A standalone lesson on the features and use of suspense in ‘The Speckled Band’. Designed for home learning and for post-reading of the story. Contains support for an analysis paragraph and creative writing homework.

Week’s worth of reading/writing activities around the theme of dystopia and using extracts from ‘1984’ and ‘The Hunger Games’. Fully supported instructions and tasks.

COVER WORK - A huge selection of Citizenship, Citizenship GCSE, SMSC and Whole School Literacy / English resources for students to work through at home during the corona virus outbreak. There’s about 15 - 20 hours’ worth of content to work through and read. Pack includes: A very detailed (and carefully explained) revision guide for AQA Citizenship GCSE - covering all of the content for AQA Politics and Participation. This document covers all of the terminology, clearly explained in illustrated, plain language in a book that any student can just pick up and study from. 7 x easy to use reading comprehension packs with three sections of differentiated questions each. It can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in English lesson for KS3/4 or GCSE comprehension training A huge selection of Citizenship GCSE Exam Practice, revision guide and revision materials. 35 revision tasks and Complete Politics and Participation Revision Guide. Created for AQA 9-1, but huge overlaps with all other exam boards and all resources are editable. This covers - Justice, Law, Courts, Public Services, Media, Free Press, the Economy, Public Services and Spending, source questions, exam practice generators, homework revision sheets. Dozens of revisions materials. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our Complete Secondary Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 6000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

A huge selection of English, English Language and English Literature KS3 and GCSE resources for students to work through at home during the coronavirus outbreak. There’s well over 15-20 hours’ worth of content to work through and read. Pack includes: A very detailed (and carefully explained) revision guide for An Inspector Calls. This document covers all of the terminology, clearly explained in illustrated, plain language in a book that any student can just pick up and study from. A very detailed (and carefully explained) revision guide for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. This document covers all of the terminology, clearly explained in illustrated, plain language in a book that any student can just pick up and study from. Power and Conflict poetry context revision worksheets. Students can research the poems they have been studying in school and develop their contextual understanding through their own research. An Inspector Calls context revision worksheets. Students can research the play they have been studying in school and develop their contextual understanding through their own research. A selection of GCSE English Language reading comprehension packs, including texts and differentiated comprehension and analysis questions. Ideal exam preparation. Power and Conflict poetry revision activities that are engaging and a little different. Unseen poetry revision materials on the war poem In Flanders’ Fields. Revision materials for both AQA English Language Paper 1 and AQA English Language Paper 2.

A Comprehension booklet designed to broaden student’s cultural capital. This comprehension booklet covers articles that are contextual to “To Kill a Mockingbird” but also looks at articles written about authors such as Stephen King. This booklet aims at making students more contextually aware of texts that are studied at GCSE level. This includes: -Questions and extension tasks -Articles aimed to develop student’s contextual knowledge of texts and authors.

CREATED FOR HOME LEARNING! This booklet is designed to help improve grammar proficiency in students who are in KS2 and KS3. This booklet includes tasks on: -Plurals -Adjectives -Prefixes -Homophones In addition to working on grammar, this booklet encourages students to put what they have learned into practice through creative writing tasks that target the lessons learned in the booklet.

Home learning pack for Year 8 students Extract based, with supported reading questions Writing tasks also Happy to share for free! Please do leave a review if you can, all feedback very welcome

Aimed at Year 9 students, but suitable for GSCE age range generally Revision information/tasks for Act 1

Ideal for home learning checking recall for students focusing on the AQA Power and Conflict Cluster

Are you ready to feel a few goose-bumps? This complete home-learning project, containing 64 slides, has a series of writing tasks and activities which are designed to enhance skills tested throughout secondary assessments and subsequently, GCSE papers. The eerie, spine-tingling and intriguing true mysteries in this project coupled with skills-based activities and writing challenges are designed to promote independent learning. Occasionally, there are also activities that require collaboration with someone else at home. It’s designed to provide a bit of variety, interest and fun for the many students who are learning from home at this time. There are shorter activities and challenges that culminate in a GCSE Language Paper 2 style paper; to accompany this power point there are two resources (A and B) that are to be used with the GCSE paper. Learners can attempt whatever they want to try. There are scaffolds and support providing sentence starters and ideas but also challenges making the project suitable for students of any ability who are keen to develop and enhance their skills …especially if you want to be spooked along the way! Please be aware, the project has a supposed photograph of a ghost and a few eye-witness accounts of spooky occurrences. Any feedback would be much appreciated!

