English, literature and language: Master the Core Knowledge. Free Up Time to Inspire.
Tassomai takes care of daily retrieval across set texts, grammar, and vocabulary. By ensuring students have essential plot, quote, and contextual knowledge confidently embedded, you get to focus classroom time on what makes English transformative: exploring big ideas, analysing literature, and developing a critical voice.
Includes a free full-feature trial for your English department.
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Mastering Basal Knowledge for Literature: Daily retrieval practice embeds essential plot points, character motivations, key quotes, and historical context across set texts so students walk into exams with core facts confidently embedded.
Building Language & Vocabulary Foundations: Strengthens core grammar rules, literary terminology, and high-tier vocabulary without adding a single minute to your evening marking.
Honouring Real Writing in the Classroom: We don't pretend screens can replace real essay writing. Tassomai handles the low-stakes retrieval so you can focus pen-and-paper classroom time on deep analysis and extended writing skills.
Zero Admin for Teachers: Self-marking retrieval practice that seamlessly identifies individual and class-wide knowledge gaps in seconds and creates data-informed, ready-to-go class lesson starters and “Do Nows” from your whiteboard instantaneously. [Hyperlink: Group Quiz]
Explore our English content
Look through some multiple choice quiz questions for English literature and English language, and see how students are supported by Mai, our AI tutor.
See how tools like the Tree are used to identify learning gaps and show a learner’s knowledge growing.
Tassomai’s GCSE English language content tests students on and reinforces their knowledge of a range of literary techniques, giving them a framework for analysis.
At KS4, the content has been tailored to suit the main exam boards and, where relevant, we have included topics on exam scoring to ensure that students know how many marks are available for each question.
✔ AQA
✔ EDEXCEL
✔ OCR
✔ EDUQAS
✔ CCEA
✔ WJEC
For KS4 English literature we cover texts that are commonly studied at GCSE and some less well known contemporary works. Course content covers: Form, Characters, Plot, Themes, Context, Structure and Language.
- Macbeth
- Romeo & Juliet
- Jekyll & Hyde
- A Christmas Carol
- Anita and Me
- An Inspector Calls
- Blood Brothers
- Animal Farm
- Othello
- The Tempest
- Never Let Me Go
- Lord of the Flies
- Refugee Boy
- The Empress
- DNA
- Great Expectations
- Boys Don't Cry
- The Merchant of Venice
- Frankenstein
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Of Mice and Men
Tassomai covers the poetry clusters for AQA, EDX and OCR.
We currently offer clusters covering the themes of ‘Power and Conflict’ as well as ‘Love and Relationships’ for each exam board.
These courses contain questions on form, literary devices, themes and context, as well as comparison questions, which help students to understand and reinforce the links between poems in each anthology.
Unseen Poetry Skills Course
All UK exam boards have an unseen poetry element to their GCSE English literature exams - a topic that is notoriously hard to revise for.
Tassomai helps students to be as prepared as possible when faced with poems they have never seen before.
Our content tests students on and reinforces their knowledge of a range of poetic and literary techniques, giving them a framework for analysis.
Key Stage 3 English language content covers:
Spelling: Prefixes & Suffixes, Common Mistakes, Bronze, Silver & Gold
Language: Punctuation, Grammar, Syntax & Terminology
Words & Meanings: Descriptive Language, People & Character, Useful Terminology, Homophones
Teachers have detailed oversight on their students’ activity and the ability to set homework and manage settings and topics through their Teacher Dashboards.
The Understanding Grid, a self-populating Personal Learning Checklist, uses the same data set as The Tree. At a glance, teachers can spot knowledge gaps at an individual or whole class level, saving valuable teaching time and enabling them to rapidly target interventions.
Parents and guardians get a weekly email report and access to their own Parent Dashboard where they can follow their child’s progress and view their Trees.
The Parent Dashboard shows how many Daily Goals have been completed and in which subjects. Parents can also view learning resources (videos or articles) recommended specifically for their child to aid progress.
Learn more about Tassomai for families who have access through schools and for private subscribers.
Watch a Tassomai tutorial video
Students using Tassomai for Key Stage 4 English literature and English language are invited to watch short videos when our algorithm sees that they need help with a particular topic.
Each tutorial is short (usually 1 to 2 minutes) and directly related to the content the learner is about to be quizzed on next.
All videos are on our YouTube channel.
