A chapter by chapter summary, clear and concise. Includes comprehension style questions for every chapter. Ideal for the busy teacher as a recap of the novel and the questions could be your starters/plenaries.

A worksheet style resource, which includes a table with detailed comparative analysis of Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ with Blake’s ‘The Garden of Love’ and Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’. The table is followed up with a task which prompts students to do the same thing with the remaining poems. (I’ve not included the two Hardy poems as I don’t think they’re great together, but you could differentiate by getting weaker students to just compare with one Hardy poem at a time in a similar fashion. Or, could be a homework/follow up task). The main detail is on Blake, Keats and the novel. References to AOs are specifically tailored to AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE A (7712/1) Paper 1: Love through the Ages

A very visual activity which takes students through comparing the imagery of the two poems. Focused on student discussion and interpretation and leading to a short writing task. An hour long lesson. Created for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2

A PowerPoint presentation taking students through the summary question on the new GCSE AQA specification. Sources used are ‘Touching the Void’ and an extract from Scott’s diary.

A 12 page selection of many of the key/interesting quotes from the novel. The pack includes two Word documents, one with the quotes in chronological order, the other with quotes grouped in themes. You could give this to students as a hand out, or as a cut and stick activity where they decide which themes the quotes belong to (many of them really belong to more than one category, but I've not duplicated them within categories to make the file more user-friendly). You could also just give students the quotes for a specific theme to aid them in essay writing, either as a starter or as the basis for an essay plan. If you like this resource, you might also like the display resource in my shop, which includes 16 of the quotes presented visually for display purposes.

Originally designed with 'The London Eye Mystery' in mind, but could be used for any class as a quick starter introduction to idioms. Match the idiom to the meaning.

This presentation should provide you with an introductory lesson with follow up tasks on writing a biographyl. In light of the new GCSE specifications, this resource is ideal for a KS3 introduction to non-fiction. It includes a link to an actual read online biography and uses this to guide students to research, plan and write their own biographies.

PowerPoint format to save on photocopying, this presentation takes your class through writing a review in stages, with opportunities for discussion and for class interaction. Probably a 30-45minute task, depending on the enthusiasm of your class. A handy first lesson after the holidays lesson for key stage 2/3, or for days that celebrate books and reading as a one off lesson.

Written with the new AQA specification in mind, this activity should cover an hour long lesson in which students work together to craft an effective section of a story.

A starter activity to encourage students to engage with critical views about the ending and play as a whole.

A PowerPoint taking students through this important scene. It includes a number of activities including drama tasks, language analysis tasks, creative writing, a chat show and a storyboarding activity. Should keep them busy for a while! I use this with mixed ability year 8 classes, but it might work for lower ability ks4 ( though you might miss some of the tasks out/adapt them).

Suitable for KS3 or lower ability KS4, this resource uses an extract from Pan’s Labyrinth to take students through Q1, Q4 and Q5 of English Langauge Paper 1 (AQA). I used it as revision, but you could easily adapt it as an introduction to the paper/ skills. The extract is included. The PowerPoint covers Q1, includes some general questions on the text and then focuses on Q4 - Evaluation. There are also some slides to prompt descriptive and narrative writing. This resource promotes independent learning, group work, pair work and discussion. It is not a PowerPoint of set answers or information.

An in depth exploration of the play's penultimate scene, which explores the downfall of Macbeth and his character as a tragic hero. Includes pair work, group work and individual writing tasks, as well as key terminology.

A detailed PowerPoint presentation with several hours worth of material exploring chapters 16 and 17 and the significance of the fancy dress ball. The slides include analysis and interpretation, discussion questions, a group debate and writing tasks. Designed with AQA A Level English Literature in mind, but could easily be adapted to suit other exam boards.

A selection of 16 quotes from the novel, presented visually for display. I've used PowerPoint as printing the slides to A4 whole pages keeps formatting as desired. There is also the option of printing to A3 for individual posters, or print the whole lot for a colourful display.

Designed as a starter to go alongside the teaching of Dowd's 'The London Eye Mystery', but could be used as a starter activity for any lesson. Different images of clouds are used as a prompt for the description of thoughts, feelings, physical features. A good build up to the creative writing tasks in the new GCSE, which require descriptive writing from picture stimulus. Could also be printed off and used as a group/carousel task.