Lesson powerpoints and storyboarding homework activity for Year 7, on The Highwayman (Noyes). Includes activities exploring the language of the poem, understanding the story, exploring rhyme and rhythm and writing their own ballads.

A short three/four lesson unit on The Red Room by H.G.Wells, exploring the ghost story/mystery genre, how an author builds suspense and tension, building towards an essay question response or creative writing task. Used with top set Year 9, and a middle ability set. Split the story into 3 sections. Three PowerPoints. Quote analysis activities on worksheets for group work.

Part 2 of 2. Series of lessons to follow class reading of Face by Benjamin Zephaniah. Lesson powerpoints probably run over two or more lessons, but follow the chapters of the book with various activities, questions etc. Taught to high and middle ability Year 8s. Opportunities for writing assessment in Part 1 of SoW (newspaper article or persuasive speech writing). Extension/challenge options included. Body Image lesson relies on students bringing in magazines to analyse - we created posters in pairs/3s labelling how body image was represented in the media, then spent a lesson linking this learning to the novel.

A series of lessons focussing on developing inference skills. Allows students to think creatively to infer meaning from pictures and film stills. Links into topics on presentational devices thinking about the genre and audience of different books based on the covers. (Adapted into lesson powerpoints from ideas by johncallaghan)

Series of lessons on The Hunger Games, taught to high ability Year 9 students. Includes some edited parts of resources found on TES. Covers key themes as well as reading and writing skills. Please leave a comment if you download, use and like!

An effective lesson on AQA Moon on the Tides, Relationship cluster poem 'Quickdraw&'. Year 10, A*-C. I taught this lesson for a job interview, in which I was successful. It allows students to demonstrate very quick progress whilst looking closely at Duffy&';s meaning and language choices. Ends with students writing a paragraph response.

A two week SOW for KS3 (used with middle ability Year 8 classes). Tasks mainly focussed on developing descriptive writing skills. Includes challenge tasks throughout. Includes story creator where students lucky dip a story title, setting etc to stimulate writing. Ended unit with the challenges lesson, allowing students to play with creative writing techniques and styles, choosing which activities to complete during the lesson.