English teaching resources

English · KS3 to A Level £4.99

Articulate Writers, Confident Schools

One book for the whole department — the head of English who has to lead it and the teacher who has to teach period four. Built on what AQA, Pearson Edexcel, Cambridge OCR and Eduqas actually require, read from all eighteen current specifications.

1. 1 Curriculum
2. 2 Reading
3. 3 Writing
4. 4 Evidence
5. 5 Standard

All eighteen current AQA, Pearson Edexcel, Cambridge OCR and Eduqas specifications · 74 pages, 71 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher in the department

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 7 English Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year, covering all four strands of the programme of study. Reading opens the year because writing improves fastest in students who have just read closely, and spoken English closes it because it draws on everything the other five units build.

1. 1a Reading a Novel: Character and Inference
2. 1b Writing to Describe and Narrate
3. 2a Poetry: Voice, Image and Sound
4. 2b Introducing Shakespeare
5. 3a Myths and Legends: Where Stories Come From
6. 3b Non-fiction, Argument and Spoken English

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 35 pages, 10 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 8 English Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from Year 9 and forwards from Year 7. The year adds the three things Year 9 assumes: comparison, control of register for a named audience, and sustained reading of pre-1900 prose.

1. 1a Reading a Novel: Theme and Writer’s Purpose
2. 1b Writing to Inform, Explain and Persuade
3. 2a Poetry: Comparing Voices
4. 2b Shakespeare: Power and Consequence
5. 3a The Gothic: Reading and Writing the Nineteenth Century
6. 3b Media, Bias and the Language of Persuasion

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 35 pages, 10 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 9 English Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. Every demand a GCSE course makes — a whole nineteenth-century novel, a whole Shakespeare play, comparison across periods, structured creative writing, viewpoint writing and a formal spoken assessment — is met here first, with no marks attached.

1. 1a The Nineteenth-Century Novel
2. 1b Creative Writing: Craft and Control
3. 2a Poetry: Power, Identity and Protest
4. 2b Shakespeare: A Whole Play
5. 3a Literature and Society: Dystopia and Protest
6. 3b Spoken Language and Writing to a Viewpoint

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 36 pages, 11 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

English · GCSE £4.99

Year 10 English Scheme of Work

Sixty pages covering both GCSE English qualifications at once — Language and Literature are separate GCSEs taught in the same lessons, and this plans both. All four statutory text categories, no set texts named, so it works with whatever your department teaches. Every unit shows a piece of student work with the error in it beside the repair, and there are six printable diagnostics at the back.

1. 1a Language: Reading Fiction, and Writing to Describe and Narrate
2. 1b Literature: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
3. 2a Literature: Shakespeare
4. 2b Language: Non-Fiction, Comparison and Writing to a Viewpoint
5. 3a Literature: The Modern Text — Fiction or Drama from 1914
6. 3b Poetry Since 1789, and the Spoken Language Endorsement

The GCSE subject content for English language and English literature (DfE, 2013) and the statutory programme of study for key stage 4 (DfE, 2014) · 63 pages, 18 sections · For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

English · GCSE £4.99

Year 11 English Scheme of Work

Fifty-five pages for the second GCSE year, which begins from an honest fact: Year 10 taught the whole course. One unit covers the single requirement that cannot be pre-taught — unseen texts — and the rest map a writing progression, reorganise four set texts by idea, teach reading against a clock, and plan the revision term from evidence rather than from a topic list.

1. 1a Unseen Poetry, and Reading Without Preparation
2. 1b Writing: Accuracy, Sustained Composition and the Twenty Per Cent
3. 2a The Four Set Texts, Deepened
4. 2b Reading Under Time: Both Language Papers
5. 3a Revision by Diagnosis
6. 3b Examination Technique and the Final Fortnight

The GCSE subject content for English language and English literature (DfE, 2013) and the statutory programme of study for key stage 4 (DfE, 2014) · 56 pages, 15 sections · For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

English · A Level £4.99

A Level English Literature Scheme of Work

Forty-five pages across two years, board-neutral by construction: every requirement stated here comes from the DfE subject content or from Ofqual's subject level conditions, never from one board's set text list. The eight-text minimum, the three pre-1900 texts and the post-2000 requirement are planned in a table before any title is chosen. The non-examined assessment gets a full term with the question signed off by Week 2 and plan-level feedback only from Week 7, and the unseen is taught as a five-step procedure rather than as a talent.

