A 1 slide presentation, writing task - writing to describe with a narrative frame to guide the pupils.

Worksheet for KS3/KS4 on word classes.

worksheet that gets pupils to filter words into their correct classes.

Handout, outlining creative writing task, with paragraph structure suggested. Based on an image: fire.

Shakespearean language Starter activity - Thou, thee, thine and thy Activity Task, with answer slide.

A lesson and resources to revise the key imagery and context of the poem ‘Storm on the Island’ by Seamus Heaney, in preparation for AQA Lit Paper 2, Section B - Power and Conflict anthology. Ppt is designed for LA and post-study of the poem.

Descriptive writing cover lesson - 1 slide, with all info on.

Activities on ‘accept’ and ‘except’; ‘affect’ and ‘effect’. Have used for cover lesson. SPaG revision / adapt into starter activities

Romeo & Juliet - Post-reading differentiated writing tasks.

War Photographer Storyboard HWK task. Copy of poem. pupils need to summarise each stanza and then draw an image that represents it.

A reading log for pupils to keep track of where they are.

Homophones starter activity: poor, pore, paw, pour. Set of questions for pupils to put the correct word in.

Very simply, yet clear. Have used before as basis for a display. Have also used in class, as basis for revision, for pupil’s to add everything they know or can remember about them and their role in the story.

Info sheet to guide pupils on how to build strong metaphors.

A post-study lesson exploring the idea of censorship. LO: To reflect on the writer’s intentions and the context of the book’s publication The lesson explores both how censorship is presented IN Animal Farm as well as issues relating to censorship OF Animal Farm, recognising Orwell’s difficulty in getting the novella published.

An introductory lesson to persuasive speeches, using Room 101 tv show.

A series of four lessons exploring the context, key themes and plot summary of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for a ‘eyes wide open’ approach to teaching the novella.

3 lessons aimed at LA pupils to explore the presentation of characters. Included are: Birling Sheila Gerald Watch this space for resources on the other characters. Each ‘lesson’ consists of: true/false starter activity vocab match up task (adjectives used to describe the respective characters, to ensure understanding e.g: words like, ‘insightful’; ‘assertive’; 'responsible; ‘arrogant’ etc.) quotation wheel activity: a blank wheel with just the adjectives on (to print A3), with a list of quotations for pupils to cut up and stick in the correct segment of the wheel. Then to add notes to the quotations. What/How/Why template to put info from the wheel into paragraphs.

A lesson introducing the device of ‘pathos’, with suitable tasks scaffolded for pupils to go from ‘understand’ -> ‘identify’ -> ‘apply’. This lesson has been personally used for KS3, and lower ability KS4.

A homework activity to build pupil’s vocabulary when discussing characters and themes in An Inspector Calls. Task asks pupils to look up definitions for key vocab and then apply and find the links to characters in the play. This can then feed into lessons.