Created for a Y13 class who have already studied and are comparing to Rossetti’s poetry for teaching OCR A Level Literature. Could easily be adapted to another spec.

Includes lessons for each of the 15 poems, plus assessment questions, model answers and DIRT. Note OCR are changing the poems slightly for first teaching 2027. This SOW is for the current spec (2025-6). Some poems appear on both.

Created for Y9 as bridge unit to prepare for Macbeth at GCSE but could be used at any point across KS3. Planned to be delivered over a single HT so does not allow for full reading of the play. Extracts are included to print. Focuses on skills of analysis and critical evaluation.

25 Fun Pub-Quiz style questions. Aimed at GCSE English students, but can be adapted for different age groups. Resource includes Quizmaster’s Question & Answers sheet, and an answer sheet for students. The questions fall into five categories: Literary Techniques Knowledge of Literature Quotations Literary Form Riddles Some of the questions are directly related to the GCSE syllabus, and others are just for fun. Provided as a word document so that categories and questions can be edited to suit.

Whole mock GCSE Language Paper 1 exams condensed to a single page.

Created for OCR A Level Spec. Easily adapted for other Specs. Contains full powerpoint slides and handouts for a full term.

Revision resource - 3 sheets of short quotations from critics for students to use to revise for OCR A Level AO5. Hamlet’s Character Male Secondary Characters Female Secondary Characters

Complete 6 week unit of work on persuasive writing - speeches. Created for Y9 but could be used for any KS3 group, or adapted for GCSE Language.

6 week SOW made for Y9 as a bridging unit to prepare for GCSE Power and Conflict, but could be used for Y7 or Y8.

William Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ plus 10 Questions aimed towards KS3 English independent guided study. Questions contain a mixture of comprehension and analysis.

Five inspirational quotes related to reading/poetry: Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Ray Bradbury and Percy Shelley For English Classroom Display

Extract: Opening to Daphne DuMaurier’s Jamaica Inn. Four Questions, plus a Creative Writing Exercise. Designed for a middle ability Y9 class, but could be used for a range of different ages and abilities. Feel free to adapt and change.

Ideal for displaying in secondary English classroom, this colourful A3 flow-chart tells you what book you should read next based on your reading preferences. A fun approach to encouraging wide independent reading in KS3/4. Contains a selection of Young Adult Contemporary literature, most of which was published in the last 10 years. Incorporates diverse themes and authors, including LGBT+ texts. Coming Soon: ‘What to Read Next: YA Fantasy’ This item is free of charge, because it contains copyrighted cover art.

William Wordsworth’s ‘Old Man Travelling’ plus 10 Questions aimed towards KS3 English independent guided study. Questions contain a mixture of comprehension and analysis.

Ideal for displaying in secondary English classroom, this colourful A4 flow-chart tells you what book you should read next based on your reading preferences. A fun approach to encouraging wide independent reading in KS3/4. The theme of this flowchart is Young Adult Fantasy. Also available in Young Adult Contemporary. This item is free of charge, because it contains copyrighted cover art.

This is an extract from HG Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. In it, the narrator describes the ‘Beast People’ who live on the island. This activity includes questions geared toward teaching this novel as a comparison text for Jekyll and Hyde, assuming a prior knowledge of historical context (eg. Darwinism, gothic, monstrosity, etc.). But the questions could also be changed to suit a number of different contexts. This could be a great extract to use to introduce these themes and contexts in Y9/Term 1 of Y10, in preparation to study Jekyll and Hyde as a GCSE text.