Tassomai’s English literature videos focus on Shakespeare texts including Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and The Merchant of Venice.
English language videos focus on language and grammar, covering common problem areas like the use of apostrophes.
Good grades in GCSE English are guaranteed (or your money back!)
We’re so confident of Tassomai’s impact, we offer a GCSE English grade guarantee to schools and private subscribing families.
“Year 10s aced their mocks on Macbeth last week, and a big part of this was a relentless focus on securing background knowledge and vocabulary. Tassomai gives an ideal platform to build their confidence, which they bring into their reading and writing.”
Kathrine Mortimore, Lead Practitioner for English, Torquay Academy
Try Tassomai for English
The best way to get to know Tassomai’s English content is to try it for yourself. Schools and families can both trial our award-winning content for FREE!
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All schools can trial Tassomai for free for 3 weeks. You’ll get full access for your department and your students.
Click here to learn about our packages for schools where you’ll find the option to book a screenshare demo. If you like what you see we’ll get you set up in no time.
Families can trial Tassomai for free for 7 days, with full access to all age-relevant subjects. Click here to learn more and start a free trial.
If your child already gets Tassomai through school, please read our info for school parents.
If you don’t already get Tassomai through your school, talk to your teachers about a schools package or a parent / guardian about a free private subscriber trial.
You can also find information for students here.
Built for Every Learner in Your Classroom
Tassomai makes daily practice and academic progress accessible to every student with built-in support tools:
- Targeted Pupil Premium and SEND Boost: Intelligent, targeted intervention quizzes automatically give a leg-up to students who need it most, helping close progress gaps quietly in the background.
- Extra Support for SEND & EAL: In-app tutor Mai offers instant text-to-speech read-aloud and real-time multi-language translation so every student can access the curriculum.
FAQ
The short answer is that Tassomai will give amazing value for money if you implement it well: getting students participating daily, and getting teachers using Group Quiz and others of our powerful T&L tools. But you can also save a lot of money if you share Tassomai with other departments and add on some of our Equity Boost features - so please discuss with colleagues in other departments and talk to our team about getting the most out of this amazing software.ext goes here
Almost certainly: our courses are written and maintained to correspond to the requirements, structure and nomenclature of all the main exam boards; even within boards, our courses tailor to the different tiers and sub-categories so no student is made to practice material that isn’t relevant to their needs.
We’d like to think so! We build your network of classes, content and teachers bespoke for you (but quickly!), and then connect to your MIS to assign students to their correct classes. Generally we can have you set up within a couple of days, and students can get going on day one. Any time things change (e.g. students moving classes) we can re-sync with your MIS, and we’re always on hand to help with any snags.
Tassomai’s team pride themselves on being the best in the market for support, training, ‘contactability’ etc - we’ll bend over backwards to help you, especially if your staff keep in touch with us. We happily provide unlimited support on implementation, data analysis, custom reporting and school visits if needed (in fact, your students even win the rare Murr-Aye-Aye lemur sticker if Murray comes to visit the school.
Yes - this is a vital consideration. Tassomai automatically differentiates content for each student according to their level and needs, but staff can filter out topics that are not yet required (at a class level or for whole year-groups). Beyond this our Class Tasks feature allows staff to override the personalised algorithm and direct students to a chosen topic quiz for homework.
Yes, of course. We provide free trials of the complete version for a single department or an entire school so you can see the classroom engagement and workload impact first hand.
All three Boosts are offered as separate add-on modules, but for schools that subscribe to multi-subject and multi-cohort packages, the Boosts can become available at no extra charge.
Meet our users
Don’t just take our word for it, hear from the people who use Tassomai for English.
Chantelle Nichols, Teacher of English and KS5 Coordinator at The Sutton Academy in St. Helens, talks to Tassomai about how she uses Tassomai to identify gaps in her students’ knowledge and engage students who prefer maths and science in their English studies…
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Amy Craven, Lead English Teacher at St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy in Dewsbury, talks to Tassomai about using the program in her classroom and how much it has reduced teacher workload at her school…
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Andy Sammons is author of The Compassionate Teacher and Director of English and Strategic Lead at Kettlethorpe High School. Andy speaks to Tassomai about how the English GCSE subjects are structured and what parents need to know.
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Abi Ludlow, English teacher and Tassomai lead at Richard Lander School in Truro discusses her experience with Tassomai’s KS4 English literature content and her hopes for its future.
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