Short Term Plan featuring several lessons introducing the animal magic unit.What techniques canwriters use to presentan animal? How do these affect our interpretations of a text?

Introduce students to the concept of analyzing the writing and commenting of what it suggests about the play and also what it tells us about the characters. (RAF3) Get students to interpret information about the Eddy hair show buy collecting evidence and then writing a summary (RAF3).

Students to gain a basic insight into the world of plays and drama by learning about movement and script writing. Students are to familiarize themselves with reading a script and learning to use expression as a dramatic technique when reading.

Students will focus on the author’s characterization and narrative techniques.

Of Mice and Men Peer Assessment grid.

Tic-tac-toe Self Assessment guide for Malorie Blackman's book.

Shakespeare Reading Test

Unit Assessment chart for Writing

A Midsummer Night's Dream Speaking and Listening

This task assesses your ability to write in the style of a newspaper article, exploring an event in Fairyland.

To understand when to use their,there and they’re.

Handout - reading examination / test on Shakespeare's the Tempest with a literacy focus.

Writing to Argue and Summarizing - Capital Punishment. To know how to identify and summarize relevant information from a text. To understand the features of writing to argue.

Simple Romeo and Juliet Assessment

Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Scene 3

Lesson Plan

Coraline Infer and Deduce Handout

Scheme of Work for non-fiction English Language This is a 20-page document containing fifteen lesson plans for guiding UK students through test prep for a writing exam. Although it has no direct US use, it is full of usable ideas that can be adapted to US use in other contexts.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Act II

To increase the range of adjectives we can use in our descriptive writing.