This engaging and informative lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of the various narrative perspectives used to develop the plot and characters in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein.’ The lesson places a particular focus upon the reporting of William’s death from different narrative points-of-view, focusing on the accounts of Alphonse, Victor, and the Monster. By the end of the lesson, students demonstrate an ability to make sustained and original interpretations of Shelley’s structural choices. The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through: - Defining the key terms ‘author’, ‘narrator’, and ‘narrative point of view;’ - Identifying the different narrators within the text; - Reading and understanding key extracts from chapters 7 and 16 - extracts that detail the same event (William’s murder) from multiple perspectives; - Inferring, interpreting, and analysing the effect of Shelley’s structural choices in altering the narrative viewpoints; - Imagining and describing the events surrounding William’s murder from another perspective; - Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts. Included is: - Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including an animated Frankenstein’s monster to guide them through the lesson); - Descriptive devices worksheet (and a teacher answer sheet); - Extract from the beginning of Chapter 5; - Inferring and Interpreting worksheet; - Analysis template with success criteria for creating well-structured responses; - Comprehensive lesson plan. There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 9/10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities. All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

AMENDED TO REFLECT THE FINAL VERSION OF THE NEW OFSTED FRAMEWORK - MAY 2019. This clear and concise review is designed to provide senior/middle leaders, governors, and academic staff with a comprehensive understanding of the new Ofsted framework, to be launched from September 2019. It aims to: -Summarise the proposed core changes to the OFSTED framework, including operation changes and the core categories; -Explore the focus on curriculum design and implementation, and discuss the relationship between knowledge and skills; -Briefly discuss the developed focus on safeguarding in the new framework. The slides are colourful, visually-appealing, and break down some of the more complex points so that they are easily understood. It also contains a range of discussion questions throughout, both within and at the end of each section. I hope that you find it helpful!

These resources enable students to understand and analyse the character of Squealer in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. More precisely, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations regarding his role in within the consolidation of Napoleon’s dictatorship. Students also demonstrate their understanding of chapters 7 and 8, with a particular emphasis upon the actions of Squealer. There are easily enough resources here for two lessons. Students learn through the following tasks: - Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge of ‘propaganda’ through a discussion-based starter task; - Using an interactive, out-of-seat, group activity to build understanding of the features of propaganda; - Reading chapters 7 and 8 with a particular focus on the character of Squealer, and demonstrating their understanding through a related activity sheet; - Developing their understanding of Squealer’s actions, and finding textual evidence to back this up, through a scaffolded, retrieval activity; - Using their imaginative and creative skills, in addition to their knowledge of Squealer and propaganda posters, to construct their own propaganda poster for Animal Farm; - Peer assessing their partners’ learning attempts. The following resources are provided: - Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint - Teacher lesson guidance/plan; - Squealer’s Propaganda worksheet; - Four propaganda texts for group analysis; - Template for recording group analysis; - Chapters 7 and 8 worksheet (plus teacher answer sheet); - Copies of Chapters 7 and 8. All images and videos are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.

This engaging and interesting lesson aims to improve students’ knowledge of John Steinbeck’s key messages in his novella Of Mice and Men. It also aims to build their skills in retrieving information from texts, considering the outcomes about the characters, and making precise and confident interpretations about Steinbeck’s intentions. The lesson uses a range of tasks, that require students to use their visual and interpersonal skills. It follows this learning journey: - Investigating the life of John Steinbeck, including his influences, experiences, and beliefs; - Finding relevant quotations to ascertain which characters fulfilled their dreams, and what this could tell us about Steinbeck’s message; - Completing analysis paragraphs on how Steinbeck reveals his message through the final chapters of the text, using a template and a success criteria; - Evaluating each others’ argumentative attempts. The resource includes a comprehensive and visually engaging PowerPoint presentation, a worksheet to decipher which characters achieved their dreams, a template and success criteria for the main task, and a lesson plan/ teacher guidance sheet. All images in this resource are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the lesson presentation. You can choose to buy this resource alone, or as part of the ‘Of Mice and Men - All Lessons and Scheme’ bundle, which contains seven full lessons, resources, teachers notes, and PowerPoint presentations, plus a Pointless Of Mice and Men game, for just £5!

