A lesson exploring fairy tale openings through Perrault and Grimm.

A Fantasy fiction lesson exploring the appearance of Gollum to develop annotation and inference skills.

An engaging lesson designed with online learning in mind.

A two-part lesson building up annotation skills through an extract from Alice in Wonderland. Next, the students will complete an analysis paragraph on the extract. Aimed at KS3.

A lesson designed to introduce students (KS3) to the topic of fantasy fiction.

Creating a Dickensian description of London.

A fun and engaging lesson showing students the conventions of letter writing, the purpose of a letter and then good practice.

A single lesson exploring structure through multi-media (a clip of the water scene in Jaws) to track the events and focus of the audience. This is then developed into the text version and how to track structure in this.

A lesson exploring narrative structure and the role of characterisation during exposition. The text linked to this extract is A Pinch of Magic - the website has a fantastic resource bundle which I use with the lesson.

A single lesson exploring P1, Q5, the mark scheme, using a WAGOLL, evaluating against the mark scheme, and crafting a response for peer-assessment.

A lesson introducing the character of Sherlock Holmes, building to an analysis question on the initial description of the detective. MA KS3.

Building tasks towards analysis of a Gothic character (Frankenstein) with scaffolding. Produced for a Y7 scheme, but easily adapted.

A lesson using Alice in Wonderland as a stimulus to make inferences on more challenging texts. Designed specifically with online learning in mind.

A single lesson introducing non-fiction, with a focus on purpose, audience, text type, and annotating any non-fiction extract. MA/HA KS3.

A lesson to develop the ability to prepare a text and answer questions one and two for AQA Language Paper 1 through exploration of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and the arrival of Jacob Marley.

A collection of assessment resources to assess students on their ability to make inferences on a character in Fantasy fiction.

A single lesson exploring the theme of love in ‘Human Interest’ by Carol Ann Duffy.

A lesson to explore the use of dialogue in Fantasy fiction to develop narrative. This is explored through an extract from Harry Potter and then through an extract from ‘Cursed Child’ to explore a different form.

A strategy poster outlining how to focus on reading fluency.

5 different whole-class feedback sheets.