Two lessons to help students plan an opening to a story and hook their reader. Lesson 1 - With help from a peer they plan an opening to a story using the 5Ws. Lesson 2 - Discussion on how to hook the reader. Teacher model first lines to analyse and discuss. List of all the ingredients for strong writing. Peer assess.

Four lessons on Sci-Fi Basic overview of what makes Sci-Fi - film clips, discussion etc. Creative tasks - imagining what the future might be like. Creative writing tasks with differentiated success criteria. Inference and deduction - group work analysing a text and working out if someone really spotted an alien! A Martain Sends a Postcard Home - reading and discussing and then creating a description of their own alien.

Close analysis of language in R&J Focus on death scene and themes present. Examples of close analysis of language + opportunity to have a go. Teacher model of top grade for analysis and annotation. Framework for analysis. Sentence starters for weaker students. Differentiated success criteria.

Focussing on getting strong interpretations of the text and develop language analysis. Example of quote to analyse. Teacher model for class to annotate and mark. Ideas to discuss as a class. Framework for answering essay question. Differentiated success criteria.

Comprehension KS3 - Tale of Three Brothers - Harry Potter. Inference and deduction. Ranging from easy technique spotting to interpretation and supporting quotations. Example of full mark analysis question.

A comprehensive 32 page revision booklet on ‘Birdsong’ for A-Level. Written around on ‘Aspects of Narrative’ - easily adaptable. Multiple interpretations and possible ideas with promt questions to help engage and develop ideas. Strongest quotes taken from throughout the book to aid analysis. ALAAL (A Lot About A Little) analysis ideas and examples.

Working in pairs to write what our senses would pick up in different settings. Brief analysis of Eel Marsh House as a setting - what language helps develop atmosphere. List of techniques needed for strong creative writing. Differentiated success criteria. Self/Peer assessment.

A 14 slide PPT. Revisiting the tragic events that lead to Eva Smith’s suicide. Creative writing task to write from Eva Smith’s perspective. Mark scheme. Teacher model. Success criteria.

Using Marley’s ghost in A Christmas Carol as inspiration. Analysing what his chain symbolises and why it has been included. Differentiated success criteria. Teacher model. Planning questions. Task and self assessment.

A really fun lesson to engage students with writing poetry! Using a noun (chosen by a peer in order to push for further creativity) as inspiration for writing a poem and choosing a positive/negative semantic field for the poem. Teacher model for analysis. Examples of famous poems that contain extended metaphors and unusual structure. List of techniques to be used in writing poems.

One lesson writing an extended metaphor poem - teacher example to annotate and analyse as well as poetic techniques to be used in own writing.

Two lessons for KS3 Persuasive speech analysis - Persuasive speech writing. Using Chief Joseph’s famous speech for something a little different. Lesson 1: Discussion questions to engage class. A little background for context. Chief Joseph’s speech differentiated. Blank and with devices highlighted. List of persuasive features. Questions to aid analysis. Lesson 2: Create a real life hero that would deliver a speech on something powerful. List of success criteria. Reminder of last lesson and Chief Joseph’s speech. Peer assessment.

14 slide lesson looking at how writers open their novels and what this can reveal. Focus on The Road by Cormac McCarthy. How to tackle a text - aspects of narrative. Different opening lines to novels - discussion on what they reveal to reader. Why were they crafted this way. Extract of opening of The Road - link to two aspects of narrative. Analysis of opening and symbolism used. Examples for class of strong quotes. Homework task/class task depending on speed of class.

Focusing on developing detailed and thoughtful analysis of language. Using an extract from The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Re-cap of PQEL structure. Individual analysis of extract - feed back as class. Connotation and denotation re-cap Teacher model Essay style question using skills developed in the lesson.

KS2/3 - This works really well with my classes as it gets them switched on and ready to write! Especially my boys classes. Short task to assign different attributes to create a mythical creature - students put up their hands to A,B,C,D and get different movements, powers, looks etc. Sound effects on four slides (students love this). Teacher model of strong poem and descriptive writing which can be analysed as a class. List of success criteria. Peer assessment.

KS3 - Developing essay writing. Challenging task for extra work/summer/extended project. Using Philip Pullman’s ‘The Northern Lights’. Planning their own essay topic - choosing their own essay title. Success criteria. Structure of an essay. PQEL explanation - with a more detailed scaffold. Self assessment. Questions for book review.

KS3 - Developing essay writing. Using Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Kraken’ Discussion images to engage students. Poem and glossary of terms. Success criteria. List of techniques to look for. Structure of an essay. PQEL explanation - with a more detailed scaffold. Poem to annotate with some techniques in bold. Self assessment.

A really fun way to get students into writing poems! A collection of 23 images to help stimulate ideas for poems. Work in pairs, groups or combine images to create an interesting thread for a narrative! Each slide comes with a list of poetic techniques to include.