Full lesson Philip Spencer This is a full lesson PP on Spencer. It’s only a starting point as I used it when I was unqualified some years ago but gives some basic information and can be adapted

Full lesson Draft an argument against ICT This lesson gives pupils a statement that they have to write a draft argument to counter argue against it.

This is a full lesson PP with the L/O: Use knowledge of language, format and purpose in order to create a piece of text that is suitable to its purpose.

Full lesson PP on planning an argument This lesson gives pupils a statement that they have to plan to counter argue against.

Pupils analyse 4 opening sentences and complete some tasks in relation to them.

Pupils use this sheet to audit their own knowledge of key writing terms.

Using red green and amber cards, pupils tell you which tense is the correct one.

This is part of a full scheme of work - all powerpoints and resources have been uploaded. Powerpoints are all separate uploads, saved by lesson numbers 1,2,3 etc. There are 9 lessons in total. Also uploaded as part of this section are resources. All lessons are saved under 'Nobody Has a Private Life'. This scheme is quite old, and will need some adapting as it was written in my PGCE year. However, it's a good starting point and pupils have very much enjoyed it over the years. Also has strong citizenship links!

Prior to starting a unti of fairytales, I set pupils up to find out about what fairytales are with this task sheet.

With the objectives of: 1 To develop the skills for effective and constructive feedback. 2 To revise punctuation, spelling and writing skills. This is a full lesson designed to support pupils in peer marking.

This is a full powerpoint, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This PP can be added to any lesson and it will add persuasive technique bingo to it.

This is a notes sheet for Analsis of Film Trailers (Time Travel)

A little activity that gets pupils thinking about brands / logos and images for media and non fiction texts.

This worksheet gets the class to brainstrom what they know about UFOs before turing into what they know about UFOs. lesson Starter.

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 original writing skills

Worksheet for pupils to use to explore the character of Bruno when reading the novel.

This is a Who wants To be A Millionaire based on poetry techniques and pre 1914 poems.

This is a sheet that pupils use to peer assess descriptive work.

This is a full lesson PP that is ready to teach as it is - although you may wish to adpat it for your own class and context. I've uploaded the others in the series with resources under the same title of 'Autobiography C/A for D/C borderliners'. I'm using this for teaching the AQA controlled assessment writing element for my D/C Borderlie English class - same topic but different lessons. This lesson is the intro - may need tweaking as form legacy spec.

Pupils summarise their thoughts and learnings on a series of themese in the book.