This Literacy Programme is 3 of 3 for use with year 7s across an entire term and forms part of a newly written programme that builds on the strengthened demands of the KS2 literacy skills. This resource includes a PDF version of the programme plus an Adobe version that is editable so that the name of your school/behaviour policy can be incorporated into the documents. The powerpoint presentation is used to test the weekly skills gained by your students and allows you to track progress and build in additional intervention for areas of shortfall post completion. The subsequent booklets for use in this Programme for years 8 and 9 will be posted imminently.

These resources include a detailed lesson plan, powerpoint, individualised learning objectives that are aligned with the new GCSE 9-1 grades, a game board template together with a set of original and fully differentiated questions (I laminated both the board and the questions to aid longevity as the students loved this game and wanted to play it again and again). This lesson was ranked outstanding on every level when observed as the outcomes demonstrated above average progression for every student in the group. These resources are perfect for use with years 9,10 and 11.

Following the success of the first resource I created on 'The PIcture of Dorian Gray' I have now created this second resource based on an extract from 'Oliver' by Charles Dickens. It is ideal for use with the Edexcel (9-1) English Language Specification. Due to the shortage of past papers to use in the classroom I have constructed this paper for use by teachers using this specification. The resources includes the extract, questions, mark scheme and indicative content. If you like this resource please do leave a review as am happy to construct more.

This lesson draws on a wide variety of teaching strategies to engage and focus students with how to analyse poetry. These skills in turn can be used for analysing Unseen Poetry. This lesson is fully differentiated, from learning objectives, to tasks and to outcome plenary. This lesson should take between 2-3 hours to teach and includes a task that crosses over into Imaginative Writing for the Language Paper. I have taught this lesson a number of times and my students always enjoy the ‘finding the answer’ style of this lesson a lot of fun! If you like this, then you’ll love my other Conflict Poetry resources in my Shop.

An extensive powerpoint that works through the entire play including contextual information, activities and assessment tasks that are aligned with the GCSE (9-1) specifications. This is a detailed unit of work that supports KS3 students through the study of a play text and has proved to be an excellent training ground for GCSE studies.

Based on an extract from Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' here is a further exam style paper to use for revision as you prepare students for the GCSE reading paper exams. Written using the Edexcel (9-1) English Language Specification.

An observation standard lesson including lesson plan and all resources to aid the evidence of progression during the lesson. Includes effective use of music (embedded) to aid engagement with the 'tone' contained in this poem. Focusing on 'colour' as a route to thinking about tone is a strategy that transfers easily to studying other poems as Seen or Unseen.

This Literacy Programme is 1 of 3 for use with year 8s across an entire term and forms part of a newly written programme that builds on the strengthened demands of the KS2 literacy skills and the Year 7 Programme also available on TES. This resource includes a PDF version of the programme plus an Adobe version that is editable so that the name of your school/behaviour policy can be incorporated into the documents. The powerpoint presentation is used to test the weekly skills gained by your students and allows you to track progress and build in additional intervention for areas of shortfall post completion. The subsequent booklets for use in this Programme and year 9 will be posted imminently.

This powerpoint covers the latter chapters of Book 1 of this new GCSE text. The powerpoint contains a number of engaging activities to ensure full comprehension of the text as you read and activities to begin to construct revision pages on the themes contained in this text. It also includes a 9-1 exam style 'exploding question' in which extract skills are taught in a supported way before setting up a full essay question.

This lesson starts with an engaging visual activity that engages students with the concept of tone in art before then asking them to apply this thinking to some literary extracts. The lesson continues to draw on the DIRT strategy to improve and assess work and establish success criteria for using the right tone when writing an article. This is an excellent revision lesson to refine techniques for writing Transactional Writing pieces for the GCSE exams.

This resource covers Book 2, Chapters 3-6 of the narrative and includes a range of inclusive and challenge activities to ensure students are engaged and stretched. This lesson includes reference to theories relating to the text to enable students to access the grades 8 and 9 together with more accessible and relatable activities for lower ability.

This resource includes a systematic example of how to analyse language in an extract with supported tasks and exemplar responses. It also includes comprehension questions, character analysis and prompts to consider the themes of fear, entrapment and being hunted alongside overarching structural observations of this text. Book 1 resources already available as a bundle, Book 2 will be released shortly...if interested follow me...

This lesson is the final lesson in the series of individual lessons and draws on engaging activities to nurture both independence and enquiry in learners. This resource includes a 'leading' extract questionnaire to support students who find this text challenging alongside stretch and challenge tasks. This resource also includes extract and essay tasks in line with examination style questions. At the end of the powerpoint are a number of activities based on the whole text to ensure students have both a clear overview and the opportunity to create substantial revision resources. Available as part of a 'Book 2' bundle and a 'Whole Text' bundle.

Following the success of my first collection of 19th century non fiction extracts, here is a further collection with 6 more extracts for practice analysis.

This powerpoint is designed to support students studying Shakespeare as a complete text at GCSE level. This resource covers Act One in detail and is one of five resources on this text. It draws on a range of varied activities to hook students and nurture a love of Shakespeare: dramatic exercises, creative exercises, matching and challenge activities and activities that make Shakespeare more realatable to the 21st century student. This resource is tailored for 6-8 hours of teaching and includes character studies, analysis of language, form and structure. It is everything you would need to ensure students fully engage with this play, beyond the narrative alone.

This powerpoint includes detailed contextual information linked to the text. Close analysis of language, form and structure through both ‘given slides’ and task driven learning. This resource also includes a non fiction reading extract for additional background on the use of the word ‘Raven’ so comprises elements of the skills required in the English Language exam. This lesson would work well as an introduction to the poem and a revision lesson. Challenge tasks are threaded throughout. The lesson ends with a ‘comparison quiz’ and revision challenge task.