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Enriching English
Curriculum with soul
A practical guide for English teams and leaders looking to create a joyful and inspiring curriculum.
Author: Jo Heathcote
Revitalise curriculum planning and strategy across all key stages, utilising diverse texts impactful assessments, practical examples and reflective points.
• Discover how to build a logical progression of skills and knowledge to enrich students’ learning experiences, while also making the most of the freedom KS3 offers
• Perfect for deepening your knowledge, engaging in reflective exercises throughout, and supporting and advancing your professional development
• Jo Heathcote draws on her years of experience as a Head of Department, examiner, author, and consultant in schools, to reframe your thinking about the English curriculum and rekindling the spirit and passion in classrooms
“Supportive, informative, and broad enough with tasks and reflection prompts to support teachers in all contexts to engage and feel empowered to make changes to their curriculum and teaching.”
Lin Goram, English Development Lead
Pedagogy with heart
A dynamic teaching guide for new and trainee English teachers looking to master their craft and teach confidently.
Author: Eleanor White Title
With a focus on practical application and teacher wellbeing, Eleanor White delves into the core principles of English instruction, offering strategies to enhance oracy, reading, and writing.
• Eleanor White draws on her love and passion for English and years of experience as a Head of Department and current teacher trainer, to highlight the richness and versatility of English as a subject
• Perfect for refreshing knowledge, engaging in reflective exercises throughout, and supporting and celebrating professional development
“This neat, slim volume guide will help new generations of English teachers produce engaging, instructive lessons, bursting with life and love of the subject.” K Taylor
Collins Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Collins has been a pioneer in dictionary publishing since 1819. We are proud to offer an extensive range of dictionaries and thesauruses in multiple formats for school and homework.
Collins Gem School Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Mini versions, perfect for KS3 students to take home.
Collins School Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Ideal for independent KS3 study, homework setting, and revision.
Collins Pocket Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Contain all of the vocabulary GCSE students need, with spelling, grammar and pronunciation help, plus a practical writing guide.
Collins Paperback Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Comprehensive vocabulary coverage and an easy-to-use layout.
Collins Gem School Dictionary, 6th Edition
Collins Gem School Thesaurus, 6th Edition
Collins Gem School Dictionary & Thesaurus, 3rd
Collins Gem English Dictionary, 17th Edition
Collins Gem English Thesaurus, 8th Edition
Collins Gem English Dictionary & Thesaurus, 6th Edition
Collins School Dictionary, 6th Edition
Collins School Dictionary, 6th Edition
Collins School Thesaurus, 6th Edition
Collins School Dictionary & Thesaurus, 2nd Edition
Collins Pocket English Dictionary 10th Edition
Collins Pocket English Thesaurus 7th Edition
Collins Pocket English Dictionary & Thesaurus 7th Edition
Collins English Dictionary, 8th Edition
Collins English Thesaurus, 8th Edition
Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus, 6th Edition
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GCSE SNAP Revision
Text Guides
Revise for GCSE English in a snap with unbeatable value set text and poetry guides in a handy A5 format.
• Straight to the point coverage of themes, language, structure and context
• Plenty of practice questions included for every topic
• Examples of how to plan and write essay responses
Quick summaries and practice questions for every topic.
Updated to reflect changes to exam questions from 2026 exams
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READING & WRITING
For AQA & Edexcel
Academic Writing
For AQA
NEW Reading (for papers 1 and 2)
NEW Writing (for papers 1 and 2)
POETRY GUIDES
For AQA, with video*
Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology*
Unseen Poetry*
For AQA
NEW Worlds and Lives Poetry Anthology (Nov 2025)
Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology
For Edexcel
Conflict Poetry Anthology
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*Includes online videos for extra support – QR codes link directly to online videos providing further analysis of the text
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SET TEXT GUIDES
For AQA, with video*
An Inspector Calls*
A Christmas Carol*
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*
Macbeth*
Romeo and Juliet*
For AQA
NEW My Name is Leon (Nov 2025)
The History Boys
Lord of the Flies
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Never Let Me Go
Animal Farm
Frankenstein
The Merchant of Venice
Blood Brothers
The Sign of Four
DNA
Great Expectations
Anita and Me
A Taste of Honey
Much Ado About Nothing
For Edexcel
An Inspector Calls
Macbeth
A Christmas Carol
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Romeo and Juliet
Coram Boy
Boys Don’t Cry
Refugee Boy
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GCSE SNAP Revision Workbooks
Write-in workbooks with everything students need to put their skills to the test and score top marks in their exams – questions on language, structure, themes and context in a clear and easy-to-use A4 format.
