A booklet used for homework with a KS3 literacy class. The focus is researching Syria and writing for purpose. There are small links to The Bone Sparrow but these can be removed easily.

A useful booklet for class work but also for cover work or homework. A series of tasks looking at rhetorical devices and writing to inform, advise, persuade and argue. Tasks could easily be stretched out to cover a term of work. The initial theme is teenage runaway/issues facing teens but this can easily be adapted.

A series of tasks based on writing for purpose. Our topic this half term is teenage runaway so many of the tasks are linked to this or the issues facing teenagers. However, these can be adapted very easily. Includes analysis Boris Johnson’s address to the nation on coronovirus and some links to the English Language GCSE.

Powerpoints for four lessons (potentially more) on Sheila and context. Designed to teach students how to analyse quotations in detail. Also includes work on vocabulary to help improve responses. Suitable for home learning / intervention groups/ lessons in school.

A booklet of lovely challenges / activities to promote emotional wellbeing.

7 PowerPoints following the same format. All adaptable. Can be used as whole lessons in school, homework tasks or for home learning. Suitable for KS3 - 4 or as GCSE prep. Slide one: Learning objective / overview of tasks Slide two: Find definitions of new vocabulary Slides three - six: Literacy challenges such as how to use a semi-colon Slide seven: Produce a piece of writing using the new vocabulary and skills. Pupils are given an image to use as stimuli in the style of AQA GCSE English Language. Slide eight: Review work / set targets

A booklet for use each week for a full term. Designed to help students develop terminology and vocabulary.

A guide to answering a question on Lady Macbeth's manipulation of her husband.

This resource is based on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and has pictures of concentration camps to inspire a narrative about the journey to a camp. The 34 slide PPT guides students as they plan this piece of work. However, there are lots of slides about general writing skills including colour symbolism, pathetic fallacy, paragraphs and sentence structures. There is a planning sheet included for students to use.

8 Resources. Prompts for Language Analysis (AQA AO2) Key quotes from Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. I have used these with sets 8, 6 and 1 so they are quite versatile! There are also character profile sheets for both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as well as a context card sort. All worksheets can be edited.

Revision of the characterisation of Sheila and tasks to help students learn key quotes and document Sheila's change during the play.

A PPT used after a mock exam to help students check their answers. This can be adapted but has a general overview of how to answer each question.

AQA English - New Spec PEE paragraphs Self Assessment Activity Students award themselves money when they meet criteria but deduct money when they miss something - the richest person at the end becomes the class expert for the week

Prompts for writing an essay for GCSE. Includes an example introduction. Can be edited.

A sheet which outlines achievements of students across the year. I have used it to scaffold conversations at parents’ evenings and the data is useful for evidence when having difficult discussions! - Option to copy and paste last official report - Review of effort, behaviour, organisation and homework - General comments - Review of results in each topic/assessment - Targets to circle/highlight as appropriate

PPT - Introduction to Advertising - includes links to the Simpsons, the photoshop debate and Banksy. Example adverts stimulate debate as well as supporting analysis of print which can lead to analysis of text.

PPT to help students compare and contrast print adverts with moving image adverts – includes posters and television campaigns from Cancer research and NSPCC as well as a writing scaffold and worksheets to show progress across the lesson. Supports analysis of advertising.

This was an attempt at differentiating a KS4 close reading scheme of work so that it was suitable for Year 7. Year 7 enjoyed it but it could be used with KS3 - 4 or even elements for KS5. The 111 slide PPT includes -Jane Eyre - Pride and Prejudice - Emily Dickinson poetry - De Bono - Plus, Minus, Interesting - Rally Robin - Think Pair Shair - Self/Peer assessment - Hot Seating - Word classes - Irony - Alan Peat sentences