Lesson is aimed at getting students interested in the news by making it fun and interesting. Lesson asks students to think about the way they can access the news and why news is important. Students then watch and discuss the news before writing and presenting their own news report on a current topic. Aimed at KS3 students but can easily be adapted to suit older students. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme and aim/challenge/super challenge.

A lesson based around analysing how language is used to describe a setting. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is part of a full scheme of gothic horror lessons (full scheme available on TES.)

Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson includes WAGOLL answers that students can grade using the mark scheme. Lesson is scaffolded to ensure all students can access the lesson and the question. Please leave a review. I’d love to hear your feedback :)

Includes a range of lessons and resources for a non-fiction scheme of work. All lessons differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lessons include a range of topics including: Prisons, P.T Barnum, the Death penalty, Live Aid, the news, Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’, Selling houses, gun law and nursing. Lessons cover both the reading and writing sections of the paper. Please leave a review. I would love to hear your feedback :)

A poem taught as part of a y8 scheme of work for poetry from other cultures. Can be taught to GCSE as seen or unseen. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson gets students to look at context, structure and language before completing an exam style question. Please leave a review if you have time.

An introduction to the GCSE play, teaching students the social and historical context of the play. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.

A lesson aimed at teaching language paper 1, question 2 skills. Lesson was made as part of a module teaching the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas but can also be used for GCSE students teaching language paper 1. Lesson includes challenge questions and uses the GCSE mark scheme.

Lesson asks students to choose a door to another world (Hogwarts, Narnia, Neverland, Wonderland and Middle Earth.) They then plan the opening and eventually go on to produce a piece of creative writing describing their journey to this other world. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Aimed at KS3 but can also be used with KS4 to practice language paper 1, question 5 skills. Please leave a review, i’d love your feedback :)

Lesson looks at the context of the poem, the language and structure and gets students to analyse key quotations. This lesson also includes annotations of the poem. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson is aimed at GCSE students as part of the Power and Conflict Poetry for GCSE English Literature.

Used as part of the speaking and listening GCSE module but can work as a stand alone lesson to practice speaking and listening skills. Could also be adapted for teaching non-fiction if needed. Lesson is based around the concept of Room 101 with students being asked to think about their pet peeves and eventually work in a group to present a short presentation on why it should be put into room 101.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Students are given various tasks before answering an exam style question. Lesson focuses on Act 1, Scene 3 and the impact of the witches prophecies.

Used as part of the speaking and listening GCSE module but can work as a stand alone lesson to practice speaking and listening skills. Could also be adapted for teaching non-fiction if needed. Lesson starter asks students to write down a funny story that is either truth or a lie. The teacher then collects these in and returns to them for the plenary. The main part of the lesson involves students been allocated a topic and having to work with others to gather information about that topic to eventually present their findings.

Lesson is part of a series of lessons teaching OMAM but could work as a stand alone lesson. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson looks at setting in chapter 1 and links to chapter 6.

Lesson is part of a series of lessons teaching OMAM but could work as a stand alone lesson. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson looks at chapter 1 and the relationship between George and Lennie.

A lesson taught as part of a unit teaching Of Mice and Men. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Aimed at a top-set year 9 class but can easily be adapted for lower ability groups.

A lesson based around body image and how expectations of body image have changed over the decades. This lesson looks at barbie dolls and at the representation of people on Love Island and asks students to consider if there is too much pressure on young people to look a certain way.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. This lesson is based around chapter 11 of the novel Boy In the Striped Pyjamas and teaches students about Hitler and how he came to power. Students eventually have a choice of differentiated tasks to complete based around the chapter.

Aimed at KS4 GCSE students studying Macbeth as part of their English Literature exam. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson focuses on descriptive writing skills. Main task asks students to create a piece of creative writing from the point of view of Buddy the Elf, experiencing New York City for the first time. Students watch a short clip to help with this and complete planning activities.

-A lesson made as part of a KS3 unit of work about Chaucer. -Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. -Lesson focuses on AO4 and evaluating the text.