A powerpoint including activities on the poem Bookends, by Tony Harrison. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 GCSE students.

A powerpoint including activities on the poem Cousin Kate by Christina Rosetti. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 GCSE students.

A scheme of work based upon the poem Not My Business with Nidi Osundare. I find it particularly useful to compare this to the poem Vultures by China Achebe.

A complete scheme of work on narrative writing. Great for both KS3 and KS4 students.

A recap on extended metaphors.

How to write about a single place.

An introduction to spelling and punctuation. Are you using semi colons correctly?

Getting students familiar with extended metaphors.

Getting students to think about the use of senses in descriptive writing, using fresh flowers.

Designed to get students thinking about the use of senses in descriptive writing, through the use of sherbet lemons.

What is the difference between narrative and descriptive writing?

A great introduction to poetry. Includes 4 lessons on the Pied Piper, 1 on Katy Perry's Firework, looking at the use of imagery and another on One Direction. Redacted poetry resources and lesson also included, along with worksheet.

Everything you need for 7+ lessons on persuasive writing. Themed around chocolate. Fully resourced.

A persuasive writing piece, based on a chocolate bar. Includes Wordle for inference skills.

Containing four topical subjects, all linked to SMSC. Ideal for quick tutor activities.

Cousin Kate GCSE Poetry Anthology. Designed around the Edexcel specification, but would easily fit AQA and WJEC too. Lesson explores content, context, form and structure.

Media - Genre S.O.W based around the study of film posters. Aims at completing coursework on this module. Lots of examples of genre, conventions and templates to practise from.

Journey's End GCSE S.O.W.

Journey's End - Stanhope P.E.E. paragraph grid - Ideal for lower ability students.

Journey's End - Osborne Cloze Exercise