A collection of poems with questions getting gradually more difficult as students work their way through. Aimed at KS4 for unseen poetry analysis practice. Guidance on how to revise and where to find more unseen poems at the end of the booklet.

A scheme of work with resources to introduce students to the PEE/PEA technique. The resources are mainly extracts that students can annotate and analyse (individually, in pairs or as a whole class depending no the teacher's preference). The aim of the scheme is to introduce them to analysing writers&' techniques in prose and poetry and to help them structure essay style questions.

A SoW for Yr 8 focusing on the PEE technique on a variety of extracts and poems, both from contemporary and literary heritage authors and poets. This is to build on analysis skills from Yr 7 with the use of more challenging texts. Culminates in assessments on prose and poetry focusing on writer's craft and literary techniques.

A writing frame or display poster with sentence starters helping students focus on the PETAL technique for analysis.

Aimed at mixed ability Year 8 as an introduction to Shakespeare but can work for any KS3 class. Learning objective is focused on reading for understanding and then meaning, building up to several mini-analysis paragraphs. There are writing focused objectives at the end as optional classwork/homework tasks. Extensions tasks for more able are included as well as differentiated writing frames, exemplar paragraphs and a vocabulary list (attached to the speech handout). The PowerPoint includes the Catherine Tate performance, however I have added the Benedict Cumberbatch version as an alternative. Optional tasks for understanding could be to cut up the speech and have students put it in order before sticking in to exercise books.

A 10 minute knowledge quiz for each section of ‘Of Mice and Men’, together with an extended writing task. Useful for knowledge retrieval and revision with KS4.