1. 1a Reading at A Level: Close Analysis and the Critical Voice
2. 1b Drama and Shakespeare: Meanings Made in Performance
3. 3 1c Poetry, and Connections Across Texts
4. 2a The Non-Examined Assessment: an Independent Comparative Study
5. 2b Contemporary Writing, Interpretation, and the Unseen
6. 6 2c Synoptic Fluency: Diagnosis, Argument and the Examinations

The DfE subject content for AS and A level English literature, and Ofqual's GCE subject level conditions · 45 pages, 15 sections · For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

English · GCSE · AQA £3.99

AQA GCSE English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only — AQA GCSE English Language (8700) and English Literature (8702). A working manual for a GCSE English department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, practice, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions actually get made. Part One is the only part that is board-specific, and it is quoted verbatim from the published specification.

1. AO1 Retrieve
2. AO2 Analyse
3. AO3 Compare
4. AO4 Evaluate

AQA GCSE English Language (8700) and English Literature (8702) · 48 pages, 17 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

English · GCSE · OCR £3.99

OCR GCSE English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only — OCR GCSE (9–1) English Language (J351) and English Literature (J352). A working manual for a GCSE English department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, practice, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions actually get made. Part One is the only part that is board-specific, and it is quoted verbatim from the published specification.

1. AO1 Retrieve
2. AO2 Analyse
3. AO3 Compare
4. AO4 Evaluate

OCR GCSE (9–1) English Language (J351) and English Literature (J352) · 48 pages, 17 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

English · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £3.99

Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) English Language (1EN0) and English Literature (1ET0). A working manual for a GCSE English department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, practice, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions actually get made. Part One is the only part that is board-specific, and it is quoted verbatim from the published specification.

1. AO1 Retrieve
2. AO2 Analyse
3. AO3 Compare
4. AO4 Evaluate

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) English Language (1EN0) and English Literature (1ET0) · 49 pages, 18 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

English · A Level · AQA £3.99

AQA A Level English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only — AQA A-level English Language (7702) and English Literature A (7712). An examination manual for an A Level English department, covering both qualifications — Language and Literature. It is about how they are assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the texts. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim. Everything after it is about the assessment.

1. AO1 Respond
2. AO2 Analyse
3. AO3 Context
4. AO4 Connect
5. AO5 Interpretations

AQA A-level English Language (7702) and English Literature A (7712) · 26 pages, 19 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

English · A Level · OCR £3.99

OCR A Level English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only — OCR A Level English Language (H470) and English Literature (H472). An examination manual for an A Level English department, covering both qualifications — Language and Literature. It is about how they are assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the texts. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim. Everything after it is about the assessment.

1. AO1 Respond
2. AO2 Analyse
3. AO3 Context
4. AO4 Connect
5. AO5 Interpretations

OCR A Level English Language (H470) and English Literature (H472) · 26 pages, 19 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

English · A Level · Pearson Edexcel £3.99

Pearson Edexcel A Level English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel A level English Language (9EN0) and English Literature (9ET0). An examination manual for an A Level English department, covering both qualifications — Language and Literature. It is about how they are assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the texts. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim. Everything after it is about the assessment.

1. AO1 Respond
2. AO2 Analyse
3. AO3 Context
4. AO4 Connect
5. AO5 Interpretations

Pearson Edexcel A level English Language (9EN0) and English Literature (9ET0) · 26 pages, 19 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

English Language · GCSE £4.99

GCSE English Language Questions & Model Answers

Feature-spotting is what caps an English answer: the device named, the effect assumed. Each of these hundred pages separates the two, then supplies the questions that move a student from one to the other. Twelve passages are written for the book and reprinted on every question that uses them, so no page depends on an anthology a department already has to own — fifty-two questions read those passages, and forty-eight write, up to the full forty-mark task.

