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

Avaialble now 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.

Studying King Lear – EMC Advanced Literature Series (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.

What Matters in English Teaching Collected Blogs and Other Writing – Barbara Bleiman (Print) 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.

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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

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.

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.

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 (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.

Language & Literature: An EMC Coursebook (OCR Language & Literature AS/AL EMC) (Print) Format: Print

This EMC coursebook is an essential classroom resource for the OCR AS and A Level English Language and Literature (EMC). It provides sequences of classroom activities to teach all of the components of the AS and A Level.

Studying Othello with DVD (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.

Pre-1770 Drama: Elizabethan & Jacobean (Print) Format: Print

128-page photocopiable pack introduces the cultural, social, historical and literary contexts of the period through the study of substantial extracts from a range of set texts.

Tragedy: a Student Handbook (Print) Format: Print

A comprehensive introduction to tragedy, designed for advanced level students. It provides clear explanations of key concepts in tragedy and changing ideas about tragedy over time, from classical theories and Renaissance thinking through to modern interpretations.

Dramatic Genres: Comedy (Print) Format: Print

A comprehensive set of materials and activities on the dramatic genre of comedy, to resource advanced level teaching, whichever play texts you are teaching. 160-page photocopiable pack, with 2-hour DVD.

Studying Narrative (Print) Format: Print

A collection of resources for teaching about aspects of narrative. It offers comprehensive and clear explanations of key concepts, with short, pithy, critical extracts on concepts and texts (including David Lodge, John Mullan and other critics), lively classroom materials and approaches to teaching them.

Introducing the Gothic (Print) Format: Print

Lively activities introducing aspects of the Gothic.