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.

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.

5 homework sheets aimed at helping students develop their skills in planning an answer for Language Paper 1 Question 5. Each sheet asks students to plan a list of powerful vocabulary (challenge to find synonyms to improve their vocab choices), a list of language devices and a list of the senses. Planning sheets can then be used to write up a full practice answer to Paper 1 Question 5. Please leave a review. I love your feedback :)

A poetry lesson introducing KS3 students to poetry using a popular song. Differentiated and aimed at a KS3 class but could be adapted for KS4 students.

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.

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 GCSE Christmas Carol lesson analysing the Cratchit family and the theme of poverty within the novel Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is based around AO1 and AO2. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

Gothic style lesson focusing on Frankenstein’s monster. Includes a starter activity where students create their own monster by each designing a different body part. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Aimed at KS3 but can be used for older students. Planned using the TEEP model.

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.

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 poetry lesson studying the context and language in the poem Island Man. Differentiated and aimed at a KS3 class but could be adapted for KS4 students.

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 using the sense to describe a journey to the moon. Students look at Neil Armstrong’s moon landing and a clip from Wallace & Gromit to plan their stories. Aimed at KS3b but can easily be adapted. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A lesson aimed at using AFOREST persuasive techniques using The Greatest Showman as a focus. Aimed at KS4 but can easily be adapted. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

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 lesson aimed at teaching students the structure question (question 3) on language paper 1. Lesson is differentiated with challenge questions and using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is scaffolded to support all ability students in answering the question.

A lesson based around Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Wood. Lesson aimed at developing creative writing skills. Extract is included. Aimed at KS3 but can easily be adapted. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A lesson based on Emma Watson’s speech on feminism. Students are asked to analyse and evaluate the effect of language techniques in a persuasive speech. Differentiated questions and tasks. Copy of speech is included. Aimed at KS4 students studying GCSE English Language.

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.