Another little literacy starter that can be copied and pasted into any lesson to add a literacy element to it. This one tries to get pupils to deipher bewteen language techniques, presentational devices and persuasive techniques.

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.

Titanic Literacy Unit Lesson 1 This is one of the lessons from a unit of work on The Titanic. The unit explores the Titanic and uses this as the context. Pupils learn and engage with it and develop their literacy at the same time. Ideal for Histpry lessons as well as English and targeted at year 7 level 4 learners. There are other lessons that I've uploaded from the same scheme of work.

This is a full lesson for AQA New Specification Language Paper Preparation - it tells pupils how to tackle the reading paper - in this lesson, how to compare language and how to tackle the paper - using examples and a mark scheme - a really succeeful lesson that is very detailed and pupil friendly - My D/C borderliners have responded very well indeed to these lessons and it will help teachers that are new to the spec too.

These are a full set of lessons and resources that I have used to teach Miller's A View From A bridge. All resources are uploaded with the same titel for ease of searching and have been saved under the play name.

Non Fiction Writing - Is It Non Fiction? 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 whether or not the text is fiction / non fiction.

OfSted Outstanding Literacy All lessons Starter: With a new shift in focus for the 2012 framework that means that teaching and learning can only be judged outstanding if literacy and numeracy are encorporated across the curriculum, I am making a daily starter / settler activity that can be incorporated into all lessons. These mini activities are examples of a literacy activity & there is a tutorial before each. These are going to be made daily, so I'll upload them é I hope they will help other schools to boost literacy teaching. This one is about verb accuracy.

This is a full lesson PP with resources on the opening of the level -s et up specifcially for AQA exam board, but can be adapted if needed.

This Using PEE activity for Lower ability pupils is 3 worksheets that gets pupils to cut up the points, evidence and explanation and match them to the appropriate answer,

I was asked to teach discursive writing to a bunch of boys that needed to have it finished in a day. Thios is the amalgamation of a full scheme of work that i used to inspire and enthuse them. It's a bit gory - but it engaged them and got them writing!

This is a full day's worth of lessons all put together for an off timetable day to prepare pupils for the iGCSE exam and the writing tasks.

This is one of my training PPs as a PDF so that it an be used as a guide for anyone who would like some ideas as to how to teach it. I did this for all of the 'Teach First' English teachers in Manchester last year and they loved the session and the ideas, so I hope it will help others too.

A lesson that invites pupils to become Cheryl Cole and reply to Simon's 'sacking' letter... in a formal manner. Full Powerpoint lesson with objectives and can be adapted.

This lesson breaks down the skills that pupils need in order to be assessed at level 3 to 4. The lesson itself helps pupils to create a piece of writing that can be assessed with the APP framework.

This is a one of lesson that gets pupils to turn the poem into a tabloid press article.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint with assocaited resources - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to complete a reading assessment for APP marking for level 4 readers.

A quick revision of Homophones - perfect for a lesson starter.

This is a full lesson PP that uses classbuilding activities and introduces a website called Class Dojo that is a behaviour tracking system - free to all teachers after you have registered. The hyperlinks are on the internet screens included. You'll have to adapt it and set up your class but it&'s a brilliant tool!

This is another of my schemes that is taught to year 9 in order to prepare them for spoken language study in years 10 and 11. This one uses clips from Educating Essex and teaches pupils key terms and then how to apply them - refers to the AQA mark scheme. All lessons and resources are here.

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. I've uploaded lots of lessons and some that follow on from each other if you would like to use them all. Each has the same start to the title for ease of finding. This lesson covers the father figure.