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My shop is full of literary surprises: with a degree in Creative Writing and English I have some fantastic resources on creative writing, poetry and Literature Texts. I aim to offer resources on the less common texts and also cover a range of resources from the International GCSEs....welcome, come in and feel free to browse...buy, don't buy, follow, don't follow....just don't spend every weekend working....be kind to yourself!

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My shop is full of literary surprises: with a degree in Creative Writing and English I have some fantastic resources on creative writing, poetry and Literature Texts. I aim to offer resources on the less common texts and also cover a range of resources from the International GCSEs....welcome, come in and feel free to browse...buy, don't buy, follow, don't follow....just don't spend every weekend working....be kind to yourself!
Love's Dog by Jen Hadfield (Relationship Poetry)
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Love's Dog by Jen Hadfield (Relationship Poetry)

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This powerpoint takes you through a step by step analysis of each stanza, the background to the title and a potential comparison with My Last Duchess through a wide range of oral, active, written and thought provoking ideas, questions and images. This is everything you would need to teach this poem. Other poems in this collection are also available in my TES shop as is a bundle including all poems in the collection at a discounted rate.
Edexcel Relationship Poetry: Nettles by Vernon Scannell
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Edexcel Relationship Poetry: Nettles by Vernon Scannell

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This resource is challenging through differentiation and equally supports the middle/lower ability learners. This powerpoint offers a mix of informative slides, with activity slides to ensure that everyone is stretched and engaged. This lesson concludes with a comparative essay title to enable learners to evidence their understanding of the devices at play in this text. If you like this resource do leave a review and look up my other poetry resources in my shop. Alternatively, contact me on twitter @jomarsh1 to enquire about bespoke bundles, marking services and additional offers available on multiple purchases.
Edexcel Relationship Poetry: One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings
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Edexcel Relationship Poetry: One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings

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This resource offers a step by step analysis of Jennings' poem, it is fully differentiated and includes a range of questions and activities to complete whilst learning about this text before concluding with some overarching 'big questions', an essay style question and self/peer assessment task. This is everything you would need to teach this poem.
Macbeth Revision Quiz
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Macbeth Revision Quiz

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This is so much more than a quiz, it asks questions but also answers them in detail, using PEE paragraphs, full explanations and text references. The questions include challenges relating to language, structure and context and conclude with a 'big question' before offering guidance on how to respond to the question (which links to some of the prior questions) and essentially a homework task. This powerpoint is heavily differentiated using images and bonus questions to support and stretch. If a student has not 'got' this text, this powerpoint should go a long way to filling gaps. If you find this useful please do leave a review. If interested in a marking service for the resulting essays please contact me on Twitter @jomarsh1 as this is also available, subject to demand. Finally, my other resources on Macbeth can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-act-1-11561879 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-act-2-11562280 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-act-3-11566639 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-act-4-11567137 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-act-5-11567257 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-the-whole-play-11567264 3
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (Edexcel Relationship Poetry)
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Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (Edexcel Relationship Poetry)

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These resources offer a fully differentiated lesson on this classic poem and engages students by drawing on contemporary tasks involving music and technology. This lesson introduces complex technical vocabulary in a way that makes it enjoyable for all during the learning process. The lesson is cyclical in nature and returns to the starter activity to evidence progression and engagement. This lesson is available individually or as part of a bundle on the link below. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/relationships-poetry-bundle-11607210 If, however, you would like a bespoke bundle, follow me on twitter @jomarsh1 and message me there...other bundles can be provided on request.
KS5: Essays: How to write them
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KS5: Essays: How to write them

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This lesson offers KS5 students a step by step guide to how to approach an essay question and respond to it cogently and effectively ensuring their response is focused and supported. I created this lesson in response to students saying they knew their texts, but weren't sure how to construct them, their written style improved dramatically after delivering this lesson.
Creative Writing: Working towards grade 8/9
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Creative Writing: Working towards grade 8/9

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This worksheet is designed for parents. students, teachers and supply staff as a self contained activity to help students improve their creative writing. The worksheet includes exemplar opening and closing lines, challenge activities, editing and redrafting directives and exam style questions. A marking service is available at a small charge, follow me on Twitter @jomarsh1 and message me for further details on how to submit drafts.
Of Mice and Men: Curley's Wife V The Subtext
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Of Mice and Men: Curley's Wife V The Subtext

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Is Curley's Wife really that bad? This lesson includes some outstanding resources that use differentiated questioning and focus to meet the needs of ALL learners. The activity worksheets are classified in target grades so that you can group students according to ability and includes a 'Magpie' activity for your very most able. This lesson draws on a range of pedagogical practices in order to achieve outstanding progress for ALL. If you like this resource and want more on OMAM follow me here and on Twitter @jomarsh1.
Christmas Quiz
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Christmas Quiz

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This quiz uses video stills, music, literacy and maths in a fun and varied way to provide an engaging and fully accessible quiz for all learners. This quiz contains tips and visuals to help younger students and as such would work for students at the top end of KS2 through to KS5. A perfect way to end the term and send your students off happy!
4 Quiz Christmas Bundle Plus a Decorative Banner for your classroom
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4 Quiz Christmas Bundle Plus a Decorative Banner for your classroom

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This bundle includes a Banner for your classroom, a powerpoint game of PictoWord, a Christmas Wordsearch, a Christmas Mad Lib activity and a Word Ladder Activity. There is something for everyone here, including some challenges for those most able students. These are great literacy based quizzes to end the term with that will keep your students focused until the very end. This bundle is easily one full lesson if not a little more and would suit a range of year groups at secondary level. Merry Christmas!
Year 9: Literacy Programme - Preparing for GCSEs
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Year 9: Literacy Programme - Preparing for GCSEs

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This Literacy Programme is for use with year 9s 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 and Year 8 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 will be posted imminently.
Year 9: Literacy Programme - Preparing for GCSEs (3)
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Year 9: Literacy Programme - Preparing for GCSEs (3)

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This Literacy Programme is 3 of 3 for use with year 9s 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 and 8 Programmes 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. All Literacy Programmes in this collection are downloadable in bundles of year groups and as a Whole School KS3 Programme, with all elements building on the skills in the earlier years and terms.
Year 8 Literacy Programme  (Whole Year)
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Year 8 Literacy Programme (Whole Year)

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A Literacy Programme that rolls out a term at a time, and traverses an entire year. Weekly assessments are pre-prepared on a powerpoint to test the skills being learnt, self assessment sheets are included as are a PDF and Adobe version for ease of adding in school logos. The skills covered by this programme build on those nurtured at KS2 and attempts to bridge the gap between the demands of KS2 and KS4. All resources are available individually as well as part of a bundle.
Year 9 Literacy Programme (Whole Year)
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Year 9 Literacy Programme (Whole Year)

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A Literacy Programme that rolls out a term at a time, and traverses an entire year. Weekly assessments are pre-prepared on a powerpoint to test the skills being learnt, self assessment sheets are included as are a PDF and Adobe version for ease of adding in school logos. The skills covered by this programme build on those nurtured at KS2 and attempts to bridge the gap between the demands of KS2 and KS4. All resources are available individually as well as part of a bundle.
Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson
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Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson

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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.
KS3 Study of a Modern Play: Our Day Out by Willy Russell
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KS3 Study of a Modern Play: Our Day Out by Willy Russell

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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.