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!

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 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.

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

Notes on the language, structure and context of Checking Out Me History by John Agard.

Notes on the language and structure of the poem Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland and an accompanying worksheet.

Notes on the poem Exposure by Wilfred Owen and an accompanying worksheet for students.

Notes on the language and structure of Charge of the Light Brigade suitable for a Year 11 class.

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.

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!

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.

A lesson on what to include when writing a conclusion for an essay in English. Includes a range of examples to spark discussion on the features that should and should not be included in the conclusion to an essay.

Guidance for students on how to write an introduction for an essay in English. Examples of effective (and less effective) introductions to spark discussion amongst students on what they need to include.

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.

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 lesson analysing the presentation of Lady Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5, including a worksheet with questions to support analysis of her solioquy.

A challenging lesson covering the key techniques in Act 1 Scene 1, including: incantation, iambic pentameter, trochaic tetrameter, rhyming couplets, antimetabole, pathetic fallacy and foreboding.

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

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.

Revision activities for the Unseen Poetry section of Edexcel English Literature IGCSE. Includes techniques to revise, examples of unseen poems, model answers, the markscheme and the feedback from the exam board for each response.