Exemplar answers for GCSE Persuasive Writing skills, along with lessons that help pupils to go beyond the basic and elevate their responses. These have been deployed to great effect in our top academy school - liked by pupils for the clear scaffolding support and explanations, enjoyed by teachers as a clever method of challenging students to aim for the highest possible grades.

120 slides of Atonement resources. Enough work for two terms-worth of lessons. Comprehensive overview of the novel, with insights into course structure, character and theme breakdowns, essay-writing skills. A perfect introduction to the novel and course, with all necessary course skills covered.

A unit of work exploring the context, style, allegorical interpretations and character-work of Kafka’s famous absurdist novella. This five-week set of lessons includes nurmerous scaffolding worksheets and a variety of carefully thought-out tasks to ensure that the sometimes-confounding text can be understood and accessed by readers of all abilities. Higher and lower ability lessons are in place for some lessons. Pupils are also given the chance to not just analyse Kafka’s work but pursue its goals creatively, with a number of longer written tasks allowing students to embrace their inner absurdist!

A comprehensive study guide for students studying Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’ at GCSE, A/S, A Level, or International Baccalaureate level. Each of Carter’s stories from the collection is examined in detail, with several lessons also dedicated to contextualising Feminism of the 1970s, contemporary and retrospective critiques of Carter’s work, and full accounts of how to revise and prepare for examination or coursework questions. The lessons are comprehensive, covering theme, symbolism, and intertextual allusion, and all are fully illustrated to ensure full enagagement by pupils. Nothing else-beyond the book-is needed to support student progress. This has been a very popular area of study for pupils!

A series of lessons for 11-14 year olds looking at the writing of autobiography. Six weeks’ worth of lessons in total. A diverse and inclusive series of extracts, including from Nelson Mandela, Gordon Ramsay, Katherine Johnson, Roald Dahl, Ian Wright and others, help to illustrate the power of autobiographical writing. Pupils’ comprehension skills are tested in a series of fun activities that accommodate many different learning styles. Pupils are also encouraged to express themselves through a series of dynamic and carefully-scaffolded lessons that ensure they are able to define and convey their beliefs, emotions and relationships to others. This is an empathetic, dynamic, academically-rigorous and fun scheme of work that has been enjoyed by many pupils.

A complete guide to A Level Literature A Coursework (AQA standard, though applicable across the board). Lessons come with exemplars for pupils to work through - highlighting and debating the various merits and otherwise of these pieces along with the mark scheme really helps pupils to understand the intricacies of Coursework marking, the assessment objectives they need to achieve, and the importance of coursework to their final A Level grade.

A series of bold, engaging posters for the wall of a classroom - these cover some commonly used words and associated synonyms, a series of quotations about writing by famous authors, and a series of oft-utilised language devices.