This task is designed for lower ability learners where they are asked to design their own chocolate bar.

These character cards can be used with SEN/low ability students and adapted for any character set from any drama text.

This presentation could serve as an introduction to print based media advertising. The class will be introduced to a series of advertisements (up to 15 in total). They should pay particular reference to the use of colour and the slogans.

This presentation will guide your low-ability Year 7 English learners through creating, planning and editing a character monologue. This task is designed to be used as an assessment for drama/roleplay under the KS3 English Speaking and Listening criteria.

This is suitable for a starter activity, for Year 7 or 8, when introducing advertising and the role of signs and symbols.

For your Year 7s, they will be asked to design a magazine advertisement for their new chocolate bar product. This differentiated resource allows your less able learners to access the task by simplifying this task into several categories.

Use this peer assessment grid to help your Key Stage 3 English students assess their peers' Speaking and Listening performances.

Learners are introduced to issues associated with target audience, product design and colour connotation. This a crib sheet designed for the main part of a lesson on advertising in magazines. <br /> <br /> N.B. You will need use of two magazine adverts, of your choice, for this resource / activity.

WRITE A REVIEW OF THE PLAY OF “ROOM 13”, aimed at members of a youth theatre who are thinking of staging the play. This resource takes your learners through step-by-step and offers them a success criteria at the end.

This an ideal mini-unit of work for a Year 7 Reading Assessment. It is based on Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant Story. It includes class notes on the extract, example paragraphs (for peer assessment), a model introductory PETER paragraph. The quoting framework used could be adapted for any school e.g. for PEEL or PEA. The pack also includes a Level 5 response and a key linguistic devices sheet. An Assessment Pupil Template has also been included so the learners can see how they will be assessed. The Reading Assessment Foci include rAF2 (quotation), rAF3 (inference and deduction) and rAF5 (analysing the language of the quote).

This task sheet takes your learners step-by-step through a chocolate project. This can be linked to your own Scheme of Learning for English/Media; designed primarily for lower Key Stage 3 English students.

Your Drama students will be expected to match the correct definitions to this set of key words. These key words include some the following: characterise, director, dramatise, entrance, exit, flashback and freeze.

Your learners will be given an informative fact sheet on the role of advertising with an embedded worksheet. This concise yet comprehensive pack also offers a start activity. It is designed as a first lesson on advertising for a lower key stage three English group.

After coming up with different ideas to describe your chocolate bar, try to use some of the persuasive techniques that are commonly used by advertisers.<br /> <br /> This worksheet offers a list of persuasive techniques which allows the learners to think carefully about the persuasive language they use.

This 1-page resource offers some key persuasive techniques often used in advertising.

This is a persuasive language card sort which allows the learners to sort through the following key terms, associated with advertising:<br /> <br /> <br /> Nouns<br /> <br /> Adjectives<br /> <br /> Comparatives<br /> <br /> Superlatives<br /> <br /> Adverbs<br /> <br /> <br /> Alliteration<br /> <br /> Assonance<br /> <br /> Rhyme<br /> <br /> Personal Pronouns

This resource should cover your starter, introduction and development. This is an open writing frame which allows the teacher to choose whatever TV-based advert they feel is appropriate. The worksheet allows the students to consider how the narrative of the TV advert is communicated.

This resource explains how learners can:<br /> <br /> - Storyboard<br /> - Plan<br /> - Evaluate<br /> <br /> their own Television Advert.

This is a great introduction to the advertising module at Key Stage Three. Your English students should be given a selection of leaflets, to choose from, in the lesson. They can pick one leaflet and then use the attached leaflet as a guide for analysis.

A series of colourful images, on an attractive PowerPoint, have been produced in order to introduce your learners to the gothic genre and/or 'spooky' writing. This resource would be an appropriate starter for either a Key Stage 2 Literacy class or Key Stage 3 English class.

Get your reluctant readers to guess the characters of popular films. First, re-introduce them to Tim Burton's 2012 Vampire Comedy-Spoof entitled Dark Shadows. Use the attached creative character profile, of Barnabus Collins, to get them thinking about writing their own character profiles.