<p>This resource has been created for Victorian England themed lessons. This lesson gives students a simplified and broken-down way of accessing non fiction text. The lesson includes vocabulary building, comprehension and analysing language features. There are opportunities for students to share their prior knowledge and incorporate this into their understanding of the text.<br /> There are two writing tasks. First a transactional writing exercise which gives students an opportunity to write persuasively about workhouses. Secondly, a creative writing task allowing students to imagine they are an ‘inmate’ of the workhouse.</p> <p>This lesson is suitable for KS3 students, but it can easily be adapted to suit KS4 students, particularly those who are less able.</p> <p>This resource can also be used to inform history lessons, looking at social history of workhouses</p> <p>As the focus is on Victorian themes, this lesson can be used as pre-reading material for Victorian texts such as ‘A Christmas Carol’.</p>

<p>This is an extract based activity on a popular novel. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to discussions about this text. There are lots of activities, including assessing prior knowledge of the text, establishing facts about the time the text was written and thinking about the effects of a shipwreck in the nineteenth century. This extract gives students a simplified and broken down way of accessing the text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. This lesson can easily be edited for the AQA or Edexcel exam specification.</p> <p>This lesson is suitable for KS3 students, but it can easily be adapted to suit KS4 students, particularly those who are less able.</p>

<p>A comprehension activity based on Christmas trees and their impact on the environment and how they can affect a household’s carbon footprint. A balanced article looking at the benefits and drawbacks of fake and natural Xmas trees. Basic comprehension and language analysis, information finding and a transactional writing task. Students learn about the environment, carbon footprint issues and also gather ideas for writing non fiction. Suitable for English lessons, but also Environmental studies / Geography. This text is aimed at KS3 students, but can easily be modified to suit GCSE / KS4 classes.</p>

<p>A comprehension activity based on St Nicholas, his life and the links he has with Xmas. Reading activities include basic comprehension and language analysis, information finding. Writing activities include a transactional writing task, a creative writing option or a poem. Suitable for English themed Xmas lessons!</p>

<p>This activity gives students a simplified and broken down way of summarising the text. Each chapter has a cloze exercise to support understanding and revision of the main events.</p> <p>This is a useful resource which enables students to revise the text and make sure they know what happens in each chapter</p>

<p>This is an extract based activity on a popular novel, The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to discussions about this text. There are lots of activities, including assessing prior knowledge of the text, establishing facts about winter / snow and thinking about the effects of snow melting.</p> <p>This extract gives students a simplified and broken down way of accessing the text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. This lesson can easily be edited for the AQA or Edexcel exam specification. It is suited to KS3 students, but can easily be adapted for able KS2 students.</p> <p>This resource can be used for an Xmas themed lesson, as the extract is taken from the point in the novel where it is ‘always winter but never Christmas’!</p>

<p>This is an extract based activity on a GCSE exam text.</p> <p>This extract gives students a simplified and broken down way of accessing the text. The first part gives students information on the Victorians and the theme of Violence to provide contextual information. There are comprehension questions to follow.</p> <p>The second part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read.</p> <p>The final part gives students an exam style question which allows them to apply the contextual information to the extract as well as looking at language and structure features</p>

<p>A reading comprehension task which looks at an extract from the novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell. There are basic comprehension questions, language analysis questions, vocabulary questions and and a question looking how the extract is structured. This resource is based on skills needed for Literature Paper 1 (all exam boards) but it is modified to make it accessible for KS3 pupils. The extract is from Chapter 4.</p>

<p>A reading comprehension task which looks at an extract from the novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell. There are basic comprehension questions, language analysis questions, vocabulary questions and an a theme question looking at how the animals cope with setbacks. This resource is based on skills needed for Literature Paper 1 (all exam boards) but it is modified to make it accessible for KS3 pupils. The extract is from Chapter 8.</p>

<p>A reading comprehension task which looks at an extract from the novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell. There are basic comprehension questions, language analysis questions, vocabulary questions and an a theme question looking at Power. This resource is based on skills needed for Literature Paper 1 (all exam boards) but it is modified to make it accessible for KS3 pupils. The extract is from Chapter 9.</p>

<p>This is an extract based activity on a GCSE exam text.</p> <p>This extract gives students a simplified and broken down way of accessing the text. The first part gives students information on Darwin and the Theory of Evolution to provide contextual information. There are comprehension questions to follow.</p> <p>The second part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read.</p> <p>The final part gives students an exam style question which allows them to apply the contextual information to the extract as well as looking at language and structure features</p>

