A task to order the most interesting facts about the legend that is, Sherlock Holmes.

A starter to gather ideas on the topic of animals in captivity.

Resources to explore travel writing descriptions. KS3. MA.

A useful target setting sheet to evaluate knowledge on ‘Macbeth’. Quiz available from LitDrive.

A collection of knowledge recall starters.

Resources to accompany the teaching of ‘Ozymandias’.

A fully-resourced lesson building towards students completing a piece of descriptive writing on a Victorian setting. A task designed to develop understanding of A03 and to demonstrate clear links with ‘A Christmas Carol’.

A post-assessment lesson focusing on whole-class targets to build better descriptions. A focus on advanced structural and language features.

A LA, heavily-scaffolded lesson exploring the Gothic genre. Fully-resourced.

Short sequence for LA group (KS3) building an understanding of how to build tension and why it is important in certain genres of writing. Used before an assessment to prepare students for crime fiction creative writing. Graded ‘Outstanding’ for LA Y8 Observation Lesson.

A lesson used to introduce the Gothic to a HA KS3 group. However, the document of character diamonds is the perfect diamond 9 for older groups as it references popular culture characters. Laminate the print out and cut them out, ask the students to order characters and think about what makes them popular.

A detailed lesson completing an academic read of an extract from ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’. This can be part of a study of ‘The Gothic’ genre and/or the 19th century.

A sequence of lessons exploring Language Paper 1, Section A through an extract from ‘IT’ by Stephen King.

A reading and writing lesson/mini-sequence based on the events of this chapter of ‘The Giver’. All resources formatted on the final slide.

A presentation exploring developing reading fluency across an educational setting.

For staff and students to develop reading fluency.

A poster to create a standardised approach to Language Paper 1, Question 5, but to be embedded further down in Key Stage Three as well.

A roll your own story template to be used for an end of term Christmas writing lesson.