1. 1 Finding and interpreting information
2. 2 Analysing language
3. 3 Analysing structure
4. 4 Comparing writers' perspectives
5. 5 Evaluating a text critically
6. 6 Descriptive writing
7. 7 Narrative writing
8. 8 Writing to argue or persuade
9. 9 Writing to explain, inform and advise
10. 10 Sentence craft and technical accuracy

The GCSE subject content for English language (DfE) and the assessment objectives set by Ofqual, which are worded identically across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas · 110 pages, 10 sections · For English teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide

English Literature · GCSE £4.99

GCSE English Literature Questions & Model Answers

Nearly every literature answer that stalls in the middle band does the same thing: it names a method and then assumes the effect. These hundred pages separate the two and supply the questions that move a student across. Every text quoted is out of copyright and every quotation is checked character by character against its source on each build — and because the anthology poems and modern set texts are still in copyright, the unseen and modern material is written for the book, which is what an unseen ought to be anyway.

1. 1 Shakespeare
2. 2 The nineteenth-century novel
3. 3 Poetry since 1789
4. 4 Comparing poems
5. 5 Modern prose and drama
6. 6 Unseen poetry
7. 7 Unseen prose
8. 8 Context that earns marks
9. 9 Writing about literature

The GCSE subject content for English literature published by the Department for Education, and the assessment objective weightings it sets as ranges, which this book is built to sit inside on every build · 107 pages, 9 sections · For English teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide

GCSE English Literature · Willy Russell · AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas £4.99

Blood Brothers: The Complete Teacher Pack

Thirty lessons in six units, a knowledge organiser for every unit, character, theme and quotation banks, and weak, middling and strong answers written for each board's own mark scheme.

1. 1 The Frame: A Story Told Backwards
2. 2 The Pact: Two Mothers, One Child
3. 3 Seven: Blood Brothers
4. 4 Fourteen: Two Suspensions
5. 5 Eighteen to the End: Work, Prison, the Pills
6. 6 The Exam: Three Boards, One Play

AQA 8702, Pearson Edexcel 1ET0 and WJEC Eduqas, read from each board's own papers and mark schemes; every figure about the 1970s and 1980s from the Office for National Statistics · 96 pages, 60 sections · For English teachers and heads of English — a six-week scheme taught to a class, not a student revision guide

GCSE English Literature · William Shakespeare · AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas and OCR £4.99

Macbeth: The Complete Teacher Pack

Thirty lessons in six units, a knowledge organiser for every unit, the key speeches printed for annotation, and weak, middling and strong answers written for each board's own mark scheme — in two parts where the board has two.

1. 1 Fair Is Foul: The Witches, the King and 1606
2. 2 The Letter, the Dagger, the Deed
3. 3 To Be Thus Is Nothing: The Crown That Cannot Rest
4. 4 Blood Will Have Blood: Tyranny and Its Cost
5. 5 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: The Fall
6. 6 The Exam: Four Boards, One Play

AQA 8702, Pearson Edexcel 1ET0, WJEC Eduqas and OCR J352, read from each board's own papers and mark schemes; every quotation checked by machine against the play's text · 117 pages, 60 sections · For English teachers and heads of English — a six-week scheme taught to a class, not a student revision guide

GCSE English Literature · Charles Dickens · AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas and OCR £4.99

A Christmas Carol: The Complete Teacher Pack

Thirty-five lessons in seven units, a knowledge organiser and a printable diagnostic for every unit, seventeen pages of the novella printed for annotation, and weak, developing, strong and exceptional answers written for each board's own mark scheme.