<p>This resource has been created to practice reading non fiction texts linked by theme to WW2 and War Poetry. This lesson gives students a simplified and broken-down way of accessing a non-fiction text based on a popular theme.</p> <p>Activities include tasks which allow students to apply their contextual knowledge to the text. There are comprehension and language analysis activities. The activities ensure the text is carefully read.</p> <p>This lesson is suitable for KS3 students, but it can easily be adapted to suit KS4 students, particularly those who are less able.</p> <p>This resource is suitable for cross curricular lessons in History.</p>

<p>This resource has been created for studing poetry on the theme of Remembrance. This lesson gives students a simplified and broken-down way of accessing a themed poem.</p> <p>The first part poses comprehension and language activities. The tasks ensure the poem is carefully read.</p> <p>The second part of the lesson looks at vocabulary building and writing skills. Students are encouraged to write about their own experiences of Remembrance.<br /> This resource is suitable for cross curricular lessons in both PSHE and History.</p>

<p>This extract gives students an introduction to the theme of Fate in Tudor / Jacobean England. There is a comprehension exercise which allows students to develop a full understanding of how contemporary beliefs affected people.</p> <p>Then there is an extract-based activity closely analysing Act 3 Scene 5. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to this section of the play.</p> <p>The final part gives an exam style question which can easily be edited for either the AQA or Edexcel exam specification. The question focus is patriarchy.</p> <p>The lesson comes with a writing activity which allows students to imaginatively develop ideas from the extract. This resource is suitable for KS3 students, or weaker KS4 students.</p>

<p>This resource has been created for Halloween themed lessons. Students are given a simplified and broken-down way of accessing a writing task. The first part poses language activities looking at prepositions and how to use them. The second part of the lesson looks at vocabulary building, writing skills and punctuation. The picture is suitably Gothic, creepy, supernatural and gives students plenty of material to work on. This lesson is suitable for KS3 students, but it can easily be adapted to suit KS4 students, particularly those who are less able.</p>

<p>A step by step resource which allows students to develop a written response to a picture stimulus. Tasks include vocabulary building, sentence development and punctuation exercises. Students are encouraged to look carefully at an image of an abandoned sports stadium, thinking about the story behind the image, the context of the image and the details included in the picture.</p> <p>This lesson is suited to both KS3 and KS4 students. Activities are suited to less able students, but can also be used for more able students. It can easily be adapted to suit any GCSE curriculum.</p>

<p>In this lesson an extract is used to analyse Old Major’s Speech from Chapter 1 of the novel. Activities support examining Orwell’s use of language to manipulate / influence the other animals. The extract is taken from Chapter 1 of the novel. The extract has activities to support weaker students to look closely at language features.</p> <p>A creative writing activity is also included in the lesson which also looks at the effect of the speech on the other animals.</p>

<p>A fully differentiated and resourced lesson on William Wordsworth’s ‘The Prelude’, one of the poems in the AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology, with the lesson ideally suited for both KS3 and KS4 students.</p> <p>Activities include a cloze exercise on the contextual theme of the Romantic Poets to support weaker students or those revising the topic.</p> <p>There is an activity which looks at analysing the structure of the poem, and tasks which look at each stanza separately, focusing on language techniques. There is a section which explores how the poem explores the theme of Conflict.</p>

<p>This resource has been created to help students understand and celebrate Black History Month. The lesson is based around the autobiography of Mary Seacole during her time as a nurse in the Crimean War.</p> <p>This lesson gives students a simplified and broken-down way of accessing a non-fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities. The activities ensure the text is carefully read. The second part of the lesson looks at vocabulary building and writing skills. Although the activities are based around Literacy / English skills, this resource is suitable for cross curricular lessons in both PSHE and History.</p>

<p>This resource has been created to help students understand and celebrate Black History Month. This lesson gives students a simplified and broken-down way of accessing a non-fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities looking at a biographical text. The activities ensure the text is carefully read.</p> <p>The second part of the lesson looks at the poem ‘Invictus’ which inspired Nelson Mandela during his long imprisonment. skills. This resource is suitable for cross curricular lessons in both PSHE and History.</p>

<p>This resource has been created for the Day of the Dead celebrations, which take part on 1st November each year. This lesson gives students a simplified and broken-down way of accessing a non-fiction text based on a popular theme. The first part poses comprehension and language activities. The activities ensure the text is carefully read.</p> <p>The second part of the lesson looks at vocabulary building and writing skills. This resource is suitable for cross curricular lessons in PSHE.<br /> This lesson is suitable for KS3 students, but it can easily be adapted to suit KS4 students, particularly those who are less able.</p>