CPD inspired by Alex Quigle’s ‘Closing the Reading Gap’. As the reading ability of our pupils poses one of our greatest challenges, this CPD session will give every teacher confidence in beginning to close the reading gap.

A weekly literacy activity for KS4 pupils and a weekly interesting article with a video link. Great to use during form-time or in English lessons.

Well-researched CPD session that talks about how deconstructing model answers, engaging in ‘live’ modelling sessions and going through the ‘I do, we do, you do’ strategy can be used in lessons.

A whole-school literacy activity for every week of the school year focusing on vital aspects of literacy. Great to use during form time or in English lessons.

Model answer comparing the theme of loss in William Blake’s ‘London’ and Wilfred Owen’s ‘Exposure’. Perfect for HA students.

Quality CPD resource showing how to implement disciplinary literacy into lessons across the school with a specific focusing on using modelling to help aid disciplinary literacy.

Model answer for Remains and War Photographer. Ideal to show HA students how to achieve a level 5/level 6 and respond to the mark scheme.

Quality CPD discussing how to make feedback manageable, meaningful and motivating.

CPD session that discusses on how to use various different strategies to aid the reading ability of students and use reading as a tool to learn.

A booklet and PowerPoint that can be used to outline a school’s whole-school literacy strategy.

CPD planned to help students close the vocabulary gap. Looking at the explicit teaching of vocabulary, implementation of the SEEC model and how to consolidate vocabulary retention.

This is an excellent PowerPoint presentation discussing the context of An Inspector Calls. Perfect for students aiming for grades 7-9.

Lessons for all 15 poems in the AQA Power and Conflict anthology. Lessons complete with model answers, detailed knowledge of the poems, discussion of contextual factors and activities to assess student progress.

10 English work booklets that all include an interesting extract, questions, analysis activities, creative writing tasks. These are excellent to set as homework, use in lessons or even use in registration time.

This is a basic revision source that shows clear links between different poems. Good for all abilities.

This PowerPoint is perfect for students aiming for grades 7 to 9. The PowerPoint discusses internal conflicts and psychological perspectives in Remains, War Photographer, Poppies and Kamikaze. It centres on the question, ‘Do the greatest conflicts happen away from the battlefield?’

Macbeth AO3 PowerPoint. Perfect for students aiming for grades 7 - 9. Discussing contextual information about witchcraft, medieval Scotland, the ‘real’ Banquo and King James I.

Poster discussing the importance of reading at school. Can be used in all classrooms across the school.

Assembly discussing the importance of reading in school and outside of school.

Extracts about literature if the transatlantic slave trade and the impact that it had on the 1930s and 1960s in America. Extracts include: Overview of the transatlantic slave trade, biography of William Wilberforce, Frederick Douglass, ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’ by Harriet Jacobs, ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee and Martin Luuther King’s ‘I have a dream speech’.