A booklet designed to teach fictional writing as a series of lessons. No PowerPoint or other resources required - everything is included in the booklet. Students are guided over a series of lessons to produce a full piece of fictional writing with opportuities to edit their work. Examples from literary texts and teacher models are provided throughout for each stage of the process. The perfect booklet for trainees/ ECTs/ teachers teaching outside of specialism/ cover, or for any busy Englsih department! Booklet contents: Knowledge organiser Writing frame Ambitious punctuation guide Big questions How can pathetic fallacy be used to establish a mood? How can sensory imagery create a vivid description of setting? How do writers use characterisation? How can ambitious punctuation improve writing? How can text structure contribute to a sense of action and pace? How do writers create shifts in time? Consolidation quiz Fictional writing consolidation task Three full fictional writing examples

A creative writing lesson using an image of a snow globe as a stimulus. Writing frame and model response included.

Powerpoint for half term Gothic unit of work. Reading and Writing lessons. Resources and models included.

A few secondary sources that are useful for teaching alongside 'Wonder'.

A range of secondary texts useful for teaching alongside 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens

Outstanding lesson based on anaphoric repetition as part of a non fiction writing SOW.

A short power point looking at Slim, George and Lennie, as well as the settings of the barn, bunkhouse, pool, Crooks' room and the 'dream' farm. Complete with modeled paragraph responses.

Fully resourced revision lessons for Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (AQA Literature text). One focused reading lesson per stave/chapter using a range of reading strategies.

PowerPoint I created for a KS3 literacy intervention day. Covers simple, compound and complex sentences in order. Plenty of opportunity for explicit teaching of sentence types using formulas, images and cut and stick opportunities.

Romeo and Juliet exam questions (AQA Literature style) using extracts from play. One question about love, one about violence.

Poetry glossary of key terms. A4 so easily glued into students' books.

Powerpoint and resources used with my top set Y10 class to teach AQA Paper 2 Section A (Q1-4). 3 paired non fiction sources included, themed around child labour, disease and protests. PPT works through each pair of sources looking at Q2, 3 and 4 individually for each. Level 4 model answers included on some slides.

A revision booklet made for Y11 that focuses on annotating several key quotations from Blood Brothers, Walking Away and Mother, Any Distance. Space provided for pupils to write a short response to exam Q. I use these booklets as a form of revision with all abilities. They can either be given out to complete at home, or used with a visualiser for direct instruction.

Double sided A4 knowledge organiser for Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Contains key quotations for key characters, key themes and settings, writer’s ideas and intentions, and detailed information about context (poverty, workhouse, crime and Industrial Revolution). Language and structural features also included alongside definitions.

A model response for AQA Language Paper 2 Q4 (comparison) Used with my top set- roughly level 7 response. Compares two non fiction texts themed around disease (see my other resources for copy of the mock paper) using an account of the Black Death and an article about Ebola.

Section C of the AQA poetry exam Two Unseen Poetry assessment papers themed around winter

A cultural literacy lesson aimed at Y7 Pupil Premium students. Lesson covers key information about Shakespeare and emphasises importance of improving cultural literacy. Card sort activity of common Shakespeare words/phrases and their meanings. Worksheet included- students collect answers to questions throughout lesson and write down any new vocabulary and definitions.

A PowerPoint of 7 lessons covering the descriptive writing aspect of the new AQA Language exam. Covers a range of descriptive features that can be used to answer Q5 of Paper 1.

3 revision lessons for Romeo and Juliet. Lesson 1- general revision of plot and key quotations. Lesson 2- making references to prologue. Lesson 3- key scene analysis.

Booklet of key quotations for R+J and ACC. Students can work their way through key quotations for each text, building up their analysis through annotations. Each section is followed by an exam style Q and room to write a short response.