Printable handout worksheet containing a synopsis of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Save time by printing this handout for your class.

I’ve used and adapted this for years with lectures at MMU and for all teachers in my school. I don’t normally share my teacher training PPs but somebody lifted this version from our shared area and is using it to train and charging for the training in good to outstanding workshops. As the rightful owner of it, I take it as my right to share it for free! So I hope that it is as useful to other staff as it is to mine.

This is one of my staff training pps - I've uploaded lots of them all under the whole school / cpd in school / staff training banner - so, if, like me, you have to organise staff training, you can have a look at all of mine and use them as a springboard. This one is about literacy across the curriculum

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 is an introduction to Slavery and it is aimed at level 3 /4 students.

This is a Full Lesson Powerpoint on writing a film review - with vocabulary building and examples.

This is one of my training PPs as a PDF so that it an be used as a guide for anyone who would like some ideas as to how to teach it. I did this for all of the 'Teach First' English teachers in Manchester last year and they loved the session and the ideas, so I hope it will help others too.

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 a reading assessment thta you can mark with APP grids.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of Crime and Punishment for the GCSE course. 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: ' Crime & Punishment - '. 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 look at how much methods of punishment have changed.

Based on the PHSE Grangeenders scheme that many schools have bought in, this is a lesson PP that is used to supprt the delivery of the materials - aimed at lesson 2 of the pack.

These are a series of cards that can be cut up and matched to illustrate how Point Evidence Explain works. A very simple card matching exercise for Level 3 learners.

Whether preparingfor the exam, or the controlled assessment, these PEA chains will help pupils to undertsand how to analyse language.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is a worksheet of questions designed to consolidate learning.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to teach the poem - resources attached too.

Literacy Starter PP Slides– Summarising Paragraphs 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 summarising exercise for paragraphs.

This is a full lesson plan on how to write details where you show the reader without directly telling them. I usually embed my resources at the end of the PP, so if there are any to go with this lesson, you are likely to find them after the last slide.

This is great as a whole class activity where pupils write their responses on whiteboards.

This is a full lesson PP on maiing leaflets with the L/O as: To be able to use presentational and linguistic devices to convey information clearly.

This is a Full Lesson PP on Formal / informal writing - designed to encourage pupils to know the differnce.

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 Ruby in the Smoke and tells pupils how to use SMAC.

This is part of my full scheme of work on the Black Death, that has been taught this year. These are lessons 1-10 and the remaining lessons will be uploaded on the same title stem for ease of finding. Includes lots of games and activities as well as cooperative learning techniques. All resources are with the lessons too - aimed at KS3.