English Code

Beta English Code is still being built. Spotted a mistake? Report a problem.

English cover work, ready in under a minute.

Pick a class and a unit. Print the booklet, or put the answers on the board. The same code always gives the same pack.

  1. Choose a class and a unit
  2. Print the booklet
  3. Give the code to whoever is covering

For cover

Every unit from Year 7 to Year 11.

Key Stage 3 and GCSE

Cover packs

An 8-page booklet for a 60-minute lesson, with a supervisor sheet and the answers. Every unit has eight tasks: tasks 1 to 4 are reading lessons built around one text, and tasks 5 to 8 are writing lessons built around a model text.

One lessonchoose a class, a unit and a level Whole dayevery lesson on the absent teacher's timetable, one booklet of instructions for the day Have a code?type it in the box at the top to reprint the pack or show the answers Build a cover pack

The units

Each has eight tasks at three levels: Support, Core and Stretch.

Year 7

  • Ancient Tales Autumn 1
  • Oliver Twist Autumn 2
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream Spring 2
  • Poetry Summer 2

Year 8

  • Sherlock Holmes Autumn 1
  • The Tempest Spring 1
  • Animal Farm Summer 1
  • The Art of Rhetoric Summer 2

Year 9

  • Jane Eyre Autumn 1
  • Small Island Spring 1 to Spring 2
  • Poetry of the First World War Summer 1
  • Reading for Study Spring 2 to Summer 2
  • Macbeth Summer 2

Year 10 · GCSE

  • Language Paper 1: fiction Autumn 1
  • Language Paper 2: non-fiction Spring 1
  • Macbeth Autumn 1
  • Frankenstein Spring 2
  • Power and Conflict poetry Spring 1
  • An Inspector Calls Autumn 2

Year 11 · GCSE

  • Unseen poetry Autumn 1
  • Refugee Boy Autumn 1

Coming later

More pagesSpelling and grammar starters, worksheets, quotation revision and knowledge organisers.
Checked, not generatedNothing is written by AI when a pack is made. Texts and questions come from checked banks; spelling and grammar questions are made by code that also works out the answer.
Safe to printEvery text is out of copyright or written for English Code. Set texts still in copyright, such as An Inspector Calls and Refugee Boy, are never printed: their lessons use linked texts on the same themes.
Same code, same packA pack code reprints the same booklet and answers any time, on any device.
Nothing to sign up forNo accounts, no pupil data. Open the site, build the pack, print.