A series of questions and a cloze procedure gap fill exercise to consolidate learning on Shakespeare.

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 correct language use.

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.

This is another lesson that ofsted have judged as Outstanding. It contextualises the poem Havisham - offering a functional way into it by setting up pupils as social workers trying to work out what has happened to the woman and why this poem is her suicide note.

Poster – AFOREST Persuasive Writing This is a poster that can be used as a teaching aid / revision sheet for reminding students of the acronym AFOREST – handy tool for pupils books or for display in your classroom.

This is a full lesson Powerpoint from a creative writing scheme of work that encourages pupils to use all of their senses to write about the images that are within it.

This is a Full English lesson PowerPoint on Comparing Texts with the L/Os: To be able to explain the effect of presentational and linguistic devices on the reader. To be able to compare two texts and explain which is most effective.

This lesson teaches pupils how to write up their analysis from their inferences from an extract of text. Self contained lesson.

This is a full lesson that helps pupils to analyse who they think is to blame for the death of Curley's wife!

Full lesson with resources on the ingredients of film reviews and how to write film reviews.

Each lesson Powerpoint is a complete lesson and it has been uploaded with all of its resources for that lesson beside it. All lessons have been saved with the same title to make it easier to search for them.

Powerpoint lesson on Macbeth, ready to teach with its resources. Presentation covers how Lady Macbeth persuades her husband - aimed at level 5 readers. Can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons.

This is a full lesson plan on the broadhseet newspapers and their features - designed to boost year 11 with writing news articles, in case it comes up in the exam.

This is a little interactive quiz that can be put into any lesson on poetic techniques.

Designed for level 3/4 writers.

This is a full lesson PP on Story Openings.

Printable worksheet resource including questions on Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Use to revise or consolidate knowledge. Can be used in conjunction with the entire set of Romeo and Juliet resources uploaded by this user.

Powerpoint outlining the writing skills needed to successfully produce a relavent and accurate newspaper article.

This is the first section of a whole scheme of work on Of Mice and Men, I created it this year, with attention to making sure that the Ofsted 2011 guidelines were being expemplified. The lessons structure reading the book from before reading to after and each of the early lessons covers different sectionhs of the book. They can all be taught togetether or you could choose to dip and pick as each can be adpated and can standalone. I can olny upload 20 bits to 1 resource feed, but the rest are on here.

This is a full lesson PP, complete with AQA marking criteria that helps encourage pupils to look at the finer details of writing. If you like it, please leave me a review!