The lives of the Brontë children have never failed to excite interest. Many who have never read a word written by the Brontës know their life stories and have probably visited the Parsonage Museum in Haworth. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are well-known, as much for the numerous film and TV versions that have been made as for the books themselves.

Our printable resource pack in pdf format explores their lives and provides extracts with comments and questions from the work of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë.

Free sample pages from all of our schemes of work are also available from the TES resources site. The regular licence enables you to use the resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share the resource with colleagues at your school.

This pack of teaching materials provides a useful introduction to the work of Charles Dickens.  A series of extracts from Dickens follow a page about his life. Commentaries, vocabulary lists and questions follow each extract from the work of Dickens. Extracts are provided from the following:

Sketches By Boz [illustrations by Cruikshank]

The Pickwick Papers [illustrations by Phiz]

Oliver Twist [Illustrations by Cruikshank]

Nicholas Nickleby [illustrations by Phiz]

The Old Curiosity Shop [illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz]

Martin Chuzzlewit [illustrations by Phiz]

A Cristmas Carol [illustrations by Leech and Barnard]

The Haunted Man [illustrations by Leech]

David Copperfield [illustrations by Phiz]

Great Expectations [illustrations by Marcus Stone]

There is a Dickens Quiz and answer sheet at the end of the pack.