Useful sheet for students to learn alternative vocabulary to make their writing more creative and sophisticated. Could be laminated and used for multiple lessons/year groups. Space for students to engage and come up with their own vocabulary alternatives.

This resource provides a template for student’s to reflect on their previous successes as well as focusing on what they can improve in both a personal and academic sense. This is a perfect start of the year or term activity, and is a good tool for future reflection and clear goal setting.

This worksheet has multiple activities engaging the student in the different types of love. The worksheet increases in difficulty, starting from a basic matching the terms to the definition, to then challenging the student to form their own exams and critical thinking skills based on the learnt information. The sheet comes with an ‘answer’ sheet for the first activity, giving the student a foundation to develop their ideas.

The resource contains six quotes from famous pieces of literature. The idea of the exercise is to encourage students to focus on selecting the most significant examples of language usage and devices from within the quote, despite not seeing the quotes previously. The quotes are surrounded by plenty of the blank space to encourage annotation and formation of the student’s ideas. This exercise should take around 20-25 if done in depth, or would make for an ideal piece of homework to be brought in and discussed with the rest of the class.

The Peer Review Sheet aims to streamline the important process of student peer review within lessons. The sheet provides structure to peer reviews, allowing the students to focus on what went well in their partner’s work, but also how they can improve for next time. It also includes a section demonstrating what ideas the student may use from their partner’s work in order to improve their own. These sheets can be printed off and handed out when necessarily, and can be stuck in exercise books or placed in folders in order to keep classwork organised.

This resource allows the student to engage and discuss several contexts within a literary situation, whilst developing the ability to demonstrate a personal perspective. The worksheet contain four medium length questions, all using an example of a social, historical or economical context often found in literature. The questions help the student understand why context is important from a writer’s view and how it may affect the reader. Perfect as a homework or partnered activity

Debate is an important and often underdeveloped skill in schools today, with students often struggling to view both sides of developing key arguments. This resources contain 6 appropriate debate topics with a handy topic to list three arguements for the statement and three arguments against. This resources can be used in several ways. One method of utilising the sheet is having the class split off into six groups, and fill in the pros/cons of one issue. Afterwards, the class can share their ideas whilst the other pupils fill in their ideas. This could lead to a speech, letter or presentation creation exercise. Another way is using it as a homework resources, and encoiraging pupils to research each issue to form pros/cons for each debate.

This resource is a colourful and concise infographic for students on how to succeed in their exams by giving them short and practical tips. This resource can be used as a classroom poster, as part of an assembly, or a handout for student’s in run up to exam season.