Fun starter to exercise students' memory and introduce them to new vocabulary words. Culminates in a descriptive writing exercise.

Poems from the Duffy, Armitage and Pre1914 Anthology.

A copy of Hurricane Hits England by Grace Nichols that has annotations with a variety of poetic techniques and devices for students to match to the text. Great GCSE poetry revision. Based on The Poems From Different Cultures Anthology.

A sorting activity where pupils match the device to its definition and its example.

Complete scheme of work with resources for a module on The Witches by Roald Dahl. Includes lesson plans and worksheet handouts.

Poems from the Duffy, Armitage and Pre1914 Anthology.

Get students to understand devices with these examples

Useful for pupils and teachers.

Teacher can print these slides out to use as worksheets for students. Each activity is mentioned in the scheme of work.

Students write examples of poetic devices from the poems they have studied in their tables and then refer to the effect of these examples and which devices are used. Printable and ready to use.

Brief description of each area for teachers' notes

with this fun and creative test! A great activity to do before an exam.

It is based on The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. It is very short, pupils can then complete the mini discussion activity to help them think about the structure.

You can create deadlines at the click of a button.

Not quite as good as the original Macbeth version but it works! It takes approximately one hour to act the whole play out.

Based on The Poems From 2005 onwards Anthology.

Uses the acronym TIP TOP

to help pupils

pupils can practise with each other.

based on enemy of the state