Macbeth Explained: A Classroom Companion

Macbeth Explained: A Classroom Companion
Fully Classroom-Ready: Teach Shakespeare’s Tragedy with No Planning Required

Teach with Confidence & Empowering Every Learner
This fully classroom-ready abridged version of Shakespeare’s Tragedy requires no preparation and makes one of literature’s most powerful plays accessible to all students. Whether you’re supporting English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners, students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), or lower-ability groups, this resource makes the play accessible, engaging, and achievable.
This resource helps teachers engage learners, build confidence with challenging texts, and deliver lessons immediately in any classroom.

Why Teachers Choose This Teaching Resource
· Inclusive and accessible for English Language Learners, students with special needs, and lower-ability or struggling readers
· Ready-to-use save planning and grading time
· Simplified language preserves key ideas, themes, and moral complexity

What’s Included
· 25 pages of simplified text for middle and high school readers
· 40 pages of interactive, differentiated exercises ready for immediate classroom use
· 7 pages explaining historical and social context in clear, accessible language
· 5 pages of critical background information for added context.
· A very clear Timeline, listing the events as they unfold.
· Important original quotes clearly and simply explained
· Answer for crosswords provided.

A New Kind of Abridgment
This expertly differentiated resource ensures every student feels included and empowered. Each section includes extended writing tasks, ideal for assessment opportunities, so you can measure progress effortlessly.

Part of the Back to Basics series, it is an intelligent, practical, and inclusive teaching resource that ensures teachers can deliver engaging lessons with no planning required and no student is left behind.

Make Shakespeare’s world come alive for your students today because every learner deserves the chance to explore and understand this literary masterpiece.