This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Shakespearean language. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as the writer’s use of language and structure, an introduction to famous plays and extract analysis. Each unit of work comes with 7 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: How to embed context Lesson 2: Attitudes in Taming of the Shrew Lesson 3: Analysing staging on Othello Lesson 4: Form, rhythm and rhyme in Sonnet 130 Lesson 5: Rhythm in Macbeth Lesson 6: Forming a hypothesis in Hamlet Lesson 7: Analysing persuasive devices in Henry V

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Victorian Literature. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, extract analysis and embedding context. There is a workbook for the students to use alongside the lesson PowerPoints. Lesson 1: How to create characters with depth Lesson 2: Narrative Voice in Sherlock Holmes Lesson 3: Planning and writing a detective story Lesson 4: How the writer creates mood and atmosphere in Hard Times Lesson 5: Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times Lesson 6: Victorian context webquest Lesson 7: The Ghosts in Christmas Carol

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, how to open a story, narrative tenses and scanning for detail. It contains a workbook for students to work thought alongside the lesson PowerPoints. Lesson 1: Unique voice in Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 2: Creative writing using a unique voice Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening Lesson 4: Verb changes in Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Lesson 5: Skimming and Scanning Lesson 6: Show don’t tell Lesson 7: How to create characters Lesson 8: How to start your descriptive sentences

A unit of work dedicated to poetry that explores the natural world. It includes 19 lessons with activities to help students comment on the effect of language techniques, comparison and contextual research opportunities on the British poets. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes, support notes, essay frames and creative writing opportunities. The lessons cover a range of subjects such as poetic techniques, rhythm and rhyme in conjunction with with poems by: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lord Tennyson, William Blake and many more. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Poetic techniques review Lesson 3: How poets use rhythm Lesson 4: The Eagle by Tennyson Lesson 5: The Jaguar by Ted Hughes Lesson 6: The Tyger by William Blake Lesson 7: The Hyena by Edwin Morgan Lesson 8: View of a Pig by Ted Hughes Lesson 9: Sonnet by John Clare Lesson 10: Spring by Hopkins Lesson 11: Daffodils by William Wordsworth Lesson 12: Inversnaid by Hopkins Lesson 13: Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare Lesson 14: Seamus Heaney research Lesson 15: Death of a Naturalist by Heaney Lesson 16: Blackberry Picking by Heaney Lesson 17: Planning your assessment Lesson 18: Writing your assessment Lesson 19: Assessment feedback

Everything you need to revise Streetcar at KS5. This unit includes 12 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: The American South Lesson 2: Tragedy as a genre Lesson 3: Structure of the scenes Lesson 4: Style and idiolect Lesson 5: betrayal and desire Lesson 6: social class Lesson 7: Stella Lesson 8: men and women Lesson 9: Stella and Stan Lesson 10: Steve and Eunice Lesson 11: Belle Reve Lesson 12: Gone With The Wind

Everything you need to revise Othello at KS5. This unit includes 14 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Desdemona Lesson 2: Who is responsible? Lesson 3: Literary Criticism Lesson 4: Hitting the assessment objectives Lesson 5: Past Paper Lesson 6: Film overview Lesson 7: Brabantio and Roderigo Lesson 8: Iago Lesson 9: Love and Hate Lesson 10: Iago and love Lesson 11: Past questions Lesson 12: Bradley vs Leavis Lesson 13: Revision guides Lesson 14: Love and Loyalty

Everything you need to revise Romeo and Juliet at KS4. This unit includes 13 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Atmosphere in A3S1 Lesson 2: Juliet in A4S3 Lesson 3: Juliet’s changes Lesson 4: The trial of Friar Lawrence Lesson 5:Top Trumps Lesson 6: Juliet’s strong emotions Lesson 7: Juliet and Romeo’s relationship Lesson 8: Computer research Lesson 9: Is Romeo to blame? Lesson 10: Lord Capulet Lesson 11: Tybalt Lesson 12: Context Lesson 13: Relationships between adults and children

Everything you need to revise Macbeth at KS4. This unit includes 10 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Plot review Lesson 2: Macbeth’s changes Lesson 3: Lady Macbeth debate Lesson 4: Quote bank for exams Lesson 5: Evaluating Lady Macbeth in A2S2 Lesson 6: Macbeth as the tragic hero Lesson 7: Exam revision Lesson 8: How to remember key quotes Lesson 9: Shakespeare’s use of soliloquys Lesson 10: Extract analysis

Everything you need to revise Lord of the Flies at KS4. This unit includes 17 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Jack Lesson 2: Ralph Lesson 3: The Beast Lesson 4: Essay planning Lesson 5: Symbols Lesson 6: Simon Lesson 7: Essay question planning Lesson 8: Exam overview Lesson 9: The fire Lesson 10: The extract question Lesson 11: Assemblies Lesson 12: Jack extract Lesson 13: Group presentations Lesson 14: Piggy Lesson 15: Revision cards Lesson 16: Final revision Lesson 17: Character overview

