A resource to help students plan their own creative story, using the ‘story mountain’ idea. Ready to print but fully editable.

A full unit of work for teaching ‘Gothic Horror’ to Key Stage 3. This pack includes a range of varied and engaging activities to cover at least 15 lessons, with opportunities to develop further. This pack includes everything needed to teach the unit: An introduction to Gothic Horror (including ingredients of Gothic fiction, vocabulary work). Activities about Gothic Horror creatures (includes Frankenstein extract and questions, descriptive writing task and create your own creature). Activities based on extract from short story ‘The Hunt’ (includes story extract, comprehension questions, word search, diary writing activity). Activities based on ‘The Phantom Hitch-hiker’ (includes interview activity, newspaper writing activity, new story ending activity). Story mountain planning sheet and story board template, for students to plan their own short Gothic Horror stories. Please leave a review if you found this resource helpful. Thank you.

5 poems, all based on the theme of ‘Supernatural’, each poem with 2-3 engaging and varied activities/worksheets. Learning objectives for each lesson outlined on the PowerPoints included. Examples of activities included: quotes analysis, word search, crossword, story board, exploring key words. I covered the scheme in around 15 lessons but there are opportunites to develop the analysis of each poem further. Great for teaching before/after a gothic text e.g. Macbeth/Harry Potter. All ready to print and teach but also fully editable. Suitable for Key Stage 3 (years 7/8) but can be differentiated. Poems included: ‘Be Very Afraid’ by Carol Ann Duffy (easy read for introductory poem) ‘Spellbound’ by Emily Bronte ‘The Cold Earth Below’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘The Witch’ by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allen Poe (verse 1 only) Please leave a review if you found this resource helpful. Thank you.

2 x A5 sized templates for postcards - ready to print. Works fantastically with KS2 and KS3 pupils. I recently used these templates during the reading of ‘The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe’. Pupils wrote postcards home as evacuee children. Students loved it. Could also be used as a first lesson back after school holidays. Ready to print. Please leave a review if you found this resource helpful. Thank you.

GCSE DRAMA - An Inspector Calls - Classroom based / home learning SOW A full classroom based GCSE drama SOW for teaching ‘An Inspector Calls’. The set includes varied and creative activities to support teaching AIC from the classroom or to set for home/remote learning. Can be used to support practical lessons. Also brilliant for teacher AIC as part of the GCSE English Literature course; these activities will break up the reading of the text and keep students engaged. The pack includes the following: 12 ready to use lessons in PowerPoint format - each lesson has a starter task and main activity. All resources needed are included in the pack, including sound clips. An extra booklet with 6 drama exam practice questions. This could be used as a homework booklet or in the classroom. An audio file with the reading of the full play.

A simple template for pupils to review a book they have read. An enjoyable homework activity. Or use in class after reading a class novel. Ready to print.

A ready to use scheme of work based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. There are 6 documents, each with 4-5 different activities - very easy for students to follow. Suitable for year 6 or 7 - adaptable and fully editable. The activities are incredibly varied and include: reading comprehension tasks with extracts from Oliver Twist included, writing activities (descriptive writing, diary and letter writing, persuasive writing), research tasks, creative tasks (including a sketch of a scenes, a poster), dictionary work tasks, and tasks which include links to BBC bitesize online lessons. Excellent resources to use alongside your own teaching in the classroom, to use for remote/home learning, as homework booklets, for cover lessons or distanced home learning. There are boxes for students to write/work in for each activity. Ideally, students will need to have watched any film version of Oliver Twist to understand the plot (or have read a short version). The resource for week 1 includes a link to the 1948 film.

An original PowerPoint with 72 varied and engaging stimuli for devising drama. Each stimuli is accompanied with prompt questions. The PowerPoint is made up of a range of the following: 18 textual stimuli 18 visual stimuli 18 aural stimuli 18 abstract stimuli A fantastic resource for practical work in the drama studio. The resources can also be used for classroom based work, for students to generate new ideas for performance and their responses to stimuli. Also included are 4 generic worksheets for students to make notes on and an overview of the PowerPoint contents. *Please leave a review if you found this resource helpful. Thank you. *

A 5 slide revision PPT (for year 9-11) that includes hints and advice on how to gain AO2 marks in Shakespeare GCSE English Literature exams. I used this as a recap lesson for a year 10 class who are preparing for their GCSEs but were struggling to understand Language, Form and Structure. This worked a treat, as all of the important hints are in one place. The form and structure information was particularly helpful for pupils. Includes one slide of hints for each: language, form and structure (2 slides) and Freytag’s pyramid slide.