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Targeted practice questions for every topic to fully prepare for exams.
Romeo and Juliet: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Literature Text Workbook 978-0-00-843739-8 £3.00
An Inspector Calls: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Literature Text Workbook 978-0-00-835526-5 £3.00
Macbeth: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Literature Text Workbook 978-0-00-835527-2 £3.00
A Christmas Carol: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Literature Text Workbook 978-0-00-835528-9 £3.00
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Literature Text Workbook 978-0-00-835529-6 £3.00
Power and Conflict: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Literature Poetry Anthology Workbook
Unseen Poetry: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Literature Poetry Anthology Workbook
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NEW Reading: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Language Workbook 978-0-00-878460-7 £3.00
NEW Writing: AQA GCSE 9–1 English Language Workbook 978-0-00-878461-4 £3.00
KS3 Complete Revision and Practice
KS3 Complete Revision & Practice
2 books in 1:
1. Revision guide – clear and concise coverage of every topic, with online quizzes to test recall
2. Workbook – topic-by-topic practice, with video solutions to build confidence
Free online Q&A flashcards and ebook also included
KS3 Revision Guide
• Clear and concise coverage of every topic
• Plenty of practice opportunities throughout, plus mixed practice questions at the end of the book
KS3 Workbook
• Write-in workbook covering all KS3 curriculum topics
• Develop key skills through targeted practice
• Lots of testing opportunities throughout
GCSE Complete Revision and Practice
GCSE Complete Revision & Practice
3 books in 1:
1. Revision guide – clear and concise coverage of every topic, with interactive quizzes to test recall
2. Workbook – topic-by-topic practice, with video solutions to build confidence
3. Exam-style practice paper with answers
Plus you can access a range of additional free online revision and practice:
• QR codes link directly to interactive quick recall quizzes and worked video solutions for each topic
• Free Q&A flashcards to download online
• Access to an ebook version for revision on the move
GCSE Revision Guides
• Clear and concise coverage of every topic
• Quick tests, end-of-topic practice questions, topic reviews and mixed questions to support exam preparation
• Free online Q&A flashcards and ebook included
GCSE 9–1 English Language and Literature Revision Guide
AQA GCSE 9–1 Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology Revision Guide
AQA GCSE 9–1 Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Revision Guide
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NEW GCSE Workbooks
• A workbook and full practice paper with answers in one book
• All the practice you need with topic-by-topic questions
• Put what you have practised to the test with a full exam-style practice paper
NEW AQA GCSE 9–1 English Language and Literature Workbook**
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WJEC Eduqas GCSE 9–1 English Language and Literature Workbook 978-0-00-832692-0
NEW AQA GCSE 9–1 English Language Target Grade 5 Workbook
NEW AQA GCSE 9–1 English Language Target Grade 7 Workbook
GCSE in a Week
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Get ready for GCSE 9–1 exams in just one week using this 7-day revision plan, with concise notes and practice for all essential topics.
• Cover essential GCSE topics in less than an hour with handy timing indicators
• Practise for the real thing with exam-style questions and answers
• Remember key points with summary boxes after each topic
Glow Up Your Grades: The Ultimate Guide to Transforming your English GCSE
High-impact revision to help students achieve the best grade possible!
From experienced English teacher, presenter and examiner Mehreen Baig comes a new way to revise for GCSE English.
• Level up GCSE English revision with chapters covering every aspect of GCSE English Language & Literature
• Learn how to navigate exams with Mehreen’s enthusiastic, reassuring advice
• Support studying with videos from Mehreen’s popular YouTube channel, Up Your Grades – the 2025 Webby winner for People’s Voice, Social Education and Science
Annotated examples help students break down texts and exam questions.
Scan the QR code to access accompanying videos from Mehreen.
You Can’t Revise by Mark Roberts
You can’t revise for GCSE English! Yes You Can and Mark Roberts Shows You How
Mark Roberts uncovers the secrets of psychology and cognitive science to show how to revise effectively for GCSE English. There’s advice on how to master GCSE English revision as well as examples of what successful students do to help them towards top grades.
Learn how to:
• Organise notes and annotations
• Memorise and practise using ‘killer quotations’
• Improve practice essays and creative writing responses
• Prepare for the unseen texts
• Embrace health and wellbeing in the lead up to exams
“I fully recommend You can’t revise for GCSE English! The format is excellent, with top tips, key quotes and more. Every English department needs one of these.” Teacher reviewer
You can’t revise for A Level English Literature! Yes You Can and Mark Roberts Shows You How
Following on from the success of You can’t revise for GCSE English! Mark Roberts shows how students can maximise their marks to do brilliantly at A Level English Literature.
