English Resources (page 2)

With more SEN children in the mainstream school waiting for a place in the special provision, it is becoming increasingly difficult for teachers to cater to their needs because spec...

Never Let Me Go follows Kathy, now a 31 year old carer becoming a donor at the end of the year, as she explores and revisits her memories through her retrospective narration. Despite ...

Extended Essay This is an essay about Paradise Lost and Othello, Milton and Shakespeare, and Satan and Iago. Investigating first the relationships between the two texts and the two...

What are Fronted Adverbials?To comprehend fronted adverbials, we must first break down the term. "Adverbial" refers to a word or group of words that modify or describe the verb in a ...

The Manhunt - Simon ArmitageAn accessible poem which is great for introducing the theme of conflict. Manhunt highlights the long-lasting effects war has on people regardless of the ou...

Understanding the symbolism in a piece of written fiction is the key to gaining a higher grade in your English GCSE’s. And it needn’t be as complicated as you imagine. Think of th...

This is something a lot of students struggle to differentiate between.A metaphor and a simile are both figures of speech that make comparisons, but they differ in how they make those ...

02 March 2020Coronavirus has already caused the closure of schools across the world and it may be that even more schools will have to close in the coming months.What can you do to en...

I started my teacher training at Roehampton University at the start of the great PHONICS era which we are now living in. Fortunately, when I started working in schools, guided reading...

The three main literary genres are:Prose: These are narratives that either are based on actual occurrences or the author`s imagination-created characters, occasions, or locations. Nov...