This lesson aims to help students to build their skill at analysing the language choices in texts, whilst also providing students with valuable SMSC messages about the horror of the Holocaust. Students also hone their skills of writing to analyse, in response to extracts from 'Anne Frank's Diary.' Informative and engaging, this lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey. Students learn to: - Define key terms related to the historical context of The Holocaust; - Remember and understand key information about Anne Frank's experiences, that they learn from an engaging PowerPoint presentation; - Read extracts from Anne Frank's diary; - Answer a range of questions to demonstrate their understanding of Anne's diary; - Analyse the language features used by Anne Frank to create dramatic images in the mind of the reader; - Peer-assess each others' learning attempts. Included in this resource pack: A comprehensive, whole-lesson, visually engaging PowerPoint presentation, which guides the teacher and learners through the lesson, a writing to analyse help-sheet, an engaging and helpful worksheet, extracts from 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' and teacher guidance notes. All images are cited at the end of the PowerPoint presentation, and are licensed for commercial use.

This stimulating and informative double lesson aims to improve students’ ability to understand the features of various story genres, and analyse the conventional language features within them. In particular students focus upon the vocabulary, sentence, and descriptive device choices made by writers across each of the genres, and begin to comprehend the effect of these techniques upon the reader. Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: -Define the different story genres and understand their key content features; -Understand the key features of different genres through interesting movie clips ; -Work collaboratively using the jigsaw method to ascertain the language features (vocabulary, sentences, descriptive devices) of different genres; -Engage with a number of interesting story extracts (Louis Sachar - Holes, JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Darren Shan - The Vampire's Assistant, Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid.) -Write an analytical piece on some of the language features used by the writer of their chosen genre; -Peer/self-assess their analytical attempts. There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including: -Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint; -Story extracts x 4 (Harry Potter, Holes, etc.) -Learning Objective cut out; -Analytical Paragraphs Template; -Jigsaw method worksheet -Step-by-step lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.

I have used this resource to explain the new GCSE changes to other staff, governors, and parents. Feedback has been that it is clear, concise, and answers some of the key questions. In the document, I have addressed: - What changes have already taken place? - When do the changes take place? - How do the new grades equate to the old grades? - Why are the changes necessary? - What are the changes to the English GCSE? - What are the changes to the Maths GCSE? - How will school performance now be judged? Also attached is a visual representation of how the new GCSE grades map onto the old GCSE grades. Within the PowerPoint are a number of links to key information provided by the DfE and OFQUAL. Hope this helps!

This checklist provides teachers with a clear yet effective tool for planning engaging starter activities. (A full CPD on Engaging Starters, including this resource, a full visually-engaging presentation, and further resources is also available from TandLGuru.) It breaks down the four key components of 'Meaningful Engaged Learning:' - Environment; - Motivation; - Experience; - Meaning. This gives teachers and support staff a clear platform upon which they can devise and facilitate truly inspiring, motivating, differentiated, and relevant starter activities, and hence promote student engagement in learning.

This visual and highly engaging set of resources is designed to enable students to use imaginative and original persuasive devices in their own writing. Through following the interesting learning journey, students are given the opportunity to: - Define each persuasive device; - Identify these in existing persuasive texts; - Analyse their effect in a longer persuasive text; - Create their own persuasive device-filled piece, using a jointly-created success criteria based upon their analysis task; - Peer assess each other's persuasive writing attempts. All resources are provided, including: - Visual PowerPoint presentation; - Definitions cards (they just need printing and cutting out) - Analysis worksheet; - Lesson outline for teachers and learning support to follow. Note: All pictures licensed for creative use - authors and sources labelled on the final slide of the presentation.

This is a highly-effective tool for implementing a vocabulary and comprehension element to school-wide 'literacy across the curriculum' initiatives. Not only does it encourage students and teachers to focus upon fully understanding key words in each of their subjects, but it provides the school with a clear and concise measuring device for gauging students' vocabulary and comprehension improvements. Students first sit the baseline test in each subject - a booklet that tests their complete knowledge of whichever subject-specific terms they need to learn in the next assessment period. Examples of the tasks they are asked to complete are: - Spelling the word; - Defining the word; - Giving an example of the word in a sentence; - Self-evaluating their understanding of the word; - Selecting what type of word it is; - Thinking of synonyms for the word, and more. They are given a score for their performance in the tasks. Upon completion of the teaching unit, students complete the 'End-Point' booklet, completing the same tasks. The two scores (from the baseline and the end-point) are recorded into the tracker document, (10 sheets are provided for different departments) which automatically calculates baseline and end-point percentages, and percentage increase or decrease. It also colour codes red or green dependent upon student performance. This gives the user a clear measure of the effectiveness of the literacy scheme across the school - perfect for performance management, reporting to OFSTED, and school improvement.

This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge of The Hundred Years’ War. It contains comprehensive sections on: -Overview and Maps; -Key People: Edward III, Henry V, Henry VI, Philip VI, Charles V, Joan of Arc; -Major Events: The Edwardian War; -Major Events: The Caroline War; -Major Events: The Lancastrian War; -The Hundred Years’ War Timeline. Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). It can be used by students of all ages, but is best suited for those in KS3.

