Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson involves getting students to think about what a typical gothic monster is, look at extracts and eventually create and write a description of their own monster. Lesson is aimed at KS3 students but can easily be adapted for KS4.

A lesson using the poem ‘Still I Rise’ to teach Unseen Poetry. Differentiated tasks.

A Christmas creative writing lesson based around describing a Christmas market. Lesson is scaffolded with a video, pictures and planning tasks for students to gather their ideas. WAGOLL answers are included for students to assess/discuss. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. This lesson is aimed at KS3 but can easily be adapted for older year groups.

Persuasive writing lesson based on Live Aid and Comic Relief. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Students read an extract from Bob Geldof’s diary which sparked the song 'Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?, discuss the impact of the song and how persuasive writing techniques have been used. Students will eventually create their own piece of persuasive writing. Lesson planned using the TEEP structure.

A persuasive writing lesson based around the issue/topic of gun law. Based on the GCSE mark scheme. Aimed at year 9-11 but can be adapted for KS3.

A lesson aimed at using AFOREST persuasive techniques to sell an unusual house. Aimed at KS4 but can easily be adapted. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A lesson teaching GCSE unseen poetry using William Blake’s poem ‘A Poison Tree.’ Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Includes context and language analysis tasks.

A poem taught as part of a y8 scheme of work for poetry from other cultures. Can be taught to GCSE as seen or unseen. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson gets students to look at context, structure and language before completing an exam style question. Please leave a review if you have time.

A persuasive writing lesson based around the banned Iceland Christmas advert. Aimeed at years 9-11 but can be adapted for younger years.

Lesson to teach language, paper 1, question 3 - Structure. Based on an extract from Harry Potter. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Scaffolded to support lower ability students. Lesson created using the TEEP model.

Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Tasks and questions are differentiated throughout and there is a help sheet to support lower ability students with structuring their answer. Lesson uses the poems ‘Poppies’ and ‘Remains’ and students are asked to think about the key themes, similarities and differences and then eventually answer a differentiated exam style question (3 question choices.) Please leave a review. I’d love your feedback.

Christmas creative writing lesson aimed at KS3 (can easily be adapted for any year group.) Differentiation using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Uses a clip from ‘The Snowman’ and asks students to use the ‘show don’t tell’ technique to describe the snowman coming to life.

A card sorting activity using Simpsons images to test students knowledge of the plot. Students should cut the cards out and sort them into the correct order.

2 x lessons on Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signalman’ analysing how language is used to describe setting. Aimed at a high ability year 8 class but can easily be adapted to suit other abilities/year groups. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Includes WAGOLL answer on main task. Lesson has been structured using the TEEP model.

A lesson aimed at using AFOREST to write an argument on a popular debate topic. Aimed at KS4 but can easily be adapted. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

AQA Language Paper 1. A lesson on answering question 4 using an extract from ‘The boy in the striped pyjamas.’ Differentiated and planned using the GCSE mark scheme.

A creative writing lesson using an extract from Alice in Wonderland. This lesson includes numerous tasks including comprehension questions, information retrieval and creative writing. Aimed at KS3 but could be adapted for older students. Lesson differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme.

A fun lesson introducing students to the language of Shakespeare. Includes a glossary for students to use to translate. Students translate Shakespearean words into modern English and vice versa. Students eventually use the glossary to write their own script in pairs which they will then present to the class. Please leave a review, I love to hear your feedback :)

A SPAG help sheet that I designed to put on the front or back cover of students’ books to help them with basic SPAG skills.

5 x ‘5 a day’ starters to re-cap AO’s, exam paper layout, marks, timings etc.