1. 1 Before the Bells: Dickens, 1843, and the Book as a Weapon
2. 2 Stave One: The Chain He Forged
3. 3 Stave Two: The Boy Left at School
4. 4 Stave Three: What the Robe Was Hiding
5. 5 Stave Four: The Spirit That Says Nothing
6. 6 Stave Five: What Redemption Costs
7. 7 The Exam: Four Boards, One Novella

AQA 8702, Pearson Edexcel 1ET0, WJEC Eduqas and OCR J352, read from each board's own papers and mark schemes; every quotation checked by machine against Dickens's text · 139 pages, 70 sections · For English teachers and heads of English — a seven-week scheme taught to a class, not a student revision guide

GCSE English Literature · J. B. Priestley · AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas and OCR £4.99

An Inspector Calls: The Complete Teacher Pack

Thirty-five lessons in seven units, a knowledge organiser and a printable diagnostic for every unit, and developing, secure, strong and exceptional answers written for each board's own mark scheme — including the two boards that award nothing for what the others require.

1. 1 Two Dates: 1912, 1945, and the Man Who Wrote It
2. 2 The Doorbell: Birling's World, Interrupted
3. 3 Sheila: The One Who Turns
4. 4 Mrs Birling: The One Who Does Not
5. 5 Eric, and the Chain Closed
6. 6 The Hoax, and the Telephone
7. 7 The Exam: Four Boards, One Play

AQA 8702, Pearson Edexcel 1ET0, WJEC Eduqas and OCR J352, read from each board's own papers and mark schemes; the play is in copyright, so every quotation printed here is one an examination board published first · 97 pages, 70 sections · For English teachers and heads of English — a seven-week scheme taught to a class, not a student revision guide

KS3 English · Year 7 · six A4 sheets £3.99

Year 7 English Knowledge Organisers

The Year 7 half-terms: reading a novel for character and inference, descriptive and narrative writing, poetry, introducing Shakespeare, myths and legends, and non-fiction and spoken English.

Empower Educators Year 7 English scheme of work · 6 pages, 6 sections · For English teachers and heads of department — printed one per pupil

KS3 English · Year 8 · six A4 sheets £3.99

Year 8 English Knowledge Organisers

The Year 8 half-terms: reading a novel for theme and purpose, transactional writing, comparing poems, Shakespeare, the Gothic, and media and persuasive language.

Empower Educators Year 8 English scheme of work · 6 pages, 6 sections · For English teachers and heads of department — printed one per pupil

KS3 English · Year 9 · six A4 sheets £3.99

Year 9 English Knowledge Organisers

The Year 9 half-terms: a nineteenth-century novel, creative writing craft, protest poetry, a whole Shakespeare play, dystopian literature, and spoken language and viewpoint writing.

Empower Educators Year 9 English scheme of work · 6 pages, 6 sections · For English teachers and heads of department — printed one per pupil

GCSE English · Year 10 · twelve A4 sheets £3.99

Year 10 English Knowledge Organisers

The Year 10 terms: Language — reading fiction and writing to describe and narrate; Literature — the nineteenth-century novel; Literature — Shakespeare; Language — non-fiction, comparison and writing to a viewpoint; Literature — the modern text; and Poetry since 1789, with the spoken language endorsement.

Empower Educators Year 10 English scheme of work · 12 pages, 6 sections · For English teachers and heads of department — printed one per pupil

GCSE English · Year 11 · twelve A4 sheets £3.99

Year 11 English Knowledge Organisers

The Year 11 terms: unseen poetry and reading without preparation; writing — accuracy, sustained composition and the twenty per cent; the four set texts, deepened; reading under time across both Language papers; revision by diagnosis; and examination technique for the final fortnight.

Empower Educators Year 11 English scheme of work · 12 pages, 6 sections · For English teachers and heads of department — printed one per pupil

English · GCSE · Every exam board Free

GCSE English — Classroom Posters

Five A3 posters: what every mark is for in Language and in Literature, the six moves of an analysis paragraph, the five questions that get structure into an answer, and the vocabulary that carries them.

Quoted from the published subject content and the exam boards' own specifications · 5 A3 posters · For classroom walls, corridors and revision spaces