles and lighting ideas. There's room to add in text from the song in the grid along the bottom.