This is an introduction to analysing metaphors, with a clear step-by-step approach that simplifies the thought-process. This lesson is aimed at less able or younger students. The exemplar metaphors used in the lesson all contain both tenor and vehicle, so students are left needing to identify only the ground. All the metaphors in the lesson are drawn from real-life examples covering prose fiction, poetry, the Bible, plays and song lyrics. The presentation is on a pale yellow background with sans serif font. There is a handout containing the diagram used for analysing metaphors. Resources are in original form (PowerPoint/Word) and in pdf form. This lesson requires no specific prior knowledge. After this lesson, students will move on to learn to write about their analysis of metaphors.

A mammoth resource, with over 30 slides, taking students through six clear techniques for expanding simple sentences in creative writing. This resource is not for the fainthearted and you probably want quite a good understanding of grammar before approaching this, although answers to all activities are provided. By the end, your students should feel more confident in adding detail to simple sentences and should feel confident evaluating a range of different sentence structures, which is useful for analysis as well as for creative writing. Examples of complicated simple sentences are drawn from a range of sources from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. This is not all to be covered in one lesson. It could easily stretch to two and perhaps to three. The presentation is on a pale yellow background with sans serif font. There are worksheets with answers included. Resources are in original form (PowerPoint/Word) and in pdf form. This lesson requires specific prior knowledge: students need to already understand the basics of sentence structure such as subject + verb.

This is an engaging introduction to flat and round characters, taking students from appreciating powerful description to writing a round character description using creative prompts. In this lesson, students learn about E.M. Forster’s description of flat and round characters and what these are. Students then read an extract from ‘Vanity Fair’, which has been adapted from the original to make it more accessible. After appreciating the range of techniques that Thackeray has used, students are introduced to other prompts that can be useful when creating a round character. Finally students work to write their own description. Included with this lesson are a handout (two to a page) of prompts and a planning sheet that encourage students to think about explicit and implicit meanings in what they write. The presentation is on a pale yellow background with sans serif font. It has a visual aid for students to track their progress during the lesson, and images are used throughout to reduce cognitive load. Resources are in original form (PowerPoint/Word) and in pdf form. This lesson requires no specific prior knowledge.

This standalone lesson on impactful minor sentences develops the skills of students who are already confident creating grammatically complete sentences. The first part of the lesson involves reading an extract from a fiction text that uses minor sentences to create a sense of distortion and discomfort. The second part of the lesson involves explicit teaching of the qualities of a minor sentence with an interactive activity to check understanding. Once the teacher is satisfied that students understand what minor sentences are and why we use them, there is a writing task that gives students a choice of four different scenarios. The lesson ends with structured peer assessment. The presentation is on a pale yellow background with sans serif font. There is a handout that explains the features and uses of minor sentences, with examples from the text we look at in the lesson. Resources are in original form (PowerPoint/Word) and in pdf form. This lesson requires specific prior knowledge: students need to already understand how to form a grammatically complete sentence.

This is suitable for KS3, KS4 or KS5. It introduces 11 sentence forms that are suitable for non-fiction writing, models these, and asks students to write their own. The handout is included. The need for a range of sentence forms is stressed at the beginning of the lesson with copies of the AO6 mark schemes for AQA and Edexcel/Pearson GCSE English Language. The lesson finishes with students going back through a previously written non-fiction piece, improving their work with a wide range of sentence forms. This presentation is made on a light yellow background and with a sans serif font to make it more accessible to those with problems reading text from the board. The slide size is 4:3 to fill the whole space of an interactive whiteboard, also allowing the text to be larger.

This is suitable for KS3, KS4 or KS5 and runs through the basics of what a sentence looks like on the page, and what its core components are. The lesson involves individual feedback as well as a group creative task in the plenary. There are challenge tasks embedded in this. Answers to questions in the lesson are given in the slide notes. This presentation is made on a light yellow background and with a sans serif font to make it more accessible to those with problems reading text from the board. The slide size is 4:3 to fill the whole space of an interactive whiteboard, also allowing the text to be larger.

This is suitable for KS3, KS4 or KS5. It goes through the use of a colon to introduce an explanation, covering the need for the pre-colon clause to be independent, while the post-colon information can be in pretty much any format. The lesson finishes with students writing sentences with colons about nine different subjects. This presentation is made on a light yellow background and with a sans serif font to make it more accessible to those with problems reading text from the board. The slide size is 4:3 to fill the whole space of an interactive whiteboard, also allowing the text to be larger.