This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at paper one explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson largely focuses on helping learners understand how to respond to Q2 and includes a model response. Additionally, the lesson has a creative writing challenge as well as a teacher example to help learners improve their response to question five. The lesson has been designed to be taught either online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own learners. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at improving learners’ ability at creative writing using the theme of stealing as a stimulus. The lesson helps learners understand the importance of structure in creative writing and how to use this in their writing. The lesson uses a matching up activity and a model response to help learners understand how important structure is. Additionally, the lesson helps to consolidate their understanding of advanced punctuation. This lesson works well as a standalone lesson for creative writing or in teaching English language paper one. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the AQA Paper Two paper: Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives. The lesson takes learners through how to structure, plan and write an article effectively. The lesson also includes a model example and many opportunities for AFL. This lesson has been tried and tested with my own learners and can be taught either remotely or face-to-face without need for adaption. If you liked this lesson, then please check out our shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

This is a fully differentiated lesson using the theme of weddings to help learners understand how to use basic forms of punctuation and also how and when to paragraph their writing. This lesson is ideal for functional or ESOL learners. If you liked this lesson, then please check out our shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

This lesson is the second one in the series and follows on from our previous lesson Paper One Revision: Q4. The lesson helps learners to prepare for their English language exam by helping them to revise key features of language and structure and applying them to exam-style questions. If you enjoyed this lesson, then please check out our shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

This lesson has been created to be used as an initial assessment for learners studying English Language. The lesson takes learners through implicit and explicit information, language and structure. The lesson works well to ascertain the learners current understanding and was designed with lower-mid abillity learners in mind. If you liked this lesson, then please check out our shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

This is a simple revision game I made to help learners recall the key techniques for language and structure, using the game of bingo to help add a slight competitive edge.

A revision lesson for Act One of Macbeth. The lesson starts with a quiz on the prophecy is for Macbeth and which one is for Banquo.

A lesson to help students prepare for their GSCE exam on the play Macbeth. The lesson goes through how to write a response to an exam-style question.

This is a fourteen slide Power-Point lesson that introduces students to Animal Farm and the context around the text. The lesson builds towards helping students to gain a good understanding of language and how to attempt question two from paper one, Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.

A complete walk through of Paper one Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. This is a double-lesson looking at all questions, differentiated to help students gain a deeper understanding of language and structure.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poet Simon Armitage and his poem Remains. The lesson helps guide students through some of the more difficult language and structural techniques used in the poem.

This lesson was designed to work alongside the GCSE language and literature exams for English. The lesson takes students through some key moments in the text Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and how to approach an exam-style question.

His is a full twenty-three slide lesson taking students through a past paper for Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. This lesson is differentiated and fully ready to be taught. All of my lessons have been tried and tested and this lesson has been very beneficial in helping students overcome the obstacles within this paper.

This is a fully differentiated lesson for learners of KS3 and KS4 English. The lesson looks at the origins of the crime genre and uses a key passage from The Sign of The Four. The lesson guides the learners to understand how to identify key language and structural techniques. The lesson also gives learners the opportunity to develop their creative writing skills aided by examples of showing and not telling.

This is a fully differentiated lesson focusing on paper one of the Edexcel GCSE English paper. The lesson uses Mary Shelley’s text, The Mortal Immortal and builds some of he important skills needed to appropriately respond to each question.

A lesson doing through some of the key skills needed for the creative writing section of the English exam

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the important aspects of the poem Kamikaze in the Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson goes into detail about the context of the poem and Kamikaze pilots. The lesson also works to help students to grasp some of the key aspects of the poem, and to make analytical comments on language, structure and form.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem Checking out me History from the Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson takes students though the important elements of context and gaining a good understanding of the poem. The lesson helps students language, structure, and form.

This is a fully differentiated lesson for learners studying the Power and Conflict cluster of the AQA anthology. The lesson helps learners to gain a good understanding of the context of the poem and how to approach an exam-style question. The lesson includes an example answer as well as an opportunity for the class to peer assess. If you liked this lesson; then please check out my shop which is updated each week with new lessons and resources.