This is a lesson that I created for my bottom set Y9 class to help them understand and use apostrophes for contraction and possession. It could easily be used to teach at KS2 and wouldn't take much adapting. Engaging activities to keep students enthused.

This is a lesson that I created for my bottom set Y9 class to help them understand and use dashes in various ways in their work. It could easily be used to teach at KS2 and wouldn't take much adapting. Engaging activities to keep students enthused.

This is a lesson that I created for my bottom set Y9 class to help tem understand that a simple sentence can be improved using adjectives. It could easily be used to teach at KS2 and wouldn't take much adapting. Lesson uses Disney as a stimulus. Engaging activities to keep students enthused.

This is a lesson that I created for my bottom set Y9 class to help tem understand and use prepositional time phrases. It could easily be used to teach at KS2 and wouldn't take much adapting. Engaging activities to keep students enthused.

An exemplar Grade 8 response for AQA Paper 1 Q5 using cyclical structure. Written in response to an image of a train platform. This is my own interpretation of the level 4 mark scheme and how I believe that a student can achieve the higher marks on this question. Please note that this is my own writing and is for use in the classroom. It should not be shared or published online without permission.

Exemplar response that I used to teach prolepsis (flash-forward) to my top set Y11 pupils (target grades 7-9). This is my own interpretation of the level 4 mark scheme and how I believe that a student can achieve the higher marks on this question. Please note that this is my own writing and is for use in the classroom. It should not be shared or published online without permission.

An exemplar response used to teach my top set Y11 about dual narrative in the hope that this structure will help them to achieve the higher marks for AO5 organisation. This is my own interpretation of the level 4 mark scheme. Please note that this exemplar is entirely my own work and should not be shared or published online without permission.

SOW for Room 101 non fiction unit Specific focus on literacy/grammar within all LOs

Macbeth PPT designed for my KS3 class studying the full play of Macbeth All resources and models included Knowledge test for end of unit included

Mock paper for Language Paper 2 Section A Themed around disease using an account of the plague and an account of the Ebola outbreak.

A 27 lesson SOW for Brian Selznick's 'Wonderstruck' for use at KS3 (intended for Y8 originally but can be easily adapted). Covers reading of entire book and use of images as stimulus for creative writing. Lessons cover a range of Writing and Reading LOs.

Model response for Macbeth GCSE Literature question 'How does Shakespeare present Macbeth and Banquo’s relationship? 2 paragraphs, roughly grade 6 standard

PPT for my year 11 bottom set. Covers all aspects of AQA Language Paper 1. Use of formulaic approach to all questions.

A PPT with 5 a day starters for AQA Literature texts- Romeo and Juliet and the Power and Conflict cluster.

Q27.1 and Q27.2 in style of AQA Literature Paper 2. Model answers for both questions.

PowerPoint covering the whole of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. Used with top set Y10 to teach AQA Literature Paper 2. Lessons all resourced and ready to be used. Range of Literature and Language based LOs. Lots of embedded non fiction used throughout.

6 extracts and accompanying exam questions for Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

A full AQA style mock exam for Language paper 1 (Q1-5) for ‘1984’ by George Orwell.

A single lesson used in a job interview to teach Shakespearean sonnets (evaluating to what extent they conform to or subvert traditional love sonnet). Uses prologue to R+J, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130.

A paper 2 mock exam for the IGCSE English exam. Two sources themed around earthquakes with the 3 question format of the IGCSE.