Variety of resources and lessons created for a middle ability Year 8 class; allows for plenty of reading time in class: produces a book review.

Introducing what this technique is with a series of extracts for annotation.

Full lesson created for Y8 Higher ability, exploring writer's craft in character of Dr Roylott.

Brilliant 4 page story, can be used to show how to manipulate setting/structure/Language choices:KS4

Introducing the Detective club rules- can be used to understand a text or as a stimulus for creative writing in this genre.

Slide by slide literacy tasks- could be used for lesson starters or in Form Time.

Using the idea of a cold (un-informed)answer, followed by a hot (post-learning) answer: good for revision and exam-style question practice.

Suitable for KS3 or KS4, a set of character images which can be cut out and used to create revision/quotation pages.

Generic poetry activity to encourage multiple interpretations via group work- no poems named so can fit any cluster/task.

An engaging series of riddles and problems for students to solve; used alongside detective stories/Sherlock Holmes' The Speckled Band.

Images of popular children's texts, use in a guess who style manner, great for developing questioning skills/character study.

Series of links to various popular Gothic films/cartoons. Use as a whole lesson for students to observe and make notes of common features; good as an introduction and for lower ability classes.

Selection of images of children's rooms around the world, ideal for prompting discussions about universality of childhood.

A handy presentation to use with anew class or as a refresher; this contains a red and yellow card image to be used as a behaviour management strategy.

Visual and potentially kinaesthetic lesson idea to teach sentence structure and word types; could be made into actual Lego blocks resource.

Full lesson looking at Gothic conventions in design, character and writing.

PPt containing links to popular Gothic cartoons/films: good as an introduction to common features and engaging for lower abilities.