PowerPoint for a week of lessons on using the super 7 approach to plan and write a speech. There is also a student booklet to accompany the PowerPoint. Super 7 1. Generating ideas 2. Organising ideas 3. paragraphing 4. vocabulary 5. sentence construction 6. punctuation 7. spelling Originally, the speech is about defending the town of Middlesbrough from prejudice in the media. This can be changed to any town or city.

Write a letter in role as Oliver to Mr Sowerberry. 3 levels of differentiated offered in the 3 worksheets.

AFL: 3 universal self-assessment plenary tasks that can be adapted to any lesson.

Suitable for introducing Shakespeare to KS2/3 students. Task 1: Quiz (with sound effects) asking students to recognise the difference between Shakespearean English and modern English. Task 2: Write parodies of some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines. Task 3: Have a go at some Shakespearean insults.

2 graphic organisers for planning a story

Bronze, Silver, Gold activities based on Wordsworth’s poem.

Touching the Void. Differentiated 6 page resource based on an extract

Structured worksheets based on the short story by Angela Carter. 2 worksheets focusing on how the structure builds tension.

Do you want an excuse to watch an episode of Scooby Doo at the end of term? Simply use this differentiated resource to develop inference skills.

Students read a model response to the following question: How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet. (34). Then then have to annotate each sentence to analyse what the essay writer is doing in each section of the response. There is also a building better answers sheet included.

Lots of schools have literacy mats but this is perhaps the most visually engaging one on the internet. This double-sided whole school literacy mat offers literacy support for students in a highly visual, colourful and engaging way. The literacy mat covers the following areas: Vocabulary across various subject areas (geography, history, science, the arts, RS, PE, Business Studies, ICT, technology) Connectives Openers for PEE chains Punctuation reminders Common mistakes Apostrophes Sentence types TipTop Paragraphs

Differentiated A3 worksheet analysing the stage directions to ‘An Inspector Calls’. Ideal to use at the start of the scheme of work. Includes an answer sheet. Low ability: Green/Blue group: A01. Retrieve information about the characters. Mid ability: Yellow group: A02. Comment on the effect of language High ability: Red/Green group: A03. Relate points to context and Priestly’s purpose.

A differentiated activity to get students to engage with the grade 8/9 assessment criteria for the new AQA 1-9 English Literature Paper 2 GCSE. Modern texts. Bronze level: students look for the meanings of difficult vocabulary. Silver level: students convert the criteria into student speak. Gold level: students write advice for how to meet the criteria for A01, 2 and 3.

Jingle Bells and We Wish You a Merry Christmas into 6 differentiated tasks. The bundle includes music with notation and without and also guitar tablature to allow performance on another instrument.

Macbeth: differentiation revision of Act 2 Scenes 2 and 3 for (AQA 1-9 A01, A02, A03)

Macbeth: 3 AQA 1-9 style exams based on 3 extracts from Act 2

Worksheets with questions and extracts to help explore how Shakespeare presents Juliet as an unconventional woman. Students will be expected to explore how… In Act 1 Scene 3 her rebellion is passive and implicit and shown through her vague answers to Lady Capulet’s questions. In Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 2 Scene 2 her rebellion is more implicit and is shown through her love for Romeo. There are also comprehension questions based on what is a conventional Elizabethan woman.

3 AQA 1-9 style examination questions from Act 3 of Macbeth. I have included a modern translation of each extract to support lower ability students.

A series of 2 lessons which use the elements from Handel’s Zadok the Priest (fanfare, chords, binary and ternary form) as a stimulus for a composition task (original music also provided). All instrumental parts and composition tasks are differentiated and Sibelius files are also provided. PowerPoints for the lessons are available with differentiated and push your thinking tasks.

Various resources looking at Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol. Includes an exam question, key quotations to analyse and revision activities. An activity asking students the examine the evidence in Stave 2 of each past vision and write an analysis explaining which past vision affects Scrooge the most. This would also work as a speaking and listening group activity. Vision 1: school Vision 2: Fan Vision 3: Fezziwig Vision 4: Belle’s release Vision 5: Belle’s family