A full lesson on PPT for use in KS2 Years 5 or 6 and KS3. Helps students focus on how writers use sounds to entertain the reader. Enhances knowledge of sound techniques in writing. Some numeracy activities for cross curricular links included. Great for inclusion in a unit on poetry or as part of whole school literacy during tutor time or as a discrete literacy lesson. Includes focus on alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme, sound patterning and plosive sounds.

A no-frills ppt that can be used with students just before the transactional writing examination or as a straight forward revision tool for them, especially those you suspect might do very little wlthout you! Covers quick ideas on how to plan, how to introduce the forms, developed and detailed paragraphs, conclusions.

The resource preview is presented as a series of samples of permutations of how this self-reflective tool can be used. Full resource on purchase has the mastersheet within it. The ‘Head, Heart …’ tool has been uniquely developed by me as part of my educational practice over the last ten years as a creative consultant and outstanding classroom educator and training deliverer. A generic tool to use during or after any learning sequence for junior students right through the secondary years and any CPD that you deliver or mentoring that you do. It aims to help you and your students understand what they are learning, how they are feeling about their learning, what they would like to change about the learning and what they think will help them in their next or future learning experiences. Based on the whole learner experience, not just who they are in their heads today, the tool helps the teacher get a deeper understanding of who their learners are, how they are responding to learning and the teaching and how they are shaping their learning futures. Enables teachers or trainers to open discussions on emotional well-being, cognition and learning to learn as well as build resilience and manage expectations. Simple for students to engage with and quick to administer either as mini-plenaries or as end of lesson or end of learning sequence plenaries. Potential for building vocabulary to name and separate thinking from feelings and emotions and learn to assert and voice their experience to build increasingly positive experiences in the future. Ways to use the ‘Head, Heart …’ Self-Reflective Tool: • As a basis for ‘voxpops’ • Self-reflective tool • Quick tests of the ‘temperature’ of your teaching for your self-refection • Student voice • Building future learning/career aspirations • Advocacy for the skills used in English and English Literature • Plenaries and mini plenaries • Imagining the experiences of others (empathy work and understanding characters Who and what the tool is suited to: • Suits teachers and learners at KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5 • Suits evaluation of CPD delivery • Suits anyone in a mentoring role

A part response for improvement by students following three clear suggestions of ways to improve essay style. Suits middle grades 3-6 in particular. Questions asks about the way characters communicate and there is a response that goes some way to tackling Steve’s communication style and self-expression. Students work into the essay to improve it following instructions. Chance to complete the essay and revise given content.

Three homeworks or classroom activities that help lower grading students 1-4 revise or establish straightforward ways to regard Carla Carter in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Contains key quotes and key informed personal responses. Also a sheet on Dunmore’s writing style. Low price reflects the ‘no frills’ worksheets which are clearly presented by have no graphics to anchor learning.

A lesson aimed at getting borderline students up to Grade 5 from the get go of the novella by exploring how the Preface to the novella primes the reader for writer’s purpose and gives the modern reader an opportunity to explore Victorian class contexts.

A full fiction reading exam practice paper with Eduqas style English Language Paper 1 Section A questions. Extract from ‘The Great Gatsby’. Fully line referenced. Follows question pattern: list five impressions how does the writer (craft language) …? how does the writer (mood and atmosphere) …? build argument/evaluate Indicative content included to support marking.

A full fiction reading exam practice paper with Eduqas style English Language Paper 1 Section A questions. Extract from ‘To the Lighthouse’. Fully line referenced. Follows question pattern: list five impressions how does the writer (craft language) …? how does the writer (mood and atmosphere) …? build argument/evaluate Indicative content included to support marking.

Over three A3 pages, the master resource gives you the option of tailor- making homework for a full half term for classes studying Gothic Literature at KS3. Three tasks levels that are differentiated within each level with students choosing the level they wish to work at. There are at least 21 different tasks and with differentiated options - you can actually have about 50 tasks to choose from. Range of creative approaches that you might not dare take in class to encourage students to use a fuller range of modalities with which to explore Gothic Literature. There's even a Beat the Teacher task so that they can show you what they would prefer to be doing!

60 pages/slides of revision detailing word and phrase analysis of all 15 poems with some extracts from exemplar responses. Main context used are the ideas from Romanticism which are explored in each poem in this anthology. Works as a booklet for revision or a learning tool in class. PPT format so can be displayed and utilised for whole class learning as well as more individual revision.

