The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl is an 8 lesson teaching unit consisting of a 77 slide PowerPoint and a booklet of 15 worksheets. It is designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel’s plot, characters, language and themes. The Magic Finger teaching resource includes something for children of all abilities. Contents include: A scheme of work overview A Roald Dahl mini biography, a video about Roald Dahl by Michael Rosen, a comprehension task and a class game Reading, writing and speaking and listening activities Developing making predictions skills Exploring how Roald Dahl creates characters Writing-frame to help children write about characters Examining Roald Dahl’s use of language (using effective verbs and adjectives) Creating a comic strip version to assess understanding of the plot Tips for tackling new words Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for Roald Dahl books: Boy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Fantastic Mr Fox The Twits

Edexcel GCSE English Reading Nonfiction Texts is a 94 slide PowerPoint presentation with 9 accompanying worksheets and 9 step by step lessons specifically designed to teach reading non-fiction texts in preparation for the Edexcel GCSE English Paper 2 exam - Non-fiction and Transactional Writing. The lessons contain a range of tasks, skills and activities, including: An Introduction to the Edexcel GCSE English (9-1) Paper 2 exam - Non-fiction and Transactional Writing. How do audience and purpose affect non-fiction texts? How to follow an argument in a non-fiction text. How are fact and opinion used in non-fiction texts? Analysis of common language techniques used in non-fiction. Developing awareness of how rhetorical techniques can affect And more… Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts AQA GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts OCR GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts

Boy is a brilliant resource featuring a series of 10 lessons designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel Boy by Roald Dahl. Boy includes an 98-slide PowerPoint, 14 worksheets and a unit of work overview and a range of activities and lessons for pupils of all abilities. Contents - A brief biography of Boy author Roald Dahl with a short film about his life narrated by Michael Rosen - Exploring the difference between biographical and autobiographical writing - Create a Roald Dahl family tree - to develop knowledge of the early chapters of Boy - Analysis of key characters including Mrs Pratchett and Captain Hardcastle - How to use synonyms to improve vocabulary - Speaking and Listening drama based lesson using 'The Great Mouse Plot' chapter from Boy - Create a 'Welcome to Norway' holiday brochure - Studying the main features of autobiography - And much more!

English Teaching Resources: The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ is a new and innovative unit of work for Lear's much loved poem. It has been designed to cover many of the curriculum objectives as outline in the years 1 and 2 English programmes of study. This colourful and engaging 150-slide PowerPoint presentation includes: - Making predictions about the story - A copy of the poem with cartoon images and bright colour - Animated film of The Owl and the Pussycat - Retelling strategies and comprehension questions - Cloze exercise and storyboarding activities - Tackling unfamiliar words and using a dictionary - Rhyming words lesson with interactive game - Identify adjectives in The Owl and the Pussycat - Using adjectives to improve writing - Compound words activities including an interactive game - Create a children's story book based on The Owl and the Pussycat task - Full unit overview - 16 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ can be fully edited so it can be adapted to suit the needs of each class taught.

A Christmas Carol - Year 5/6 Unit of Work is made up of an 83-slide PowerPoint and 14 worksheets. It contains 8 lessons, each created using the 4-part lesson structure and all of which can be easily edited and differentiated to fit your specific teaching needs. ‘A Christmas Carol - Year 5/6 Unit of Work’ contains a range of tasks and activities including: Christmas today and Christmas in Victorian Britain Dickens’ use of time and structure in A Christmas Carol Developing key reading skills Scrooge on a TV talk show Exploring characters How Dickens uses language How to write about A Christmas Carol using quotations For more fun Christmas resources, click the titles below: The 2024 Christmas Quiz for KS2 The 2024 Christmas Quiz for KS3 and KS4 A Christmas Carol - KS3 Christmas Poetry Unit Twas the Night Before Christmas Christmas Grammar Activities Creating a Christmas Card Christmas Word Search A Christmas Carol - House of Games

Climate Change - Non-Fiction Unit (5 lesson, 83-slide PowerPoint presentation with 19 worksheets) This unit of work uses the topic of climate change to help develop key non-fiction reading and writing skills at UKS2 and lower KS3. It introduces climate change through text, video and diagrams and contains a range of differentiated reading and writing activities. Contents include: Differentiated reading comprehension activities (Gold, Silver and Bronze). Exploring the features of non-chronological reports (layout, language, facts and statistics). Planning, editing and writing a non-chronological report. Writing a letter (formal and non-formal writing, layout and language, audience and purpose). Developing key spelling skills within the context of the unit. Creating a news report (layout, language, audience, etc) about climate change. Writing to persuade – exploring persuasive advertisements and creating a persuasive ad. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more KS2 non-fiction resources: Volcanoes - Non-Fiction Reading and Writing Unit Autobiography Unit Retrieving and Recording Information Boy - Roald Dahl’s Autobiography

Cirque Du Freak - Unit of Work Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan (Unit of work, 91 slide PowerPoint and 10 worksheets) This engaging Year 6/7 teaching unit (it can be used with a high ability Year 6 or a Year 7 group) explores the novel Cirque Du Freak in detail and covers the following areas of study: Developing inference and deduction skills and active reading skills and strategies The novel’s context and background – Victorian freak shows (research task) Character study and creating character profiles How to use embed quotes in an answer Writing a P.E.A.R.L. response Summarising and reporting Individual, pair and group activities Identifying, understanding and using adverbs effectively The author’s use of language in Cirque Du Freak Using speech marks in writing Structuring and writing an extra chapter for Cirque Du Freak for assessment Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for popular KS3 novels: Boys Don’t Cry Face Holes Noughts and Crosses Skellig Stone Cold The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night The Demon Headmaster The Silver Sword