Learn how to:
• Implement practice methods that improve recall
• Build up a bank of quotations
• Use literary criticism and context successfully
• Develop an academic writing style
“Roberts’ practical strategies are presented in an accessible, concise format, making this volume useful for both students and teachers alike.”
Teacher reviewer
NEW Decodable fiction and non-fiction phonics books designed to appeal to students aged 11+
• Support KS3 students who need reading practice in phonics and decoding skills
• Read in class or at home, with free teacher notes available on collins.co.uk/FullyBooked to set your students up for reading success by developing comprehension skills, vocabulary acquisition and recall
• The standard paperback format and shorter length helps students gain confidence and make progress
Compelling Fiction
Fascinating Non-Fiction
For readers who love facts – 10 books exploring topics such as space, animal behaviour and sporting skills.
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Stranded Under the Stars 32pp
The Forgotten Garden 32pp
Lucas Dives Deep 32pp
Kay And Aiden – The Stolen Trumpet 32pp
Zayn Levels Up 32pp
Scan the QR code or visit collins.co.uk/FullyBooked to view a full sample and discover the focus sounds for each book
Better, Stronger!
Collins Classroom Classics
Complete novels and plays accompanied by introductions and glossaries for KS3, GCSE and A Level students.
Only £2.00 per copy for schools.
KS3 editions
• Introductions are perfectly pitched to set the scene for KS3 students
• Bespoke glossaries improve understanding of unfamiliar concepts and relevant contemporary terms
• Easy-to-read font
GCSE editions
• Introductions help GCSE students understand the novel or play by introducing important themes, contexts, and aspects of the writer’s style or dramatic techniques
• Glossaries for the novels define nineteenth-century terms which may be unfamiliar
• Each Shakespeare edition includes supportive notes for every page of the play
• Robust, student-friendly format with an easy-to-read font type and size
“An affordable way to provide complete texts for our students –they are clear, student-friendly and informative.”
Head of English, Fort Pitt Grammar School
A Level editions
• Introductions are perfectly pitched to provide the depth and demand required by A Level
• Each Shakespeare edition includes supportive notes for every page of the play
• Glossaries improve understanding of the novels by defining unfamiliar concepts and culturally specific terms
• Expand further reading with a list of key critical and theoretical texts
Title
KS3 editions
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
GCSE editions
Animal Farm
The War of the Worlds
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
A Christmas Carol
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
The Sign of Four
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A Level editions
Heart of Darkness
Dracula
Hard Times
Dubliners
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oliver Twist
Mrs Dalloway
Persuasion
The Great Gatsby
Wuthering Heights
Othello
Hamlet
King Lear
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Reimagine Key Stage 3 English
Build confidence with Romantic and nineteenth-century texts in preparation for GCSE.
Series Editor: Jo Heathcote
Authors: Jo Heathcote, Emma Slater, Caroline Davies and Nic Williams
Develop skills, reading stamina and cultural understanding with nine knowledge-rich projects to invigorate your KS3 English curriculum and create a firm foundation for GCSE.
• Explore a range of fiction, poetry and non-fiction texts from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century that build understanding of key GCSE themes and contexts
• Expertly planned and sequenced lesson plans, ready-made teaching PowerPoints, age-appropriate extracts and student worksheets
• Interleave skills – building in comprehension, analysis, language and structure, with plentiful opportunities to practise writing for GCSE in structured steps
Reimagine Key Stage 3 English 978-0-00-840050-7 £175.00
“The breadth of text types covered is fantastic for plugging gaps ... and we were able to keep learning interesting and fresh.” Joshua Roy, Ernest Bevin College
Reimagine Key Stage 3 Shakespeare
Imaginative ways to study Shakespeare in every year of KS3.
Authors: Jo Heathcote and Hannah Appleton
• Build confidence in understanding Shakespeare’s language, themes and contexts with key extracts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet, ready-to-use lesson plans, teaching PowerPoints and student activity worksheets
• Inspire students with creative ways to explore and perform Shakespeare’s drama
• Coherently planned and sequenced projects build towards a strong understanding of Shakespeare’s plays and world, boosting historical awareness and cultural capital
• Take an inclusive approach with support for students whose first language is not English Title ISBN
Reimagine Key Stage 3 Shakespeare 978-0-00-855264-0 £115.00
“Reimagine Key Stage 3 Shakespeare provides all you need to deliver a carefully plotted lesson sequence for a whole play in each year of KS3.” Mike Davies, Teach Secondary review
Develop Brilliant Speaking
Build oracy skills in KS3 to empower every child.
