Quick activity to encorporate in any lesson to pull literacy into it. You can make your own with key words for your own lesson for context.

These are a series of tasks set up for pupils to complete and then present back to the rest of the class.

Using the quiz template, this works brilliantly as a whole class AFL tool / Plenary or starter.

PP use to explain to NQTs what CAts are

This is a full lesson plan on how tension is built in the book - supports reading the novel and is aimed at level 4 readers.

This is a worksheet based lesson that was created as a Cover Lesson for analysing sports writing.

This is a full, interactive lesson aimed at year 7 Pupils, working at level 3 and 4, to teach them how to tackle FAP and analyse a text in relation to it's features and audience. No resources required - other than copies of the book if you have them.

This is a coursework development set of activities for A Raisin In The Sun.

Although aimed at the outgoing spec, this lesson can easily be tweeked to your own specification and it covers the demands and the expectations of the GCSE course for year 10 pupils about to start it.

This is a lesson that links to an internet tour of Shakespeare's theatre - designed to support my uploaded Inrtoduction To Shakespeare scheme of work.

Full guide to support GCSE Media Studies pupils.

Pupils use this sheet to plan how to write a dual narritive

Autobiography KS3 – Using AFs In Writing This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded that are about autobiographical writing. The lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to deliver – but you may wish to update them for your own context and they can be taught together or as standalone lessons. This lesson has lesson objectives of: To be able to structure, organise and present a text; To be able to highlight a focus for my writing and assess it accurately.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on The Slave Trade for Key Stage 3 pupils in year 8. All of the lessons can be taught together, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Slave Trade'. 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 covers The Traingular Trade.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analysing it. Designed for AQA Literacy specification. This lesson gets the pupils to have a go at an essay quetsion under timed conditions - as practise for the exam.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analysing it. Designed for AQA Literacy specification. This lesson covers Chapter 2 and the use of contrast.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analysing it. Designed for AQA Literacy specification. This lesson covers chapter 3 and is entitled clues and predictions.

Jack The Ripper – Victorian England 1888 This is a full lesson PowerPoint that is ready to teach (with resources if applicable) – although you will wish to adapt it for your own context – it’s part of a Humanities curriculum that is taught to Year 7 pupils, so covers Geography, History and Literacy skills. There are a series of lessons that I have uploaded. They can be taught as a group, or as a standalone as each is an entire complete lesson. This Lesson’s LO: Gain information from sources about conditions in Victorian England

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 extending vocabulary.

GCSE Old Spec. Exam Practise scheme lesson This is one lesson from a set of 9 that have all been uploaded separately. Although, the Old specification is no longer used for GCSE, I am aware of colleagues that still use past papers for teaching the skills for the new spec. Therefore, althout these lessons may not be relevant in the mainstream, they can be adapted and still used for revision purposes.