Do your students need last minute prep for their exam? This 11 lesson unit is designed for students who have studied a Christmas Carol, but need two weeks intensive revision before their exam. The unit covers a number of characters and themes such as: Lesson 1: plot and characters Lesson 2: essay planning and context Lesson 3: the role of the ghosts Lesson 4: the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Lesson 5: Scrooge’s transformation Lesson 6: revision guides Lesson 7: useful quotes Lesson 8: context bidding Lesson 9: Staves 1-2 review Lesson 10: Staves 3-4 review Lesson 11: final revision

Everything you need to revise Blood Brothers at KS4. This unit includes 13 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and essay structure. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Comedy and tragedy Lesson 2: Sympathy Lesson 3: Character posters Lesson 4: Context Lesson 5: Mrs Johnstone and motherhood Lesson 6: Who is responsible? Lesson 7: The narrator Lesson 8: Remembering key quotes Lesson 9: Act 1 review Lesson 10: Act 2 review Lesson 11: Mrs Johnstone as a strong character Lesson 12: Linda Lesson 13: Planning your answer

This unit of work is fantastic for introducing the crime genre and detective stories to KS3 students. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, activities to exploit drama, debates, creative writing opportunities and short stories. This works well with a boy heavy group, who get very excited when they use the clues to solve the crimes before the ending is given away! Lesson 1: An introduction to crime Lesson 2: How writers use narrative hooks Lesson 3: Crime Scene Investigation Lesson 4: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 5: Using Voice in Captain Murderer Lesson 6: Writing feedback Lesson 7: About His Person by Simon Armitage Lesson 8: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Lesson 9-11: The Darkness Out There by Penelope Lively Lesson 12: The Trial of Mrs Rutter Lesson 13: Perform and peer assess Lesson 14: The Red Room by HG Wells Lesson 15: Planning your own detective story Lesson 16: Writing your own detective story Lesson 17: Writing feedback and improvement Lesson 18: Who killed Vic Timberlake?

Everything you need to teach this fantastic novel! Ideally for Years 7-9, this unit has 20 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on writer’s use of language, evaluating a character statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information on Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, chapter extracts and IWB activities. This is perfect for developing early English Literature essay skills. Page numbers are based on the 2004 Vintage edition. The lesson themes focus on: Lesson 1: Autism research Lesson 2: How to produce Chris’s style Lesson 3: Understanding emotions Lesson 4: Character profiles Lesson 5: Habits and rituals Lesson 6: The Monty Hall Problem Lesson 7: Splitting up Lesson 8: Chris’ mother Lesson 9: The letters Lesson 10: Running away research Lesson 11: Chris runs away Lesson 12: Eidetic memories Lesson 13: Interpreting dreams Lesson 14: Analysing Chris’ mother Lesson 15: Designing a front cover Lesson 16: Writing an extra chapter Lesson 17: Character profiles Lesson 18: Book reviews Lesson 19: Describing a train journey Lesson 20: Questions to the author There is also an opportunity for assessment on Chris’s dad with feedback and a marking sheet.

This unit of work is fantastic for stretching high ability students, by encouraging them to amalgamate context into their consideration of the fable. The unit contains 17 lessons covering the whole of the novel, focusing on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, creative writing and the effect of rhetorical devices. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts, speech writing and dramatic activities. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics Edition. The lessons include: Lesson 1: Lenin, Trotsky, Marx and Stalin Lesson 2: context games Lesson 3: the characters and their historical equivalents Lesson 4: analysis of Old Major’s speech Lesson 5: the animals Lesson 6: Napoleon vs Snowball vote Lesson 7: the revolution Lesson 8: flags as symbols Lesson 9: formulating a battle plan Lesson 10: political spin Lesson 11: propaganda and posters Lesson 12: leadership styles Lesson 13: review chapters 1-5 Lesson 14: Napoleon as a dictator Lesson 15: Scapegoats Lesson 16: the battle of the windmill Lesson 17: power and corruption Lesson 18: assessment preparation Lesson 19: assessment feedback There is an opportunity at the end of the unit to plan and write an assessment on Napoleon.

