English GCSE and English KS3 and A Level English Language OCR resources. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance.
English GCSE and English KS3 and A Level English Language OCR resources. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance.
Four Bingo worksheets with questions linked to the theme of language change. A great revision excercise for AS and A level for OCR and AQA English language.
This template can be used for any poem to help teach language devices, structure, symbolism, context, meaning etc. Every section has multiple questions to assess each topic overview. This is a great resource for students to cram revise ready for GCSE exams.
This booklet contains a range of independent activities for students to complete when reading any book. These are aimed at KS3 students and include activities such as:
Chapter overview questions
Analysing quotes
Freytag models
Book cover design
Character analysis
Plot development
Setting
And many more!
Independent reading general questions.
Step back into the gritty cobblestone streets of Victorian London with this exciting, immersive four-week scheme of work. âInventing for Oliverâ challenges students to design a life-changing invention that could help Oliver Twist navigate the harsh realities of his world. Blending historical understanding, literary empathy, STEAM creativity, and persuasive speaking, students will work towards the ultimate goal: pitching their invention Dragonâs Denâstyle to a panel of âVictorian investorsâ!
A perfect highlight for a Victorian-themed or World Book Day celebration, this project will transform your classroom into a 19th-century innovation hub!
A Christmas quiz themed around the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol. This quiz contains multiple round to quiz students on their knowledge of the text, characters, context etc. Both questions and answers are provided!
Supercharge Your Writing: Master Varied Sentence Starts & Structure with Alma as Inspiration!
Is your writing feeling flat or repetitive? This Varied Sentence Starts & Structure lesson will teach you how to add rhythm, flow, and impact to your writing, making it more engaging and dynamic. Using the mesmerizing short animation Alma as a creative spark, youâll explore how sentence variety can heighten suspense, set the tone, and keep readers captivated.
With lots of practical worksheets and exercises, youâll have all the tools you need to transform your sentence variety and structure. If youâre ready to make your writing flow effortlessly while building tension and excitement, this lesson is for you! Let Alma inspire you to bring your writing to life, one sentence at a time.
This workbook contains a range of revision games to support students in revising for An Inspector Calls. This booklet contains nine pages of:
Give Me Five Recall
Picture Link Game
Connect Four Game
Venn Diagram Prompts
Give Me One Game
This resource contains seven weeks worth of homework tasks! These activities are aimed at KS3 and KS4 learners and center around the theme of Romeo and Juliet. Each week contains three fun activities to stretch learners and get them thinking outside the box. Activities include dual coding, essay style questions and language technique recaps as an example. This will save you so much time with your planning and will hopefully encourage your learners to get their homework in on time!
This lesson focuses on chapter nine and ten in William Goldingâs Lord of the Flies. The resource contains multiple comprehension activities. Learners will look at Simonâs character, how leadership changes on the island and respond to an essay style question, explore metaphors in the novel and complete a dual coding/symbolism activity. With seventeen slides worth of activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
This resource contains seven weeks worth of home learning tasks aimed at KS3 students. The theme follows Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rodes with each week of home learning containing three unique tasks that include dual coding, essay style questions or language terminology focus. This is sure to save you time planning and this resource could also be used as a stretch and challenge or extension activity for learners.
A Virtual Reading Corner for students to come and access online Ebooks, get an update on what you are reading and have a safe space in which they feel inspired to pick up a book and read.
This online virtual library contains over 250 books for students to read. By clicking on a book cover students will be directed to a pdf version of the text. This is a great way to encourage reading within school, providing students with a wide range of reading material and promoting reading for pleasure.
A bundle of seven powerpoint slides aiding students in writing a dystopian narrative. The lessons include:
An introduction to writers.
Building a dystopia.
Creating a dystopia.
Introducing your dystopia.
Writing from different perspectives.
Creating your narrative.
Assessment lesson.
A huge Christmas quiz that I created to last over double period lessons (two hours).
This quiz contains rounds such as:
Guess the Christmas Advert
Guess the Christmas Food
Pixalated Harry Potter
Pokemon or Prescription
Guess The Gadget
Vegan or Not?
Largest to Smallest
Dark Disney
And SO much more!!
A total of 247 slides both questions and answers are provided to ensure you can be the best quiz master possible! This is a brilliant Christmas quiz for both in school for students and at home to play with family!
Four different worksheets that cover:
Language Change (The seven stages)
Descriptivist vs Prescriptivist approach
Standardisation
Morphological Derivation
These worksheets contain various cartoon characters and colour to make them engaging for your students.
An amazing activity for KS3 and 4 students! They have to escape the room answering questions based around the book âGhost Boysâ by Jewell Parker Rhodes.
This lesson explores Lord of the Flies context and introduces students to the underlying themes of the novel.
The lesson looks at a Banksy image an refers this back to the novel, it asks students to look at various book covers and infer what the novel might be about, it also explores context of William Golding and looks at the Coral Island as his inspiration.
Students are also asked to consider the nature vs nurture approach. In the second lesson students read the first chapter of the book and consider what makes a good leader and do a brief character analysis.
These are two full lessons that can be used with students or as a revision lesson.
Three fully planned lessons that center on creative writing. A lovely introduction to âA Monster Callsâ scheme of work or as a fun creative writing project for your students. The first lesson looks at Monsters in Literature, the second lesson looks at creating a monster and the final lesson brings everything together when students compare their own creations to those in literature.