KS3 & KS4 English and Media Teacher | Eduqas Specialist
Engaging, ready-to-use resources for busy teachers. 25 years in teaching.
✅ GCSE Media Set Text Schemes
✅ GCSE Literature tried and tested resources
✅ Starters, games & displays
Clear, curriculum-friendly and designed to save you time!
KS3 & KS4 English and Media Teacher | Eduqas Specialist
Engaging, ready-to-use resources for busy teachers. 25 years in teaching.
✅ GCSE Media Set Text Schemes
✅ GCSE Literature tried and tested resources
✅ Starters, games & displays
Clear, curriculum-friendly and designed to save you time!
Taskmaster KS3 Fun Whole Class Games
A PowerPoint with 33 slides and 20 fun tasks.
Could be used as a plenary ‘treat’ or an end of term ‘fun’ lesson. (i.e. 'Sir, can we have a fun lesson today?)
Some tasks need a couple of props, others need nothing. Feel free to add your own challenges!
I’ve had great fun with these!
KS3 ‘The Witches’ (Roald Dahl) pupil booklet, to accompany teaching the text.
Updated 2024.
Suitable for KS3 (particularly year 7 or LA year 8).
17 pages.
Range of reading, writing and quiz tasks.
PDF uploaded also.
The Little Book of Quotes
An A5 pupil booklet of key quotations, appropriate to AQA GCSE English Literature, Paper 1 and Paper 2:
Macbeth (by Act)
An Inspector Calls (by character)
A Christmas Carol (by character)
Conflict and Power Poetry (by poem)
Helpful for year 11 revision.
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies
NEA Component 3 Horror Film Posters (Cohort 2025 brief 2)
Basic pupil booklet for pupils to research and plan their DVD and film poster.
Includes pages for pupils to make their notes on:
typical codes and conventions of horror
typical iconography
example horror film posters to annotate
space to plan out a DVD and film poster
blurb
their coversheet notes
a checklist of what to include in their products
AQA GCSE LITERATURE DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES IN AN INSPECTOR CALLS
A straightforward one page A4 grid of dramatic, structure, form and language techniques used in the play ‘An Inspector Calls’. Helpful for revision, especially when blown up to A3.
PDF and Word versions uploaded (colour and black and white).
AQA GCSE English Literaturee - How to write a ‘Macbeth’ (William Shakespeare) essay.
An 89 slide PowerPoint covering:
What to expect
How am I assessed?
How to plan
How to structure
How to write a paragraph
Introductions and conclusions
Used with my Year 10 and Year 11 mid-ability classes.
Uses transitions and animations, for use on whiteboards.
‘Power and Conflict’ Poetry Homework Booklet - suitable for SEND or LA
Most suitable for year 10, as it only covers some of the poems studied so far:
Ozymandias
Bayonet Charge
Poppies
Kamikaze
Storm on the Island
Charge of the Light Brigade
Tasks include: Cloze procedure summaries, diary writing task, poetry writing, creative writing, drawing images associated with poems, identifying language devices, storyboarding and comparing poems.
A 25 page pupil booklet to support teaching poetry ballads and sonnets. Contains:
2 ‘warm up’ or starter tasks
Sonnet 130(Shakespeare) poem and task
Sonnet 116(Shakespeare) poem and task
Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)poem and task
My Last Duchess (Browning) poem and task
What has happened to Lulu? poem / task
The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond poem and task
That Time Again (Birtles) and The Captain’s Daughter (Fields) poems and tasks
Exerpt from The Highwayman (Noyes) and task
Useful for KS3 classes, in particular SEND or lower ability.
Used to compliment a year 8 unit of work by the same name for over ten years.
AQA English Literature Key Vocabulary
Four A4 landscape pages of vocabulary for:
Macbeth
A Christmas Carol
An Inspector Calls
Power and Conflict Poetry
Handy for revision with year 11.
PDF and Word document included.
‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: PUPIL WORKBOOK - LA or SEND
A 20 page workbook for lower ability or SEND pupils to work through the basic plot of the play.
Example tasks include:
Storyboarding
Annotation of short extracts
Staging ideas
Comprehension on plot summaries
Uploaded as a PDF also.
Individual characters, bundles and other Lit text posters available at my Etsy shop:
https://thecleverclassroomco.etsy.com
Bring Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy into the 21st century with this edgy, modern set of Macbeth character posters - dripping with sass, sarcasm, and classroom appeal. Perfect for GCSE English Literature students (AQA & beyond), these bold prints give your displays serious main character energy.
Each poster features a snappy, imaginary quote that sums up the character with bite, wit, and more than a little dramatic irony. Whether your students love the play or just love the chaos, these posters will help them remember who’s who, who’s doomed, and who probably should’ve stayed in bed.
Characters Included in this bundle:
Perfect For:
What You’ll Receive:
Printing Tips:
Lennox
Lady Macbeth
The Porter
Fleance
Murderers
Malcolm
Each poster includes the character’s name and the play title at the bottom - ideal for displays, or cover it up to quiz your class!
Characters Included in this bundle:
Perfect For:
What You’ll Receive:
Printing Tips:
GCSE English Literature classrooms (especially AQA)
Department corridor displays
Revision materials with actual personality
Teachers who enjoy Shakespeare with a side of sarcasm
Students who like their learning brutally honest and low-key savage
Characters Included in this bundle:
Perfect For:
What You’ll Receive:
Printing Tips:
6 full-colour PDF posters. PNG files also included.
Printable in A4, A3, and US Tabloid (11x17")
Instant digital download (nothing will be shipped)
Characters Included in this bundle:
Perfect For:
What You’ll Receive:
Printing Tips:
For best results, print on high-quality matte card or photo paper. Laminate for durability or frame for maximum aesthetic. These posters look fab in black frames or pinned with bulldog clips.
Please note:
Colours may vary depending on your printer and screen.
These are digital downloads. No physical item will be sent.
For personal/classroom use only - please don’t share or resell.
Due to the nature of digital products, refunds can’t be offered - but I’m happy to help if there’s an issue!
Make Greek mythology accessible and engaging with this 12-page dyslexia-friendly pupil booklet based on the myth of Echo and Narcissus!
Perfect for KS2 or KS3, this ready-to-print booklet includes the full myth in child-friendly language, plus 10 differentiated English/literacy activities designed to boost reading, comprehension, and writing skills. It’s ideal for use in English lessons, guided reading, or cross-curricular topic work on myths and legends.
What’s included?
Full story text (adapted and age-appropriate)
Glossary of tricky vocabulary with simple definitions
10 engaging tasks: comprehension, dialogue writing, diary entries, sequencing, creative writing & more
Dyslexia-friendly layout and font
Printable and easy to use—no prep needed!
Perfect for cover lessons
OpenDyslexic font used throughout
Supports the National Curriculum for KS2 English
Ideal for SEND pupils and visual learners
PDF, JPEG and PNG format – instantly downloadable after purchase!
Created by an English teacher with over 25 years experience!
4 Excel sheets of ‘Quickfire’ starters, covering:
Literary devices
Spelling
Punctuation
Parts of speech
Sentences
12 task boxes per topic area.
Suitable for KS3 or as revision in KS4.
SmartBoard version available also, for whole class Q&Q.
Bring Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy into the 21st century with this edgy, modern set of Macbeth character posters - dripping with sass, sarcasm, and classroom appeal. Perfect for GCSE English Literature students (AQA & beyond), these bold prints give your displays serious main character energy.
Each poster features a snappy, imaginary quote that sums up the character with bite, wit, and more than a little dramatic irony. Whether your students love the play or just love the chaos, these posters will help them remember who’s who, who’s doomed, and who probably should’ve stayed in bed.
Characters Included in this bundle:
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
The Witches
King Duncan
Macduff
Other bundles and individual characters available in my Etsy shop. Other Literature texts available too!
Each poster includes the character’s name and the play title at the bottom - ideal for displays, or cover it up to quiz your class!
Perfect For:
GCSE English Literature classrooms (especially AQA)
Department corridor displays
Revision materials with actual personality
Teachers who enjoy Shakespeare with a side of sarcasm
Students who like their learning brutally honest and low-key savage
What You’ll Receive:
Printing Tips:
Please note:
6 full-colour PDF posters. PNG files also included.
Printable in A4, A3, and US Tabloid (11x17")
Instant digital download (nothing will be shipped)
What You’ll Receive:
Printing Tips:
Please note:
For best results, print on high-quality matte card or photo paper. Laminate for durability or frame for maximum aesthetic. These posters look fab in black frames or pinned with bulldog clips.
What You’ll Receive:
Printing Tips:
Please note:
Colours may vary depending on your printer and screen.
These are digital downloads. No physical item will be sent.
For personal/classroom use only - please don’t share or resell.
Due to the nature of digital products, refunds can’t be offered - but I’m happy to help if there’s an issue!
A KS3 pupil booklet covering covering a range of reading and writing tasks. Close links made to GCSE English Section A and B. Focus text extracts:
‘The War of the Worlds’ (H.G.Wells)
‘The Woman in Black’ (Susan Hill)
Most suitable for year 9.
Pupil booklet introducing fiction texts. Includes:
Writing openings to short stories
Assessing sample pupil extracts against GCSE writing criteria
Focus on ambitious vocabulary and sentence variety writing skills
Reading tasks linked to ‘The War of the Worlds’ and ‘The Woman in Black’
Writing to describe tasks
Two A4 page grids of key information for the following poems:
‘Ozymandias’
‘My Last Duchess’
‘Remains’
‘Storm on the Island’
‘The Emigree’
‘Charge of the Light Brigade’
‘Kamikaze’
‘Bayonet Charge’
Blank grids included also, for setting as homework.
Coloured and black and white grids, as well as PDF uploaded.
Handy for revision.
KS3 Class Text ‘Buddy’ by Nigel Hinton Pupil Booklet
A 28 page booklet, covering a range of reading and writing tasks to accompany reading the text.
Updated version, using Open Dyslexic font.
Suitable for LA pupils or year 7 / 8.
PDF and Word version uploaded.
Accompanying PowerPoint available on request.
AQA GCSE LITERATURE GUIDE TO WRITING AN UNSEEN POETRY ESSAY
133 slides covering:
What to expect in the exam
How am I assessed?
What should I do before I write my essay?
How do I write my essay?
What about the comparison question?
Slides animated with transitions, for easy use on whiteboards.