Fun and original Creative Writing lesson for Easter, using the imaginary land of “Good-Friday Forest” (where the Easter Bunny lives wink) Learning Objectives to write both a description and a story with very appealing and engaging visual picture stimulus. 6 Slide Landscape printable PDF file for the IWB

14 page/slide printable PDF lesson for KS3/KS2 English planning ideas for three stories based on the three different illustrated “landscapes” provided. Clear focus on English Language Assessment Objective 5: organising ideas for coherent writing. Each picture has an identical 3 page planning template so this could easily be developed over a series of lessons.

St Patrick’s Day Creative Writing Lesson based on The Giant’s Causeway and the legend of Finn McCool. The Powerpoint includes a clear learning objective, factual information about The Giant’s Causeway, and a link to a 2.5 minute excellent and engaging animation about the legend of Finn McCool and the creation of the Giant’s Causeway. Two writing tasks are included, each with a clear and different audience and purpose. An extension activity could be a Speaking & Listening task to create a voice over for the animation.

A 14 slide complete lesson getting learners to use prepositions to create varied sentence structure and imaginative, descriptive writing. Clear links to Assessment Objectives 5 and 6 of the curriculum for GCSE English Language. Differentiated Learning Outcomes included. The lesson has a task to consolidate understanding before giving three pictures to inspire imaginative descriptive sentence writing. Further ideas for differentiation could include: **More able learners write the opening paragraph of a story using one of the pictures ensuring they use prepositions at the start of some of the sentences. ** Lower ability pupils could use the list of prepositions to write descriptive sentences including prepositions, not necessarily at the start of the sentence

Four wordsearch puzzles for World Poetry Day (21st March) suitable for differing ages, interests and abilities; Names of poets, poetic forms/terms, The Jabberwocky and the 2021 Presidential Inaugaration poem “The Hill We Climb” English/Literacy, Starter, Tutor Time , PSHE etc Each puzzles has an extended learning task included at the end.