Writing to Persuade - Unit of Work (91-slide PowerPoint and 8 worksheets) Writing to Persuade contains a series of lessons designed to help students learn how to write a piece of effective persuasive writing. The resource includes a variety of activities suitable for GCSE students of all abilities. ‘Writing to Persuade’ contents include Defining writing to persuade. Understanding the form and purpose of a text. How audience affects the composition of a text. How to plan, structure and organise a piece of persuasive writing. How to use fact and opinion, emotive language and flattery to persuade. Developing understanding of rhetorical techniques (rhetorical questions, the rule of 3, etc). How to produce a piece of persuasive writing under exam conditions. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Writing a Review Persuasive Writing Newspaper Article Writing Writing a Formal Letter - Year 5 and 6 Autobiographical Writing - Year 5 and 6 Writing Effective Story Openings Descriptive Writing - Year 5/6 Writing to Entertain Writing a Formal Letter - Year 7/8 Descriptive Writing - Year 7/8 Writing Fiction - Creating Characters - KS3 KS3 Speech Writing GCSE Speech Writing GCSE English Narrative Writing GCSE English Writing Fiction - Descriptive Writing

OCR GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts is a 94 slide PowerPoint presentation with 9 accompanying worksheets and 9 step by step lessons specifically designed to teach reading non-fiction texts in preparation for the OCR GCSE English Paper 1 exam - Communicating Information and Ideas. The lessons contain a range of tasks, skills and activities, including: An Introduction to the OCR GCSE English Paper 1 exam - Communicating Information and Ideas. How do audience and purpose affect non-fiction texts? How to follow an argument in a non-fiction text. How are fact and opinion used in non-fiction texts? Analysis of common language techniques used in non-fiction. And much more… Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts AQA GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts Edexcel GCSE English Reading Non-fiction Texts

Conflict Poetry (KS3) (5 lesson unit of work, 135-slide editable PowerPoint, 39 worksheets) This upper KS3 (Year 8/9) unit of work explores war poetry from World War One to the modern day. Ideal for Year 9 or the final term of Year 8, the unit’s chief focus is on the poetry of World War One, and in particular that of Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. The unit is designed to help learners develop the key poetry analysis skills that are essential for GCSE success. It explores context, language, techniques, rhyme, rhythm, tone, theme and the author’s viewpoint through the close study of war poems such as The Soldier, Suicide in the Trenches and Dulce et Decorum Est. The final section of the unit brings the study of war poetry up to date with a focus on 21st Century war poems written by children, soldiers and the partners of those impacted by war. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for similar poetry units: The Highwayman The Lady of Shalott Christmas Poetry

A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work is made up of an 83-slide PowerPoint and 14 worksheets. It contains 8 lessons, each created using the 4-part lesson structure all of which can be edited and differentiated to fit your teaching needs. ‘A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work’ contains a range of tasks and activities including: A Victorian Christmas Time and structure in A Christmas Carol Developing reading skills such as deduction Speaking and Listening - Scrooge on a TV talk show Exploring characters How Dickens uses language How to write about A Christmas Carol using evidence from the text Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular KS2/3 novels: The Silver Sword War Horse The Demon Headmaster Skellig Holes - KS3 Holes - KS2 Charlotte’s Web Billionaire Boy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

FOLKTALES AND FABLES This unit of work is designed to cover reading and writing using folktales and fables at Grade 2/3 level. ‘Folktales and Fables’ is a complete unit of work including a teacher overview, detailed activities, a 58 slide PowerPoint and 13 accompanying worksheets. The resource includes a range of lessons and activities for Grade 2 and Grade 3 students of all abilities. The PowerPoint uses bright color, large and attractive fonts, vibrant imagery, sound, video and easy to follow, child-friendly language. Activities include: Exploring and discussing folktales and fables Discovering multi-modal texts - books, videos, cartoons and online storybooks Individual, pair and group work How to analyze characters - goodies, baddies and magical characters Hotseating and role play tasks to develop understanding of character Sequencing and storyboarding How to plan a story using the story mountain How to begin a narrative Writing task - how to write a folktale Teaching notes for lessons and assessment 58 slide PowerPoint presentation 13 pages of worksheets/planning documents to accompany the PowerPoint

AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section B AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section B is an 11 lesson, 163-slide PowerPoint-based teaching resource with 22 accompanying worksheets designed to help students prepare for Section B of the AQA GCSE English Language Exam Paper 1. Contents include: An introduction to the exam paper and the requirements of Section B A step-by-step guide to achieving a good grade on the exam paper How to write a powerful piece of descriptive writing How to write an effective story opening Understanding how the mark scheme is used to assess your work To preview a selection of pages from ‘AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section B’ in detail, please click on the images. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar AQA GCSE Exam Prep resources: AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A (Additional Prep 1) AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A (Additional Prep 2) AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1 AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2, Section A AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2, Section B AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2 AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1 and Paper 2 AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry