This lesson goes through the poem for a low ability group. It has activities about the soldier’s feelings, an overview of the poem and then some focused quotation analysis linking to technique finding and why Owen will have written it. Students enjoyed this lesson before going into more detail later on in the year.

Here are 8 lessons on Peter Grimes for A Level (annotating will have taken place within these lessons as well). There are a range of PowerPoint slides and worksheets to be completed (either in class, independent study or homework). The lessons focus on lines 1 - 153 with having looked at and annotated lines 1 - 200 in terms of annotating. When teaching this poem for the first time, I found that if I concentrated and took it slowly up to line 153, the class could then feel confident about continuing their own annotations in small groups/pairs and then feeding back to one another.

This booklet has been designed for KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and for homework. There are a range of activities in this booklets like recapping adjectives, verbs, vocabulary, nouns and self-assessment at the end.

These two PPTs go through how to teach top set students (to be delivered in a hall of set 1s and set 2s) how to adapt their writing ensuring they are focusing on expanding their ideas. Not only does this allow students to explore ideas linking them together, but it also gives them an introduction and first paragraph. It should be noted that these will not be able to be replicated perfectly in the exam, but they should aim high to be able to recreate what they need to in order to gain the top marks.

Adapted Kamikaze poem for my low ability sets. Quote sheets and questions in the PPT - those slides will need to be printed off.

This booklet has been created to be used alongside a PowerPoint (which can be made from this booklet) or on its own. It contains a lot of information for Key Stage 5 or college students on what to do and expect when preparing to live independently. Sections include: Before you leave When looking at halls of residence or renting Cleaning and Hygiene matters Saving on Utilities Medical Matters Duvet Togs Explained Finances: basic information about which ID to need, a student account, ISA and savings account Planning Meals Laundry Labels Top student accounts 2023/2024 ready for research The sections include personal help and experiences alongside hints and tips of what to do to prepare and begin living away from home. It was made to be used for a Key Stage 5 Enrichment programme once a fortnight and the feedback has been that it has proved very useful alongside a lesson and research with students being able to ask questions.

This is the SECOND booklet in my Literacy series! It has been designed for KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and used for homework. It does mention Literacy Booklet 1 (available from my store). There are a range of activities in this booklets like: types of nouns, finding the different types of nouns, making inferences, finding evidence (quotes), adverbs, improving vocabulary and self assessment at the end.

This is the THIRD booklet in my Literacy series! It has been designed for KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and used for homework. It does mention Literacy Booklet 1 and Literacy Booklet 2 (available from my store). There are a range of activities in this booklets like: a quick quiz to do a knowledge check at the beginning, types of nouns recap going over them with a different list, finding noun types in sentences and extracts, making inferences again with a different extract, then a digging deeper making inferences page of tasks, recap on similes, recap on metaphors and then identifying similes and metaphors and creating their own and finally (as before) a self assessment at the end.

This lesson is designed to assist A Level English Language students on preparing to write their commentary element for their coursework. The PPT should be introduced over two lessons and have examples of a commentary attached to it (I have included two examples from my students from previous years). The lesson should be printed (certain slides should be) for the students to follow and assist their own levels of analysis. To plan, get the students to have a look at the language levels that link together then create paragraphs analysing them referencing the style model as they go. My biggest tip would be to get students to write paragraphs based on the language levels first, and then see if they can piece together the essay with those paragraphs. My students seem to discuss the style model too much to begin with, rather than analysing their own work referencing the style models. Hope this helps!

This scheme of work has been designed to recap the different sentence types and begin to think about how students describe to ensure they are adding description, but looking at the meaning behind the lessons. There are 13 lessons included in this scheme of learning, but some of them are slow writes which mean they can take more than one lesson so there could be roughly 17 out of them. This scheme of work was put in place to ensure students were given time to describe and have a go at writing, but also to look at how they introduce characters and how they can change them. Hope this helps!

A low ability lesson for Year 10 when starting to teach power and conflict poetry. Mine liked it due to the videos that aided the lesson.

Here is a 30 page Key Stage 4 Literacy Booklet which is designed for intervention for low ability KS4 students or in class use (there is lined paper to answer questions embedded). The exam board is AQA and this booklet is in the STYLE of this at the end. Below is what is in the booklet for you: The booklet begins with students: revising punctuation identifying word classes going over inference skills And then the students have a quiz to recap what they have done. The booklet then continues with: extract and language focus questions quote exploding some quotations with language features language focus question comprehension skills on a Harry Potter extract language match up table expanding language features reading activities choices page Then the booklet moves to: more AQA style questions giving an overview of paper 1 and paper 2 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens focus by practicing paper 1 questions 1, 2 and 5 Extract from Jane Eyre and then tasks to follow with paper 1, questions 1, 2 and 5 focus Then a final vocabulary gathering activity My students found this helpful and communication with parents/carers was great over this. We started it in Year 10 and then went back to bits in Year 11.

This is a word document including some of the events in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The class need to decide whether the events from the chapters (Chapters 5-8) are either Christie’s clues or misdirections given to confuse the readers.

This is a creative writing booklet for Paper 1 Question 5 that takes students through how to practice their writing. It has been used as a homework booklet and has spaces to write as well as a self relection on the back. There is text to analyse and pictures to help with their planning or writing.

Made for a set 3 target grades 4-6 English Literature group. These 5 lessons were designed for a first reading of A Christmas Carol - the lessons took longer than 5 hours as I also used the Disney version to play sections of the film to clarify what was happening, but there was a lot of modelling when we annotated the novella under visualisers and completed an assessment as well. There are close reading sections with an abundance of analysis questions, quotation focus tasks and theme and plot questions too.

A skeleton resource to assist with the introduction of teaching CLA to Year 12 students. It goes through a combination of phonemes and graphemes to ensure that they understand how a child is introduced to both. The first lesson also enables the students to reflect on their own personal experiences of learning which they found very useful and understood how their learning impacted them on later life.

This is 6 lessons worth of a cover booklet focusing on Key Stage 4 AQA English Language Paper 2 and Poetry Tasks. This was set for a low ability group so there may be more than 5 lessons attached.

I started Reading for Meaning worksheets with my Year 10 students (high ability) to get them analysing what other writers do and why. The questions should be scaffolded and they take the students through some ideas about the writer.

This was created for a Year 9 set with a range of tasks to assist their approach to the unseen poetry scheme of work we were doing. Questions have been scaffolded to aid their learning and understanding. Also used for a Year 10 and Year 11 set when studying unseen poetry.

Here are a couple of articles with questions to make Year 12 think about Meanings and Representations. This was sent as independent learning and then discussed in lesson before having a go at answering Q1/Q2 on Paper 1 of the A Level Language paper.