This is a full lesson PP on the prologue to Romeo and Juliet - used predominantly for the old specification, it can easily be changed to update to the new with a new mark scheme.

This is a full lesson Powerpoint that details the life and social Historical context of Spenser in preparation for study of his Sonnets.

Functional Skills lesson on letter writing

Family Poetry Full Lesson PP - Lesson 2 This is 1 of 8 lessons that create a full unit of work on poems that are about family. All 8 lessons ahve been uploaded for use.

A simple sheet designed to help pupils to make constructive notes whilst watching the film.

This is a full lesson powerpoint that is ready to teach on the novel Stone Cold. I have uploaded several other lessons that you could use in conjunction with it, but all are good to teach by themselves. This particular lesson has links to viewing the BBC version and pupils fill in the attached sheet whilst they watch.

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.

Writing to persuade - Selling The School lesson. This is one lesson with resources from a scheme of work that I've delivered about informative and persuasive writing. The theme was advterising and selling the school. The lessons obviously have context specific images and detail and you will want to change these for your own delivery but there are a variety of tasks involved that hit all different types of writing and the pupils really like the real life context. This is 1 lesson of 10 that i've uploaded - each as a separate upload with resources attached as all can be taught standalone too.

Rime Of the Ancient Mariner full PP lesson This is one of nine lessons that form the analysis of the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. The lessons are aimed at Key Stage 3 and have a variety of tasks in them to help support pupils in accessing the poem. They culminate in a reading assessment that is uploaded as lesson 9 and can be App'd.

Having taught instructions, this PP sits alongside pupils as they create their own to act as a guide.

AQA New Spec Comparing Poetry Scheme Essay Plan. This is the plan used with a scheme of work of 15 lessons that compare the poems Presents From My Aunts with Hurricane Hits England. It's for teaching on the new English specification question on comparing poems from other cultures.

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.

This is part of a full scheme of work - all uploaded as separate powerpoints, as they are separate resources under the title 'Ballads Full Scheme of Work; Lesson Number' There are up 14 lessons, but the last three are covered by a writing frame as lessons 11 - 14. It's aimed at Key Stage 3 and was written in my PGCE year, so may need some updating and tying into APP criteria to upgrade it, but it's certainly a good starting place.

Rime Of the Ancient Mariner full PP lesson This is one of nine lessons that form the analysis of the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. The lessons are aimed at Key Stage 3 and have a variety of tasks in them to help support pupils in accessing the poem. They culminate in a reading assessment that is uploaded as lesson 9 and can be App'd.

This is a scheme of work that I have revisited and updated for 2012, to include all APP frameworks, persuasive techniques and analysis of the Death Penalty. The scheme looks at murderers and results in a question about whether or not we should bring back the death penalty. Pupils end by writing a discursive essay, as if they are under controlled assessment conditions, as I am trying to prepare year 9 for their GCSE years. If you want every lesson, type in '2012 Death Penalty Lesson Miss R' and they should come up in a list. This one structures the pupils' reading assessment.

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 for extracting what the skills of reading are.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on Macbeth, ready to teach with it's resources. Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This one covers the war in 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 film posters of the genre.

Really simple idea for level 3 writers - give them a sweet to savour whilst they complete the sentences.

This is afull lesson PP on the skills of review writing.