A fun and interactive way to start the theme of love in literature.

Time connectives. Target Setting Lessons to Boost Pupils from 3 to 4: These lessons are part of a project that is challenged with boosting pupils from level 3c to 4c. Each week starts with a new focus on literacy, numeracy, kagan techniques and a personal target. Pupils need a target book to work with and this lesson is delivered at the begining of every week. Targets are then tracked through all of their lessons for the week to chart their progress. There are serveral lessons available for the start of every week. This is lesson 5.

Case Of Murder - 3 lessons exploring the poem 2 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.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for key Stage 3 pupils. The lessons are skills based and all cover war texts - from a variety of different wars. The lessons are contextualised in terms of the war period that the text originates from. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate. The other lessons can be used alongside it,, but all are suitable as standalone lessons. This lesson covers the context of World War 1.

Free downloadable teaching resource. Printable flash cards for students to teach them key terms applicable to Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare, with particular emphasis on the prologue.

Literacy Starter –Commas These few slides can be added to the start of any lesson to use as a settler for when the pupils come into the room and to incorporate literacy skills into your lesson. This particular exercise is a text that pupils need to correct by adding the commas

A really simple starter activity that matches text description to purpose.

This is a full lesson on ppt. that has been put together to help students to understand how to achieve the 8 or 9 grade in English Lit. Using the ‘Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman’ question from AQA, this lesson deconstructs specifically how students can use the extract to go ‘in and out’ of the text, referencing everything that would be critical to a grade 8/9 response. Success criteria: To know the criteria for level 6 responses. To understand what ‘going in and out’ of the extract means. To know how to analyse key words / phrases to Grade 8 / 9 standard. To understand the difference between quotes and references. To understand what subject terminology is. To better understand what a critical writing style is. All of the resources are at the end of the ppt.

This is one of 11 lessons that combine to make a full scheme of work. The lessons are designed for teaching when the pupils first join secondary school and they are based on their early experiences of school. I have uploaded all lessons with the same title above and each has a PP (if I made it) and the resources with it. In the odd case, it will just be a lesson plan. Lesson 1 has a scheme overview attached for all lessons. You will want to adapt for your own school.

12th Night Full lesson and Resources lesson I have uploaded all 10 lessons of this scheme that leads to an analytical essay on the characters of 12th Night. There are poerpoints and resources for each lesson and there are 10 lessons altogether - llok for them by number if you would like to follow and adapt the scheme for yourself. Taught to Year 8 level 4/5

This is one of 6 lessons that i have uploaded with the same title of 'Reading Skills'. This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to teach what prediction skills are in reading.

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 Sci Fi Genre and introduces it to pupils - ideal for year 7.

This is a certificate design used to send home to parents when pupils have done particularly well in the subject.

This is a film review split into several parts on a PP so that it can be used as the basis for analysis. - Will shape a lesson but needs to be adapted for full lesson use.

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded for Year 7 pupils with a generic theme of 'Place Poetry' running through them. All are ready to teach as standalone lessons. This particular lesson covers the use of images in the above named poem and gets pupils tow rite about them

This is a great plenary after learning about Dickens - a qhole class quiz following the format of WWTBaM, but not using any of the images from the game so not risking any copywrite infringement!

Based on an old DFES scheme of wrok that was designed to build reading skills, this lesson takes time to break down what good readers do - skills based full lesson PP

Quick, simple starter on connectives.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is a full lesson plan PP with quotes and themes. L/Os: Today’s lesson Objectives: To recognise who delivers quotes and to be able to identify what certain quotes suggest about a character. To be able to link quotes into themes and deliver your ideas in writing.

Cream Cracker Dramatic Monologues lesson This is part of a full series of 6 lessons and resources that have all been uploaded. Each lesson is uploaded as a resource and they are with resources where appropriate. Additional resources have also been uploaded as one upload.