Understanding S.P.A.R.F: Subject, Purpose, Audience, Register, Form A structured lesson to help students understand the subject, purpose, audience, register, form of a text (S.P.A.R.F) and how that helps you unpack the implicit meanings of a text. This lesson PPT explains to students what subject, purpose, audience, register, form of a text is and how it influences the writer’s use of language. It provides activities/examples of identifying S.P.A.R.F to enhance understanding. Students then practice this using the worksheet provided.

Essay writing structure and scaffolding: This provides a guided structure students can follow to ensure they make detailed analysis on writer’s craft. Essay writing broken down in a student friendly way helping students cover all assessment objectives in their examination. Provides scaffolding for students with sentence openers etc. so they can articulate their ideas in essay writing form.

BRILLIANT full, detailed Lesson PowerPoint for ‘London Snow’ by Robert Bridges. Includes the following within PPT: Structured tasks for students Questioning and prompts for students Visual aid through images to enhance students understanding of imagery in every stanza of poem Summary of poem Line by line indepth analysis Language analysis (literary techniques) Themes Symbols Student worksheet also available to download.

**Developing reading skills - ** Understanding unfamiliar, difficult words: This is a full detailed lesson PPT explaining 4 key strategies to help students understand the meanings of difficult words in any given passage, without using a dictionary. RESOURCE includes a structured lesson and tasks to develop students understanding of lesson. lesson based on the IGCSE 0900 Scheme of work

BRILLIANT, full, detailed Lesson PowerPoint and worksheet for ‘The Poplar Field’ by William Cowper. Cover image is collation of some slides within the PPT (does not include them all). Includes the following within PPT: Starter Activity - Discussion Keywords Challenge - Activity with keywords, explain the meaning using three words using the images - students have to work out the meaning themselves. Answers included. Structured, detailed tasks for students to complete. Questioning and prompts for students throughout Visual aid through images to enhance students understanding of imagery in every stanza of poem Summary of poem included Indepth analysis guide for students. Language analysis (literary techniques) Themes Essay Practice with questions and model answers students can develop and improve. *Full, guided, Student worksheet also available to download alongside PPT.

BRILLIANT, full, detailed Lesson PowerPoint and worksheet for descriptive writing. Cover image is collation of some slides within the PPT (does not include them all). Includes the following within PPT: Structured starter lesson - An exploration of the five senses. Engaging activities planned for lesson. Structured, detailed tasks for students to complete. Prompts for students throughout PPT Visual aid through images to enhance students understanding of content concise collation of key skills needed for descriptive writing Indepth guide to descriptive writing for students. Example model answers with success criteria so students can develop and improve. *Student worksheet available to download alongside PPT. https://youtu.be/C_XNRxEcBFM NOTE: Parts of this lesson has been made using free online resources by Mrs Duckworth’s Classroom (Youtube) - link to source provided.

Sample essay questions from CIE IGCSE Literature Past Papers collated onto one document. These questions can be adapted to suit any novel/poem/play studied.

Structured Worksheet for a full lesson for studying ‘London Snow’ by Robert Bridges. Includes individual tasks to help students understand the poem as well as developing essay writing skills. Can be used generally as a resource for poetry studies or specifically for CIE IGCSE 0992 Literature In English syllabus.