Author: Djamila Boothman
• Help every child develop their oracy skills in Year 7 in English or drama lessons, supporting social mobility and equity
• Easy to slot into KS3 schemes of work with pre-prepared and tested lesson plans, PowerPoints, videos and worksheets in one customisable teacher pack for the whole department
• Aid transition from primary to secondary school, building social skills and interactions over the course of a term
• Empower students to voice their opinions, thoughts and feelings through debating, speech making, listening, responding and working collaboratively
• Develop communication and empathy skills for work and life
• Accompanying digital files are fully customisable, photocopiable and printable
“We have had more students achieve merits or distinctions for the quality of their presentations [and] a wider willingness to participate in group presentations.”
Debbie Price, Ashfield School
Develop Brilliant Reading 12 tests and 10 lessons to assess and improve reading at KS3.
Author: Chris Curtis
Assess reading progress and improve reading skills with ready-made and photocopiable reading tests to spot problem areas, direct teaching, and gain insights into reading patterns.
• Show students how to read for meaning with 12 structured tests that carefully model the reading process
• Explore and interact with texts from a diverse range of genres, styles and time periods
• Provide targeted support with mark schemes, feedback sheets, and 10 fully resourced reading skills lessons
• Accompanying digital files are fully customisable, photocopiable and printable
“A superb book which, when used in conjunction with the downloadable materials, forms a very powerful set of teaching resources. Highly recommended.” Amazon review
Building Brilliant Vocabulary 60
lessons to close the word gap in KS3
Author: Katie Ashford
Ready-made vocabulary lessons to improve KS3 students’ conceptual knowledge and prepare them for GCSE.
• Help students understand challenging concepts by tackling high-leverage Tier 2 words
• Support and exemplify systematic and explicit teaching of vocabulary with a clear teaching sequence for each word and student activity sheets to help students understand and use the words in a range of contexts
“A fantastic resource that can be used and adapted throughout a student’s education.”
Crafting Brilliant Sentences
Grammar for GCSE English (9–1)
Author: Lindsay Skinner
Ready-made grammar and writing lessons to improve KS3 students’ conceptual knowledge and prepare them for GCSE.
• 60 ready-made, editable lessons providing a systematic approach to teaching sentence grammar with detailed lesson plans, including answers, PowerPoints, worksheets and intervention support
• Work through each aspect of the sentence, helping students to craft brilliant narrative, descriptive, discursive and analytical writing for GCSE English Language and Literature
“My colleagues and I feel that this is the most useful resource we have bought in years! It is so clear and well-structured. The students are producing some excellent pieces of writing as a result!”
Kate Penney, Head of English, Leicester High School for Girls
KS3 Writing Recovery Pack
Activities to rebuild writing skills and stamina
Authors: Mike Gould and Richard Vardy
Close the writing gap with over 100 supportive and structured activities that can be easily slotted into your existing curriculum.
• A full catch-up programme for KS3 writing with ready-made activities, worksheets and videos that can be used flexibly alongside existing schemes of work or in intervention and catch-up sessions
• Support progress with perfectly pitched and meaningful activities that foster a sense of achievement
• Build resilience and secure skills for extended writing, ready for GCSE English, as tasks ramp up in demand and length
“I’m really impressed – a great way of helping students to regain and develop their writing skills and confidence.” Ian Kirby, English teacher
Aiming for Progress
Second Editions
Series Editors: Gareth Calway, Mike Gould and Natalie Packer
Targeted support for all ability levels to help every student move forward from their achievement at Key Stage 2 towards GCSE success.
These revised editions offer student-friendly explanations and activities to build, develop and extend students’ literacy skills, showing them precisely what they need to do to progress.
Aiming for Progress in Writing and Grammar: Book 2
Aiming for Progress in Writing and Grammar: Book 3
Aiming for Progress in Writing and Grammar: Book 4
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Collins Readers – The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
• Inspire your students with a well-known classic selected by experts and teachers for its classroom potential Title
Collins National Theatre Play –The Exam
• Encourage your students to consider contemporary themes and issues
• Enrich learning using the staging suggestions and classroom activities from National Theatre directors, included to provide professional, stress-free support
Title
Age group: Years 7 & 8 Cast: 3 main characters plus another 10 parts
Starting Shakespeare
• Students gain a stimulating introduction to Shakespeare with a range of activities covering topics including plot, genre, character, theme, staging, and historical context
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AQA GCSE Set Text Student Guides
Authors: Mike Gould, Lindsay Skinner, Julia Burchell, Jo Heathcote and Alexandra Melville
Develop your students’ skills in English Language as they study the AQA Literature set texts, and deepen their understanding of themes and contexts of each novel or play.
