A detailed mind map for use revising Macbeth & the theme of power. Contains quotations with inferences, key characters, and contextual references.

An easy to understand, colour coded ‘cheat sheet’ for students to keep handy to help with revision. This can also be posted around classrooms, or stuck in books to aid students who need an extra boost during lessons.

A variety of revision tasks designed for a mid to low ability class. These are short, chunked activities to help them with remembering plot, characters and quotations. There is a plot summary cloze activity, a quotation matching exercise, two character analysis activities and a wordsearch - because who doesn’t love a wordseach as a reward!

Scaffold/flow chart, perfect for a table mat. Helping students to write analytically using the Point, Evidence, Explanation method. Designed to help students ask themselves questions about what to write next & encourage independent learning!

A series of tasks to help focus students’ contextual knowledge. This is differentiated to allow for essential knowledge to be gained, but also higher ability students to be stretched.

A grid with space for quotations and analysis of the main characters of Lord Of The Flies - from chapter 1 to chapter 6. Some quotes have been placed in as differentiation, and there are some spaces with page numbers for hints.

A series of contextual research tasks to broaden the knowledge of students.

This is a hyperlinked powerpoint that uses a treasure map theme to guide students through the context surrounding the play ‘The Tempest’. This could be used either at the start or the end of the topic. It does require some independent research, using mobile devices or a computer room, and was originally designed to start the unit but could be adapted to use as an end of unit plenary. It is very extensive, and could be cut down to suit the needs of your class. There are a few joke slides in there to mimic the many jokes, ups and downs felt by the characters of the play.

For GCSE students, either heading into KS4 or part way through. This has a section for each of the questions on the language papers, and each text (we study) on the Literature ones. Additionally, it has a series of questions for the students to consider about their knowledge and understanding of what is expected of them from these questions. They can grade themselves out of ten, or check them off when they understand. Good for formative assessment & guided revision.

A planning sheet for students to prepare them to answer a question about how Ralph is presented in Chapter 7. This has suggested quotations and suggested annotation/planning ideas.

A handy (colour coded) revision grid to help your students focus their ideas on useful tasks in the run up to GCSE or Preliminary exams. Designed for students who studied Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, and Power and Conflict Poetry (AQA) but is easily adaptable.

This resource contains a variety of revision tasks to help prepare year 10 students for the start of year 11. These are designed for the AQA spec, using Lord of The Flies, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol and Conflict Poetry as the chosen texts, but could be adapted. For the language paper, the tasks relate to SAMS 3 in the AQA secure resources area (The Aberfan paper). This is designed as a buffet style task, where students can pick the tasks they want to do, but still have options for revision later on.

This set of worksheets are designed to be kept in view of students during extended writing activities. They are full of vocabulary, sentence, and punctuation advice, but are varied enough to provide extension for more able students as well as intervention for less able - hence the name! Each is tailored to a specific skill set, and they are not designed to be used all at once, but could be. I get my students to stick them to the front cover of their books, so that they can always find them.

A ‘mad-libs’ style activity to encourage students to form interesting and detailed sentences, by getting them to fill in the gaps with appropriate words.

A selection of activities to help students revise toward the end of term, or in one-off lessons. Can be altered to suit the needs of your students - using different wordsearches, or specific extracts rather than any book from the shelf. This is for both Language and Literature, AQA spec.

A broken down worksheet - to be given to students or parents - to help them achieve their target, or know what to do to potentially exceed it.