THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF EDEXCEL CONFLICT POEMS! These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the Edexcel 'Conflict’ anthology: Exposure - Wilfred Owen; Catrin - Gillian Clarke; The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Poppies - Jane Weir War Photographer - Carole Satyamurti Belfast Confetti - Ciaran Carson The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron Cousin Kate -Christina Rossetti The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy A Poison Tree -William Blake What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah The Prelude (Extract) - William Wordsworth Half-caste - John Agard The Class Game - Mary Casey Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem: Context; Line-by-Line Analysis; Poetic Devices/ Language Devices; Themes; Form/Structure; Poems for Comparison; The Poet’s Influences. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ANNE FRANK LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Anne Frank’s ‘Diary of a Young Girl.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key people and relationships, settings, and themes,understanding language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These teaching and learning CPD sessions offer engaging and original approaches to introducing or revisiting a range of effective pedagogical strategies. Grounded in educational research, these sessions are interactive, well-structured, and have been successfully tried and tested. The aim of each teaching and learning CPD session is to develop the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed in order to utilise in practice in each key area, and as an aid in achieving these aims, the trainer is supported with: -Colourful, engaging, and comprehensive PowerPoint presentations; -Videos for analysis of key techniques; -A wide range of interactive resources for CPD activities; -Instructions and plans to assist delivery. All images and videos are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of each PowerPoint.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Philip Pullman’s ‘Northern Lights.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding structural and language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS ‘BIG BUNDLE’ CONTAINS ALL OF ‘THE EXPLORER’ LESSONS, PLUS THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET. It contains all that you need to deliver a complete unit of learning alongside reading Katherine Rundell’s ‘The Explorer.’ The engaging and thought-provoking lessons aid students in developing a secure understanding of every chapter. The double and triple-lesson resources are well-sequenced, and include: Chapters 1-2 - ‘Flight’ and ‘The Green Dark’ Chapters 3 and 4: ‘The Den’ and ‘The River’ Chapters 5 to 7: ‘Food (Almost)’, ‘Fire’ and ‘The Raft’ Chapters 8 to 10: ‘Maiden Voyage’ to Abacaxi’ Chapters 11-13: ‘The Monkeys and the Bees’ to ‘Smoke’ Chapters 14-16: ‘On the River’ to ‘The Ruined City’ Chapters 17-19: ‘The Explorer’, ‘The Trap’ and ‘Tarantulas’ Chapters 20-22: ‘Twice-Fried Osieau Spectacle’ to ‘The Vow’ Chapters 23-26: ‘Explorer School’ to ‘Behind the Vines’ Chapters 27-31 - ‘The Green Sky’ to the End of the Story Each session includes a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning for each lesson. Worksheets/ templates are also included where needed (both as Word and PDF documents). Each lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses. The lessons are suitable for students across KS2 (with only minor adaptations, I have used the resources in the past with children from years 3 to 5).

These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the ‘Worlds and Lives’ poems. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Booklets are included for the following poems: A Century Later - Imtiaz Dharker; A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson; A Wider View - Seni Seneviratne; England in 1819 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Homing - Liz Berry In A London Drawingroom - George Eliot Like An Heiress - Grace Nichols Lines Written in Early Spring - William Wordsworth Name Journeys - Raman Mundair On An Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 - James Berry Pot - Shamshad Khan Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee - Emily Bronte The Jewellery Maker - Louisa Adjoa Parker Thirteen - Caleb Femi With Birds You’re Never Lonely - Raymond Antrobus Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers). Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others): ‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’ ‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’ ‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’ ‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’