This is a starter activity with a lesson plan to help pupils to understand what metaphors are.

Twelfth Night SOW KS3 complete resources. This is a set of resources including a character list, essay plan and starter activity for study of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.

Full lesson PP underpinned by writing AFs for KS3 and with clips as stimulus.

Autobiography KS3 – Using AFs In Writing This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded that are about autobiographical writing. The lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to deliver – but you may wish to update them for your own context and they can be taught together or as standalone lessons. This lesson has lesson objectives of: To be able to structure, organise and present a text; To be able to highlight a focus for my writing and assess it accurately.

This fun starter activity worksheet on Macbeth by Shakespeare includes images and thought bubbles for the characters' thoughts - good for low ability pupils.

Autobiography Full Lesson for Level 3 /4 writers This is a fully self contained lesson that is part of a scheme of 7 that have all been uploaded separately under the same title. The scheme is aimed at level 3 and 4 writers and goes through the Autobiography henre before teaching pupils how to write an extract for their own. Also uploaded is the same scheme for level 5 writers.

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 time travel and gets pupils to act out a drama.

This is one of several lessons that i have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction and More… More… this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. In this lesson, pupils analyse the make up of Newspaper stories, ready for their controlled assessment where they turn the poem of Charlotte Diamond into a broadsheet newspaper article.

This is one of a series of lessons that I have created on the character of Havisham. We use the character for an AQA Speaking and Listening Activity and create a Jeremy Kyle style adaptation. This one gets the p[upils to analyse the poem so that they can inform their character judgements - also uses PEA chain practise.

This is a full lesson PP that revises adjectives, verbs, nouns etc and encourages pupils to use them to build sentences.

This is a PP Starter on Standard English that can be copied and pasted into any lesson to get the topic going.

Writing To Describe lesson This is one of three lessons on writing to Describe - the lessons cover different ways of approaching this topic and build on each other.

A lesson that can be used in conjunction with all of my other lessons on Dickens and Oliver Twist

Titanic Literacy Unit Lesson 4 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.

Writing To Explain / Reading Texts Lesson This is one of 3 lessons that all follow on from each other about writing to explain.. The lessons go through explanation texts and you can use them for analysis and teaching the required techniques. i use it for transition for year 7 into 8.

Case Of Murder - 3 lessons exploring the poem 3 This is one of a series of 3 lessons that have been uploaded and build on from one another - the idea is that, in conjunction, they teach exploring poems.

Pupils have to read the quotes and decide whether or not the meaning that is on each slide is positive or negative

This is a worksheet based lesson that was created as a Cover Lesson for analysing sports writing.

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 is a good starter for pupils to demonstrate understanding of the play.

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 how trailers of victorian crime represenattions target their audeince