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 the genre of the criminal character.

This is one of several lessons that i have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction and More… More… this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. In this lesson, pupils analyse the make up of Newspaper stories, ready for their controlled assessment where they turn the poem of Charlotte Diamond into a broadsheet newspaper article.

Reality TV – Characteristics of Reality TV Programmes This is a full PowerPoint lesson, ready to teach, but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson explores the different characteristics of the shows

Reality TV – Researching Reality TV This is one of many resources that I have uploaded on the theme of Reality TV – This is a research sheet that gets pupils to independently research the topic.

Gruffolo Full SOW Kagan techniques Lesson PP This is one of 6 lessons that I have uploaded. I have uploaded each lesson with the appropriate resources. The full scheme was judged as Outstanding by OFSTED and I use it with level 3/4 writers. Designed to introduce Kagan structures and cooperative learning, the lessons use the context of the Gruffalo to get pupils to write their won story to Primary School Pupils. Pupils love this work!

Essay title is: Compare the characters of Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs from Willy Russell’s ‘Our Day Out’. Whose style of teaching do you think is best for the Progress Class? and the plan has sentence starters to support pupils in writing about the play.

Reality TV – Design Your Own Show This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of Reality TV – These lessons build into a speaking and listening assessment when used together for pupils to argue for and against Reality TV, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: Reality TV - '. This is a full PowerPoint lesson, ready to teach, but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson gets pupils to think about the ethics of Reality TV

Reality TV – Arguments For & Against Lesson This is a full PowerPoint lesson, ready to teach, but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson explores the different arguments for and against Reality TV shows.

This is an essay plan for the teaching of Reality Tv as a persuasive topic. Aimed at GCSE pupils above C.

Reality TV – Speech Plan This is one of many resources that I have uploaded on the theme of Reality TV – This is a sheet that helps pupils to write a speech using PEE.

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

For these lessons, I have created a mock up of a Paper 2 for Edexcel with its own mark scheme. The question stems and marking criteria follow those provided by the board in their SAMs. Therefore, this is a potential set of Sample Style Assessment Materials that have not been seen anywhere else. The lessons are then based on these SAMs - showing pupils, lesson by lesson how to tackle each style of question. The lessons all include activities that allow pupils to revise the techniques and then to tackle a question. Lots of cooperative learning is included with clear reference to the exam criteria at all times. These lessons target Level 3 and above (old bands) - you may need to differentiate according to the needs of your class but there are plenty of extension activities for pupils. The Lesson Objectives are: Lesson 1: To know how to begin to tackle the Edexcel Language paper. Lesson 2: To learn how to tackle Question 3 on Paper 2 Lesson 3: To use prior learning to tackle 3 exam questions! Lesson 4: To know how to evaluate a text and attempt an evaluation style question. Lesson 5: To be able to effectively critically evaluate a text. Lesson 6: To learn how to compare texts effectively.

This complete lesson powerpoint covers Act 1.iii and encourages empathy towards characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth. 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.

Used to tie into experience of First Day at school.

This is a full lesson plan and PP for teaching the poem - judged as Outstanding by Ofsted!

This can easily be added to any lesson PP to add a punctuation / literacy starter to your lesson. This covers commas and speach marks.

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

Book Cover Analysis Worksheet This is a form that I use to analyse the covers of books so that Pupils can read before reading.

L/Os: To increase the range of ways you can start sentences, and use these to create example sentences about an image. To discuss the issue of school and further education and whether you think Chapel High should gain a Sixth Form. To know how to structure a speech and plan to write your own about this issue.

Literacy Starter – All Types Of Punctuation 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 placing the correct punctuation in place.