This is a workbook that helps students through the process of studying and writing about an unseen poem. There is also a section on how to prepare to compare two unseen poems.

This is a worksheet aimed at guiding students through understanding the poem by Percy Shelley.

This is a scheme of work focused on the Shakespeare play A Winter's Tale. The focus of the unit is on the dramatization of a set scene: the scene were Hermione awakens from being a statue. The central concept is on directorial choices and how this changes the audience's reaction to the scene. This is an excellent unit to complete at the end of the year and there is a lot of fun to be had in creating lollipop puppets and performing the play as mini puppet shows.

The lessons are not in a sequenced order but do offer different approaches to different points in the play. The main focus of the lessons is preparation towards an essay but the powerpoints can easily be adapted for preparation for your examination board.

The powerpoint includes a series of lessons aimed at guiding students through an analysis of A Woman in Black. The end assessment would be an examination question and the powerpoint can be adapted for the board that you have selected.

This set of j.pegs have been produced to support writing nonfiction texts. Each card will give the student a brief that they must follow when writing. These can be used to support lessons on audience, purpose and format.

These powerpoint lessons are not sequenced in any particular order but offer lots of different opportunities for the study of Animal Farm. The general focus of the lessons is a guided reading of the novel and then preparation for an examination. The powerpoints would need to be adapted for the examination board that you would be preparing students towards.

This is an excellent unit to cover social and moral issues, as well as covering aspects of the PSHE curriculum. The aim of the unit is to focus on spoken language and how choices in spoken language can impact on the audience. The unit acts as an excellent introduction to reception theory and could be completed before moving on to look at some form of literature where the writer has made purposeful choices.

The aim of this unit is to consider the impact that context has on the content and voice in literature. This is a sophisticated concept and one that would suit a particularly bright group. However, all age groups can begin to appreciate how a writer writes about what they know and is influenced by the world that they live in. The unit offers three different eras on which to focus: suffragettes, the Irish troubles or Slavery. This is an excellent cross curricular unit, to complete in tandem with History.

This is a creative writing unit focused on writing the inner thoughts of a character. The premise behind the unit is that one character has just asked another character a question and the internal monologue are the thoughts that happen before the character answers. This is an excellent unit for focusing on the development of character and voice. You can also explore how the relationship between characters can impact on emotions.

This is a simple worksheet that asks students to puzzle out the persuasive devices. This is suitable for all ages, as revision or as an audit of knowledge before beginning work on nonfiction writing.

These PowerPoint lessons are not sequenced in any particular order but focus on the reading and analysis of nonfiction texts. The approach in the lessons leads towards a teaching of skills and an increasing independence in asking appropriate questions. You will need to adapt the work in these lessons to match the examination board you are using.

This worksheet takes students through the process of reading the extracts effectively and then answering the short 1 mark questions. The aim is to encourage students to investigate how to best use the opening time in the examination - so they are prepared to answer the questions well.

Using the QCA guidelines, this worksheet takes students through the criteria for a Grade 2, then a Grade 5 and then a Grade 8. The worksheet has extracts of answers at each grade focused on language analysis, structural analysis and evaluation of the writer's skill. The sheet also asks the student to consider how to move from one to the other and to set targets. This will help the student to understand how to succeed in the English Language examination.

This sheet guides the student through the poem and gives them insight into some of the language used by Duffy. The worksheet also encourages the student to explore some of the references in the poem as part of their revision.

This resource takes students through an overview of the poem and encourages them to puzzle out what has happened and then Browning's overall meaning.

This worksheet takes students through the poem, focused on puzzling out what the poem means and moving them towards writing about the poem.

This is a worksheet that guides the students through the poem Porphyria's lover. There is a focus on the context and the genre, as well as encouraging the students to make assumptions about why Browning was making the choices he was.

A worksheet that guides the student through puzzling out this complicated poem. The focus is on strategies to use when a poem is difficult and leading them to understand the attitude and emotions in the poem.

A worksheet that helps students to understand and write about the imagery, tone and structure of the poem.