• Perfect for in-class study as well as exam preparation
• In-depth exploration of the text with activities for every chapter or act
• Prepare students for exam success with passage-based tasks, practice exam questions and sample responses
• Linked Language extracts and AQA-style Language tasks build contextual understanding
• Succinct character and plot summaries
Grammar for GCSE English
Authors: Mike Gould and Beth Kemp
Series Editors: Mike Gould and Paul Higgins
36 tutorials to boost students’ understanding of grammar, spelling and punctuation to improve their writing and their GCSE results.
• Recap the basics of word classes, sentence grammar, punctuation and paragraphing
• Focus on the specifics of writing to inform and explain; writing to summarise; writing to argue and persuade; writing to explore and analyse; and writing to describe and narrate with a dedicated chapter on each writing purpose
• Explore sample answers in the final chapter on spelling, proofreading, and editing to help students understand how they can check and improve their work
AQA GCSE English Language and English Literature
Series Editors: Sarah Darragh and Jo Heathcote
Authors: Phil Darragh, Sarah Darragh, Mike Gould and Jo Heathcote
Teach as one coherent course with resources to help all students make good progress and develop the understanding they need to succeed at GCSE.
Core and Advanced Student Books
• The Core Student Book gives a firm foundation in the skills and knowledge required for both courses and the Advanced Student Book offers extra challenge
• Help all students make good progress. Each chapter follows the hierarchy of skills and knowledge in the mark schemes, so students have a clear sequence of learning
• Features a comprehensive selection of passages from nineteenth to twenty-first century literature and literary non-fiction, perfect for building students’ confidence in tackling unseen texts
• The Student Books have been approved by AQA
Teacher Guide with digital download
• Help all your students make good progress with differentiated lesson plans, worksheets and PowerPoints in editable formats
• Extra support and extra challenge features suggest how to make the content appropriate to all your learners
2.3 Explore narrative voices
Differentiated
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nothing so cold as the February night I opened the door in the Chapel of Rest where my mother lay, neither young, nor old, where my lips, returning the kiss to her brow, knew the meaning of cold.
Carol Ann Duffy
What is the’plot’ or ‘content’ of this poem? What is the sequence of events?
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between narrative voices and perspectives, and try out some of them in their own writing.
• Some students could comment on the effects of a range of narrative voices and perspectives, and apply this to convey a particular and convincing tone in their own writing.
Getting you thinking
Big question Refer to the Big question: How do writers create interesting narrative voices? Ask the students to think of a main character in a novel or short story they have read and enjoyed. What made that character distinctive? Was it simply what he or she did? Or was it the way in which those events, experiences, etc., were expressed?
Read aloud Text A on page 30 of the Student Book, and then allow two minutes for the students to discuss Q1–Q3 in pairs. Take feedback and share answers as a class.
Elicit the idea that the narrator interprets particular events in a positive way in terms of the girl’s feelings, but from our neutral view as readers – seeing both sides – we can surmise that the girl’s negative actions are genuine – that she is irritated by the narrator (‘ignoring me’, ‘not responding’, ‘unfriended’).
Explore the skills
Ask the students to complete Q4 in pairs. Take feedback as a class. Possible responses to the questions are:
a The present tense is mostly used, which gives an immediacy and sense of us living the narrator’s life with him.
b ‘not responding’, ‘following’, ‘watching’ all create a slightly obsessive tone, a narrow focus.
c The narrator seems obsessive and locked into his own world, emphasised by his use of words such as ‘hidden’ and ‘secret’, which suggest an unhealthy desire.
Read Text B on page 31 and ask the students to complete Q5 using Worksheet 2.3 to record their ideas. Again, take feedback as a class. For Text B, the main things to draw out are the minor sentences (no verbs); the heightened vocabulary (‘golden’, ‘acolyte’ ‘believer’) that conveys a spiritual, elevated tone; an analogy is drawn with the idea of religious worship and almost transcendental power (in the ‘electric’ power). There is a
AQA GCSE English Literature Worlds and Lives Poetry Cluster Teacher Guide
Ignite your students’ passion for poetry with Worlds and Lives, the modern poetry anthology for AQA GCSE English Literature, supported by our FREE teacher guide, produced in collaboration with AQA!
