27 literacy links to BBC websites making a literacy lesson a little easier for remote learning.

Resolve to ensure your students know 21 Literary techniques with examples and a brief description of their effect. Ideal for a lesson starter/SETTLING ACTIVITY. Ilustrated.

Ten poems read by famous people to explore and simply listen to. This is just meant to relax students but you could create questions.

Lesson asks students to choose and compare between jobs NOW and THEN. Utterly gross jobs, utterly interested students.

At least two lessons here. Students explore how Browning uses IMAGERY. Illustrated to help. More to come....Lessons intended for LOW ability 6th Grade students but can be adapted.

Students use a real press release about a lost wedding ring to produce an original piece of writing. Will need extra input but the idea is here.

More questions for FORM TIME. Enhance your students' general knowledge...answers on slides. Please give feedback.

Last in the series of quizzes for your form time. Visually stimulating, answers on slides, all ready to deliver. Adaptable format !

Adaptable full lesson/starter on this novel. If you like cars...cool, if you don't , adapt the idea.

Discussion lesson on the nature of LUCK.

Zen story, illustrated which asks students to forget the wrongs they perceive.

Students reflect on holiday from different perspectives. Students get together an action plan for the new term. Adaptable to every level.

For creative writers. Students follow story and add more and more detail. Can easily be adapted for drama and other areas of English curriculum. Powerful thinking at the end as well ! All ready to deliver. No photocopies needed.

Part one of a year 7 SOW. Ready to deliver. Notes at bottom of slides.

Basic slide show for students whether they smoke or not. Strong message for those who do.

Suitable for year 7 or year 8 (poss year 9) An assessment/comprehension exercise based on two extracts from Anne diary. Questions and Texts on separate handouts and models answers are on a Powerpoint presentation. All ready to deliver.

Lesson 3 of a series about the novel: The Giver. More to come.

8th lesson in the series aimed at year 7 remote learners who cannot manage a whole hour of focus. Who can ?

Number 9 lesson which deals with vocabulary and the beginning of Chapter 3. Aimed at year 7s who find a whole hour of focus too much. I do too.

Number 10 in this series of lessons for years 7, 8 OR 9. Students have asked for shorter/more interactive material so this includes alternative media as well.