A thoughtfully structured creative writing lesson aimed at KS3 students using the character of Wednesday Addams as a stimulus. Students are tasked with writing a short story where Wednesday interacts with an eerie setting. Do Now task linking to lesson outcome Clear objective shared with students and linked back to previous learning Introduction to stimulus with discussion and feedback tasks to generate ideas Definition of sensory language and then a modelled task applying it to a setting for the creative writing Task for students to generate their own ideas for sensory language of two further settings Model opening shared and deconstructed End of lesson task linked back to objective with clear success criteria as well as sentence starters to support students with starting their creative writing

The Ultimate Retrieval Revision Booklet for An Inspector Calls. Contains 20 different retrieval activities to aid your students into solidifying their knowledge of An Inspector Calls into their long term memory. 11x elaborate and extend 1x retrieval practice pyramid 2x challenge grid 2x pick ‘n’ mix 4x retrieval clocks

A 20 lesson scheme of learning focusing on Media Super Heroes and Villains aimed at delivery as part of a KS3 English Curriculum. Includes PowerPoints for every lesson and a booklet of printed resources.

The Ultimate Retrieval Revision Booklet for A Christmas Carol. Contains 20 different retrieval activities to aid your students into solidifying their knowledge of A Christmas Carol into their long term memory. 9x elaborate and extend 4x retrieval practice pyramid 2x challenge grid 2x pick ‘n’ mix 3x retrieval clocks

A model response to an AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Q5 on the topic of violent videogames causing violent crimes. The model answer adopts a sarcastic/humourous register to engage an audience.

A model response to the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Q5 from the 2022 exam on the topic of holidays not needing to be faraway and expensive.

The Ultimate Retrieval Revision Booklet for Jekyll & Hyde. Contains 20 different retrieval activities to aid your students into solidifying their knowledge of Jekyll & Hyde into their long term memory. 8x elaborate and extend 2x retrieval practice pyramid 2x challenge grid 3x pick ‘n’ mix 5x retrieval clocks

A model response to the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Q5 from the 2018 exam on the topic of sport should be fun, fair and open to everyone.

A model response to the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Q5 from the 2019 exam on the topic of how sport should be fun, fair and open to everyone.

The Ultimate Retrieval Revision Booklet for Macbeth. Contains 20 different retrieval activities to aid your students into solidifying their knowledge of Macbeth into their long term memory. 7x elaborate and extend 2x retrieval practice pyramid 2 x challenge grid 2 x pick ‘n’ mix 7 x retrieval clocks

20 AQA English Language Paper 2 Q1s that make a good starter activity. Covers a variety of topics.

A model response to the AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1 Jekyll and Hyde from the 2019 exam exploring how Stevenson presents Mr Hyde as an inhuman and disturbing member of society.

Detailed exploration of the Induction scenes, leading students through connections to the wider play. Offers key quotations, interpretations, contexts and connections to hit AOs 1-5.

A comprehensive guidebook covering the below items of SPaG. Each item has its own page containing a detailed definition, visual aid, practice activity and a link to a explanatory video. Could also be used as lesson starters (includes guidebook in PDF and PowerPoint format). Adjectives Adverbials Apostrophes Clauses Colons Commas Complex Sentences Compound Sentences Coordinating Conjunctions Discourse Markers Modal Verbs Nouns Parenthesis Past Tense Perfect Tense Prepositions Present Tense Pronouns Relative Clauses Semi Colons Sentence Starters Simple Sentences Speech Marks Subject Verb Object Subordinate Clauses Subordinating Conjunctions Verbs

Full mock paper 1 for the AQA GCSE English Language specification based on an extract from Fight Club. Each question includes prompts for self-marking and space for self-reflection on WWW and EBI.

The Ultimate Retrieval Revision Booklet for Romeo & Juliet. Contains 20 different retrieval activities to aid your students into solidifying their knowledge of Romeo & Juliet into their long term memory. 10x elaborate and extend 2x retrieval practice pyramid 2x challenge grid 2x pick ‘n’ mix 4x retrieval clocks

Students get to compete in an interactive game whilst revising at the same time! The first (warm up) round consists of matching the poet to their poem. For the second round each player must answer two questions on a single quotation from a poem. Four possible answers will appear followed by a question. The players must share the counters in front of them over what they think is the correct answer leaving one answer clear – no conferring amongst team members. Any prize left on the wrong answer will drop and be taken away. Students will then be asked to explain the effect of the device (there is the possibility of earning lost money back for great answers).

Glossary of key terminology for child language development covering: stages of spoken language development; theoretical perspectives on spoken language development; learning to read; learning to write.

Full mock paper 1 for the AQA GCSE English Language specification based on an extract from Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Each question includes prompts for self-marking and space for self-reflection on WWW and EBI.