a simple worksheet to get pupils thinking about gods thumb and what happens to stanley and zero when they are on it. good for lower ability pupils

a simple writing frame to get pupils thinking about the role of the character kissing kate barlow in holes. good for lower ability pupils

questions to support coursework skills when reading benjamin button. this supports pages 5 -12 of the story

A simple Shakespeare lesson plan powerpoint good for planning Romeo & Juliet coursework with pupils for GCSE (KS4) The Powerpoint introduces the themes of tragedy across the play.

A lesson based on kurt vonneguts story graphs - pupils sequence a simple fairy tale then produce their own stoy graph of the key events like the ones shown in the infographic and on the powerpoint - they then learn a little about kurt vonnegut the author before comparing their story graphs with the persons next to them and looking for similarities and differences in the stories as a plenary. they can also identify the main story type

a Booklet I designed for English coursework with my BESD pupils. It compares Emily brontes remembrance with Dylan Thomas's do not gently into that good night, included in the booklet are the poems, background information about the authors and guidance on producing a piece of poetry coursework

a simple introduction to the american dream starter mind maps - where pupils describe their dream life and then thnk about what its like in the 1930's then introduce the concept of the american dream an give pupils a character from the ones in the file and get them to write a short story about their characters dream - lenny is included

A worksheet to be used alongside story cubes which are a fantastic resource, basically the pupils roll the cubes and get a choice of pictures which they have to incorporate into a story, I made the sheet so they only picked 4 pictures and could put them in any order they wanted. The stories have to start with once upon a time, I found it a really good way to get the pupils to be creative

a reading scheme or a possible series of cover lessons and homeworks that i made for my work, . Included in this section is the overview with the authors of the books used for each excerpt, each seperate worksheet links to the bingo sheet in part 1, i then developed worksheets with extracts from all different novels and Genre's each sheet has 6-7 comprehension questions and one longer answer question. some books link to the curriculum e.g the recruit (still to come) some are classics and some link to current movies such as the wolf on wall street

Some english resources mostly based around Shakespeare, there are some sheets about persuasive writing and the texts of dr jekyll and mr hyde and skellig. there is also a sequencing sheet about romeo and juliet and a useful writing frame that can be used with lower ability pupils to develop better answers

a powerpoint on romeo and juliet and the need for a prologue in the play

a nice powerpoint for lower ability students about the raven - getting them to interpret themes of the poem

a medium term plan i wrote to develop literacy and numeracy skills, through pupils interest in computer games, i have a booklet of resources to go with this also uploaded onto the TES

Simple code breaking activities using the computer game Assassin's Creed 2. Students are also invited to write about the features of a successful and entertaining video game.

a nice lesson plan for a lesson on jane eyre encourages pupils to keep a diary as jane eyre

a cyclical planning frame to help pupils construct a piece of writing on Holes

a simple but useful writing frame to help lower ability pupils with explanatory writing

a simple powerpoint on camp green lake including suggested lesson activities for pupils

a reading scheme or a possible series of cover lessons and homeworks that i made for my work, part 2 coming up. The bingo sheet is the assessment overview, each seperate worksheet links to the sheet, i then developed worksheets with extracts from all different novels and Genre's each sheet has 6-7 comprehension questions and one longer answer question. some books link to the curriculum e.g hunger games and the recruit (still to come) some are classics and some link to current movies such as 12 years a slave the bingo sheet links to the reading assessment foci as well

A module i designed on travel writing, which has the pupils studying travel writing from different eras and different styles, cross curricular in that it looks at writing in runes, historical events, geography, science in that it allows you to design and test a kon-tiki raft an d some maths involved where you cost the different journeys, finishes with the pupils writing a travellog of a journey or a school trip, also included are some viking pictures which we used as a launch point to design a viking character and write a short paragraph introducing them