This lesson focuses on improving narrative writing. Students are asked to create a realistic character that they can drop into a scenario. Brilliant lesson for focusing on skills for language paper one question five on the AQA exam. Only PowerPoint included.

A full lesson focusing on Romeo and Juliet Act 1 and Act 2 Romeo’s soliloquy. This is the next lesson following on from ‘Act 1’ and looks more closely at how Shakespeare presents different kinds of love. The lesson provides a dual coding activity, summaries of key parts of the play and a chance to explore Romeos soliloquy and comparing this to Juliet’s speech.

A full lesson exploring Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet. Explores the downfalls of both Romeo and Juliet, Includes a quick fire test and a chance to explode a quote that has been preselected to give learners the opportunity to explore and analyze Shakespeare’s language.

This resource contains seven weeks worth of home learning tasks aimed at KS3 students. The theme follows Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rodes with each week of home learning containing three unique tasks that include dual coding, essay style questions or language terminology focus. This is sure to save you time planning and this resource could also be used as a stretch and challenge or extension activity for learners.

This lesson focuses on chapter nine and ten in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The resource contains multiple comprehension activities. Learners will look at Simon’s character, how leadership changes on the island and respond to an essay style question, explore metaphors in the novel and complete a dual coding/symbolism activity. With seventeen slides worth of activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

A lesson covering The Lord of the Flies - Sound of the Shell. This lesson covers: An analysis on a description of the island. Language anlaysis of utopia and dystopia. Two essay style questions with guidance. Key quotation analysis.

Lord of the Flies pre reading discussion activity. Students are encouraged to think about rules and how they impact those around them. A great conversation starter or introduction to the book.

An article on the late Queen Elizabeth alongside comprehension questions. A great activity for tutor time or a quick reading session for students. This is also a lovely way to remember the Queen and can be used as a whole school literacy activity or home learning.

This is made as a PowerPoint to celebrate National Poetry Day but could also be used for tutor time literacy, intervention work or as a fun poetry club activity. Students are asked to look at circle poems with the theme of the environment in mind. This is a fun and versatile activity for all students.

A worksheet focusing on analysisng quotes which show Jack and Ralph’s relationship in chapter four of Lord of the Flies.

Two Noun sort sheets for students to complete. Students are asked to sort nouns into: -Compound Nouns Proper Noun Abstract Noun Concrete Noun

Students read through the extract taken from the book The Faraway Tree. Then colour code the sentence types boxes and hunt for the different sentences within the text. Great for GCSE language revision. Great for OCR and AQA language revision.

Pages to print out for students that contain a range of images linked to Lord of the Flies. These are versatile sheets, students can link them to key symbols, key quotes etc.

A knowledge organsier containing key terms that relate to teaching rhetoric. This can be stuck into students books to refer back to in lesson or as part of homework/revision.

Worksheet containing multiple words related to rhetoric/persuasive writing. Students have to give a definition and an example of the key words on the sheet. Can be used as a starter activity, an introduction to rhetoric or as a homework task.

With the World Cup 2022 games about to begin, I have created this reading challenge to encourage students to get reading! The challenges are themed around football and are aimed at encouraging students to get reading and broaden where they find reading materials. This is a fun way to get students motivated and involved in reading and can be used as part of a whole school reading strategy! Can your students score a reading goal!

A worksheet that explore the preface and first like of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.

Are you and your students up to the challenge? Read three books in the month of January and give them a star rating…who will be the first to read a five star rating book? This is a great way to promote reading both whole school and at home, it’s a fun and engaging way to get students talking about what they are reading!

This worksheet contains a range of quotes from George Orwell’s 1984. The aim is for students to explode these quotes by annotating them for language devices or word choice being used. A great resource to use along side the text or as part of a dystopian scheme of work.

This resource contains five different word grids. These words grids can be used by students of any ability, simply give the students a topic and its their job to link all the words on the grid back to that topic. This is a great way to promote vocabulary and can be used as a starter or plenary activity.