00-Making the Leap: From GCSE to A Level Literature Study [EMC_Free] Format: Download

Help your Year 11 students to make the leap into A Level English Literature with enthusiasm and confidence!

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.

The Literature Reader – Key Thinkers on Key Topics (Print) Format: Print

Eighteen chapters by leading academics and practitioners on key aspects of English Literature to inform, engage and pique the interest of A Level students. Foreword by Professor John Mullan

Language Handbook (2nd edition) – Key Thinkers on Key Topics (Print) Format: Print

A new edition of EMC’s language handbook, with new chapters on forensic linguistics, critical discourse, American English and urban youth language and an updated chapter on language and technology.

Doing Close Reading (Print) Format: Print

Supports advanced level English Literature students in understanding what it means to analyse texts closely, through practical activities on a wide range of texts and close readings by leading academics and critics.

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

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

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Exploring Atonement – EMC Approaches (Download) Format: Download

A wide range of critical, creative and contextual approaches to support A Level students working on Atonement.

00-Leap into Media: inspirational activities for Y11 and Y12 [EMC_Free] Format: Download

An ideal home learning resource – for Year 11s making the leap to A Level study and for Year 12s looking to move their Media Studies learning on.

Exploring Nineteen Eighty-Four (Download) Format: Download

Critical, creative and contextual activities for supporting A Level students in reading the text in class and independently. Includes video interview with Dr David Dwan.

Discovering Literature – Teachers’ Toolkit (Download) [EMC-Free] Format: Download

Written by the English & Media Centre with the British Library Learning Team, this free download suggests ways of using the rich and diverse range of contextual and critical materials on the Discovering Literature website.

Exploring A Doll’s House – EMC Approaches for After Reading (Download) Format: Download

Downloadable publication providing critical, creative and contextual activities on A Doll's House for after reading.

Exploring Things Fall Apart – EMC Approaches for After Reading (Download) Format: Download

A wide range of critical, creative and contextual after reading activities on Things Fall Apart.

Exploring Mrs Dalloway – EMC Approaches (Download) Format: Download

A wide range of critical, creative and contextual approaches to support A Level students working on Mrs Dalloway.

EMC 19th Century Study Editions – Library Package (Print) Format: Print

Winner ERA 2017 Single copies of each of our 19th-century full text study editions: A Christmas Carol, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. Perfect for the school library.

Studying King Lear – EMC Advanced Literature Series Shakespeare (Print) Format: Print

Resources and activities to support students in exploring and analysing King Lear as a literary text and as a drama script in production.

Language Frameworks (2018): approaches to text analysis for AQA English Language (Download) Format: Download

New edition of Language Frameworks for AQA, with new texts, questions and commentaries for the 2015 specification.

Studying Hamlet – EMC Advanced Literature Series Shakespeare (Print) Format: Print

ERA Finalist 2018 Resources and activities to support students in exploring and analysing Hamlet.

Never Let Me Go – 15 EMC Approaches (Download) Format: Download

15 lively and rigorous activities to support students in getting to know, exploring, and critically analysing this novel.

Studying A Streetcar Named Desire (Print) Format: Print

96 pages of activities and resources to support the study of A Streetcar Named Desire for English Literature or combined Language and Literature courses at advanced level.

Studying The Handmaid’s Tale (Print) Format: Print

64-page photocopiable resource to support the study of The Handmaid’s Tale for English Literature or combined Language and Literature courses at advanced level.

Studying Beloved (Download) Format: Download

Studying Beloved download PDF publication provides before, during and after reading activities, critical and contextual material and a route through this fascinating and challenging novel.

Studying Othello with DVD – EMC Advanced Literature Series Shakespeare (Print) Format: Print

Classroom material taking students from pre-reading activities and close reading approaches on each Act, to after reading work and preparation for essay writing. Includes 90-minute DVD.

Studying All My Sons (Print) Format: Print

Balanced section-by-section activities with work encouraging an overview of the play as a whole. The flavour of the material is lively, challenging and innovative, with sparky ideas for getting through the text.