A fully resourced lesson introducing the poem 'Island Man' designed for KS3 students, focussing on imagery and techniques used. Includes a PPT and accompanying worksheets.

I've created a set of 20 posters displaying key quotes from 'Romeo and Juliet' featuring corresponding images from the Luhrmann film to help my students learn and revise! Each quote depicts who it's said by and when in the play it's said. Created on Publisher (A3 template) so easy to add your own quotes if needed.

A fully resourced lesson designed to support students through how to respond to each question in the Fiction Language paper using an extract from 'The Woman in Black'. Includes top tips on how to approach each question, sentence starters and some exemplar answers. Links are provided to clips from the film to be used as a stimulus. Student copy of Section B mark scheme so they can self assess their strengths and weaknesses for creative writing.

Designed for KS4 students taking the AQA exam. A step by step work sheet on how to approach the extract exam question. Also includes an essay plan to help students structure their response based on the step-by-step planning. Accompanying PPT to guide students through the process with a PQA checklist and some good/bad examples to assess.

I (painstakingly, from scratch!) designed this for my boy heavy class to help engage them with the AQA Language Fiction Paper. It takes an extract from a story about a young boy interested in football (an easy read text) and I've created AQA exam style questions on it. As you can tell, I designed it with current sporting events at the time in mind, but could easily be adapted. Hope you find this useful!

A lesson designed for Year 9 students for an assessed piece of writing in which they choose a character to analyse. PPT and accompanying worksheets included.

Designed for year 10/11 studying the AQA Power and Conflict poetry anthology to encourage deeper analysis of key quotes. Could be easily adapted for other quotes too. It really helped my students improve their analysis! I've also included an essay guide with sentence starters on how to answer an exam style question.

I designed this for my Year 11 class taking the new AQA exam to boost their writing skills for the descriptive/narrative writing task. A range of activities, including some examples from fiction to assess, and a student friendly mark scheme they can use to rate their own confidence against the skills required to succeed.

I created this as a revision lesson for 3 Literature texts being taught at my school. There is an overview of the exam, AOs and top tips, including a practice exam question for Romeo and Juliet, Jeckyll and Hyde, and A Christmas Carol.

A booklet of character profile pages for all of the characters from An Inspector Calls using images from the recent BBC adaptation which students (in my experience) really enjoy and appreciate seeing them linked in resources. Can be used as a revision activity for students to complete, or as originally, used to record first impressions from Act One. Prints lovely as a booklet.

A series of 6 fully resourced lessons exploring the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Uses images from the Patrick Stewart version and links to YouTube clips. Lots of guidance and scaffolding/sentence starters to help students analyse and explore the difference in language used between the two characters. Extracts provided on worksheets with original Shakespeare next to a modern translation to help students access the language. Some more challenging activities too, including reading an extract from a literary article. Students have always enjoyed and engaged well with this sequence of lessons at both KS3 and KS4.

Made these starters for my Year 11 to start recalling previous knowledge from An Inspector Calls and the Power and Conflict poetry cluster. There's 6 in total, easy template to use to create your own.

A lesson focussing on an extract from Stave Two, whilst introducing students to metacognition (thinking about thinking) includes a student review to see which strategies they liked best and to evaluate whether or not it improved their written responses. I did this lesson with Year 10 and the reviews were extremely positive.

A fully resourced mini project covering the novel, play, and film of 'The Woman in Black'. Includes a detailed PowerPoint and accompanying student work booklet, with additional display materials. Students have always found this very engaging. Designed to be used alongside copies of the book and the film.

A range of AQA exam style question practice featuring all of the Literature texts for the extract question (Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet) and also modern text questions for Blood Brothers and Curious Incident. Each sheet features an extract from the text, and some planning grids to help students select quote from the extract and the rest of the play. Also contains personalised sentence starters for each exam Q. I've also included my 'perfect PQA checklist' which features all the criteria needed for a strong response. Perfect for Year 11 revision lessons and/or homework.

My students struggled with how to annotate a non-fiction source, so I annotated it myself with prompt questions for them to respond to when reading. This was really effective and helped them engage with the sources more, resulting in improved written responses. Hope you find it just as useful!

A resource using images from the Luhrmann version of 'Romeo and Juliet' to support students with revision of key plot moments. The image prompts them to identify key quotes, link them to themes and context, and to also consider audience response. Designed for KS4 students. 15 images/tasks included in chronological order.

I designed this as an introduction lesson for my Year 10s before telling them anything about An Inspector Calls. They each got a set of little character scenario cards with accompanying activities (to record on the A3 sheet) and as an extra challenge, were asked to try and match the quote to the character/scenario. The students loved it and it led to some great class discussions. A perfect way to introduce the characters, theme and plot of the play!

A lesson aimed at a high ability year 8 group guiding them to write a Level 7 PEA paragraph about one of the key characters from 'The Hunger Games&'

Typed up from the Longman edition, a handy summary of what happens in each section/chapter to help students remember what happened and when.