Teach students how to create tension when writing scary stories. This is a lesson that is fully differentiated for all abilities and is adaptable for home and school learning. This includes: Fully differentiated Powerpoint with RAG pathways Extract that illustrates tension YouTube video links for child friendly videos that create tension Enough tasks for 3 hours of lesson time

Download this FREE PDF taster booklet of my “Hamilton” inspired poetry analysis scheme of work. Love “Hamilton”? Love poetry? Inspire the same excitement in your students with this “Hamilton” inspired poetry analysis workbook! Includes: -Explanation of motifs -Extract from the musical -Explanation of how to analyse poetry step-by-step -Example grade 9 annotation

This is a lesson in the style of a worksheet that I’ve created for a middle-ability Y10 GCSE Literature group, studying the AQA syllabus. The aim of the worksheet is to formally introduce the concepts of ‘power’ and ‘conflict’ in an engaging and accessible way for home learning. The lesson encourages the students to create definitions for the principle terms ‘power’ and ‘conflict’, research key subject terminology for analysing poetry, and get to grips with annotating a ‘poem’; Michael Jackson’s ‘Earth Song’.

A series of 5 lessons lasting approximately one hour each. Ideal for online learning or slides can be printed and used at home. This pack includes activities on: story writing comprehension (fiction and non-fiction) how to add a problem to your story speech marks setting descriptions similes Games included: weather simile game emoji emotion game emotions 4 in a row ‘guess my monster’ adjective game This pack also includes a story mountain visual aid and independent homework challenges.

Download this FREE How-To Guide to poetry annotation. This resource is perfect for students working from home who need a little help annotating poems that have been set from school. This includes: An illustrated step-by-step guide. Example of poetry annotation. This is a PDF file that is easily printed or uploaded to platforms such as Google Classroom.

Here are two 30+ page English work packs I made for my SEMH Y8 and Y9 students who are self-isolating. It has sections on SPaG, reading and writing, with an extras section at the back with some fun creative tasks. They will easily suit upper KS2 though. They might look a bit wonky in the preview but they are properly formatted- all you need to do is print them double-sided and staple! One is aimed at low-ability KS3 students (at the old NC levels 3-4 or thereabouts) and the other medium- to high-ability students who are levels 5+. Please leave a review if you can. I’d really appreciate it. Hope they help you. Stay safe!

Short story scheme designed for home learning / homework / summer study Knowledge organiser contains all ‘need to know information’ and includes links to weekly story, plus tasks to complete, links for help and additional challenge tasks Booklet containing all short stories to be set alongside Seven stories/weeks of tasks Now including 7 weekly handouts containing knowledge retrieval tasks, support for challenge tasks and additional task opportunities Happy to help and share for free! But please do leave a review if you can, all feedback is so helpful, especially during a time when we’re all having to evaluate and adapt the way we teach!

Donwload this FREE PDF for “The Witches Work From Home Activity”. Keep your students and children at home occupied with this work from home activity booklet. Targeted for sudents in KS2 and KS3, there is a task for everyone in this booklet. This booklet inlcudes: •A Short extract from Roald Dahl’s “The Witches” •A set of comprehension questions and answers. •A Creative Writing Task •An Art Project see more of my free resources on my website theliteraturetutor.co.uk where I am also uploading a work from home activity every school day during the 2021 lockdown in the UK.

This home-learning project invites you to write an adventure where you get to create your own God, hero or mythical creature. You’ll decide how your character came to be and make decisions along the way that will affect whoever you create and what happens to them. There will also be an opportunity to learn about other mythical figures that might inspire, repel or shock you. As well as creating a character, you’ll be able to create a ‘world’ they will inhabit. The project contains support, summarised information about Greek myths and legends, sentence starters, challenges and tasks that involve using more sophisticated vocabulary as well as a range of punctuation. I’ll introduce a few mythological creatures and legends to you; who will you introduce to me?

A selection of materials to engage Y7 and Y8 pupils in writing activities when working from home in the event of school closure due to the Coronavirus outbreak. These are available to download free of charge. We hope that you find these resources useful. For each year group we have created a selection of writing activities linked to a variety of engaging themes and texts studied in school. Some require pupils to complete their own research to use in their own writing and others use images and video clips to inspire. The Literacy Company is a team of dedicated consultants who provide schools with support, advice and training. Please get in touch via our social media if there are any additional resources you would like us to look into producing during this period of uncertainty.

Home distance learning slides for Year 9 class studying Poppies for the first time. Just upload the slides to your location of choice & make sure students are registered on Seneca Learning (free and easy!). 3 x 50 minute lessons for 1 week of learning. Trying to keep things simple and open ended for students given the challenge this is to students and parents. Uses Mr. Bruff’s video, Genius website for annotations, and Seneca Learning.