• One-page summaries of each poem, covering the poem’s background, structure and key themes
• Suggested poems for comparison and discussion questions for each poem
• Guidance on teaching the poetry anthology, including approaches to poetry analysis and comparison
Download the free Teacher Guide at collins.co.uk/worldsandlives
NEW AQA GCSE English Language Teacher Guide: Emerging Identities
Create meaningful links to literature texts for co-teaching and interleaving with FREE lessons based on four contemporary texts around the theme ‘Coming of Age.’
Produced in collaboration with AQA, the teacher guide aims to inspire teachers and students afresh in the teaching of GCSE English Language with the choice of diverse extracts, thoughtful questioning and creative opportunities in the lesson plans and worksheets.
• Each extract introduces the author and suggests wider reading to encourage reading for pleasure
• Lesson plans build skills and knowledge in inferential reading, close analysis of the language and structure as well as opportunities to write in a variety of forms and styles
• Written tasks encourage students to relate their own experiences to the texts and develop their writing skills and autonomy
• Each lesson includes a key focus on oracy as a means of developing confidence and critical thinking
Download the free Teacher Guide at collins.co.uk
AQA GCSE (9–1)
English Language Exam Practice
Author: Jo Heathcote
A practice book designed to help students develop the skills required for each question in the Paper 1 and Paper 2 exams.
• Help students build and apply the key skills for each question with plenty of opportunities to practise
• Assess progress and build confidence for the final exams with half-term progress tests, end-of-term mock exams and two further practice papers for revision
• Show students how to improve their work, with annotated sample responses
Accessible text and tasks guide students through exactly what they need to do to achieve a Grade 5.
Anthologies
Brilliant inclusive and representative texts to enrich your GCSE, A Level and IB Diploma curriculum.
Series Editor: Jo Heathcote
Contributors: Ali Al-Jamri, Beth Kemp, Christopher Clyde Green, Djamila Boothman, Jamila Gavin, Joanne Benjamin-Lewis, Jo Heathcote, Lindsay Skinner, Lucy Toop, Maria Cairney, Mike Gould, Payal Bhavsar and Thishani Wijesinghe
Weave more representative and inclusive contemporary texts and writers into KS4 and KS5.
• Enable all students to see themselves in or find a point of connection with the texts they are reading
• Support the study of unseen texts at GCSE and coursework (NEA) at A Level with a rich choice of texts from speeches to short stories
• Enhance students’ studies with a bank of fiction and non-fiction extracts and poems across different genres and forms
• Knit into current schemes of work with tasks that develop the key skills in the GCSE English assessment objectives
• Feel confident to deliver engaging lessons with context notes, language support, ready-made lesson plans and worksheets, and practice exam questions
• Accompanying digital files are fully editable, downloadable and photocopiable
“One of the most concerted efforts to widen the curriculum and to truly reflect the diversity in our society.”
Jamila Gavin MBE, author of Coram Boy
Samples taken from All Of
• Full poem or extract with worksheets (KS4) or discussion questions to start guided conversations in the classroom (KS5)
• Each text is presented with information about the writer, their background and context to aid knowledge and understanding
• Suggestions for further exploration include links to other plays, poems, novels, articles, films, documentaries and literary theories or movements to promote wider reading
Each lesson plan flags any possible sensitive content and highlights where content may be triggering for some students, for example, racism or personal loss
“I loved the activities and the links to other reading. I was positively drooling over the choice of texts and it made my life so easy. A brilliant edition to the KS4 curriculum.”
Nicola Dickens about Through Our Eyes
What types of texts are included?
Includes a wide range of text forms, including letters, autobiographical writing, memoirs, essays, travelogues, speeches, poems, lyrics, articles, op-eds, novels, novellas and short stories in different genres including fantasy, historical fiction and verse.
Examples of themes covered include:
• culture • different bodies and dis/ability
• ethnicity • gender, gender identity and sexuality
• religion • socio-economic background
• heritage • regionality
• age
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A Level Set Text Teacher Guides
Authors: Elmina Ferguson, Thishani Wijesinghe and Jo Heathcote
Forewords by Dr Lesley Nelson-Addy
Celebrate and teach more books by writers of colour with confidence.
Downloadable teacher guides to empower you to explore the depth and richness of set texts: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo (OCR), Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Edexcel) and Passing by Nella Larsen (OCR).