Everything you need to teach Science Fiction at KS3. This unit of work includes 14 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, quizzes, stories and a descriptive assessment . It is geared towards boys, with extracts from Ray Bradbury, Mars missions and The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This is useful as an early introduction to the skills needed for English Language GCSE Paper 1. Lesson 1: Introduction to Science Fiction Lesson 2: The rise of Artificial Intelligence Lesson 3-4: A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Lesson 5: Colonising Mars Lesson 6: Write a Mars Speech Lesson 7: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Lesson 8: Designing a Science Fiction Trailer Lesson 9: The Time Machine by HG Wells Lesson 10: Virus and future pandemics Lesson 11: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Lesson 12: The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Lesson 13: Writing a Doctor Who script for TV Lesson 14: Describing an alien planet from Star Wars

This unit contains everything you need to teach dystopian Fiction at KS3 in an engaging and dynamic way. It includes 9 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, extracts, short stories, quizzes and assessment opportunities. This unit works well with a boy heavy group interested in texts like Brave New World, Hunger Games and War of the Worlds. There is an assessment opportunity at the end of the unit for the students to analyse an extract from Children of Men. This is supported with essay frames and exemplar answers. Lesson 1: Dystopias in Literature Lesson 2: Comparing dystopian worlds Lesson 3: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Lesson 4: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Colins Lesson 5: The Red Weed from War of the Worlds Lesson 6: 1984 by George Orwell Lesson 7: Assessment: Children of Men by PD James Lesson 8:Writing your assessment Lesson 9: Assessment feedback Lesson 10: Dystopia quiz

This unit is ideal as an introduction to non-fiction texts and multi-media at middle school. It contains 17 lessons focusing on newspaper bias, presenting a radio report, website design, opinion pieces, film reviews and the register of broadsheets and tabloids. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, newspaper articles, reviews and exemplar answers to stretch the top end. The unit includes: Lesson 1: News values Lesson 2: The structure of a newspaper Lesson 3: Analysing website design Lesson 4: Online website analysis Lesson 5: Radio broadcasts Lesson 6: Snack Attack perspective Lesson 7: Writing a formal report Lesson 8: Writing a film review Lesson 9: Travel writing Lesson 10: Writing a job application letter Lesson 11: Writing Horoscopes Lesson 12: Identifying bias Lesson 13: Tabloid vs Broadsheet Lesson 14: Headlines Lesson 15: Jamie’s Dream School Lesson 16: Writing a music review Lesson 17: Writing a speech on technology

This Midsummer Night’s Dream unit is lots of fun and fantastic for stretching high ability KS3 students. It contains 18 lessons, focusing on the playwright’s use of language, how the playwright uses dramatic devices, creative writing and the effect of staging. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, extracts and IWB activities. The page numbers refer to the Cambridge School Shakespeare edition. The unit includes: Lesson 1: Elizabethan context Lesson 2: Online research Lesson 3: The Globe Lesson 4: The Characters Lesson 5: The language Lesson 6: Plot and Characters Lesson 7: Act out the play Lesson 8: Set design in A1S1 Lesson 9: Creating characters in A1S2 Lesson 10: Exploring fairies in A2S1 Lesson 11: Oberon and Titania in A2S1 Lesson 12: Persuasive language in A2S1 Lesson 13: Shakespeare’s language Lesson 14: Writing spells in A2S2 Lesson 15: Insults in A3S2 Lesson 16: Analysing character in A4S1 Lesson 17: Themes review at the end Lesson 18: Blockbuster revision

This unit is ideal as an introduction to non-fiction texts at KS3. It has 18 lessons focusing on evaluating non-fiction texts, opinion writing, describing travel destinations, writing a letter of complaint and more. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, travel guide extracts, example answers and newspaper articles. Lesson 1: Introduction to travel writing Lesson 2: The Road to Manali by Melissa Bell Lesson 3: The Red Dust Lesson 4: Describing Antarctica Lesson 5: Writing a speech to reduce tourism Lesson 6: Pole to Pole by Michael Palin Lesson 7: Narrative tenses in The Beach Lesson 8-9: Designing a travel advert Lesson 10: Designing the ultimate trip Lesson 11: Describing holidays Lesson 12: Holiday web quest Lesson 13: Holiday narrative writing Lesson 14-15: Holidays from hell Lesson 16: Designing a promotional video Lesson 17: Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks Lesson 18: Travel TV Shows

This unit of work is focused on short stories with original endings. The students analyze these stories, then have an opportunity to analyse an original ending in their final assessment. The unit of work contains 14 lessons and is mainly focused on how a story is structured and uses foreshadowing to lead the reader towards the ending. Lesson 1-3: The Landlady by Roald Dahl Lesson 4: The Raven by Edgar Alan Poe Lesson 5: Analysing structure in The Raven Lesson 6: An introduction to Sherlock Holmes Lesson 7-9: The Case of the Engineer’s Thumb by Arthur Conan Doyle Lesson 10: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Lesson 11-13: The Cone by HG Wells Lesson 14: Structure in The Cone There is also an opportunity for a KS3 SATS style exam to analyse structure in ‘Pick Your Poison’.