An ‘everything you need to know’ 15 page A4 booklet very suited to all exam boards on writing formal letters that includes: • A good modelled example • An outstanding modelled example • Guidance on how to plan • Guidance on how to structure detailed, developed paragraphs • Guidance for content suitable to form • Sophisticated ‘tricks and flicks’ • Five practice tasks

An ‘everything you need to know’ 14 page A4 booklet very suited to all exam boards on writing informal letters that includes: • A good modelled example • An outstanding modelled example • Guidance on how to plan • Guidance on how to structure detailed, developed paragraphs • Guidance for content suitable to form • Sophisticated ‘tricks and flicks’ • Five practice tasks

Five ideas to help poetry writing to celebrate poetry on your school’s Poetry Day, Poetry Week or to supplement a unit of work on poetry. Suited to KS2 students. I have also used this early KS3 for lower ability learners as a celebration of poetry. Also works well for transition days. Why not make a five poem anthology? Ideas include: soundscapes blackout poetry haiku question and answer poems scaffolded poems Students encounter three poems from Robert Louis Stevenson, Shakespeare and Walter De La Mare and use them as springboards into their own creativity. I also include here two FREE resources for advocating any school Poetry Day - a quiz on a dozen famous characters in children’s poetry and the chance to write a nonsense poem.

Predict, Experience, Question, Vocabulary, Visualisation, Chunk. Six reading strategies that students can use independently when they are asked to read texts across the curriculum. Designed for use at KS2 (Years 5 and 6), KS3 and KS4. Gives students suggestions on how they can use each strategy to work out meanings of texts independently or get the most out of texts to broaden and deepen understanding of all reading or revision of materials they encounter across the curriculum. Useful for teachers who are less familiar with the ins and outs of reading strategies. Great for persuading and supporting the more reluctant teacher to pay more attention to the reading demands of their subject. Use as a mat on desks for students or create a resource that is bound by a key ring. Senior Leadership will be glad you are tackling this!

Suitable for Key Stage 3 and designed for use during Tutor Time, but would be equally suited to small group reading intervention or being used in a specialised Drop Everything and Read class, this resource helps students focus on what it is like to use and build reading stamina. Some students will breeze this because they can read for hours and some may experience what it is like for the first time to concentrate on nothing but their reading for twenty minutes. Students do a shared read (they all take some responsibility for reading a sectio to their fellow readers) and because the turn taking can be randomised, they need to pay attention throughout. Uses a short story that is paid out sentence by sentence. You can build in your school rewards for those students who watch and listen throughout, who respond to their turn promptly and don’t fidget about or try to distract themselves.

A mat for lamination that can be used to move writing from a first draft to a second or 'published' draft. Divided into the skills of adding, cutting, replacing and so on, the mat encourages students to ask questions about their work and make changes. Helps students to understand the editing process (which they often confuse with a proof-reading process).

This resource provides half of a high level AQA English Literature type response to Paper 2 Section A on ‘Follower’ from 'Love and Relationships Anthology. Students have to provide the comparison response, aiming for equally high level quality to make up the other 50% of the examination response. The essay itself provides great revision notes for most able students on ‘Follower’ if used alone and also provides an exemplar of a Level 6 assessment response covering all the assessment objectives. Provides one lesson and/or homework.

Designed to aid teaching of Act 4 Scene 2 on Lady Macduff as a contrast to Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. First delivered as an observed lesson which was graded as ‘outstanding’. Designed for middle to higher ability students for AQA English Literature but would be equally useful for Eduqas English Literature (which I’m also familiar with through tutoring). Covers assessment objectives 1-3. Great for visual learners, no hands questioning, paired thinking time and leads to Grade 5-9 knowledge of the scene.

25 slide PPT for the introduction of Transactional Writing or a series of starters to puncuate the teaching of Transactional Writing. Delivered using questions and activities that last a few moments each, the unit gives students the understanding of why TA writing should be important to them for their GCSE grade and in their future lives. It also covers the basics that underpin all the TA writing types i.e rhetoric and the skills the exam boards are looking for. This one includes weightings and timings for the WJEC/Eduqas English Language examination but could easily be swapped for another board with same task applied. Presented with humour and grown-up looking images (none of your clip art images here!) it's certainly been a winner with my Year 10s and 11s. Fuller range in this series coming soon to include 2 minute grade ups for each writing type and quick learn rhetoric devices that go beyond the use of (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) APERFORMER - I leave the selling of that skill to others. Here you will find a fresh approach. I will also be selling this and its comrades as a bundle before too long. Keep coming back. Want to leave a review? Have an equally priced resource on me! Want to say 'Even Better If ...' - collar me on Twitter @alisonshuttlew1

A whole lesson PPT that looks at the literary links between ‘The Darkness Out There’ and ‘Hansel and Gretel’ to explore literary contexts and writer’s purpose. Students consider who fairy tales are written for, their purpose and their archetypal characters and gender roles. They use this knowledge to explore Nether Cottage and Packer’s End and the characters of Sandra, Kerry and Mrs. Rutter. They consider the perspectives that the story affords the 21st Century teen.