• Discover approaches to teaching and studying each text that provide a secure foundation and a springboard for ideas on how to incorporate them into your A Level curriculum
• Feel confident to deliver rewarding and engaging lessons using the guidance of experienced, practising teachers
• Fully editable and photocopiable so you can teach flexibly and share across the department
Each guide includes:
Foreword by Dr Lesley Nelson-Addy
• Introduction: How to use this resource
• About the contributor team
• About the author and biography Introduction to the text and overview
• Key themes
• Key critical contexts
• Analysis of the structure of the text
Language and literary devices
Character analysis (and other characterisation)
• Different interpretations
• Glossary of key literary devices and critical terminology for A Level
• Discussion questions for A Level Comparative links for other texts Links to other resources available
“This is a wonderful introduction to the content, craft and context of Girl, Woman, Other for teachers and students, and indeed all readers.”
Bernadine Evaristo
Cambridge Lower Secondary English
Second Edition
Series Editors: Julia Burchell and Mike Gould
Series Authors: Julia Burchell, Steve Eddy, Mike Gould and Ian Kirby
This skills-focused course offers rich and comprehensive coverage of the curriculum framework with differentiation to support all learners.
Student’s Book
• Offer a clear focus on improving skills for reading, writing, speaking, and listening
• Each chapter builds from students exploring a rich range of international texts, through scaffolded skills activities to a series of meaningful final tasks
Workbooks
• Consolidate and extend students’ learning with engaging practice activities and additional language support
Title ISBN Price
Stage 7
Student’s Book
Teacher’s Guide
Workbook
978-0-00-834083-4 £19.99
978-0-00-836409-0 £100.00
978-0-00-836417-5 £12.99
Progress Book Student’s Book 978-0-00-865503-7 £9.99
Progress Book Teacher’s Guide 978-0-00-865506-8 £55.00
Stage 8
Student’s Book
Teacher’s Guide
Workbook
978-0-00-836407-6 £19.99
978-0-00-836411-3 £100.00
978-0-00-836418-2 £12.99
Progress Book Student’s Book 978-0-00-865504-4 £9.99
Progress Book Teacher’s Guide 978-0-00-865507-5 £55.00
Stage 9
Student’s Book
Teacher’s Guide
Workbook
Progress Book Student’s Book
978-0-00-836408-3 £19.99
978-0-00-836414-4 £100.00
978-0-00-836419-9 £12.99
978-0-00-865505-1 £9.99
Progress Book Teacher’s Guide 978-0-00-865508-2 £55.00
This series is endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway to support the curriculum framework (0861) from 2020.
The Progress Books have not been through the endorsement process for the Cambridge Pathway.
Progress Books
• Boost confidence, consolidate understanding, and measure progress with extra practice
• Available as a write-in Student’s Book and photocopiable Teacher’s Pack for all stages
Digital resources and Adaptive practice available for this course on the Collins Hub.
Adaptive Practice has not gone through the endorsement process for the Cambridge Pathway.
Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second Language (0876) 2nd Edition also available. See collins.co.uk for more information.
CambridgeIGCSE®English
Fourth Edition
Series Editors: Julia Burchell and Mike Gould
Authors: Claire Austin-Macrae, Abhinandan Bhattacharya, Keith Brindle, Julia Burchell, Nigel Carlisle, Steve Eddy, Joanna Fliski, Mike Gould, Naomi Hursthouse, Ian Kirby, Syed Mikhail, Lucy Toop and Robin Wilson
Show students how to progress with a clear structure that moves from building key reading, writing and technical skills to applying these skills to specific question types and coursework tasks.
Student’s Book
• Engage students with rich and diverse text extracts from around the world, representing varied writing forms and purposes
• Help students to make progress with regular ‘Check your progress’ checklists and annotated sample answers to exemplify best practice
• Build confidence in speaking and listening with clear guidance, activities and exemplification of presentation and discussion tasks
Workbook
• Set homework easily and offer extra support with a clear correspondence between the Workbook and Student’s Book
• Build students’ writing stamina and fluency for all the writing forms and purposes required by the syllabus
Teacher’s Guide
• Support students’ progress with teaching sequences, moving from building the key reading, writing, and technical skills to applying these skills to a range of question types and tasks
Revision Guide
• Clear and concise syllabus coverage
• Topics in short, user-friendly sections to help plan revision in manageable chunks
• Develop exam skills with complete sets of exam-style practice papers
These resources are endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway to support the full syllabus (0500/0990) for examination from 2027. The Revision Guide has not been through the endorsement process for the Cambridge Pathway.
