Focuses on a response to Katie Hopkins' article about the Syrian refugees. 7 lessons worth of lessons which leads up to the students creating their own opinion column.

Could be used during form time as a whole school literacy task or in English lessons. Covers: Varying vocabulary Homophones Reading: skimming and scanning Capital letters and full stops Spoken English - discussion skills Reading for meaning Sentence types (excludes complex) Apostrophes Paragraphs Speech marks Connotation and denotation Proofreading

Could be used during form time as a whole school literacy task or in English lessons. Covers: Varying vocabulary Homophones Reading: skimming and scanning Capital letters and full stops Spoken English - discussion skills Reading for meaning Sentence types (excludes complex) Apostrophes Paragraphs Speech marks Connotation and denotation Proofreading

Could be used during form time as a whole school literacy task or in English lessons. Covers: Varying vocabulary Homophones Reading: skimming and scanning Capital letters and full stops Spoken English - discussion skills Reading for meaning Sentence types (excludes complex) Apostrophes Paragraphs Speech marks Connotation and denotation Proofreading

Definitions of key words, PEEL sentence openers, methods, reminders of paragraphs and sentences etc.

Lessons to help students gain some confidence with speaking and listening skills for their exam.

A couple of fun lessons to teach students about haikus and limericks and promoting them to create their own. Could be taught as one lesson.

Covers character, theme, context, how to answer an extract question.

Lesson can be easily differentiated for different classes and abilities. Students to draw lines or eyes where they think the focus has altered. Students to cut and stick emojis onto the focus to show what effect is created there. They can then fill in the table. If they need extra support, they can use the focus card sort to help them.

Gives students activities to complete independently as revision before their exam or at the end of the topic.

Gives students activities to complete independently as revision before their exam or at the end of the topic.

Three pages to be used to support students with literacy and structuring answers for English Literature and Language Exams as well as general SPAG. A couple of images have moved during the preview but hopefully won’t be an issue when downloaded.

15/16 lessons which focuses on the topic of love and relationships with an assessment, and then moves onto unseen poetry with another assessment. This could be easily expanded. It aims to mimic the skills used in the AQA Literature exam.

This scheme of work focuses on love and relationships in the play between Beatrice and Benedick, and Hero and Claudio. You would need a film version of Much Ado with Kenneth Brannagh to help with the teaching as it is a short scheme of work. My year 7s really enjoyed it.

An exam overlay to help students answer the exam question successfully.

Covers plot, characters, themes, context.

10 lessons based on the topic of theme parks. This results in a persuasive speech writing assessment based on the Alton Towers ‘Smiler’ incident. It covers persuasive features, bias, and description.

This is a 10 lesson scheme of work. It could potentially take longer or be easily extended. It focuses mainly on the features of Gothic writing, freak shows, and outsiders. I have also included some paper 2 language skills using real descriptions of people’s experiences of going to a freak show. You will need access to a copy of ‘The Greatest Showman’ film for lesson 7 and 8. You may need to think of some questions to ask for this lesson about the message and inferences of character. I have included links to go with the lessons from Youtube I will be using with this scheme too. There are also pictures of the cast of ‘The Greatest Showman’ with pictures of the real people they are meant to be representing.

A series of 17 lessons to develop students' descriptive writing skills in preparation for the new GCSE English Language descriptive writing task (targeted specifically at the new AQA GCSE - 8700 - Paper 1, Section B). It uses some of the poems from the Power and Conflict section of the AQA anthology as a stimulus, along with a little analytical exploration of them. This is the first unit we teach our Y10s but could be easily adapted to simply focus on descriptive writing, add to the poetry, etc. If you do cover this section of the anthology, it is ready to teach 'straight out the box', with all relevant resources. Plenty of examples of published writers to use as models.

A comprehensive collection of 23 sample exam tasks on 'A Christmas Carol' by Dickens, in the style of the new specification (8702) AQA English Lit Paper 1 GCSE exam. As with the official sample materials, each task includes brief details about where the extract is from, the extract itself with line numbers, and a question, followed by prompts to refer to the presentation of character/theme/idea/setting in the extract and the novel as a whole. The tasks are ordered in the same sequence as the extracts appear in the novel, so this would also be useful for recapping the story through key extracts.