A lesson building, exploring, crafting, and evaluating speeches on the theme of ‘injustice’.

A basic (level 4/5) response to a question of cultural identity in Checking Out Me History. Middle-ability Y9 group target.

A revision clock for revising Romeo and Juliet themes and characters.

A single lesson showing the difference between tone and mood, using Wuthering Heights as a case study.

A recorded presentation for staff CPD exploring how to develop literacy and reading standards across the curriculum. The presentation includes researched resources for use in a variety of subjects.

This sequence of lessons could last between three and five lessons depending on ability. It is easily adaptable, but is full of challenging and creative tasks to stretch and support a range of abilities. A great introduction to poetry and techniques, showing students how to annotate and structure a response also. It also analyses Still I Rise in great detail. This sequence has a lot of scaffolding, which can easily be removed for higher ability.

An evidence-based strategy guide outlining methods to raise literacy standards in secondary schools.

Short sequence for LA group (KS3) building an understanding of how to build tension and why it is important in certain genres of writing. Used before an assessment to prepare students for crime fiction creative writing. Graded ‘Outstanding’ for LA Y8 Observation Lesson.

A fully-resourced HA lesson breaking down how to answer Language Paper 1, Question 4 through tips, modelled examples, broken down mark schemes, teacher feedback, and peer-assessment.

Resources to support with analysis of ‘Mother Any Distance’.

A knowledge recall starter for LA KS4.

A lesson to explore the use of magic in fantasy fiction, using the text A Sprinkle of Sorcery to complement.

The role of Puck and magic in AMND. Aiming to provide the tools to be able to analyse.

The perfect tool to aid discussion and to guide LA students in the analysis of Scrooge.

Activity for the study of Macbeth.

A single lesson on the role of Gothic conventions. PowerPoint is deliberately not exhasutive to allow teacher input and class discussion.

What is sci-fi? Conventions, impact and role in popular culture.

Low-stakes retrieval task.

An engaging lesson to plan a literary party for characters studied across the year.

An enrichment spelling bee to be used as a tutor group competition.