A single lesson exploring some archetypal characters in Gothic literature and relating it to the ‘Outsider’ in Frankenstein.

A single lesson exploring the theme of love in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’.

Lesson Eleven: Evaluating Successful Writing 1 of 2 To develop exposure to high-quality writing, students will explore three WAGOLLs to model different aspects of Science-Fiction. This lesson is designed to utilsie live-modelling, but can also be delivered as collaborative learning. Students annotate, summarise, and evaluate the quality of the three responses before collecting ideas for their own creative writing during a ‘magpie session’. Lesson Twelve: Evaluating Successful Writing 2 of 2 Continuing on from lesson eleven, students should continue to explore high-quality examples. This lesson is designed to allow exploration of other extracts based on the needs of the class, or to continue with the 3 selected in lesson eleven.

A lesson exploring utopian and dystopian descriptive writing through evaluation of others examples. This lesson focuses on developing different AFL strategies.

A 7 week scheme exploring Fairy Tales.

A single lesson identifying and analysing the use of animalistic imagery in Of Mice and Men through the character of Lennie.

Students will complete a baseline assessment to demonstrate their current ability to write descriptively. This will inform planning for week three and establish the needs of the group. To support marking of this, please use the ‘Whole-Class Feedback’ sheet attached in the week one folder.

A visual guide to support parents to support their children with their reading.

A presentation exploring the value of creating a Reading for Pleasure culture across the school.

Based on academic reading, the flashcards break down the process of reading for students using pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading tasks and questioning.

5 whole-class feedback sheets easily adapted for different topics and classes.

A single lesson exploring P1, Q5, the mark scheme, using a WAGOLL, evaluating against the mark scheme, and crafting a response for peer-assessment.

A lesson to develop the ability to prepare a text and answer questions one and two for AQA Language Paper 1 through exploration of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and the arrival of Jacob Marley.

A MA lesson which links personification to pop-culture and builds towards a descriptive task. Used for a LA class and was the most successful method in understanding personification. (Links to videos are salient to the lesson). Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Lesson plan available on request.

Learning Challenge: Can I make inferences on a Gothic setting description? Skills Tested: Inference and selecting appropriate textual evidence. Text Focus: Wuthering Heights setting description.

A lesson exploring Dickens’ methods in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and applying this to the creation of a Dickensian character.

A single lesson on creating a Dickensian villain using Dickensian writing methods.

KS3/KS4 MA challenging extract.

A booklet for quick progress checks at the end of each day (designed for a 1 week summer school program, but easily adaptable).

This is a fun set of lessons I designed recently to aid those on their Language Paper 2 Examination and general transactional writing. The lessons are designed to be engaging; the students will be scaffolded to writing a persuasive writing piece. It can easily be differentiated (I personally use Bronze, Silver and Gold for my class). Resources: I have included the Martin Luther King extract from ‘I Have A Dream’. This can easily be adapted to other speeches. Barack Obama, JFK and monologues from US Talk Shows are current but must be sensitively used. As for the video game research, I would recommend using five or six articles around the room. Use the most up to date articles you can and therefore print off according to the date of use. Interactive Elements: Check and adapt depending on software and model. Very easily adapted.