In the course of his educational consultancy work, Bob has seen many teachers successfully use the scope and depth which literature can offer to inspire high standards, mastery learning and, above all, a love of language in its many forms. Schools using the 'opening doors' strategies told Bob they led to:

Units include:Part 1: Opening doors to prose1. Night Encounter The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins2. Spooky Scientists! The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards 3. The Strongest Looking Brute in Alaska That Spot by Jack London 4. Mr Knickerbocker's Notes Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving 5. The Portrait of Doom Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 6. The Hell Hound The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Sinister Spaces Metamorphosis and The Castle by Franz Kafka 8. The Mirror and the Window Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Part 2: Opening doors to poetry 9. All in This House is Mossing Over From 'Mementos' by Charlotte Bronte 10. Dancing the Skies 'High Flight' by John Gillespie Magee, Jr 11. The Mystery of the Lonely Merman 'The Forsaken Merman' by Matthew Arnold 12. Making Magic Talk 'The Magnifying Glass' by Walter de la Mare 13. The Spirit in the Garden 'A Garden at Night' by James Reeves 14. A Shropshire Lad 'Blue Remembered Hills' by A. E. Housman 15. The Silver Heel 'I Started Early Took My Dog' by Emily Dickinson