Just Write – EMC Let Them Loose (Print) Format: Print

A beautifully-illustrated workbook for Year 7 to harness pupils’ enthusiasm for writing and to develop their writing ‘muscles’!

What Matters in English Teaching Collected Blogs and Other Writing – Barbara Bleiman Format: Print

Drawing and expanding on Barbara Bleiman’s well read and highly influential blogs, this collection addresses the key issues and concerns facing English teacher.

KS3 Language Laboratory (Print) Format: Print

Knowledge about language and how it works, KS3 Language Laboratory encourages exploration, reflection and metacognition and challenges pupils to be active, critical and creative in their own reading and writing.

KS3 Poetry Plus (Print) Format: Print

With an eclectic mix of poems designed to intrigue and engage, this publication offers a rich experience of poetry at KS3 and an excellent foundation for GCSE. Fulfils National Curriculum requirements for pre-1914, seminal world literature and author study.

Diverse Shorts (Print) with ‘EMC-Free’ Critical Literacy Cards Format: Print

Literature to Promote Critical Thinking – a richly diverse range of texts, with activities and resources suitable for English lessons, Citizenship, PSHE and tutor time. Free download version of EMC's Critical Literacy Cards at the bottom of this page. [EMC-Free]

EMC Teaching a Novel – When Shadows Fall (EMC_Free) Format: Download

Free downloadable resource with before, during and after reading activities to support the small group teaching of When Shadows Fall.

EMC Poetry Playlist – Contemporary Voices for the Classroom Format: Print

Forthcoming Autumn 2022 An anthology of approximately 150 contemporary poems (mainly 21st century) for 11-16 year olds.

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An Inspector Called and Other Stories – Textual Transformations by Barbara Bleiman Format: Print

Forthcoming Autumn 2022 15 original short stories by Barbara Bleiman, each responding creatively to a selection of novels, poems and plays regularly studied in KS3 and 4.

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The Facility and Other Texts – Antigone Re-imagined (EMC Cultural Conversations) Format: Print

Forthcoming Autumn 2022 A collection of specially-commissioned new writing for KS3 by poets Valerie Bloom and Inua Ellams, short story writers Phoebe Roy and Barbara Bleiman and playwright Sarah Hehir, inspired by, and in conversation with, Sophocles’ play Antigone.

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The Carnegie Medal Award Shortlist 2022 – Resources (Download) [EMC_Free] Format: Download

Free downloadable resources for all the novels shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal Award 2022.

Spotlight on Literacy – Strategies for Spelling (EMC_Free) Format: Download

Free! From Spelling strategies from EMC's Spotlight on Literacy.

KS3 Non-fiction Shorts – Medium Term Planning (EMC_Free) (Download) Format: Download

Free downloadable units of learning to accompany EMC's KS3 Non-fiction Shorts.

KS3 Language Laboratory – Medium Term Planning (EMC_Free) (Download) Format: Download

Free downloadable units of learning to accompany EMC's KS3 Language Laboratory.

KS3 Literary Shorts – Medium Term Planning (EMC_Free) (Download) Format: Download

Free downloadable units of learning to accompany EMC's Literary Shorts (anthology and teacher resource).

KS3 PoetryPlus – Medium Term Planning (EMC_Free) (Download) Format: Download

Free downloadable units of learning to accompany EMC's KS3 Poetry Plus.

Diverse Shorts – Medium Term Planning (EMC_Free) (Download) Format: Download

Free downloadable units of learning to accompany EMC's Diverse Shorts – Literature to Promote Critical Thinking.

EMC Teaching a Novel: The Bone Sparrow (Download) Format: Download

Now available! Before, during and after reading activities to support the teaching of The Bone Sparrow as a class reader.

Iridescent Adolescent Accompanying Resources – EMC_Free (Download) Format: Download

Free downloadable resources (PowerPoints and student worksheets) to accompany EMC's anthology Iridescent Adolescent.

Cultural Conversations: Poems that Inspire (Download) Format: Download

A download unit looking at poems that have inspired, exploring the way they are in 'conversation' both with other texts and with readers.

The Carnegie Medal Award Shortlist 2021 – Resources (Download) [EMC-Free] Format: Download

Free downloadable resources for all the novels shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal Award 2021

Cultural Conversations: Going on an Odyssey in KS3 (Download) Format: Download

Plunge KS3 students into the world of The Odyssey – and explore how this text has been (and is still being) transformed and re-made.

Just Write – Remote Learning Package [EMC_Free] Format: Download

Bring the joy of just writing to online classrooms! Free – 10 PowerPoints for Remote Learning using EMC’s Just Write

Animal Farm: EMC Full Text Study Edition (Print) Format: Print

This full-text study edition brings Orwell’s pocket-sized classic to life with before, during and after reading activities.