Graphic novel versions of GCSE English texts
Graphic novel versions of GCSE English novels and playscript set texts for young adults in KS4 to appeal to both reluctant and able readers and make challenging exam texts more accessible.
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Marilyn Pettit is an English educator and author-editor of classroom editions of classic literature for secondary students. Publisher information records her role as Senior English Adviser for Sandwell LEA, a background that informs her focus on accessible, curriculum-aligned texts and teacher support materials.
Pettit’s work with Hodder’s Livewire lists spans Shakespeare and prose classics. She co-developed pupil editions and teacher’s resource books for Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard III and The Tempest, and contributed to graphic or simplified adaptations and resources for texts including Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Treasure Island and other staples of KS3–KS4 study.
Across these titles Pettit’s editions combine clear layout, glossaries, scene or chapter summaries and structured activities designed to support guided reading, independent study and differentiation in mixed-ability classrooms.
Her Livewire Shakespeare edition of Much Ado About Nothing was published on 9 June 2005.
Graphic novel versions of GCSE English novels and playscript set texts for young adults in KS4 to appeal to both reluctant and able readers and make challenging exam texts more accessible.
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