Blank revision placemat for students to fill out with key information. Sections for plot summary, character profile/key quotes, context, and themes. Great activity for independent revision or homework task.

Placemat encouraging students to use more interesting and sophisticated vocabulary. Provides alternatives to overused words such as 'big', 'small', 'happy', 'sad', alternative colour words and many more.

Blank revision placemat for students to fill out with key information. Sections for plot summary, character profile/key quotes, context, and themes. Great activity for independent revision or homework task.

Blank revision placemat for students to fill out with key information. Sections for plot summary, character profile/key quotes, context, and themes. Great activity for independent revision or homework task.

One sentence summaries of the key messages for each poem in the Power and Conflict cluster of the new AQA English Literature GCSE. See if students can work out which summary belongs to which poem.

Activity sheet for students to test their memory of key quotes from An Inspector Calls along with answer sheet with full quotations.

Fill-in-the-blanks activity and answer sheet for key quotes from Macbeth. Great for helping students revise and remember quotations in preparation for GCSE. (There's also space for them to add class chosen quotes on the bottom of the sheet - they could create their own fill in the blanks and swap with a classmate.)

Comprehensive work booklet enabling students to revise A Christmas Carol for the new English GCSE (AOs are based on AQA paper). The booklets covers context, key characters, key themes, and works through the novella stave by stave with questions directing their attention to key events and extracts. There are also activities on language analysis and making links to context.

Set of 21 worksheets designed to be printed and laminated so students can work individually or in pairs/groups, completing the sheets using dry-wipe markers to practice and improve a range of writing skills, from punctuation to developing extended metaphors. This enables them to make mistakes without it being permanent in their books, helping to build confidence. (Can be printed and used as paper worksheets too.) There's also a single sheet with suggestions for different activities using the sheets in the classroom. Great for intervention, stretch and challenge, starters/plenaries, 1:1, small group, or whole class teaching.

Comprehensive workbook helping students revise key scenes, themes, characters, and context for Macbeth at GCSE (includes AOs from AQA). Working through key scenes from the play chronologically, students answer a series of questions and complete language analysis activities, as well as producing character profiles and exploring links to theme and context.

Placemat to encourage students to use a variety of sentence openers in creative and discursive writing.

Blank revision timetable and sheet to help students prepare and prioritise their revision in the run up to exam season.

Accuracy checklist to be displayed on classroom walls to encourage children to self-check their work. Could also be stuck into books for students to actively check for specific pieces of work.

Originally put together for a group of year 9 students, this workbook helps students revise and develop key writing skills through activities which build up to them writing a murder mystery monologue. Skills revised include basic punctuation, punctuation for effect, sophisticated vocabulary, varied sentence openers, grammatical structures etc. Can be use 1:1 or with small groups/whole classes.

Set of activity worksheets where students explore opening lines from fiction texts, looking at what 'hooks' a reader and why certain lines are effective. Can be a great way to encourage reluctant readers to explore new books.

Booklet explaining different approaches to revision - can be applied to a wide range of subject areas.

Get students to practice language analysis on this list of opening lines from novels. Taken from a range of genres, these opening lines are language rich, and varied in structure and style. Students can either annotate language on the worksheets and write a brief summary explaining why the writer's language choices are effective, or copy out quotes onto paper/into exercise books and 'explode' them, labelling language techniques and making notes on effect.

A double sided revision sheet covering key plot points, character summaries, key quotes, and context. Great for summary revision and recap of key details in the run up to exam.

PowerPoint revision activity for An Inspector Calls quotes. Get students to guess which character said which quote.