This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for key Stage 3 pupils to study this text. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. The other lessons can be used alongside it and they can be taught together, but all are suitable as standalone lessons. This lesson covers the use of Scary language in the text.

Harry Potter – Tension & Suspense This is one lesson of several lessons that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on the novel harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers how language choices create feeling and mood.

Woman In Black – preparing for the lit exam This is a full lesson PowerPoint that explains to pupils sitting the higher Lit paper how to tackle the exam question on Woman In Black.

Gruffolo Games This is a full lesson PowerPoint that combines lots of different resources on the Gruffalo – used to consolidate the learning. This is not all my won work as some things have been combined from other resources downloaded from the TES.

A full lesson pp that breaks down the analysing of this section using key quotes.

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded that relate to Haig and whether or not he was incompetent. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Was Haig Incompetent?, should you wish to use them together - These are from my PGCE year, so will need to be adapted and updated but I am confiedent that they're a starting point for some. This resource is a lesson that gets pupils to use sources effectively to support their ideas.

This is one of a series of lessons/ activities / worksheets that I am uploading on the old AQA anthology poems. The lessons obviously have a comparative strand running through them and there are lessons for all of the poems from Cluster 1 and 2 uploaded as well as lessons that compare two poems or teach how to analyse them / compare them. Obviously no use for the old spec, but entirwely useful for the poetry comparison piece of controlled assesment in the new AQA spec.

This is a full lesson Powerpoint that uses the Key Stage 3 reading Assessment Foucuses and encourages pupils to break down a text and write their own questions on it - aimed at level 5 / 6 and 7 pupils.

This is a lesson starter to get pupils to read the front covers of books.

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 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 Hound Of The Baskeervilles

A powerpoint quiz lesson revising quotations from Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Help students review their knowledge of these quotations and the characters who say them, using this fun quiz activity.

This is one of many resources, full lesson powerpoints and quizes that I have uploaded on the short story 'Through The Tunnel'. The lessons aim to encouage pupils to read the story, evaluate the ending and then write an alternative ending. Great for practising narritive and imaginative writing skills. I use it with mixed abiility year 9 pupils and APP it for a level. All resources are uploaded with the same heading for ease of search if you'd like to use them together. Pupils really enjoy this unit.

After learning about Dickens and gaining familiarity with the book, this is a pictorial quiz that encourages pupils to think about the links in the book.

A simple task that can be used to chart Oliver's feelings throughout the novel. Can be used in conjunction with all of my other lessons on Dickens and Oliver Twist

This is an activity to introduce the use of a varity of sentences - can be used as a lesson starter or as a literacy across the curriculum initiative.

This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This is a worksheet that is used to help the pupils get used to writing Essays, with sentemce starters etc. Title: How and why does Macbeth persuade the murderers to murder Banquo?

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills to help pupils to pass their GCSE in Language. This one covers the basic Follow The Argument question.

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 correct language use.

Designed for level 3/4 writers.