Some information on advantages and disadvantaged of various types of ships for students to read then choose a ship and give a justification for their choice.

Information about historical pirate flags and a worksheet to design your own and then write about it.

A sequence of lessons to get pupils to use adjectives, persuasive writing and to evaluate themed around a creative project building pirate forts as part of a topic following the book Treasure Island. I used it in English lessons but could be adapted for DT.

A bundle of work loosely themed around superheroes. You can easily adapt the wording an images to suit the interests of your students. covers creative writing, persuasive writing and using speech.

A selection of activities to go with the comic poem The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned.

A set of activities linked to the poem Amulet by Ted Hughes.

3 lessons based on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes including analysis and creative writing.

Fact file of the pirate Mary Read

Pictures of front cover: Blank - higher Boxes with arrows - Middle - Boxes arrows and sentence starters Lower.

End of topic reward lesson design, then make, then decorate biscuits. The recipe I used is as follows: 200g plain flour 100g margarine 100g sugar 1 egg Grease tray. Sieve flour. Cut and rub in fat to fine breadcrumbs. add sugar and any flavourings. add beaten egg and bring together. roll out and cut out shapes bake for 10-20 mins at 180 until straw coloured allow to cool.

Picture stimulus for discriptive writing activities.

Activities linked to Chapter 3 of The Iron Man including designing a menu for The Iron Man and a picture ordering/story summery activity to recap the story up to chapter 3.

Creative writing following on from the end of Chapter 1 of The Iron Man.

Example and resources to create an onomatopoeia poem based on the events in the first chapter of the Iron Man.

Persuasive writing and discriptive writing activities linked to Chapter 2 of The Iron Man

Comprehension activity based on chapter 1 and an introduction activity for the book.

A selection of resources for a lesson or lessons about the poem Jabberwocky. I ask students to find 10 nonsense words in the poem. Use the planning sheet to help them design monster. Write a description of their monster. Write a story of poem about their monster using some words they have made up, or made up words from the poem. Here you may need to spend some time deciding what these words mean. Finally an activity on non-fiction writing to support pupils to include titles, sub-titles, captions and to write in paragraphs. Use the example about Komodo dragons to spot these features. Use the information about Swordfish (easier) and Ichthyosaurus (harder as headings are not included and the information is not in order) or your own research to write your own non-fiction article about a real life monster.

A sequence of lessons about the poem Ozymandias supporting SEN students to access the poem and building up to completing simple exam style question.

Worksheet of questions to help support students to access the poem and pick out key features as well as comment on the effect of these features.

Structured exam questions to support SEN students to access and engage with GCSE style exam questions.