These worksheets takes students through the process of developing simple sentences in a variety of ways including; adverbial openings, compound sentences, complex sentences, 'ing' openings and fronted clauses.

Displays key quotations

This resource includes group work questions that focus on the females within the novella: Belle and Fan. The resource also includes an extension task, which involves an empathetic response based on the questions just answered

Looking at an old exam style task based around motorcycling, this presentation includes lots of images and peer assessment to ensure that boys are engaged and to ensure that they are meeting success criteria when writing letters.

The start of a modelled response to demonstrate to pupils how to write about mood and atmosphere. The model is aimed at B/C borderline students.

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This presentation is a short presentation that I create to deliver on whole staff inset. it takes you through the definitions of literacy and why it is important to all subjects. It also reassures staff that they will already have an element of literacy in their lessons as well as offering practical strategies for all subjects to incorporate.

In addition to this resource you will need some lego style building bricks. Slide 1 - Gets the discussion started in your classroom. Students should use the building blocks so that you can identify who is taking part in the classroom discussion. Slide 2 - This teaching slide uses animations to teach the fundamentals of writing to argue Slide 3 - This has a thinking image. The image aims to make students consider whether or not they're contradicting themselves.

This resource is a list of how Literacy could be developed in a secondary school. Along with this, each idea include the impact that the initiative would have. There is also an additional column to put staff names in, for who may want to take responsibility in that lead.

A great resource for printing on A3 Includes a space for students to write their own quotations in.

A colour coded resource with a checklist on to help students with approaching poetry. There is also a colour coded essay framework, which helps students to construct a response to 2 poems read, at the same time as comparing them. This resource has worked great with my middle ability and lower ability classes. An excellent revision resource too.

4 worksheets on the 4 ghosts in A Christmas Carol This will work well in the classroom or as a revision source for your students to complete as homework

4 questions that gradually become more difficult to use as a stimulus for group work discussion Students should explore possibilities, which is a skill they need for the Literature syllabus Questions can be stuck on A3 paper, so that students are able to write their answers around the questions All questions are based on Stave 1

A series of lessons based around formal and informal letter writing You will need to model a response from your own stock The PowerPoint goes through the layout of each, with short and engaging activities mainly aimed at teenage boys Past exam tasks on there too

A series of PowerPoint slides that revise a range of sentence types A good print out for books or can be used as mini tasks in class Plain and simple

A nice resource for students with upcoming exams There is space for name, exam date, reading targets and writing targets

A really simple to follow SOW that has a PowerPoint for every lesson. Each PowerPoint has a settler starter image linked to the play. The scheme was developed for low ability year 10 students, however it would be ok to use with year 8/9 The scheme leads to a discursive essay on the treatment of women by men, however it can be adapted to suit

A full lesson dedicated to focusing on Scrooge's past and Christmas at Fezziwig's when Scrooge was an apprentice The first section deals with the challenging language There's a link to a short video link to use as a visual aid Then the main activity is for students to find key quotes and discuss what they reveal about Scrooge's character - worksheet is on the last page of the PowerPoint

Starter image with thinking questions on for students Group work activity follows Students will focus on different members of the Cratchit family and the opinions that they form of them At the end of the PowerPoint there is an image, whereby the language term 'juxtaposition' can be taught Students could then spend time noting down where juxtaposition occurs elsewhere in the novel and how this links to the moral ideology of Dickens