Secondary Education (children aged 11 – 16)
You might find the Bookmarks series particularly useful. The Bookmark pamphlet series supplements the enthusiasm of teachers and provides additional resources for readers wanting to broaden their engagement with literature. All Bookmarks are available to download free of charge.
Designed for teachers/remote teaching
- The Joe Orton Creative Writing competition, kindly funded by Dame Vivienne Westwood, aims to teach students about Joe Orton and satire, and to show students how social and sexual inequality can be challenged through comedy. Access a free creative writing worksheet for teachers!
- English Resources for Teachers: The EA’s journal English – Drawing on the journal’s rich history of work on key texts in the canon of English literature, this issue has been designed to help teachers and students delve deeper into key exam board texts. UPDATED 1 JUNE 2020
- The National Theatre on social media (#nationaltheatreathome). The Secondary Education Committee suggests setting tasks based on plays screened by the NT.
- BBC Teach classroom resources
- British Council classroom resources
- Pearson Secondary Support
Useful for parents/home learning
- Free online writing workshops with author Emma Carroll
- The Wordsworth House website: lots of readings of Wordsworth’s poems by celebrities, and children can submit their own readings too
- The National Trust’s My Colonial Countryside project – A group of local primary school children have brought to life a series of objects from the Eastern Museum at Kedleston Hall using poems, stories and short films. Their take on the objects show the collection in a new light and are the basis for this new exhibition at Kedleston Hall
- Lockdown Culture via The Guardian – reviews of performances (plays, dance, music, etc.) available online
- Watch the full performance of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale (Cheek by Jowl)
- The British Library’s Discovering Literature website – ideal for GCSE and A Level students looking to explore the broader contexts of works of literature
- Authors Live on Lockdown from the Scottish Book Trust – activities and video interviews with authors
- Resources for teachers from Royal Holloway – These practical, easy-to-access resources represent the latest in contemporary critical thinking and argument, based on the current research of our academics
- Clickview English – educational videos exploring set texts
- Emma Smith’s latest piece on Shakespeare and the pandemic
- Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare’s sonnets
- The Poetry Society – audio recordings of hundreds of poems
- Royal Shakespeare Company: Shakespeare Learning Zone
- ‘Stay at Home Shakespeare’ – by Emma Whipday
