This lesson includes a roleplay activity and includes creative writing stimulus bases on a prologue from an autobiography. The stimulus should enable pupils to empathise with the narrative voice and produce a detailed,thoughtful letter to the narrator's attacker. By giving the pupils' semantic fields to choose from, pupils will have to emulate the narrator's use of an extended metaphor to describe her strong emotions. This creative writing lesson will stretch higher pupils.

This contains a detailed worksheet on the poem 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen. Great for cover work or for an Unseen poetry lesson. Silent task. Comprehension questions and writing structure for longer answers.

A full lesson and extract to begin teaching the skills to analyse and interpret an unseen passage. There is a particular focus on implicit and explicit meanings.

This lesson and full accompanying worksheet examines and explores Willy Russell's use of language during the agreement between Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons, which is a key skill needed at GCSE. This also explores, simultaneously, the theme of class inequality and the differences between Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons.

This is a full lesson with stimuli and also a worksheet to guide creative writing.

This is a comprehension worksheet containing 22 questions all linked to Chapter 7 of Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. You will need access to chapter 7 or Harry Potter books. This would be suitable for low and high ability year 7 students.

A full lesson exploring and analysing the poem 'At an Inn' by Thomas Hardy.

This is a fully resourced lesson, containing structure worksheet and a poem with annotated glossary. The range of activities are varied from reading and analyzing the imagery in the poem to interpolated questioning. There are also very structured writing frames for pupils to write about the poem.

This lesson explores how the theme of fate plays a pivotal part in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This lesson contains a worksheet for pupils to accompany the powerpoint with, in depth analysis of key quotes and key scenes within the play.

A full 20 slide quiz exploring all of the poetry, techniques and context for the poems on the AQA love through the ages specification. This lasted for two hours and the pupils found it very useful before their exam.

Fun and easy to use resource for year 7 unseen poetry.

This resource is two full lessons and non-fiction extract from an autobiography. It includes key skills needed for any exam board , particulary AQA new spec, as it requires information retrieval with the questions focussed on analysing language for effect. The second lesson has clear writing frames for structuring written answers. ( If pupils do not know who Katie Piper is, it is worth showing a youtube clip and explaining some background on her unfortunate attack)

This lesson was aimed at a year 8 group. It includes a detailed worksheet and word banks on the powerpoint. There are also sense stimuli on the board as well as an engaging gothic horror video clip.

A lesson which explores the patriarchy in Elizabethan time and Lord Capulet's character throughout the play. There is also a worksheet with key quotes.

This lesson contains examples of ten sentence types which are easy to learn and will transform your writing as they encourage pupils to vary punctuation, syntax and word order.

A booklet containing a list of non-fiction language devices- from sentence types, to language features, examples and their effects.

This lesson focusses on the theme of friendship within the novel.

This 28 page booklet contains key themes, quotes, context and critiques of the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. This was an invaluable revision resource for my A2 pupils.

This 11 page booklet contains a range of lessons, activities, resources and worksheets for a GCSE group studying Romeo and Juliet. Naturally, any of the resources can be differentiated for ks2-3.

This resource explores the context of WW1 poetry with images of propaganda, a video clip and structured worksheets. There are also differentiated worksheets.

This is an A level lesson with the poem exploring the context, key themes and analysis of the poem for the AQA literature specification.