A two-part lesson exploring ghost stories and narrative writing. In particular, sensory imagery and lingustic devices are explored.

Creating a Dickensian description of London.

An engaging lesson designed with online learning in mind.

Exploring the murder of King Duncan, the role of sybmolism and how to analyse key scenes.

A two-part lesson exploring the meeting in A1, S5 between Romeo and Juliet, building up to writing an analysis piece.

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

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 comprehensive overview of reading in a full academic year, including the use of Accelerated Reader. These resources have been created over the past three years. As the reading co-ordinator for the school, the following resources were submitted and received acclaim for the Renaissance Reading Awards 2019 and 2020. Any other resources you may require, please do get in touch. All proceeds to go to supporting the local food bank.

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

An open booklet template for Sherlock Holmes stories to be explored in depth.

Weekly reading lessons to complement an adventure non-fiction scheme of learning. 5 MA - HA non-fiction texts followed by space for comprehension activities selected by the teacher.

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

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 comprehensive full term’s collection of weekly reading texts. Once a week, students read aloud a selected text/extract and then complete carefully selected active reading tasks based on their individual needs (predominantly identified by Accelerated Reader, but easily adapted to suit needs of your cohort).

A 7-week booklet of study for ‘Treasure Island’ with evidence-based strategies to develop comprehension, reading fluency, and other intervention strategies identified by Accelerated Reader STAR tests. Easily adapted to suit the needs of the class. This is an adaptation to our current SOL and therefore, it is only from Page.60 onwards of the Wordsworth Edition of ‘Treasure Island’.

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