This is a sheet to help pupils to deconstruct the short story.

This is a full lesson PP with interactive team work and guided writing based on the idea of describing a house that is for sale - uses thinking skills activities. L/O: To use information processing skills to locate and collect relevant information. To enhance your vocabulary by working with unfamiliar words in descriptive writing.

This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This lesson covers the idea of whether aliens exist and pupils read the text to analyse it for it's features.

Little reminder of which each are for KS4 pupils who are preparing for the exam. All of mine have this stuck into their books.

This is an examplar handout of film reviews - a great lesson starter - The difficult words are picked out on the bottom of each review and I get pupils to look them up in a dictionary as the lesson settler - we then go on to analyse the techniques and structure before writing our own.

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills.

Comparing Language Question – How to get an A This is a full lesson PowerPoint that goes over how to get an A grade in the AQA comparing Language question on the new GCSE specification preparing for the exam.

Non Fiction Writing – Time Capsule This is one lesson of 15 that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on non fiction texts and analysis for year 7 pupils. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers writing skills.

This is a full lesson pp with background info on slavery that enhances pupils' ability to analyse the poem.

Adaptable Blockbuster quiz game activity to use in class. Can be used as a plenary with customisable questions. Printable for use in small groups.

Another version of the inertactive whole class game - WWTBAM spelling.

Quick, simple starter on connectives.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analysing it. Designed for AQA Literacy specification. This lesson covers reading the chapter of Spider.

This is one of a series of 7 lessons that I have uploaded with all of the resources attached to the upload. So each is a complete lesson ready to use. The lessosn cover the key techniques that pupils need to revise prior to the language exam and are aimed at D/C borderliners. You can obviously add / adapt them as you need but they are certainly a good starting point.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS3 pupils that gets them to investigate the use of persuasive technuiques. The lesson is ready to teach with it's resources (if aplicable). Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome, but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers the skill of annotating a text looking for persuasive features.

This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. This lesson is one of serveral that create a scheme of lessons about Victorian Crime but all can operate as standalone lessons and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem for ease of finding. This lesson covers the genre of the criminal character.

This isn't much really but I found it very hard to get support when I first started out with the functional skills qualifications, so I created this document with links to all of the websites that could help.

This is a full lesson PP ready to teach, although you will want to adopt it for your own context. The L/O: To understand how propaganda was used during the war.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed for the above named poem to teach at KS3

This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This worksheet is an exercise to chart the emotions and changes in Lady Macbeth.