A lesson exploring the use of dialogue in Fantasy fiction through exploration of an extract from Harry Potter. Students will then be explored to a new form through an extract study of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

A three-lesson sequence exploring Alice in Wonderland and the ability to make inferences on character. The lesson explores annotation skills, reading strategies, inference skills, and crafting analytical responses.

Lesson Seven: Freytag’s Narrative Structure This lesson, students will develop their understanding of Freytag’s narrative structure by exploring ‘Aschenputtel’ by The Brothers Grimm. Developing on from last week’s study of famous subversions of fairy tales, students will now move onto the structure of these texts and how this will be utilised in their end of term assessment. Lesson Eight: Fairy Tale Settings Using Shrek as a stimulus and pastiche of the genre, students will explore typical settings in fairy tales. To assess progress, students will complete a short baseline writing task of a setting description, which can be used in their end of term writing during the exposition. Lesson Nine: Archetypal Characters Building on from settings, students will explore archetypal characters in fairy tales and how writers and pop-culture challenge these stereotypes. Students will debate why it is important that we have visible challenges to stereotypes in wider society. Following on from this, students will once again develop their writing by crafting a brief paragraph on a character. Weekly Overview: This week, students will begin to craft settings and character descriptions which can be incorporated into their own assessment response at the end of term. Furthermore, we continue to explore how and why writers subvert character, setting, and plot.

A two-part, fully resourced lesson introducing students to fairy tales, including conventions. Lesson Two: What are fairy tales Students will gain an initial understanding of the genre to support their homework research, which will include conventions and key-terms to be utilised throughout the topic. Students should be informed of their assessment task and informed of the skills they will need to develop over the course of this term. Lesson Three: Fairy tale conventions Students will explore and identify the conventions in fairy tales. This lesson should link, yet differentiate the conventions in Fantasy fiction (Term 5 SOL). Week Overview: By the end of the week, students need an understanding of what makes a fairy tale, common conventions, different types of fairy tales, and the oral origins of the genre.

Students will craft their subverted fairy tale this week for their end of term assessment. Throughout this week, students will plan, craft, and evaluate their writing by utilising the skills and knowledge developed over the past 6 weeks.

A 7 week scheme exploring Fairy Tales.

A lesson exploring how to craft a traditional fairy tale which has been subverted from the norm.

A four-part sequence exploring reading and writing skills in crime fiction: Crafting a setting description Exploring locked room mystery Making inferences on Helen Stoner Reflecting and re-drafting

A collection of assessment resources to assess students on their ability to make inferences on a character in Fantasy fiction.

A document linking to the resources for the Fantasy fiction SOL.

A mini-sequence exploring the sonnet ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Shelley from the AQA Power and Conflict cluster, including reading and writing tasks.

A strategy poster equipping staff with steps to support students with dyslexia.

A lesson to develop the ability to prepare a text and answer questions one and two for AQA Language Paper 1 through exploration of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and the arrival of Jacob Marley.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘Bayonet Charge’ by Ted Hughes through reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, by Alfred Lord Tennsyon through the use of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage, including reading and writing tasks.

A visual guide to support parents to support their children with their reading.

A structure strip and crafting border for AQA Language Paper 2, Questions 2, 3, 4 and 5.

A comprehensive booklet breaking down essential skills and knowledge to maximise marks for AQA English Language Paper 1, Question 5 (Section B). Throughout the booklet, students will systemtically develop skills before it is all applied in a ‘Crafting Border’.