This lesson can be used to help create characters - it encorporates reading image work.

For those educational est. that still use the Optional tests as a way of charting progress, this lesson prepares students for the tests and offers advice on mark schemes etc.

Writing Lessons marriage and Family Lesson 4 Writing Lessons Marriage and Family Lesson This is one of eight lessons on a unit that covers marriage and family and finding a job. The lessons go through whether marriage is relevant and then how to find a job. Part of an adult world Functional skills unit aimed at level 1 and 2 candidates.

This is a full Lesson PP structuring research into sport's writing - it offers some examples before setting pupils off onto self research with the internet.

With Ofsted's clear focus on literacy, these are a few slides that can be copied and pasted into any full lesson powerpoint in order to build a language starter into your lesson.

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

With Ofsted's clear focus on literacy, these are a few slides that can be copied and pasted into any full lesson powerpoint in order to build a language starter into your lesson.

This is a very kinaesthetic and kaganised approach to using capital letters - a full one hour lesson broken down into engaging tasks for level 3 writers in year 7.

These are a series of Urban Myths that can be used to whet the appetites of GCSE writers - often used to write around if students are struggling with a plot.

Travel Writing Lesson 1 of 2 - This is one of two lessons that lead to the reading assessment on travel writing that I have also uploaded.

This is a full lesson PP that is part of a full scheme - the other lessons have also been uploaded. It utilises the Amnesty information / website and videos on Child soldiers so has a strong Citezenship slant... the outcome, after the full series of lessons is a piece of narrative writing.

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.

This is a full lesson powerpoint that utilises images from the Tsunami of 2006 to get pupils to write poems about it.

Reading Challenge Lesson 8 These are a series of lessons and pps that were designed to support the delivery of the Dfes unit of work on Reading Skills. There are 12 lessons altogether and i have uploaded them all as separate entities as each can be used as a standalone lesson or you can use all 12. The lessons explore different reading skills and they are aimed at year 7 readers - level 4.

Reading Challenge Lesson 2 These are a series of lessons and pps that were designed to support the delivery of the Dfes unit of work on Reading Skills. There are 12 lessons altogether and i have uploaded them all as separate entities as each can be used as a standalone lesson or you can use all 12. The lessons explore different reading skills and they are aimed at year 7 readers - level 4.

Reading Challenge Lesson 3 These are a series of lessons and pps that were designed to support the delivery of the Dfes unit of work on Reading Skills. There are 12 lessons altogether and i have uploaded them all as separate entities as each can be used as a standalone lesson or you can use all 12. The lessons explore different reading skills and they are aimed at year 7 readers - level 4.

This is a full lesson - originally aimed at the old spec. can easily be updated so that the techniques can be used in prep for any assignment.

Do We Need ICT Writing To Argue Lesson This is one of a series of 8 lessons that have all been uplaoded on the debate of whether or not we really need ICT - The scheme goes through a series of persuasive techniques - using AFOREST - amd culilates in pupils creating their own argumenet for or against the motion. Aimed at Key stage 3 - year 8.

Autobiography Full Lesson for Level 4/5 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 4/5 writers and goes through the Autobiography henre before teaching pupils how to wr More…ite an extract for their own.

This is one of a series of lessons that I am uploading on the old AQA anthology poems. The lessons obviously have a comparative strand running through them and there are lessons for all of the poems from Cluster 1 and 2 uploaded as well as lessons that compare two poems or teach how to analyse them / compare them. Obviously no use for the old spec, but entirwely useful for the poetry comparison piece of controlled assesment in the new AQA spec.