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Site origins: The main site has been developed by practising educators as a source of teaching materials to support teachers and students working towards external literature examinations. Most of the resources have grown out of actual classroom work. We hope teachers worldwide will offer suggestions for further growth, and perhaps be willing to place on the site resources they themselves have developed.

LitWorks.com also now hosts The Paka Mdogo Books, a series of animal adventure novels for 7-12-year-olds, supported by a comprehensive set of free online teaching and learning resources. 

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Shakespeare

Othello

A Study Commentary

The Commentary's line-by-line analysis gives students insight into the play's detail, and helps them develop the skills of close textual comment. It also encourages them to think about what Shakespeare is trying to do and how he is trying to do it.

Macbeth

A Study Commentary

The Commentary is designed to enhance student understanding of the play’s subtleties and the reasons why the characters do what they do. It also assists them with their course work and helps them prepare for whatever they may face in the final exam.

Hamlet

A Study Commentary

The Commentary, scholarly in its focus yet informal in its tone, looks at the play in a refreshingly different way. It helps ‘Hamlet’ – and Hamlet – speak to a young audience in ways that Shakespeare would approve of.

King Lear

A Study Commentary

As a teacher you will find that the Commentary helps you offer imaginative lessons and explore the play with your students in ways that will fully engage them and give you great professional satisfaction.

Textual Analysis

Writing Unseen Commentaries

A Student Help Book

The resource provides students with the opportunity to explore a wide range of short pieces of literature they have encountered for the first time, and offers them a secure framework within which they can develop perceptive textual commentary.

Reading Between the Lines

A Student Help Book

This 280-page resource is designed to support senior students and their teachers working towards a final examination as part of an English course - in particular IB, AP and GCE A Level - with a Language rather than a Literature weighting.

Workbook Editions

Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

A Workbook Edition

This working edition of the General Prologue carries a new translation alongside the original text, detailed explanatory notes and a set of intriguing and penetrative study tasks. It is designed to give students a full sense of the poem’s freshness.

Jane Austen's Persuasion

A Workbook Edition

The margin notes are detailed, encourage perceptive dialogue about the text, and make many suggestions for independent student work. Essay topics in the style of Advanced Placement, IB Language A and GCE A Level are an integral part of the resource.

The WordSmith Prompts

The WordSmith Prompts

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