Cambridge IGCSE® English as a Second Language
Third Edition
Authors: Susan Anstey, Alison Burch, Lucy Hobbs, Avril Kirkham, Shubha Koshy, Lorna Pepper and Emma Wilkinson
Provide engaging content, skills-building exercises and practice to help students achieve their full potential.
Title
Student’s
These resources are endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway to support the full syllabus (0510/0511/0991) for examination from 2024.
Cambridge IGCSE® English (as an Additional Language)
Authors: Rebecca Adlard, Lucy Norris and Tom Ottway
Build confidence in English with a carefully structured course that allows for reinforcement and progression at every stage. Develop practical language skills with accessible content planned around real-world, topic-based units.
These resources are endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway to support the full syllabus (0472/0772) for examination from 2023.
NEW Cambridge IGCSE® Literature in English
Second Edition
Series Editor: Anna Gregory
Authors: Anna Gregory, Mike Gould, Noel Cassidy, Alexandra Melville, Kurt A. Johnson and Chris Green
Introduce students to the fundamental concepts of literary study and provide support in applying them to poetry, prose and drama with confidence. This resource has been updated to support the revised syllabus and also supports the Cambridge O Level syllabus.
We are working towards endorsement of the Student’s Book for the Cambridge Pathway to support the full syllabus (0475/0992/0427/ 2010/0408) for examination from 2028. The Teacher’s Guide will not go through the endorsement process for the Cambridge Pathway.
NEW Cambridge International AS & A Level English General Paper
Authors: Mike Gould, Babita Persuad, Khushnuma Ghandi, Steve Eddy
• Provide comprehensive coverage of the Cambridge International AS Level English General Paper syllabus with an easy-to-use, international course that supports students in developing the essential skills to succeed
We are working towards endorsement of the Student’s Book for the Cambridge Pathway to support the full syllabus for examination from 2028. The Teacher’s Guide will not go through the endorsement process for the Cambridge Pathway.
Cambridge International AS & A Level English Language
Series Consultants: Lisa Small and Tony Fleming
Author: Beth Kemp
• Build skills and knowledge in a clear sequence and help students to apply skills to a range of language tasks, with up-to-date coverage of the syllabus topics and a stimulating range of international texts
Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English
Series Editor: Noel Cassidy
Authors: Mike Gould, Maria Cairney, Ian Kirby and Richard Vardy
• Build key concepts and develop effective writing to give students a toolkit for responding to unseen texts and exploring the set texts in depth
• Free teacher resources available online, including editable medium-term plans summarising the coverage of each unit and chapter
Cambridge IGCSE® Drama
Second Edition
Authors: Rebekah Beattie, Mike Gould, Gail Deal and Emma Hollis
Create a varied, stimulating and enjoyable learning environment that enables students of varying confidence and ability levels to flourish.
• Enable students to develop their performance, devising and writing skills and engage with a range of exciting and international playscripts and scenarios
• Support and stimulate drama classes with role plays for warm ups, examples of stimuli for Devised pieces, and still images from productions which show key elements from performances
• This revised edition includes a focus on extending the repertoire, including site-specific and immersive theatre, as well as extra support for writing about texts in performance
Title ISBN Price
Student’s Book 978-0-00-835369-8 £26.99
Teacher’s Guide 978-0-00-835368-1 £100.00
These resources are endorsed by Cambridge Pathway to support the full syllabus (0411/0994) for examination from 2022.
Cambridge International AS & A Level Drama
Series Editor: Emma Hollis
Authors: Holly Barradell, Rebekah Beattie, Gail Deal, Mike Gould and Emma Hollis
Deliver an exciting and enjoyable course with in-depth and up-to-date coverage of the syllabus topics and a stimulating range of international play script extracts. The ideal resource for Advanced Level Drama study.
• Foster a creative, experiential approach with practical activities in every unit and suggestions of how to experiment with individual tasks
• Enable students to draw on this knowledge in their own practice throughout the course and open avenues for further exploration with a chapter on theatre traditions and practitioners from around the world
• Support successful writing with clear modelling of the planning, structuring, and writing process, and sample writing at different levels
• Provide an exciting range of high-quality, international play script extracts, all of which are contextualised by introducing their social, historical, and cultural contexts
Title ISBN Price
Student’s Book 978-0-00-832614-2 £31.99
Teacher’s Guide 978-0-00-835368-1 £100.00
This resource is endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway (9482) to support the full syllabus for examination from 2022.
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