A revision crossword with clues based on the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet.

Students sort statements about the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet into true or false piles. This is a great game for revision, consolidating knowledge or homework.

Three pages of questions based on Romeo and Juliet Act One, Scene Five. Can be used as part of a lesson, cover work or homework.

Ten rounds of fun for students to revise their knowledge of the AS OCR English course. The quiz contains round that quiz students on: key words, theorists and word classes etc. This quiz contains both questions and answers!

A advent calendar that provides a new book recommendation everyday on the run up to Christmas! All books are based around the festive season and are aimed at KS3 to KS4 students within secondary school. A fun way to engage students in reading and promote pleasure for reading in school over December. This can be used as a whole school reading strategy and adapted to fit the reading needs of your students.

An extensive list of book recommendations for year eight students to read. Would be great to add to your library or use alongside a book club.

A slow write for students based around creating a dystopian world. Students are prompted on what to write about and embed into their stories. This is a great way of getting students excited about dystopian reading and writing.

This thematic approach to A Christmas Carol allows students to track music throughout the novella. Exploring the context of music and Christmas Carols, linking it back t the novella and tracking music across all five staves.

A worksheet designed to help students track music in A Christmas Carol. This worksheet was designed to go alongside my PowerPoint on music in A Christmas Carol which can also be found on this platform.

A grid for students to plot the main differences between Callum and Sephy in Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman.

Racing against the clock students have to fill in the definitions and give examples to all of the language devices listed. Can your students beat the clock?

Can you define and give an example of the language devices in the table. This worksheet is great to use as a started activity, AFL or homework.

This newspaper template can be used alongside Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. This school newspaper template can be used for students to report on what happens to Callum on his first day of school, day to day school life etc.

This activity allows students to take on the role of either the head teacher of HeathCroft school or Callum who is answering the questions as a new student. A great way to promote real world skills in English lessons as well as promoting students confidence in drama and hot seating.

This PowerPoint walks students through how to write an article based on the statement: ‘In modern day living and working conditions for some people in the UK are no better than in Victorian times.’ This lesson allows students to build the skills, write an article and self assess themselves based on success criteria.

This is a full lesson walking students through how to write a monologue. This is based around the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It allows students to embody the character and retell events from their view.

This bookcase contains fifteen books for students to read before they leave school. Students can click on a book cover and be redirected to a pdf version of the text. This is a great way to promote reading for pleasure, whole school reading and providing students with a reading incentive within school.

A range of twenty different high quality images to be used as stimulus for creative writing.

This lesson leads students through the basics of capital letters and punctuation. This can be used for all years to either act as a teaching the basics lesson or a recap over the key skills. This lesson also goes over similes, sentence types, synonyms and writing.