This is a fully completed lesson focusing on improving creative writing through the art of re-drafting. Students are encouraged to focus on different aspects of their writing in the re-drafting process and look at what makes their writing more fine tuned. This is perfect for KS3 and KS4 students. Perfect lesson for exploring language paper one question five skills.

Seven weeks worth of comprehensive home learning tasks to use alongside the ‘Ghost Boys’ book. These tasks focus on features of writing, language techniques and debate questions.

This is a bundle of PowerPoints that introduces students to cultural poetry. It includes the poems: Blessing, Island Man and Night of the Scorpion. The Powerpoints are designed to help students to gain skills such as: inference, thinking about the writers intentions, picking out key themes etc. All of the PowerPoints are designed as full lessons.

This PowerPoint is designed to go through the poem Night of the Scorpion. The PowerPoint follows through the method of VIPERS and teaches students key skills such as: inference, explaining effect and the writers intentions.

This PowerPoint goes through the poem discussing context and language techniques. This can be used as a full lesson. The PowerPoint uses the VIPERS method of analysing poetry and teaches students skills such as: Inference, explaining effects of language and thinking about writers intentions.

This PowerPoint is designed to introduce students to cultural poetry units. It goes through what culture is and what culture means to your students. It then gives a detailed unit overview as well as providing activities and homework tasks.

This worksheet is designed to recap over language techniques. Students are prompted to give an example and a definition of a range of language techniques.

A comprehensive PowerPoint going through the poem Island Man. This includes information about the poet, activities for students to complete and an analysis of the poem.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for An Inspector Calls. Instructions: Students simply roll the dice twice in order to land on a section of the grid. They then answer the question in the square of the grid that they land on. They then roll again and continue the same process. This is a great way to incorporate retrieval practice into the classroom and can also be used as a revision game.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for A Christmas Carol. Instructions: Students roll the dice twice to find a topic on the grid, they then write this into box one. This process is then repeated for box two. Once both boxes have been filled in, students then have the challenge of drawing links between the two topics. This is a great retrieval practice resource or revision game.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for Inspector Calls. Instructions: Students will roll and dice twice to select a topic on the grid and write this in box one. This process will then be repeated for box two. Students will then have the challenge of drawing links between the two topics that they have selected. This is great to use for retrieval practice within class or as a fun, competitive revision activity.

This is a roll & retrieve grid that your students can use for retrieval practice. Instructions: The dice is rolled twice and matches up to a topic, this process is then repeated. Once two topics have been selected these are then written into the table and a link between the two topics is made. This is a fun way to incorporate revision and retrieval practice into your classroom. This activity is great to be used as a stand alone task or as a competitive revision game.

A Virtual Reading Corner for students to come and access online Ebooks, get an update on what you are reading and have a safe space in which they feel inspired to pick up a book and read.