This interesting and engaging lesson enables students to build their understanding of the dramatic devices employed by J.B. Priestley throughout the play ‘An Inspector Calls.’ In particular, students learn how to make sustained, clear interpretations about the impact of the dramatic devices upon tone, plot, and meaning. They also contemplate how Priestley utilises dramatic devices to communicate his underlying messages about responsibility and social duty to his audience. The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Define and understand key dramatic devices; - Identify and discuss the dramatic devices that Priestley uses towards the end of Act One.; - Read and interpret the end section of Act One in the play; - Analyse how Priestley's use of dramatic devices is used effectively for impact; -Peer/self-assess learning attempts. This resource pack includes: - A visually engaging, comprehensive whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - The end of Act 1 extract of the text for students to read and interpret (with a pre-highlighted example for the identification task); - Dramatic Devices information cards for the card-sorting game; - A scaffolded template for the main analytical task, with a further completed model example. - A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.

This lesson enables students to build their knowledge of the content, language, and structure of Lord Byron’s classic love/relationships poem ‘When We Two Parted.’ In particular, students learn how the poet’s use of vocabulary, rhyme, and repetition influence the mood and tone of the poem. Students learn through a logical and step-by-step learning journey, including: -Understanding key contextual information about the poet and his life; -Defining key terms and vocabulary from the poem; -Reading and interpreting the poem; -Understanding the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the content, language, and structural features; -Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Byron gets across the themes of sadness and forbidden love in the poem, through the use of language and structure; -Peer assessing each other's learning attempts. Included is: - Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlink to a reading of the poem) - Copy of poem; - Key questions worksheet, with model answers; - Analysis template with in-built success criteria for creating well-structured responses; - Comprehensive lesson plan. There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 9/10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities. All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

This thought-provoking and stimulating lesson enables students to create travel writing texts containing thoughtful and imaginative content, utilising planning techniques to add increasing depth to their writing. By the end of the lesson, students are able to understand which features should go into a travel writing piece, and use strategies to enable them to write in appropriate depth for the needs of purpose, audience, and form. The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Define what travel writing is, and understand why it is an important and popular genre; - Think beyond the obvious, noticing and describing subliminal and periphery features, in addition to those which they deem as most important and pressing; - Consider how stimulus can be described using each of the different senses; - Use a success criteria to analyse a model travel writing attempt, and to plan their own; - Self/Peer assess travel writing attempts. This resource pack includes: - A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - A clear and logical template to record descriptions during the sensory task; -A well-structured success criteria/ planning template to aid students' creative attempts; - A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

Wondrous Writing is an interesting and effective way to enable young people to build their writing skills. Focussing on one key writing skill, students compose sentences during timed intervals, using picture prompts as inspiration. This aids them in constructing a larger, more substantial piece of writing over the course of the lesson. Assessment for Learning is utilised throughout, with success criterias provided for students to peer/self assess both before and after the main task. The focus for this lesson is sentence openers - utilising the topic of 'The Seven Wonders of the World.' Included in this pack is: - Whole lesson PowerPoint, complete with visual stimuli for writing; - Hyperlink to stopwatch app; - Writing Template - Writing to Describe Help-sheet - Success Criteria - Peer/Self-Assessment Form

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.' Teachers have found them particularly useful in exam revision, comprehension tasks, or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the KS4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework - this makes the tasks suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that students gain a deep understanding of the text. Activities within the booklet include: - 'Context: 19th Century Britain' - to aid students with 'Drawing on knowledge of the purpose, audience and context of the writing, including its social, historical and cultural context and the literary tradition to which it belongs, to inform evaluation;' - 'Dickens' Description' - to aid students with 'Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;' - 'The Ghost of Christmas Past' - to aid students with 'Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence;' - 'Editing the Text' - to aid students with 'Making an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.' Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 30 pages in length!) I've also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included).

This lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of Owen Sheers' key messages about war in the poem ‘Mametz Wood.’ By the end of the lesson, students demonstrate their knowledge of the text analytically, through assured, appropriate, and sustained interpretations of the content, language, and structure. Students learn through a logical and step-by-step learning journey, including: -Understanding the context of the poem and the horrific events that took place in the battle; -Understanding key information about Owen Sheers' life; -Reading and interpreting the poem; -Interpreting the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the language and structural features; -Finding and analysing the language features used throughout the poem, and considering how these link to the poet's message; -Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Sheers gets across his message about war; -Peer assessing each other's learning attempts. Included is: - Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlinks to informative and engaging videos) - Copy of poem; - Language devices worksheet - Analysis template with success criteria for creating well-structured responses; - Comprehensive lesson plan. There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 9/10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities. All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.