Easy to refer to grids for marking paper 1 and 2 of AQA English Language. Useful for students to see what each question assesses, and simple highlighting for marking papers. (Edited to fix typos! Apologies.)

A workbook for studying/revising Much Ado About Nothing, including plot overview, context notes and scene by scene activities. Can be given as a whole or printed part by part. Updated! Typos corrected, vocabulary task added, comedy focus Act 4 Scene 2 added, writing spaces added.

An introduction to media bias.

An overview of all 15 Power and Conflict poems in the AQA Literature syllabus. A grid detailing what each poem is about, context, key language features, key form/structural features and themes/ideas.

A worksheet to accompany the 2009 version of A Christmas Carol. May also be of use for revising the text.

Resources to teach students about LGBTQIA identities and LGBT+ history, including Pride and the Stonewall Uprising. Resources include: Displays to stick up/circulate to explore different LGBTQIA identities and the Pride flag designs. A history of the Stonewall Uprising. A (UK-centric) history of notable LGBT+ events since the end of WW2. A map of LGBT+ rights around the world. Credit to Laurie Raye for the flags in the display resource.

A mini SOW that can be used in the run up to the election. Part 1: looking at the political spectrum (adapted from https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/politics-taster-lesson-ideology-6317176 by motgnel) Part 2: looking at how politicians target certain demographics Part 3: creating their own policies and campaign

I will update this as I develop resources. Character map Theme overview: gender Theme overview: family

An outline of a unit on Tennyson's 'Lady of Shallot' with links to artwork. Skills including pre-text research, understanding of texts, using PEAR (a variation on PEE) and culminating in recreating the poem in the format of a newspaper article.

A lesson to introduce media, looking at changing methods of communication and encouraging students to reflect on their own use and opinions of different media.

For pupils to practise tricky spellings in a range of ways. Could be laminated, or given as part of SPaG feedback and response.

Part of a 'Media to support English skills' curriculum, this lesson looks at extracting key information from texts using storyboarding. I've used this lesson with Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, though any book-to-film (or vice versa!) would work well.

A small collection of worksheets working through what a sentence is, simple, compound and complex sentences and how to use semi-colons/how not to comma splice. We use these as starters once a week.

An overview of writing about poetry, including STRIVE recap and PETAL prompts. Suitable for year 9 - 11.

Worksheets for a lesson on anthropomorphism in advertising. (The adverts I selected were for Coco-Pops, Three Mobile (Dance Pony) and Compare the Market (Compare the Meerkat), all of which are available on Youtube.)

A lesson to get students thinking about the evolution of language, from Anglo-Saxon times to the inclusion of "selfie" in the OED, looking at Shakespeare and Roald Dahl as examples.

A booklet to support students in understanding the plot of An Inspector Calls. We will be using this alongside an initial read-through. Might also be useful for revision or to support late arrivals.