A range of questions for students to help them consider what we learn about the characters in Act 1 of An Inspector Calls before the Inspector arrives. Includes questions on Priestley’s view, context and different characters. Answers included on the second slide.

Four different book extract opening from Young Adult fiction with a range of questions to analyse how effective the openings are and how they create intrigue. Extracts taken from: Black Powder by Ally Sherick, Boy X by Dan Smith, Diary of an (Un)Teenager by Pete Johnson and White Rabbit by Tom Pollock.

A step by step resource on constructing a paragraph for the poetry comparison question for AQA English Literature GCSE.

A discussion based introduction to the poem Half-Caste by John Agard, including video clips from YouTube and differentiated questions to analyse the poem.

An introduction to the idea of ‘Genius Hour’ in which students take time to come up with thier own driving questions for a project on a topic of their choice. They are then expected to conduct their own research and present their findings to the class in a format of their own choice.

A resource to inspire students to create their own examples of performance poetry, with video clips from Afra Atiq, Harry Barker and Sarah Kay.

A series of lessons to help students answer the question, ‘How does Shakespeare use language and structure to present conflict in Romeo and Juliet?’ Focuses on the prologue, Act 1 Scene 1 and Act 3 Scene 1 with the key ideas from the historical context and example analytical paragraphs.

A comprehensive lesson on the poem Island Man by Grace Nicholls. Perfect for distance learning, it includes discussion prompts, comprehension questions and examples analytical paragraph responses that can be marked and improved by students.

A set of activities allowing students to analyse Boris Johnson’s ‘Get Boosted Now’ speech on the latest COVID updates on 12th December 2021. Includes a video clip of the speech, an abridged transcript and a activities on the techniques used for impact.

Two lessons exploring the themes and language used in John Agard’s poem, ‘In Times of Peace.’ Students consider the issues a soldier might face on their return from conflict and then analyse the imagery using question prompts. The second lesson also includes a model paragraph and assessment questions for students to complete.

A series of 3+ lessons on the different types of travel writing: guidebook, article and narrative. Model examples given and tasks linked to the extracts.

2 - 3 lessons analysing the headlines used in the media to describe Meghan and Harry. Includes a discussion of bias in newspaper articles and an example of a biased editorial by Piers Morgan from the Daily Mail, before a plan to support students writing their own biased editorial.

A comprehensive Literacy Skills Booklet with activities on a range of skills including: word classes, sentences types and punctuation and grammar. There are 13 different topics, with each one including a revision activity to demonstrate understanding, a task on the skill and links to popular young adult books with opportunities throughout for students to revisit ideas to ensure consolidation of knowledge. Each activity has space to be marked through peer assessment.

A series of lessons on the historical context of Much Ado About Nothing, the presentation of Claudio and Benedick, how Shakespeare presents the two main female characters, an example analytical paragraph and a plan for students to write their own response to the question, ‘How does Shakespeare present a contrast between Hero and Beatrice in Act 1?’

A Challenge Literacy Skills Booklet to follow on from the Literacy Skills Booklet. Includes tasks on 13 different skills including: main and subordinate clauses, adjectival clauses, adverbial clauses, conjunctions, word types and sentence types. Each activity includes revision tasks, opportunities for practice, links to extracts to young adult fiction and space for peer assessment.

An end of term project that allows students to design a themed cafe that they will create the branding and marketing for. They will need to consider their use of descriptive writing techniques for their menu items, persuasive writing in their advert and writing to inform for an article for the local newspaper. Finally, they need to bring everything together to create a pitch for their cafe to win £1,000,000 funding!

A short booklet of 6 tasks relating to letter/diary writing on the theme of a haunted mansion. Students are given an image to describe, an example of a letter to annotate and then write a response to. Students can then draw the images described in the letter and label them with quotes, before finding a diary entry from over a hundred years ago that they can annotate and then continue writing. Ideal for exclusion work, for independent work in a cover lesson or to complete at the end of an English unit.

5 lessons to help students plan a piece of imaginative writing. Includes an introduction to the skills needed, help with planning their story, effective openings, character description and varied sentence starters. Also includes model examples of imaginative writing. Writing to explore, imagine or entertain.

An assembly for KS3 and KS4 on promoting reading for pleasure. It includes facts on the benefits of reading for pleasure, quotes from famous people who credit their success to reading, a range of books recommendations and even a short video from Stormzy on why reading is so important!

A series of 5 lessons based around the short Pixar film, ‘Piper’. Skills that are covered include: engaging openings, similes, metaphors, building tension and varying sentence starters. Students work through the skills whilst adding a paragraph of their own writing every lesson using ‘Piper’ as a writing stimulus.