This unit introduces Year 7 students to the essential skills of reading, analysing, and writing non-fiction texts. It covers a wide range of non-fiction materials and uses reciprocal reading strategies to help students build confidence in understanding and evaluating these texts. A key focus is on how writers use language to convey meaning and structure their work to create impact. Students will also learn to produce various styles of non-fiction writing, using analysed texts as models. Key Skills • Systematically track texts using reciprocal reading strategies. • Select appropriate evidence. • Make inferences. • Use the ‘suggests’ formula for analysis. • Focus on reading skills: select, retrieve, and evaluate information. Key Concepts • Author’s purpose • Transactional writing • Summarise and synthesise information Assessment • Praising Stars assessment focusing on evaluative skills and detailed feedback on ‘Craft of the Writer’ questions. Weekly Breakdown Week 1: Identifying Non-fiction Text Types • Learning Outcomes: Identify differences between non-fiction text types; explain language techniques used. • Activities: Buzz and go activity to name non-fiction types, carousel tasks for text type identification, group presentations. • Support and Challenge: Mixed ability groups, language analysis. Week 2: Understanding Author’s Purpose • Learning Outcomes: Identify accurate evidence; explain the author’s purpose. • Activities: Discussions on video games, comprehension activities using reciprocal reading (RR) strategies. • Support and Challenge: Sentence starters, modeling predictions and summaries. Week 3: Analysing Language Use • Learning Outcomes: Analyse language use; independently identify information. • Activities: Debates on gaming addiction, tracking articles with RR strategies, writing responses to language questions. • Support and Challenge: Sentence starters, zooming in on language. Week 4: Craft of the Writer • Learning Outcomes: Explain the author’s use of language; identify appropriate evidence. • Activities: Discussions on heroism, RR strategies, writing ‘comment evidence this suggests’ paragraphs. • Support and Challenge: Predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarising strategies.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Full Scheme of Work covering over 150 slides. This full SoW covers the entire novel and each chapter is broken down for you to work with your students. Each lesson includes a starter, a range of tasks linked to the chapter being read and a suitable plenary. There's a range of research tasks for the students to investigate the events linked to the novel. The end of unit assessment is a review and there is a range of slides that explain what is needed for a successful review. Everything is planned for you and you can pick it up and go.

A 17 slide Powerpoint, covering 3 to 4 lessons, on the poem Miss Gee with analysis of the structure, language and the form. A range of handouts help secure understanding of this challenging poem. Also includes the following activities: Quiz, Quiz Trade. Narrative Analysis Grids A starter activity

A 14 slide Powerpoint, covering 3 lessons in total, on the poem Ode with analysis of the structure, language and the form. A range of handouts help secure understanding of this challenging poem.

A workbook suitable for revision for key characters from the novel. The character plans cover: Ralph Jack Piggy Roger Simon Samneric Each character plan gives an example introduction and conclusion as well as 3 example paragraphs with key themes and key quotes.

Lesson 6 of the Lord of the Flies Scheme of Work. This lesson focuses on Jack and the idea of power and despotism. There are key quotes embedded for students to analyse.

Lesson 10 of the Lord of the Flies Scheme of Work. This lesson focuses on all key characters and offers guidance on how to analyse a range of questions. There are key quotes embedded for students to analyse.

Lesson 6 of a Scheme of Work for View from the Bridge. This lesson covers Aristotle’s Poetics. Extracts taken from the play are added for students to analyse as they work through the play. There are a range of tasks for the students to work on as they read through the play. Suitable for GCSE Literature and can be developed for A Level study of this classic text.

Lesson 4 of The Great Gatsby scheme of work for A Level English. This lesson covers Nick as the narrator. The Great Gatsby A Level English Literature Scheme of Work covering 20 lessons that work through the entire novel and focus on key extracts. The scheme covers: An introduction into covering the whole novel and narrative theories. Context and key themes such as decadence and materialism. Role of the narrator. Key settings in The Great Gatsby. The use of characterisation. Timed essay structures and opportunity to feedback and improve.

Lesson 2 covering language, structure and form of chapter one of The Great Gatsby scheme of work for A Level English. This lesson covers the story, narrative and plot of the novel. The Great Gatsby A Level English Literature Scheme of Work covering 20 lessons that work through the entire novel and focus on key extracts. The scheme covers: An introduction into covering the whole novel and narrative theories. Context and key themes such as decadence and materialism. Role of the narrator. Key settings in The Great Gatsby. The use of characterisation. Timed essay structures and opportunity to feedback and improve.

Lesson 15 of The Great Gatsby scheme of work for A Level English. This lesson focuses on endings in the novel. The Great Gatsby A Level English Literature Scheme of Work covering 20 lessons that work through the entire novel and focus on key extracts. The scheme covers: An introduction into covering the whole novel and narrative theories. Context and key themes such as decadence and materialism. Role of the narrator. Key settings in The Great Gatsby. The use of characterisation. Timed essay structures and opportunity to feedback and improve.

A lesson that covers the key ideas around narratives and how to approach and analyse a piece of fiction.

Lesson 8 of the transactional writing scheme of work. This lesson covers how students can create their own bootcamp and how to market it appropriately. This scheme of work uses the idea of bootcamps to get the students to think about transactional writing like writing informal letters to friends, family and a formal letter to the Prime Minister. There is also opportunity to debate and use hot seating for formulating their arguments. Layout, advice and features are all covered in this scheme of work.

Lesson 10 of the transactional writing scheme of work. This lesson covers how students can use drama to explore how issues that bootcamps deal with can be discussed and analysed in a classroom setting. This scheme of work uses the idea of bootcamps to get the students to think about transactional writing like writing informal letters to friends, family and a formal letter to the Prime Minister. There is also opportunity to debate and use hot seating for formulating their arguments. Layout, advice and features are all covered in this scheme of work.

A great activity for securing knowledge of key narrative techniques using the quiz, quiz trade activity.

Key quotes from all Acts in Romeo and Juliet.

A 17 slide Powerpoint, covering 3 to 4 lessons, on the poem Musée des Beaux Arts with analysis of the structure, language and the form. A range of handouts help secure understanding of this challenging poem.

Lord of the Flies taboo activity is a great way to secure understanding of a range of themes, characters and settings.

A 14+ slide Powerpoint, covering 3 to 4 lessons, on the poem ‘Victor’ with analysis of the structure, language and the form. A range of handouts help secure understanding of this challenging poem.

A 14 slide Powerpoint, covering 3 lessons in total, on the poem ‘If I Could Tell You’ with analysis of the structure, language and the form. A range of handouts help secure understanding of this challenging poem.