Lessons designed to teach year 7 the skills they will need to know for their GCSE. These lessons use two Test Packs created by AQA.

This SoW is ready to go. Decorated and video clips included complete with challenge activities. This covers the play 'Romeo and Juliet'. The SoW is based on watching the Baz Luhrmann version of the play and then extracts of key scenes to analyse and base creative writing on. It focuses on conflict, male aggression, character development and how these things link to contextual information. There are a couple of writing tasks including describing the scene at the Capulet's masquerade, challenging Romeo to a duel as Tybalt, and a persuasive speech as to who is to blame for Mercutio's death.

The board will need to be printed on A3 and could be laminated for reuse. This is a really good way of getting students to revisit their learning and knowledge of the characters, themes, context and events of the novella in a fun and independent way. I have used this before and the students really enjoy it. All you will need it some dice to play. You could get students to think of their own questions and tasks too as an extension/challenge.

This covers all of the text including events, characters, themes, context. I used to use this for my GCSE groups and they loved it. All you will need is some dice.

This covers all of the text including events, characters, themes, context. I used to use this for my GCSE groups and they loved it. All you will need is some dice.

This covers the whole play, context, characters, events, themes and can be adapted to suit any exam board. Students really enjoy this! All you will need is some dice.

An exam overlay to help students answer the exam question successfully.

A SoW that covers a range of war poetry. Aimed at KS3 to give them an idea of what to expect at GCSE level.

This scheme of work is based on the Usborne Classic Retold version of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. Each lesson covers 1 chapter more or less and they aim to look at skills that students will need to be able to use in their new AQA GCSE exams. They think about structure, characterisation, description and PEE analysis as well as some contextual links.

A viewfinder to help students focus in on new vocabulary whilst or after reading.

A slide to put riddles on.

Reminder of how to analyse poetry - mood and atmosphere, ideas, language (features), effect, and structure. Looks great on A3 colour and laminated.

A powerpoint to add your own questions.

Reminders of things to include in a response.

Green - less able Yellow - more able Blue - most able Hyperlinked for ease to other slides. 1 reading and 1 writing activity per lesson (42 activities altogether). Covers year 7-9 but can be used for generic activities. Success criteria uses levels from the previous national curriculum levels but can be easily adapted depending on what your school is doing. Could also be used with primary school as it is generic. Also includes famous people reading to encourage reading as well as timers.

These lessons have been designed to be used in form to reinforce essential literacy skills. They include engaging videos, and challenge and extension activities. The tasks are self-explanatory and hopefully will work well for the whole of KS3 and KS4. These could also be used in English lessons.

A resource that students to look through to help them check their SPAG.

Focuses on a response to Katie Hopkins' article about the Syrian refugees. 7 lessons worth of lessons which leads up to the students creating their own opinion column.