In addition to this resource you will need some lego style building bricks. Slide 1 - Gets the discussion started in your classroom. Students should use the building blocks so that you can identify who is taking part in the classroom discussion. Slide 2 - This teaching slide uses animations to teach the fundamentals of writing to argue Slide 3 - This has a thinking image. The image aims to make students consider whether or not they're contradicting themselves.

A handy document for outlining the objectives of your lesson for the teaching assistant There's a space to outline your lesson activities and space for feedback This is really handy if you don't get the time to meet with your TA very often

This resource is a list of how Literacy could be developed in a secondary school. Along with this, each idea include the impact that the initiative would have. There is also an additional column to put staff names in, for who may want to take responsibility in that lead.

This will fit any subject and it will offer your teachers to reflect on any current schemes of work This worked really well last year and really helped me to identify gaps that needed sorting It also gave staff the chance to voice their opinions The document can be adapted to suit any year group

Modelled teacher response at a very basic level. Improvement it written below, showing pupils how ideas can be developed and how sentence variety can impact

A great resource for printing on A3 Includes a space for students to write their own quotations in.

A colour coded resource with a checklist on to help students with approaching poetry. There is also a colour coded essay framework, which helps students to construct a response to 2 poems read, at the same time as comparing them. This resource has worked great with my middle ability and lower ability classes. An excellent revision resource too.

4 worksheets on the 4 ghosts in A Christmas Carol This will work well in the classroom or as a revision source for your students to complete as homework

4 questions that gradually become more difficult to use as a stimulus for group work discussion Students should explore possibilities, which is a skill they need for the Literature syllabus Questions can be stuck on A3 paper, so that students are able to write their answers around the questions All questions are based on Stave 1

A series of lessons based around formal and informal letter writing You will need to model a response from your own stock The PowerPoint goes through the layout of each, with short and engaging activities mainly aimed at teenage boys Past exam tasks on there too

A series of PowerPoint slides that revise a range of sentence types A good print out for books or can be used as mini tasks in class Plain and simple

A nice resource for students with upcoming exams There is space for name, exam date, reading targets and writing targets

A worksheet for students to consider the difference between thoughts and feelings - visual aid

A really simple to follow SOW that has a PowerPoint for every lesson. Each PowerPoint has a settler starter image linked to the play. The scheme was developed for low ability year 10 students, however it would be ok to use with year 8/9 The scheme leads to a discursive essay on the treatment of women by men, however it can be adapted to suit

A full lesson dedicated to focusing on Scrooge's past and Christmas at Fezziwig's when Scrooge was an apprentice The first section deals with the challenging language There's a link to a short video link to use as a visual aid Then the main activity is for students to find key quotes and discuss what they reveal about Scrooge's character - worksheet is on the last page of the PowerPoint

Starter image with thinking questions on for students Group work activity follows Students will focus on different members of the Cratchit family and the opinions that they form of them At the end of the PowerPoint there is an image, whereby the language term 'juxtaposition' can be taught Students could then spend time noting down where juxtaposition occurs elsewhere in the novel and how this links to the moral ideology of Dickens

This is an introduction to writing to advise All of the statements will be relevant to students They could work in groups and write their advice on large sheets of paper When sharing ideas, students could then look to see if they've used modal verbs etc

4 different coloured poker chips e.g. red, blue, orange and green You hand out the blank chips to students and you keep the chips with the varied questioning starts on them The question starts have been taken from a question matrix It is up to you, you can use them as a differentiation tool, but the idea is that you take a red one for example, from your own pile and then look for an answer from a student who has a blank red poker chip. And so on. It's as simple as that!

I use this sheet with my year 11s to help them prioritise their revision. Simple but effective.

Low ability resource to get students thinking about the difference between thoughts and feelings - visual aid