Short set of templates for Year 6s into 7s. Adaptable to your own school and useful to send out to your feeder primaries.

Lesson allows students to reflect on the issues involving smoking/drugs/alcohol.

An intro to English at secondary school. Recap of vocabulary and punctuation. Ready to go !

Lesson stresses the need to check through work before submitting it. Includes worksheet and BLOOMS questions. Answers also !

Lesson 3 in the series of this Scheme of work. Students imagine the details of a rat invasion. They have yet to read the whole poem; so this is an anticipatory lesson. Worksheet included and remember this is for LOWER LEVEL. Aligned to Common Core Standard: W.6.3

50 more questions for your tutor group to ponder. Answers included and an easy format.

Lesson focusses on the novel by Pullman but this lesson can easily be adapted to other novels/poems/texts. Students move from reading to internalising to diary entry writing in a well-structured progress. For lower levels but can be adapted upwards.

Lesson asks students to read and interpret the parable with matching activity and additionally to adapt the parable to modern times. Parable included and ready to print. Feedback welcomed :)

lesson asks students to examine the good/bad points about becoming old.. could be deep questioning or lighter.depends on adaptation. Some feedback please!

Deserves a look. Students love the story. Lesson introducing the classic short story about fear of the dark. Story attached. Keep the light on. If you don't know this story -it comes highly recommended. Adapt as speaking and listening. Create monolgue.

Writing/Speaking/Listening on this topic. Students discuss and comment on a variety of tasks and learn about the history of TV.

Please give feedback !.Lesson focusses on the risks of using mobiles. Invites students to make informed decisions and reflect on how the device could have potential consequences later in life.

Takes students through key castle types -asks them to decide which is better and why ? Use with labelling activity. Great for lower ability but adapt for higher.

Introduction to Mercutio's Queen Mab speech. Speech attached. Explains Elizabethan thinking on dreams.

Lesson designed around vacation where everything goes wrong. Students view slides and write apposite similes; introduce these into a letter of dissatisfaction. Fairly self-explanatory but might need a slide on FORMAL/INFORMAL writing.

Asks students to address issues of seasonal migration in India. Activities and debate included. Suitable for year 8 but adapted would be fine for year 9.

Communication- being able to read and write effectively. Which came first....Reading or Writing ?

Lesson stimulates controversial conversation about gender assigned roles in life. No answers to this, only discussion. Requires a firm hand and a willing class with clear guidelines on how to debate.

I wrote this myself after spending lunch time duty watching crowds of students enjoying fights. Grim though it was, the poem asks a few questions. Students can then write their own version of a poem/story connected with bullying/fighting/crowd behaviour. Link with the brilliant film on youtube - Pictures now added !

Students compare two eye-witness accounts and answer questions on how atmosphere is conveyed. worksheet and extracts included.