A workbook designed to lead students through developing their analytical skills. Helpful notes and examples at the start, followed by ten short stories to analyse, with peer/teacher/self-assessment grids for each. This has really helped my students construct impressive analysis, and I hope it can help yours too!

A teacher-written exemplar essay on the massacre scene of The Secret River, by Kate Grenville. The essay is fully annotated to explain the steps it takes. The essay is deliberately methodical in applying an analytical style; it is designed to help students achieve a safe structure from which they can then deviate. The essay is written with the 45 minutes timings involved with CIE IGCSE English Literature.

An essential booklet to aid revision of the Edexcel IGCSE Poetry Anthology. The booklet features structured analysis that covers the essential quotes and, through these, the analysis of language, structure and form.

A lively and discussion-prompting workbook to be used as the text is being studied. Varied tasks include quote-based activities, engaging with critical works and considering contextual factors. Every scene of the play is accounted for.

RIchard III condensed onto one side of A3. A3 sized poster with the following categories: Key Characters, Other Characters, Plot Overview, Top Quotes, Common Language Devices, and Some Critical Stances. Hugely useful as either a revision resource or a pre-teaching (plot spoiling) knowledge builder. Recommended as a laminated poster for students to pin on their walls. Information is prioritised over pretty pictures (of which there are none). Devised with the OCR A Level English Literature course in mind.

Worksheets on the following poems: Stormcock in Elder The Kraken London Snow The Poplar Field Port on a Dark Evening The worksheets are of differing details and scaffold the learning of the students to different degrees.

Ten top quality resources for the teaching of Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’ Best character quotes + best critical quotes + best historical context notes + key events worksheet + crucial revision documents.

Parts of Speech identification worksheets for cementing that knowledge. Two different types of test - 35 questions in one, 20 in another, and two passages to pick out words from.

Designed for the Edexcel IGCSE, this A3 poster highlights key quotes for key characters, essential context, as well as essential notes on the text. This is a highly useful revision tool, which can also be used as a checklist whilst writing, to ensure that students are including enough information in their essays. This also works well as an essay plan source, whereby students see which quotes, notes and context they would select for a variety of themes.

Student task requiring the connections in a character map of Richard III. Characters are logically placed, but the relationships needs adding. A useful task to revise the play and its web of characters.

An exemplar essay on innocence within the novel. This essay is designed for Edexcel GCSE and IGCSE, with a focus on context and argument. The essay has a notes column for annotations, as well as a summary grid within which students can identify the quotes, context and structure of the essay. The extension task encourages students to see how these paragraphs/arguments could be tailored to fit multiple essay titles.

Exemplar paragraphs and worksheets for Of Mice and Men, including consideration of context as required by Edexcel IGCSE English Literature. Paragraphs and worksheet on Curley’s Wife Exemplar paragraph on Crooks Exemplar Paragraph on Dreams Exemplar Paragraph on Violence Paragraphs and worksheet on Candy

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House condensed onto a single side of A3. The poster contains the following sections: Characters, Plot Summary, Crucial Contextual Information, Critical Quotes and Stances, and Top Quotes from the play. An extremely useful revision resource suitable for laminating and cherishing/students pinning up on their walls.

A collection of 5 resources on A View from the Bridge. Worksheet 1 - Links to Greek Tragedy Worksheet 2 - Key quotes from the arrival of the cousins Worksheet 3 - A graph task charting Eddie’s journey through the play Worksheet 4 - Tone, and how Miller creates it Resource 5 - Revision of the Greek Tragedy element

Character map, knowledge organiser, passage questions, essay approach advice, scene worksheets, etc… Plenty for students to get their teeth into.

Designed for the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature, these paragraphs have a colour-coded system for the novel-focused and context-focused elements of the response.

Three worksheets with 10 questions on each, designed to extend their understanding of technical features and the effects that they might have. To avoid a device-spotting mindset, each section of analysis requires the effect of the device to be considered. I’ve found that these worksheets can spark really interesting conversations around pace, tone and mood.

Designed for A Level students studying the gothic genre. This resource lists 16 expected tropes and, for each one, suggests literary texts within which this trope is found. For each feature, social and political considerations have been added. This is a practical document which can be added to and personalised by students or teachers, but which contains a wealth of useful information and prompts for further investigation.

GCSE or IGCSE level worksheets and notes for class. These cover a range of scenes, selecting key quotes and prompting students to analyse the language in detail. The context sheet covers a range of factors, and includes both general and specific considerations.

Vocabulary building through Word of the Day. I’ve found this method to be a hugely useful way of settling a class, and of building up an impressive arsenal of vocabulary. Monthly competitions for ‘Word of the Day’ stories (10 lines long, containing at least 10 words) have been popular, as have credit/merit awards for sharing instances of these words being used in novels/texts the students might have read. These can easily be printed as posters for the classroom. I’ve also found that class-specific examples help the words bed in.

A collection of exemplar material, planning material, pair/group tasks and revision tasks. Designed for teaching the text to exam or coursework.