12,329 pages of resources

Welcome to Teachit's library of English teaching resources

Got five minutes to spare?  Here are five things you could do with them!

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1.  Dip into a staffroom hot topic

A Level Lit specifications – opinions needed

Starting the new GCSE specs

IGCSE instead of new GCSEs?

Essay writing – dos and don'ts

2.  Read a Teachit newsletter

English Teaching News
A weekly round up of the latest English teaching and educationally focused news stories in bite-size format

English Teaching Online
Half termly, themed, practical tips and advice

Whizzy News
A digest of all things whizzy in the digital world for Teachit.works members

The Sputnik Sentinel
Language news, resource recommendations, events listings and a run-down of the latest blogposts for Teachit Language members

3. Look at some lovely new resources

(Members – pop some of them into My Teachit for when you have more than five minutes!)

Key stage 3 > Latest additions
Metaphors and similes in The Kite Rider | Twilight – Reader's guide | Adding drama & Taking the mick! – two resources for Romeo and Juliet | Exploring characters in The Ant Colony

Key stage 4 > Latest additions
Climate change speaking and listening task | It will turn your blood! – The Withered Arm | A framework for media analysis | Shocking times – Frankenstein | Revision questions for 'Cold Knap Lake' | Adding drama & Taking the mick! – two resources for Romeo and Juliet

Key stage 5 > Latest additions
Identity crisis – Enduring Love | Questions on Julius Caesar | A potted history of the English language | A framework for media analysis | A homework task on 'Greater Love' | Shocking times – Frankenstein | Fine amour – creating a love poem | Adverbial phrases | A collection of resources for Dracula

4.  Find favourite resources for film

Key Stage 3 – Introducing Shrek | Truman Show scheme of work | Studying the Holes film trailer
Key Stage 4 – Jaws lesson pack | Fifteen minute Henry V | Useful generic blank storyboard | Blank storyboard sheet
Key Stage 5 – Approaches to the final scene (King Lear) | Elizabeth's prejudice | Chapter 5 essay guide (Small Island) | Pastoral poems
Media Studies – Explore Twilight | Pitch the play (Free!) | Chapter 23 storyboarding task (My Swordhand is Singing) | Compare two film versions of Romeo and Juliet | Film Noir: a scheme of work
Drama and Theatre Studies – Bentley and Craig | Speaking and listening assignment: radio broadcast (Let Him Have It!) | Introduction to drama – a scheme of work | A Drama scheme of work | Three ghosts visit Macbeth

5.  HoD or 2 i/c? Take time out

Spring term, climate chaos, exams looming, curriculum change ... it's enough to rattle the hardiest of subject leaders' nerves. How about a restorative visit to the Subject Leaders' Sanctuary? Created as a haven for Heads of English and 2 i/cs, the Sanctuary is packed with hand-picked resources for you and your department and advice/empathy from others in the job. 

Visit the Subject Leaders' Sanctuary