A full lesson exploring how to approach analysis questions on the Spirits in A Christmas Carol. The lesson consolidates knowledge and then encourages students to analyse key scenes.

A single lesson introducing students to adventure fiction, featuring a highly-engaging journey through different cities in the world. KS3 MA.

A collection of LA reading comprehension activities based on superhero biographies.

Based on the strategies of academic reading, this worksheet explores academic reading of the first three chapters of ‘Treasure Island’.

A lesson exploring narrative structure through the study of ‘Up’ as a stimulus, building towards crafting a narrative ghost story opening.

An extract from ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ with accompanying academic reading resource - focusing on pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading. An extract to be used for AQA Language Paper 1, Q1/Q2.

A whole-class feedback model for analysing poetry.

A three-part sequence to plan, produce, and evalaute a piece of descriptive writing.

An easily adaptable resource designed for a HA Year 7 group, could be used for most of KS3 with slight tweaking. Print and cut the resources, stick them around the room or on different tables, giving students time to visit and make comments on each station. Differentiated success criteria. Proved to be very engaging and effective.

An engaging lesson which focuses on tackling trickier extracts and vocabulary. The strategies are fully researched and are designed to promote reading independence. The extract focus is a small section of Chapter 7 of Alice in Wonderland.

Learning Challenge: Can I evaluate what makes a successful narrative opening and emulate this in my own writing? Topic focus: Fairy tales.

A reading/listening tracker - easily adaptable for any text.

A lesson focusing on exploring language analysis through a study of ‘An Unwelcome Appearance’.

A single lesson exploring AO1 and AO2 in ‘Not My Business’. Slide 7 uses LitDrive’s ‘Differentiated Annotation Sheets’ - Not owned by me and therefore not attached. However, a great accompanying resource.

A worksheet to build confidence with Language Paper 1, Question 2: Bodmin Moor.

Based on academic reading, a worksheet to support a study of Treasure Island: Chapter 7.

A lesson and accompanying academic reading task sheet to support a study of Chapter 13 of ‘Treasure Island’.

Resources to explore travel writing descriptions. KS3. MA.

A post-assessment lesson focusing on whole-class targets to build better descriptions. A focus on advanced structural and language features.

An assessment lesson to explore exposition in ghost stories, including what makes a memorable opening sentence.