An introduction to the main characters of Oliver Twist, this lesson focuses on pupils' ability to work effectively in groups while also demonstrating their speaking and listening skills. Pupils recap on prior knowledge of the text and characters by completing a short true or false settling activity. They then get into groups and read through their character description before editing this to include some lies. When feeding back to the whole class each group must first read the original version of their character description before reading the edited version. The rest of the class demonstrate their listening skills by holding up the 'You Lie' card whenever they spot a change in the narrative.

Pupils are introduced to the circumstances surrounding Oliver's birth and the tragic death of his mother. Pupils work on a settling activity which challenges them to unjumble the words of characters/key items related to the text. Following this, pupils read the accompanying extract with a particular focus on one of the three central characters within this scene; Oliver's mother, the nurse and the surgeon. Students are then challenged to create an internal monologue for their assigned character. All resources included!

A fun and interactive lesson for pupils to explore A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy. Focusing on the Eduqas specification requirements the lesson explores context, language, form and structure. All resources included.

An interactive and engaging lesson to introduce pupils to the first chapter of Jane Eyre. An edited version of the text allows pupils to independently explore key issues raised in this section of the text along with literary features employed by Bronte. The lesson opens with an active group challenge entailing pupils to match the correct book cover to the famous opening line. Following this pupils complete a shared reading of the edited text in small groups with each section clearly marked and including a question requiring a detailed response. Two built in mini-pitstops allow the teacher to circulate and target specific pupils/groups while ensuring all pupils are making effective progress. All resources included!

A handy lesson that introduces pupils to the main characters of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Including lots of vital information on a range of characters, pupils are challenged to select and retrieve key information from around the classroom before creating a more detailed Facebook profile for their chosen character. All resources included!

A wide rage of activities included which have helped my middle ability year 8 class access and engage with The Tempest. The resources included cover acts 1 and 2.

A handy revision guide to help pupil track the main characters and their individual development through the narrative. Has worked really well with a range of year 10 and 11 classes I teach as they can contain all their notes on the main characters in one place an easily track their progression.

A mini scheme of work focussing on some creative writing and EDUQAS fiction reading style questions of gothic texts. These lessons helped my low ability year 9 class access the texts and make informed inferences about them.

Lots of different ways into the poetry set in the anthology. Also opportunities to weave in writing skills provided. This scheme helped my top set 10s gain independence when exploring the poetry and the examples provided allowed them to understand how to structure and complete high level responses. I've also included some of their class notes which are quite illuminating!

Perfect for revision of key characters and some of their most important quotations along with pertinent symbols and their significance.

A lesson that explores the select and retrieve skills essential for WJEC Fiction Reading paper. The lesson was delivered successfully to a middle ability year 9 class who enjoyed the exploration of a different culture, consideration of African proverbs and development of key exam skills needed to gain confidence before tackling the more challenging questions later in the paper.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to consider their observation skills in exploring a 5 mark mood and atmosphere style question from the WJEC fiction reading paper. The lesson developed to build pupils' confidence with a text we had previously explored for select and retrieve questions by building the layers of their response through discussion, embedding quotations and 'walking through' the extract. The brief sample response at the end of the PowerPoint provided further reassurance to pupils who felt the task was more difficult than they could manage by highlighting strengths of the response and illustrating how the embedded quotations they had previously selected could be used as a starting point to a more developed response.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 students to consolidate their knowledge of the importance of observation skills, select and retrieve skills and embedding quotations. In addition to this, it also developed their confidence with higher level vocabulary and allowed them the opportunity to consider what key vocabulary means within its specific context.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to gain confidence in deciphering the significance of symbols, familiarising themselves with unseen texts and understanding how to go about tracking the narrator's shifts in attitude throughout the text. The work with the emojis proved extremely helpful for pupils and saw them explore a wider range of attitudes than I have ever previously noted - it also provoked quite a unique opportunity for dialogue to arise between the pupils too.

This lesson challenged my middle ability year 9 pupils to consider connotations, select and retrieve information in a set amount of time and identify key moments from across a text. This worked well to consolidate some of those important reading skills we had been working on as we familiarised ourselves with the WJEC Fiction Reading paper format while also allowing them so additional creativity as the term drew to a close.

This lesson allowed my middle ability year 9 students to begin to display their own personal responses towards a text whilst also tracking through an extract. The lesson encourages students to deal with the entirety of the extract and provides examples for those who find this activity particularly challenging.

This lesson was delivered to my middle ability year 11 class as they were preparing for their GCSEs and it focused on consolidating their knowledge of the WJEC Poetry Anthology having studied the entire collection in years 10 and 11. This lesson proved successful as it suited the desires of the class, who in the final few weeks, sought ways to revise the literature course whilst also having the opportunity to challenge themselves through conversing with others. As the end of the lesson, all pupils had a completed jigsaw linking the 18 poems together under one of the headings of content, context, language and structure. The three other members of their team completed the other headings and pupils could photograph one another's work for a handy revision tool. The same lesson could easily be adapted to other poetry collections or be used for characters or themes/symbols in other texts.

This lesson was used to consolidate my middle ability year 11 students' knowledge of the WJEC Poetry Anthology as they prepared for their GCSEs. Having studied the entire poetry selection over years 10 and 11, the pupils wanted to revise the entire selection whilst also tackling planning and preparing for the essay style question. A quick visual starter using imagery associated with the poetry provoked pupils to consider the key symbols prevalent in the poems before they worked in groups to create exam style questions and plan together. The challenge was then increased when the pupils were tasked with choosing two of the poems at random and creating an individual response linking the two poems together.

This lesson worked really well with my high ability year 7 group and gained some excellent feedback following an observation. The lesson explores the real life tragedy that struck Jean-Dominique Bauby and uses this to challenge pupils to consider their communication skills. The lesson is carefully chunked with short amounts of time allocated to each activity to extend the challenge further. It also provided some great opportunities for SMSC links to be made in class too.