A two-hour lesson looking at a non-fiction article around the subject of Mixed Martial Arts. The lesson helps studnets build skills towards paper two of the English GCSE exam and helps them to build a better vocabulary and offer a balanced argument in their own writing

This is a fourteen slide Power-Point lesson that introduces students to Animal Farm and the context around the text. The lesson builds towards helping students to gain a good understanding of language and how to attempt question two from paper one, Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.

A complete walk through of Paper one Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. This is a double-lesson looking at all questions, differentiated to help students gain a deeper understanding of language and structure.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poet Simon Armitage and his poem Remains. The lesson helps guide students through some of the more difficult language and structural techniques used in the poem.

A fully differentiated lesson that engages students and helps them to approach their G.C.S.E exams

This is a fully differentiated lesson created for the new specification for functional skills level one and two. The lesson helps students to broaden their vocabulary and understand the importance of synonyms.

This lesson was designed to work alongside the GCSE language and literature exams for English. The lesson takes students through some key moments in the text Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and how to approach an exam-style question.

This is a fully differentiated lesson that helps stretch and challenge students in an engaging way. The lesson focuses on understanding the importance of understanding the importance of language in poetry. Additionally it has been used with many of my groups and has helped my students feel confident when faced with a poetry question.

This is a fully differentiated lesson for the functional skills new reform. The lesson focuses on the activist Greta Thunberg and her speech to the UN. The lesson looks at some of the more advanced techniques used in speech writing. Additionally, the lesson looks at a transcript of the speech and allows the students to analyse this in-depth before going on to produce their own speech. This lesson works well for both functional skills and GCSE English, is well planned and comes with all resources needed.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at building key skills for level one and level two of the new functional skills reform. The lesson focuses on the topic of Black Friday and has will test both reading and writing skills

This is a fully differentiated booklet that aims to build skills for the GSCE language paper one explorations in creative reading and writing. The booklet is an ideal resource for intervention or as a homework tool. All of my booklets have been tried and tested and have helped myself and my department to help and support many students to stretch and improve their skills in English.

His is a full twenty-three slide lesson taking students through a past paper for Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. This lesson is differentiated and fully ready to be taught. All of my lessons have been tried and tested and this lesson has been very beneficial in helping students overcome the obstacles within this paper.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at interview technique and expressing a letter of interest. The lesson is not only designed to help build skills towards the functional skills exam but also to improve interview and job seeking skills. The lesson has tasks to assess both the reading and writing elements of the exam. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you like this lesson then please see the full bundles and free resources available at my shop.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at our expectations of New Year Resolutions. The lesson has a strong emphasis on spelling and introduces students to different methods of spelling. The lesson has both a reading and writing focus helping your class to improve and practice a diverse range of techniques. All of my lessons are tried and tested with my own groups. If you like this lesson, please check out one of my bundles or free resources from my shop.

This is a fully differentiated lesson that is appropriate for learners studying both Functional Skill and GCSE English. The lesson uses sources from the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the UK to help learners understand the British Values. The lesson is ideal for learners who need to improve both their reading and writing skills as the lesson has many opportunities for ALF. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this resource, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources that are updated each week.

This is a fully differentiated lesson focusing on the topic of what choices to make after finishing compulsory education. The lesson helps build vital reading and writing skills for the level 1 and level 2 functional skills English exam. If you liked this resources, then please check out my shop where there are free resources and more lessons.

This is a fully differentiated lesson for learners of both functional skills and GCSE English. The lesson helps learners to understand the differences between implicit and explicit information which is a key skill required for their GCSE’s. The lesson looks at one of the issues of Free School Meals during the Co-vid crisis and how this was overcome by the footballer Marcus Rasford. The lesson includes opportunities for AFL in both reading and writing and comes with an annotated student response. All of my lessons have been tried and tested. If you liked this lesson then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources with more being added each week.

This is a fully differentiated lesson designed to support learners studying GCSE English language. The lesson helps students to understand how to deal with section B of paper A (creative writing) and also uses an extract to help them come to terms with language analysis. All of my lessons have been tried and tested, if you liked this resource then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources which is updated on a weekly basis.

This is a fully differentiated lesson for learners of KS3 and KS4 English. The lesson looks at the origins of the crime genre and uses a key passage from The Sign of The Four. The lesson guides the learners to understand how to identify key language and structural techniques. The lesson also gives learners the opportunity to develop their creative writing skills aided by examples of showing and not telling.